I lol when I read stuff like this.  Back in my day we did speeds like this in the local street.

I had fast motorbikes... a few person records.
180 in the Sydney Harbour tunnel before cams were installed
200+ across the bridge at about 4am
285 on the M1 freeway
http://m.smh.com.au/nsw/driver-caught-travelling-more-than-100kmh-over-speed-limit-20160206-gmni4v.html

boxy wrote on Feb 6^th, 2016 at 10:04pm:


Yeah but there are more exciting thing in life to do than play dungeons and dragons and drink fanta

GordyL wrote on Feb 6^th, 2016 at 10:11pm:

Piss off to the NT with your idiocy, where you're only likely to kill yourself, or a poor, unfortunate wombat.

Piss off to the NT with your idiocy, where you're only likely to kill yourself, or a poor, unfortunate wombat.

No thanks we have quite enough knob heads driving like that up here already.

John Smith wrote on Feb 7^th, 2016 at 7:57am:


Nah this was in the first month it opened nearly 25 years ago. At 4am not a single car

Bobby. wrote on Feb 7^th, 2016 at 9:16am:


No way you could do that in Australia because some tool would change lanes and the closing speed is about 100kph.

BTW all these speeds I was bragging about was about 25 years ago, times were so different then.

I once got busted doing 160kph on the freeway and the cop started off all cop like and serious and thinking he was going to throw the book at me. I spotted him checking out the headers on my bike and asked him what's up. He asked me what kind they were and turns out he had a similar model bike. We talked bikes for 30 mins and he gave me the ticket at less than 15 over.

I'm not suggesting it was better/worse back then, just commenting on the way it was.

Everyone I used to know treated the speed limit as a suggestion

GordyL wrote on Feb 7^th, 2016 at 10:52am:



Gee wizz - you were lucky - I lost my license in the late 70's for going 157 km/hr on a motorbike - a Kawasaki 500 triple.
At least that's what they booked me for.

GordyL wrote on Feb 6^th, 2016 at 10:00pm:


Just one small rock and you probably would have killed someone.

I second the dickhead motion.

ok everyone..

take a chill pill... I'm sure we've all done some stupid things when younger...

actually.. I probably did more than my fair share as well... !!

Sounds exciting to me

Bobby. wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 8:11am:


Yep sure dodged a bullet

Or...... you could just join the police force and speed everywhere you like.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2016 at 6:11pm:


True, ok I was in a GT351 as a passenger about 30 years ago on the west gate freeway, we did 120 mph = 193 klm/h.

Another one at around the same time as above, again I was a passenger in a Mercedes did 160 klm/h over the west gate bridge.

I was a dickhead and so were my mates.

Wish I had an H2

GordyL wrote on Feb 6^th, 2016 at 10:00pm:


Also hit the tunnel shortly after it opened....200 indicated on the Speedo on the north south pass.
160+ many times heading north off the bridge....as the traffic started clearing at 9am - quite a few close calls over the couple of years I regularly did that. I can't remember ever seeing a  hw patrol on that stretch at that time.

Many others on different roads around Sydney over a period of 25 or so years. Then got busted in a big way and discovered track days.

I did 46 km/h going down a steep hill on my electric bike yesterday - does that count?

Gordon wrote on Oct 20^th, 2016 at 8:41am:


Track days are brilliant fun..... And highly addictive.

Best moment on a public road?
Doing 200+ going south and up hill past the Pie In The Sky on the "Old Road" , knee down, and bringing the front up on the change of direction. Heaps of spectators lined against the car park wall, but noticed two old Ulysses club types both staring and very obviously mouthing "what a f**kwit".

Year: about 2003
Bike: very warmed up Fireblade 954.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2016 at 8:11am:


I had a front left tire blow out at 230 KPH in my Torana on the M4.

No dramas it just started pulling left so i slowed down and stopped

" it was the first production bike to crack 10 second quarter mile times"

Yes.
Down a mineshaft.

Life_goes_on wrote on Oct 28^th, 2016 at 8:40pm:


Faster than mine, I had a Honda VTR1000 up to 2002. Was good on the Old Road as being a V Twin you could be in just about any gear and use the crazy torque.

I took the family to pie in the sky a few months ago in the SUV. The pies are still good at least.

Life_goes_on wrote on Oct 28^th, 2016 at 8:40pm:

Ajax wrote on Feb 21^st, 2016 at 9:15pm:




This is dangerous & I think they're insane:




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