A Canadian motorcyclist has broken the stupidity barrier by posting a video online of himself cutting through motorway traffic at close to 300km/h. The Vancouver biker, on what appears to be Yamaha's ultra-quick R1 superbike, makes cars on the Victoria Highway seem like they're standing still as he carves up commuters for his video - which has already drawn the attention of police. <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SIUTXIsJz3o?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SIUTXIsJz3o?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> victoria highway run 299km - YouTube
Haha, that's the highway I drive into Victoria. I don't know what the fuss is about though, dudes have been riding bikes like cnuts for a long time. Hell, everyone knows Ghostrider, right? Apparently the bike was in the guy's mum's name, and there's just been a bunch of fines issued - no big deal. Good effort!
I was about to say, once you've seen ghostrider uve seen it all with regards to speed & bikes. still though, 1 mistake and your dead, for sure.
These people really annoy me. I work with a guy called Gerard Kinghan who's an Irish road racer and races British SuperStock 1000. He has to pay huge sums of money to race in a 'safe' environment, then people think it's fine to do it on public, open roads. All they're doing is giving themselves and bad name and making police crack down on the rest of us when we fancy going out for a cruise. As for crashing, it's not just killing himself, who else might he kill?
That didn't even seem that bad? The bit of traffic towards the beginning seemed a bit hairy but other than that just seemed like any normal biker who doesn't mind opening it up a bit, but he was hardly going for it? As opposed to said above ghost rider who winds police up then wheelies off through traffic on a turbo busa.
If the bike had impacted into the back of a car it would have no doubt killed the driver also, 175 kg bike plus 80kg rider travelling at a closing speed of 100mph+ will do a lot of damage. Maybe when they catch people doing this they should be automatically signed up to drive the TT, to see how they do? If they can't set a representative time they they get banned for life, for failing at going fast on a bike. Ian.
I'd say the blokes a twat, I'm a biker and that is exactly the sort of thing that makes motorists hate bikers, I've got no problem if he makes a mistake and he dies, thats his choice, but it's who he takes with him that matters. My mate got knocked off his bike at 20mph when he was going past stopped traffic on his way to work, a guy decided to turn round straight across his path and he went over the roof. At 300kmh there's no way he would be seen in a cars mirror until it's too late. I've got no issue with having fun on the road, but there is a time and a place, if he'd just opened it up on an open road then fine, but not cutting in and out of traffic. Alex B
All it takes for one of those cars not to see him coming (bet 90% of them didnt) and decided to pull over and thats one flat biker Theres a time and a place, fair enough opening it out on the straight/clear bits but weaving in and out of busy traffic at those speeds is asking for trouble! (bet he was buzzing though lol)
I will second that. If you wanna ride fast take it to a track not on the road and especially not through traffic.
especially if I were to be on that road that day, I don't use my indicators for shit. I just "know" when to change lanes.
He is a stupid faggot. If he'd hit a car doing 60mph while he was doing 3x that the driver in the other vehicle would most certainly die too. There's a reason there are tracks you can go play on. I have absolutely zero respect for people driving like cvnts on the road. Just the other day my friend's best friend decided that doing 110mph on a narrow country road with 3 mates in the car was a fabulous idea, needless to say it ended straight into a cliff-face and then into the barriers - pure luck that everybody survived. If I ever see him I'll tell him he's massive cvnt and proceed to slap him in the face if he denies.
Meh, High speed filtering. Not what i'd call spaztic - he also missed more wheelies than he actually launched off the clutch.
