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Time to speed limit motorcycles

Posted by: Neil Mitchell | 16 October, 2013 - 8:51 AM

Motorcycles may be forced to display front registration plates
Here’s an idea: Let’s speed limit motorcycles, maybe cars too but start with motorcycles.
We need to do something. Look at these cases:
Friday 12th April 2013 – motorcyclist detected at 130km/hr in an 80km/hr zone near Todd Rd, Port Melbourne. A police chase followed and a 26—year-old man was arrested.
Sunday 16th June 2013 – motorcyclist detected at 146 km/hr on the Hume Freeway. Police called off a chase after he accelerated to 273 km/hr. A 37 year old Swanpool man was later charged.
Saturday 14th September – motorcyclist was clocked at 144km/hr in a 100km/hr zone on the Eastern Freeway in Kew, reaching speeds of up to 195km/hr when police followed him. He later told officers that he was running late for work.
Monday 14th October 2013 – motorcyclist speeds through 60km/hr roadwork zone at approximately 100km/hr. Subsequent police chase was called off after detected speed of 232 km/hr.
11th October – 165km/hr in a 100km/hr zone on the Maroondah Highway
8th September - 154km/hr in a 70km/hr in Footscray Rd in West Melbourne

These are big, fast, dangerous bikes. Why do we need them?
Why do we need any motorcycle capable of doing 300 kilometres an hour?
Speed limit them, stop the chases, stop the idiots.
Why not? It is becoming a problem, a habit, a fashion.
Speed limiting might be a beginning of the end to it.
Motorcyclists I am sure will want to debate. I want to work out whether it can be done.

Respond here
http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/breaking-ne ... 2vlhm.html

Sensationalist crap to try to get attention to himself...who the fark is Neil Mitchell anyway?

Why do we need any motorcycle capable of doing 300 kilometres an hour?

This is a good point; we don't, at least not for the road. How fast is fast enough anyway?? Most road riders would do fine with a VFR750 or the like.

Mitchell or anyone else can't talk about limiting bikes without discussing cars in the same fashion. For every twat on a bike there are 10 in cars.

I used to tear around the roads when young and silly, I wish I got into racing much earlier. We live on a busy road which is a popular cruise especially in summer, of course. On a Saturday night in summer there are hordes of too-loud blinged up R1's and the like tearing up and down waking my kids up and being tools. These are the guys I love to slice up at track days when you ride round the outside of them on a 30 yr old historic bike. Most sports bikes are wasted on the road, you just don't need them, but its all pose and image of course. Sure, they are fantastic machines, bikes have come so far.

MadKaw wrote:Time to speed limit motorcycles

Posted by: Neil Mitchell | 16 October, 2013 - 8:51 AM
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more crap from the mouth from the south ... in order to get his ratings up


about time he retired as his ego exceeds his intelligence.

MickLC wrote:.....who the fark is Neil Mitchell anyway?

think Alan jones and John Laws rolled into one

It was 'journalism' like this, grabbing for attention when they couldn't come up with a real story, that took away the Phase IV GTHO. If you let this sort of crap become the norm 1984 would be just around the corner.

Smitty wrote:

MickLC wrote:.....who the fark is Neil Mitchell anyway?

think Alan jones and John Laws rolled into one

Thought as much....people still buy into their crap though unfortunately

My bike is speed limited ... its a Royal Enfield ...oh wait!

Hmm perhaps we can start a petition to limit the amount a negative crap that comes out of his Gob

With a sign around his neck SHOCK jOCK Beware Crap ahead

Mick