205 MPH Speeding Ticket

[Yukonart]

Damn this guy was hauling ass!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... h_ticket_2

[azn2nr]

bs. there are plenty of reasons why espcialy the fact that it was calculated from a stopwach.
hondas arent capeble stock or modded.
even moto gp's dont accererate that fast.
a kawasaki could barely do it modded.
a turbo busa could likely do it but the aerodynamics wouldnt allow it
a y2k could do it gaurneee but would take longer than 2 markers in the road.

lastly a radar would be more accurate in this situation but at speeds above 175 they cant inturpet the signals and automaticly scramble themselves

[entirelyturbo]

You didn't read it closely enough. It didn't say he reached 205 mph in 4.39 seconds. He started his watch when the motorcycle reached a certain point, and then ended it when he went a quarter-mile past it. That was the 4.39 seconds, and using that, he calculated the end speed at 205mph.

[Yukonart]

Yup. . . he was just calculating trap speed. . . not a standing 1/4 mile.

[kelley]

now if I remember correctly the bike was a completely stock mid 90's honda cbr 919. which tops out at around 155 mph.

[evolutionmovement]

That guy should walk as the accuracy of a cop timing points passed from an angle at great distance with a stop watch by hand while trying to fly (assuming no pilot) is next to nil.

Steve

[Legacytuner]

my younger brother knows that guy, and he said that it was impossible for his bike to go that fast, my brother said he was probably going more like 175-180 mph my bros bike is just as fast
he has a modded vfr 800 he was pissed when he heard that the porker wrote him up for 205.

[AWD_addict]

State patrol traffic pilots work alone, at least in WA. I assume Minn. would be no different.

[douglas vincent]

The faster the person travels from point to point, the greater the discrepancy a manual timer will be as the percentage the "timer" is off just gets greater.

ie, if you are going 60 mph, and the timer is off a 1/10, then you are from 54 to 66 mph. If you are going 200, then you are from 180 to 220, a much bigger window. Obviously the guy was speeding, but I think he should fight the damn ticket for the principle of the point! The cop was right, or he was wrong. The ticket could have been written for breaking the speed limit, and he wouldnt have a chance, or for the 205 mile ticket, which is stupid and hopefully wont be proved.

[azn2nr]

my points still stand. the only undisputible speding tickets come form radars. and even thoes are off sometime. if a cop says i saw you going at least this fast take him to court. if he shows up , take a tennis ball and drop it and ask him how fast it was going the moment before it hit the ground. of course you will need to have the physics equation woked out before hand so you can prove it when he is wrong. you can also figure out how fast its going and have plane cop timers try to time and calculate it and when their wrong you get off

[G-reg]

The best part is that the kid is the son of the local Deputy Sheriff, or so my similarly stupid crotch rocket friend told me.

[professor]

Yep, that's why they don't recognize hand-timed world records anymore in track& field, and add 0.25 seconds automatically to "compare" hand-timed with computer timed.

In Pennsylvania they used to have speed traps with electrically timed strips you ran over, damn accurate there and impossible to beat. You'd see the cops setting them up with a long tape measure.

[Legacy777]

Actually the hand timing speed traps have error built into them.....and it's in favor of the driver, not the cop.

I got a ticket by timing lines, and fought the ticket. I went out and measured the lines and calculated my speed. My calculation had me going faster then what the ticket was written for.

Granted at anything over 100 mph....the accuracy is going to be severely diminished when compared to 40 mph.