Absolutely not.
In Australia, in remote areas, you have no speed limits - open road speeds. Take a look at the size of Australia. You really think you could ride across that at 65 mph max? It's called the outback because there is NOTHING around.
Sorry Kazza, that is incorrect.
The highest speed limit in Australia is 130kph is
some areas in the NT, otherwise the highest speed limit you can drive at is 110kph on 'special' stretches of highway/freeway or 100kph on other out of town areas.
I do agree, however, that bikes should not be speed limited - or perhaps they should only be speed limited to 150kph or so.
There is NO valid reason for travelling 299kph - and the human mind could not possibly keep up with the potential variables. (the average reaction time is .233 of a second - and at 299kph, you would travel 19.34m from the time you'd SEEN the hazard, to the earliest possible time you could react to it)
And that's not considering stopping distances at that speed etc.
But, having said that, there are indeed times when that extra speed is needed for safety etc. (blow past a truck with a delaminating tyre or other hazard)
The same argument is used with cars - why do the Falcadores need to have such potential for high speed?
I will say, however, that it didn't LOOK like he was passing cars at thrice their speed, so something dodgy might have been done to the speedo calibration. (I could probably get my speedo to read 299kph at walking pace, with my SpeedoTuner!)
One other observation - the lanes on the highways where that was shot are certainly wide - no way you could pass between those vehicles in Oz....)
Just another squid showing off - maybe he's seen the GhostRider movies and thought anybody could do it?
n00b....
Cheers,
Rick
