Re: Falling off a bike at 300kph

atec77 wrote:
> the_dawggie wrote:
>> Kev wrote:
>>
>>> Listening to the Beenleigh Police and heard them mention a motorbike 
>>> passing them at a speed of 300kph on their Lidar, they were about to 
>>> give chase when the pillion fell off the bike, apparently the Pillion 
>>> is not in a very good condition
>>
>> .... which is why I was virtually ****eing myself when on the
>> back of my cousin's old 70s Honda and he decided to take it to
>> 170 kph on a country road that was more potholes than road. I
>> was hanging onto him, so if things went pear shaped he sure as
>> hell was stepping off with me :-)
> 170?
>  stuck in 2nd ?

It was fast enough for me :-) also considering the road
conditions, and I wasn't driving it.

I'll do silly things on my dirt bike at slower speeds,
so I don't hate him, we didn't crash. He did get a
slightly unpolite comment on stopping from me.