victoria highway run 299km - YouTube

Anybody seen this? Some crazy kid, 25 years old, 25 previous infractions riding on the highway near Victoria and was stupid enough to post the video on youtube. The cops now have the bike, next up have to prove it was the kid riding.

This is gonna cause haters to come at me. Good for this guy. There are too many rules out there. This is what fast bikes are for. Whats the point of having a 300kph bike if you only ever do the speed limit. The law is in an ever increasing strangle grip of its citizens, in any country, and its nice to see someone willing to give them the finger. And it looked like he had some talent too, swift and clean through the cars, consistent throttle. Good rider.

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Not from me. The whole concept of a speed limit is stupid. 80 mph on a bright sunny Sunday morning with not a car in sight, vehicle designed for 150 mph and recently serviced and checked over by the governments own inspectors, driver/rider has been doing this for 30 years: Illegal in the UK. 29 mph in freezing fog, black ice on the road, outside a school, fifty year old vehicle, hasn't seen any mechanical professional for 11 months but still meets safety standards set in 1937, driver passed the test the day before: Can't touch you until some kiddie is already dead.

Andy

There is no denying the bloke riding the bike is a hotplate short of a BBQ !

Now before you start jumping up and down, I too have ridden on public roads at 300 K's +. The difference is, Halfabbq in the video is passing umpteen cars that would not see him comming at that speed, lucky he's not mincemeat. When I was stupid enough to do it it was leagal, on the NT roads anyway.


I also agree 100% about being over goverened. Once our open speed limits were abolished and we got a licence point system to boot ! CLAIR MARTIN our then chief minister saw to that. Not only did the road toll double there after the £&%* promptly up and left town. Nice one, good on ya......

What ever happend to the backbone ?

Tit short of an udder, that bloke.

Don't suppose he'll last long, in or out of jail.

This happened on a highway which I ride and drive several days each week. The video ended just past my exit, a few blocks from my home. This is in a small relaxed city of 400,000 people, during rush hour. A city where people do not expect this kind of driving.

His actions were stupid, irresponsible and downright sociopathic. If someone wants to ride fast and take the risk of offing oneself, find a deserted road somewhere and go for it. Better yet, go to the race track. I've ridden fast myself but this is simply inexcusable. A 500lb bike/rider combination at 300 km/h can be downright lethal to others (I don't care what happens to the perpetrator) in the event of a collision.

The mother, who is the registered owner of the bike, has now been fined a total of over $1400 and the bike has been seized. The police is now working at permanently confiscating the bike under BC's Civil Forfeiture law.

Good work Saanich Police! The majority of bikers do not support this sociopath, even though most of us believe that the speed limits are too low.


...Michelle

Good one Darwinite. Love those Ozzyisms.

An interesting sidenote. We have an award named after your fair city.

This lad hasn't won the Darwin award yet. But with 25 offenses and over riding his brakes by 100-200 kph he's an odds on favorite to win it soon.

With recidivism like that, there is little chance of reform. Just one car changing lanes suddenly will likely be the end for this thrill seeker.

Cheers,
John Downs

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Interesting. I hadn't thought that this specific incident would for some people trigger the thought that we are over regulated with speed limits.

For me, that's a different issue. I'm not super keen on the idea of having to ride at 100km on a wide open highway, but can appreciate that travelling at 199km over the posted speed limit in traffic is downright insane.

Victoria is a slow paced small city filled with a lot of blue haired retirees. The good thing about the province of B.C. is that is a huge place (about a million square kilometres). If a person really wants to ride their bike fast, head out out of town or better yet leave the southern part of the province.

There are only 4.5 million people in the whole province and once you head into the interior, there is almost no population. Riding at over the speed limit there is your own choice as you are only putting yourself in danger (and perhaps the local moose or deer population).

Over regulation is probably a valid debate in these less populated areas where you'll be on an open highway and the limit stays at 100kmh, or 110kmh max with nary a vehicle or person to pass for many a kilometre. In populated areas, the speed limits serve a few purposes including saving lives.

Stupidity in action! If he does that on a racetrack or in any other "closed" circuit I am fine with that, but if he does this on an public/open street it is just madness. If he kills himself who cares but on a public street he could kill anybody.

It is just a luck factor nothing to do with driving skills etc... This guy (s) should be looked away for long time to make the streets safer and because he put a bad light on all motorcycle drivers and travelers!

My opinion to that (and I am from Germany where you can do such madness legal on most highways).

cheers

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We pay are taxes to use the road, my oppinion on any empty road why should someone else tell me how fast i carnt go.

Thefastone

You take your chances, you pay the price.....this guy is probably going to jail for street racing infractions. (greater than 50km over the posted limit). In most countries this type of riding is extremely frowned upon, but the beauty of having a bike in some countries is that you are allowed to split lanes (without exceeding the limit just to be technical). Canada has some of the most unfriendly biker attitudes anywhere. You can't even go around cars and shuffle to the front of the line at a red light, let alone split lanes while moving. The whole idea of a bike is the smaller footprint, and being able to get around traffic and parking. The fact that you are a smaller more nimble mode of transportation gets you nowhere in Canada....you get targeted because the cops are all expecting some kind of "short cut" type of behaviour.
Where I now live (Barbados) bikes can go anywhere, and go around all manner of traffic without fear of being hounded. It really is a little too "freestyle" as a lot of the riders here have high powered super motard type bikes (a lot with no lights, etc.). These fellows pull huge wheelies every where and anywhere....it's a little sad because they give a bad name to all the other more safety conscious riders. However, most of it is just showing off without going to the extremes of the rider on Vancouver Island. WI wouldn't attempt any of those things in Canada. Somewhere along the line, each rider will choose how far he will go in skirting the legal limits when on their bike....one just needs to be aware of the penalties in the various jurisdictions because the Canadian anti-Street racing laws include forfeiture of the vehicle. (recently this included 15 exotics like Ferrari's, Lamborghini's etc. in one swoop on some very wealthy Chinese brats)

More developments:


Saanich, B.C., police lay charge in 300 km/h motorcycle video - British Columbia - CBC News



Accused in B.C. 300 km/h motorcycle video surrenders - British Columbia - CBC News


...Michelle
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