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New Mon 30 Mar 15 15:27 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Crankcase
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/motorcyclist-filmed-weaving-through-traffic-at-148mph-with-passenger-on-the-back-10143885.html


I post only because of the noteworthy (if it's true) point about it being the highest ever speed recorded for a motorcycle with passenger in these circumstances.

Certainly I'd be in a state of disquiet if I were on the back. I wonder if his passenger was enjoying it?

Interesting that the sentencing guidelines say that custody for Dangerous Driving is "usual", so he must have had a good brief to get off with disqualification and a fairly small fine.
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New Mon 30 Mar 15 16:26 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - No FM2R
>>Certainly I'd be in a state of disquiet if I were on the back. I wonder if his passenger was enjoying it?

I got on the back of a Moto Guzzi Lemans many years ago, with a guy I worked with who always seem quite pleasant.

He then wound it up to flat out which apparently was something like 140mph, at lunch time, on a dual carriageway near Reading.

I've never been so scared in all my life. Genuinely terrified. There isn't much to the back seat of one of those and I could just see me flying off on the slightest of bumps.

When we got back to the office car park we fell out.

I don't think I've been on the back of a bike since.
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New Mon 30 Mar 15 16:29 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - commerdriver
Like cars, the most dangerous part of any motorcycle is the nut holding the handlebars
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New Mon 30 Mar 15 16:49 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - henry k
>> Like cars, the most dangerous part of any motorcycle is the nut holding the handlebars
>>
ould be true - at any speed :-)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-31937270
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New Mon 30 Mar 15 17:02 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - commerdriver
Absolutely right speed is fine in the right time place conditions and vehicle, public roads with other traffic about is rarely the right time or place.
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New Mon 30 Mar 15 17:02 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Armel Coussine
In my youth was taken from Radstock to Bath - 6 miles or so - in 4.5 minutes on the back of a fellow building labourer's BSA Gold Star 500. That was pretty frightening, especially braking very hard from 100-plus down a steepening hill with a sharp left-hander coming up. The guy wasn't a nutter at all, but I still shudder at the memory of trying not to slide up over his back and land on the road in front of the bike.

I know I've posted this before. It's burned into my memory so I'll probably post it again. Sorry.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 10:07 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Mapmaker
Getting into a car with somebody else driving is always a moment of trepidation.

I'm generally only happy when drunk.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 21:55 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Aretas
Many years ago I had to get some documents from Bury St Edmunds to a bank in the city. Motorcycle courier left at 10am. At 10.50 we had a call to say the docs had arrived. Estimate 80 miles.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 22:11 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - CGNorwich
I'm not entirely convinced that is possible.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 22:34 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - ....
Why not ? Aretas did say many years ago. It could have been before speed cameras when a copper in a Senator saw a bike and thought Nah! by the time I get to 140MPH he'll be in another county.

I once had a copper in a Senator claim he was not catching me at 140MPH when I was in a FIAT 127 GT. I was not being towed by a Ferrari F40.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 22:49 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Zero
>> Why not ? Aretas did say many years ago. It could have been before speed
>> cameras when a copper in a Senator saw a bike and thought Nah! by the
>> time I get to 140MPH he'll be in another county.

If it was many years ago, there was no M11, it was a tricky run with no real fast roads. Today the run is timed at 1:23 hours at the speed limit with no hold ups.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 22:55 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - No FM2R
That's an average of 96mph. Never mind the speed cameras, that's stunning going just on a motorway, never mind the bit in BSE and London.

I had a girlfriend in BSE when I was living just off the Tottenham Court Road and rode a KH250 with a top speed of 90 something. I most certainly never got anywhere near an hour.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 23:02 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - legacylad
BSE. You were going out with a dodgy cow? It's bad enough my friends scoffing at me when I walk out with a Swaledale, but dating a girl with BSE !
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 23:04 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - No FM2R
>>You were going out with a dodgy cow?

More than one, LL, more than one.
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New Tue 31 Mar 15 23:03 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - ....
I don't know how long the M11 has been there, cameras have not always been live down that road. A plastic bag on the number plate of a bike always helps progress. I don't think anyone suggested it was done at NSL.
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New Wed 1 Apr 15 12:29 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - helicopter
M11 was certainly there in the early eighties as I recall trying out a company SD1 on a quiet stretch at a considerably higher speed than the limit......around 60 mph more actually......
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New Wed 1 Apr 15 12:31 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - No FM2R
I think the Early 80s is when it was finished.
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New Thu 2 Apr 15 19:06 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - Aretas
Can't remember the year but sure the M11 was open. When M11 was new there was virtually no traffic.
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New Thu 2 Apr 15 19:23 
 Dangerous motorcycle with passenger - CGNorwich
M11 was opened in its entirety in 1980. Only accounts for. 55 miles of the journey between Bury and the City. I still think it would be near impossible if not suicidal to ride those 80 miles in 50 minutes especially on a weekday morning.
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