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[Smitty]

Hypothermic hoon clocked at 150km/h

From: Herald Sun
April 10, 2012 4:42PM


A HOON motorcyclist speeding his way to Sydney would have froze to death had he not been intercepted by police.

Stunned officers couldn't believe their eyes when they saw the 22-year old Hawthorn East man rocket past them on the Hume Fwy outside of Wangaratta wearing his best summer clothes.

The Apparent Temperature had dipped below 6C last night when the Wangaratta Highway Patrol clocked the man travelling 150km/h on the 100km/h section of road.

Decked out in jeans, t-shirt, canvas jacket and a towel around his neck, the man was close to death, a police source said.

Paramedics treated him at the scene for hypothermia but the stubborn speedster refused to be taken to hospital.

Police did, however, take his bike.

The man will be without his wheels for 30 days and is expected to be charged on summons with speeding and riding in a manner dangerous.

[Chitchats]

Rushing to get out of the cold, whats wrong with that?

[mike-s]

Reminds me of when i rode to Canberra via the coast in the middle of winter. Due to a small radiator leak that i found when refueling at Albion Park, I stripped the front end plastic off my old gpx750 and hunted down the source of my headache. I realised it wasn't going to be easy to locate and it wasn't getting any worse, so continued, though a couple of hours behind schedule.

I hit Bungendore a good 40 minutes after sunset and i was fucking FREEZING as I hadn't anticipated arriving after sunset and not brought the liner to my jacket, etc. I put on every jumper i had and even bought a newspaper to stuff down my jacket as insulation. It did a surprisingly good job. Though by the end i was stopping every 20 minutes to defrost my hands & the (only) double insulated gloves on the muffler. Despite it only being 45 minutes, it was a long, LONG trip.

As to the source of my leak? an o-ring that had hardened with age and that was disturbed and no longer sealing after i had fitted the new exhaust system.