Off the record.

For the past month, I have conducted videos doing routes of Rockhampton.

I want to know if people would approve of me doing a video of me doing a scenic route of Rockhampton in the fastest time possible.

In 1976, a French national did a suburban to Tower run in under 9 minutes.



I did my run through Rockhampton in 11 minutes 44 seconds.

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 14^th, 2024 at 6:44am:

Carry a backpack of urea nitrate and bottle of diesel, police will give you a cleared road.

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 14^th, 2024 at 5:55am:


A nanosecond?

It was "tomorrow" in New Zealand when I did the run.

I missed my turn-off on George St, though.

chimera wrote on Sep 14^th, 2024 at 6:59pm:


Is that what you drink chimera?

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 15^th, 2024 at 12:12am:

When performance enhancement is essential for a record breaking run, why not? Urinate often and you're good to go.

You probably heard police radio talking about me trying to break my 19 year old record. I achieved that last night. 17:19. Breaking my old record of 17:44. Gomersall Rd to Port Curtis via the "scenic route".

So do a lot of your mates up there .................

For point of reference, I set a rule to not use the highway to get across town. The other rule is to not go above 10km/h over the speed limit. Otherwise, I would actually get pulled over. The only risk I run is a noise complaint, or swerving over the road.

Map a run across town. Starting from Gomersall Rd/Boundary Rd intersection, I would make my way across the backstreets of the town. The finishing point is Fiddes and Harvey St, Port Curtis.

The DF 41 missile road-speed is Mach 25,  31,000 kmh.
Space capsule re-entry hits 28,000kmh and can do across  Rockhampton and back again in about 3 seconds.

Gnads wrote on Sep 17^th, 2024 at 11:21am:


I was on the piss again, when I wrote this topic. But I was on the wagon (technically) when I did my speed runs.

If you can do 44 in a 40 zone; or 55 in a 50 zone; or 66 in a 60 zone, the police don't bother with their revenue fundraisers. Most (95%) of those traffic infringement fines goes towards state government revenue. The remainder goes to the police officers issuing the fine. It keeps the police officers honest in doing their jobs professionally. But, if the officer fines a driver for doing less than 10kmh over the speed limit, the driver challenges that in court.

It's quicker using the direct route as the crow flies:

'The Iron Curtain falls: Moment 'drunk' Russian soldiers smash tank through metal fence of Volgograd airport after racing along roads at 55mph'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8874975/Moment-drunk-Russian-soldiers-s...

chimera wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 8:10am:


I understand the serious undertones of this topic. But, my personal record is only bettered by Peter Brock and a few other invitees (including a local police officer -- pursuit team).

Rosco McGlashan currently holds the Australian land speed record at 802.6 km/h. He did Rockhampton in 90 secs.

You might be done inside 90 seconds. But most people know that the fastest you could travel from Boundary Rd to Port Curtis would be about 2 minutes 30 in a supercharged vehicle.

'Andy Green of US drove a twin turbofan car at 1,227 km/h in 1997 and it exceeded the sound barrier of 1,235 km/h at Mach 1.016'. 
This proves: 1). Yanks can't read maps or do maths.
2).  You get booked for loud exhaust if you break the sound barrier in Rockhampton.

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 9:43am:

They're hot to trot.
Queensland Police on-road motorcycles are currently Yamaha FJR1300 & Honda ST1300.
FJR  248kmh 0-96kmh in 2.7 sec.
ST    225km/h   0-100km/h  3.5s.

Goose wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 6:33pm:


I would race down Musgrave Street in my old rustbucket, back in the 1990s. I was on my way home from work, and the drug dealers/car enthusiasts of the time would always race down the street from Elphinstone to High Street.

It came down to a matter of who could drag race their car the fastest. When I was 18 years old, I decided to race my co-worker to work, doing High Street to Elphinstone. That was back in the day when police were still doing manual radar. I got told to slow down a few times. But the police insisted that I was still going too fast for the 60 kmh zone.

Decided to do 50 kmh an hour from Elphinstone to my workplace. I worked on Little Musgrave Street near a tyre autoshop. Oh, alright... I worked at the bowling alley. Parked my car undercover many times. Many needles littered around the car park.

2022, I have yet to see many sharps, since they put in a set of cameras.

chimera wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 6:19pm:


And what has that got to do with speed records of 800+ kmh?

UnSubRocky wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 8:21pm:

You say 'chicken dung'. But it leaves the highway patrol behind in your dust.

chimera wrote on Sep 18^th, 2024 at 8:25pm:


Were you proposing that I try to beat the national land speed record?

chimera wrote on Sep 19^th, 2024 at 7:32am:


*whom

I could do 810 on that stretch of road in South Australia. Whom? What do you think of that?

I was thinking the 146km straight road of the Eyre Highway. Unlimited speed there. But, I suppose the salt flats could be doable.