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Title: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: cyberswine on June 24, 2012, 01:27:59 AM
EDMONTON - A motorcyclist was clocked at a “frightening” speed of 279 km/hr on Alberta’s deadliest highway.

Mounties said motorcyclist who was weaving in and out of traffic at a speeds of 279 km/hr on Highway 63, just north of Fort McMurray, shortly before 8 p.m on Thursday.

The motorcyclist was later arrested.

“It’s frightening,” Const. Christina Wilkins with the Wood Buffalo RCMP said. “I have never seen a speed that high and I think that would go for a lot of other officers as well.”

No information on what he was riding..... might be for sale soon though  [thumbsdown]



Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: zooom on June 24, 2012, 06:54:01 AM
173MPH eh?....be really curious to know what bike it was for sure...


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: RC Fan on June 24, 2012, 06:57:34 AM
173MPH eh?....be really curious to know what bike it was for sure...

I think I read it was an R1.


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: Grampa on June 24, 2012, 07:52:36 AM
a modified 620


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: derby on June 24, 2012, 09:22:20 AM
I think I read it was an R1.

i've done (over) that on an r1...


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: Shawn C on June 24, 2012, 11:56:13 AM
Must have been hard trying to catch him on horseback lol


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: 1KDS on June 24, 2012, 01:48:09 PM
a modified 620
Capirex IIRC


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: brimo on June 24, 2012, 11:00:19 PM
a modified 620
Capirex IIRC
In "k" mode


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: Autostrada Pilot on June 25, 2012, 07:42:01 AM
i've done (over) that on an r1...

Stock?  I've always wondered what an R1/GSX-r1000/CBR1000 would do out of the box.


I know an R6 will do 140 in 3rd.


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: derby on June 25, 2012, 09:30:59 AM

Stock?  I've always wondered what an R1/GSX-r1000/CBR1000 would do out of the box.


yup, stock... in 6th gear it'd pull slowly to 199mph-indicated*, bounced off the rev limiter, then drop down 3mph and start climbing again.

*199mph - 10% = ~179mph


Title: Re: The Cdn. Mounties get their man
Post by: Autostrada Pilot on June 25, 2012, 11:49:32 AM
yup, stock... in 6th gear it'd pull slowly to 199mph-indicated*, bounced off the rev limiter, then drop down 3mph and start climbing again.

*199mph - 10% = ~179mph

Wow, 180-200 off the showroom floor is pretty ridiculous.  Thanks for answering a question I've had for a few years.


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