Thread: Victoria Highway run 299km/hr

Originally Posted by OfficerFarva

This guy either has balls of steel or is half retarded, probably both.

Ask any professional rider and they will all tell you something along the lines of "this doesn't take balls. It takes a complete lack of respect for the lives of the others driving on the roads".

I raced motorcycles professionally for many years. Riding like this on a public highway is just plain stupid. There are lots of riders that think it's "cool" or makes them look "special". Fact is they are just 100% wrong. I do not care how talented you are on a bike, the faster you go the less time you have to react. Like reacting to a driver moving in front of you because you came up on them so fast they didn't know you were there.

It would not be so bad that they are just risking their lives, but the are risking the lives of other drivers as well.

Twenty years ago I would have thought he was a badass. Now? Not so much. Impressive, the daring, to split lanes at that speed in an uncontrolled environment.

Yep, I look back at my younger days of riding bikes and "cruising" on 270kmh was the norm and think wtf was I doing?! I sold my bike despite it being my pride and joy as I knew I was a fukwit on it.

Holy fuck.

Hopefully he doesn't have a wife or kids at home...

Originally Posted by bigbenj

Hopefully he doesn't have a wife or kids at home...

He probably doesn't, but a lot of those people he passed did.