WABASHA (AP) - With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a Stillwater motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph. On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61. When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph. "I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for Tuesday's editions. "I had to double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast." Several law enforcement sources told the newspaper that, although no official records are kept, it was probably the fastest ticket ever written in the state. After about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed to about 100 mph and let the other cycle catch up. By then Loney had radioed ahead to another state trooper, who pulled the two over soon afterward. The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license - and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph. A search of speeding tickets written by state troopers, who patrol most of the state's highways, between 1990 and February 2004 shows the next fastest ticket was for 150 mph in 1994 in Lake of the Woods County. Tilley did not return calls from the newspaper to his home Monday. A working number for him could not immediately be found by The Associated Press on Tuesday. Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200 mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175 mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph. Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said. Kathy Swanson of the state Office of Traffic Safety said unless Tilley was wearing the kind of protective gear professional motorcycle racers wear, he was courting death at 200 mph. "I'm not entirely sure what would happen if you crashed at 200 miles per hour," Swanson said. "But it wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure."
You can be wearing custom tailored race gear by Jesus himself, if you dump at 200mph you are going to die. Impressive ticket though! you guys can see the white strips on the road on like 169S towards mankato and I think 35WS towards Albert Lea as well.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Beej you guys can see the white strips on the road on like 169S towards mankato and I think 35WS towards Albert Lea as well. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Any time you are on a road with those, stop your car at random times and paint extra stripes in random places. :-p
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jprice <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Beej you guys can see the white strips on the road on like 169S towards mankato and I think 35WS towards Albert Lea as well. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Any time you are on a road with those, stop your car at random times and paint extra stripes in random places. :-p <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> great idea, but wouldn't that make it look like you're going faster than you really were? the thing to do would be to paint over the existing strips to make them impossible to see from a helicopter! -Chux
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by bikerboy I have pictures of a 170 mph crash. I can post them but they are really graphic. you decide <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Go for it... if no one has the stomach for it... email it to me instead
I'll leave them as links for the faint of heart. The last two are graghic! http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 1.jpg http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 2.jpg http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 3.jpg http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 4.jpg Cut and paste the link
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DISCOPOPE ooooh.. thats not goin gto be a pretty day in court. /wts, mildly modded honda vtr.... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I highly doubt it was a VTR. It is only capiable of 165 +/- I would guess it was a CBR1000RR
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Chux great idea, but wouldn't that make it look like you're going faster than you really were? the thing to do would be to paint over the existing strips to make them impossible to see from a helicopter! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Well, yes, but when you go to court I think they'd throw out a 500 mph speeding ticket. :-p
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by bikerboy <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DISCOPOPE /wts, mildly modded honda vtr.... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I highly doubt it was a VTR. It is only capiable of 165 +/- I would guess it was a CBR1000RR <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Apperently the guy called into 93X yesterday and told them it was an RC51. Either the cop was off a wee bit on his timing, or the kid knows how to build a motor. FWIW: Fully modded racebikes putting 190hp to the wheels are only doing 195 at Daytona.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by John16V link dont work!!!! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> John, YSATI. :-p I fixed the links for you.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by bikerboy http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 3.jpg http://www.mnsubaru.com/images/memberimages/9/crash 4.jpg <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Whoah... now that's brutal... what's the story behind this incident?
You just had those pictures lingering around your computer? Isn't that a little twisted? Gross, how come no cops in the pictures, it looks as if people are just trying to find all the body parts and making a pile. [xx(]
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Flipndabrd You just had those pictures lingering around your computer? Isn't that a little twisted? Gross, how come no cops in the pictures, it looks as if people are just trying to find all the body parts and making a pile. [xx(] <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> I rode for many years, probobly more than you have even been driving. I have see two deaths first hand and one arm removed. I got these pictures from a friend who also rides as well. I posted these because there are several people on the list who ride or want to ride. These people need to know that it is not a matter of if you are going to crash it is a matter of when you are going to. Even wearing the proper gear you still are at risk. The person in the article could have just as easily been the person in the pictures at the speed he was traveling. (175 at best) As for the facts of the picture I will not share those as it is just to much information. God Speed young lad
Even without those truly horrifying pictures, there is no way on earth or in heaven that you would ever get me on a motorcycle. I'd be terrified at 15mph, much less 150mph.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by bikerboy I highly doubt it was a VTR. It is only capiable of 165 +/- I would guess it was a CBR1000RR[/i] <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> yeah, i suppose, but it's the cool bike to get.. as far as current honda's go..
****! Gotta pay to play... i guess? (the pictures.) Id like to know what was up there besides a fast bike and a crash when you have time later Matt. Dave
