If the legal limit is say 30mph and you ride 35- That's about 16%, but if you ride 150mph in a 60 zone that's about 250 %.
Reason I ask is I'd like to know what might be considered more dangerous as I regularly ride 35 in a 30, but on occasion there's this lonely piece of beach road that beckons to be ridden fast.
(silly question so even silly answers will get a nod towards a thumbs-up, for your information my bike tops out at around 145 and after that it's time to prepare for takeoff, like to keep my percentage lower to be safe :).
Update:@ a2- rather hard to talk to the dead but by than they wouldn't care what was being said.
Update 3:@ firestormer- 270% ??? Damn, what's as illegal as going to Church with three mistresses dressed in white to your daughter's wedding.
Update 5:@ jason- And you love chops, so that's about the high limit anyways if you happen upon a curve in the road
Update 7:@ 2nd Mark- I didn't see anything and wasn't even in the neighborhood -----------:<D.
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Depends on which road. If it's a known cop haunt, then no more than 10% over but there are some special roads where 270% of the limit has been achieved.
Generally, I'm always riding around 35MPH in 30 zones. There are some dual-carriageways that have a 40MPH speed limit near me, they are not close to houses so this is where I occasionally have a little blast, but nothing double the limit.
Worst I've ever done? Probably 90-100 in a 30 zone (It was a 40 zone, Dual-Carriageway, but for some reason was changed to 30). Yes I know this was stupid but I always make sure the road is clear before doing over the limit, in front and behind. That is one of the main reasons why I got a Dual-Sport lol, it de-creases my urge to speed and besides it can't do the speed of sports bikes.
I have never been one for going fast...I prefer acceleration and it's also more useful. I'm more focused on the acceleration of the motorcycle, rather than top speed.
I've cased triples and then have done "Artie Johnson" stop and fall overs.
I did the most damage when I lost traction in a right hand turn with whoops in it. Bike slide out, broke my ankle and dislocated my shoulder. That was a high speed wipe out, because I had just clicked into 5th gear.
On the flip side I did an Artie Johnson in a turn. The bike stopped, stalled and I fell over. I tried to step off, lost my balance and smacked the inner right knee on a rock. That rock, punctured a hole in my artery in my knee. The only thing that stopped the internal bleeding was the tightness of my leathers at the knee joint.
Speed doesn't kill. Pushing the laws of physics is what will kill you...lol.
I go a little over the limit, the speed limit around here is 110 KPH (68 MPH) on the highway so I normally sit on around 130 KPH (80 MPH), around town its 50 KPH (31 MPH) so I normally do around 65 to 70 KPH (40 to 43 MPH),
That is only when its safe to do so, I don't mind putting my life in danger but I don't do it when I feel it might put someone else's life in danger for no reason.
On curves that have posted limits I use the metric system (double it then add 10). Therefore a curve posted at 35 can be taken at 80.
I try to keep it at about 8 over the posted limit and that means even in the turns. So when it says to reduce speed to 15 for turns try to keep it near the posted speed before entering the turns.
I ride either with the flow of traffic or slightly faster than the speed of traffic.
I don't want to be a heat-score ( catch the eye of the cops looking for speeders ) but I don't want to be in danger of being rear-ended by an inattentive driver either.
I'm usually 5-10 mph over depending on the speed limit. You can do the math.
radared at 177 in a 70 ,no ticket don't ask,got caught 2 yrs ago doin 147 in a 70,cop reduced the ticket to 90 in a 70 for stopping -been known to do 90 in a 70 on one wheel,don't know what that percentage is but do you have to divide it by 2 if you are on one wheel or do you multiply by 2,dang it math always confuses me.
Im doing around 55 MPH on all city streets all the time.