Lonesoldier: I realize that we're two individuals from different countries, but I simply don't see the logic in your reasoning.
It seems ignorant and dangerous to suggest that riders should be able to exceed the speed limit if nobody is around and the rider has the ability to stop.
I'm not going to stand on a soapbox and try to convince anyone here that I've never exceeded the speed limit on my FZ6. The truth is, I've run the bike over 130 mph on a public highway, and I was scared to death. Sure, nobody was around, and I never got caught. Despite all that, I put myself in significant danger because there simply is no way I could have safely stopped to avoid an animal (I live in Northern Michigan).
Lets look at this from a mathematical standpoint. At 130 mph, a rider will cover 191 feet per second. It takes the average person .75 seconds to perceive something and another .75 seconds to react to it. So now we have used 1.50 seconds to perceive/react to a deer standing in the roadway 300 feet ahead while we're doing 130 mph. In that time, we just gobbled up 286 feet and we have not done anything to bring ourselves safely to a stop. By the time we begin to brake/downshift/take evasive action, we've hit the deer, and are now pavement surfing just hoping our gear holds out (if we're not already dead).
Speed limits exist for a reason. They are meant to keep folks safe, and not exceed the capabilities of vehicles and the folks who drive them.
I may catch hell for this post, but I needed to get the info out there.
I am sorry you made the poor decision to barrel through an area chock full of wildlife and potential hazards at over 130mph. I am also sorry you now seem to relate, in your mind, this experience with speeding in general.
What do you mean by speeding? Rocketing around at mach 3.
What do I mean by speeding? Finding the right speed of travel based not on road signs, but rather on visibility, road conditions, stopping power, rider limitations, and traffic (both pedestrian and automotive). Nine times out of ten, speeds arrived at via this sort of assessment are higher than the posted limit. Sometimes, they are significantly higher.
I have ripped around at over 200kph and felt safe in doing so. I live in the prairies where you can see for MILES in every direction and the road is dead straight. Out in the middle on nowhere, with zero traffic, this is not the maniacal experience many make it out to be.
In the twisties, I find myself much closer to the posted speed limit, though the only time I am within 5-10 kph of it is when there is traffic. 20-35kph over the posted limit in the twisty stuff on what is nearly a supersport machine is NOT dangerous and ignorant. 40-50kph over the posted limit is a bit aggressive, and my wrist pulls me up into that range sometimes, but only when conditions allow.
So, I repeat, US speed laws are draconian and western speed laws in general are silly.
The numbers they have selected applied in the 70's to tanks built by Buick and Oldsmobile and also to supersport machines in the year 2010. Can you seriously tell me those numbers are reasonable?
They take our money. They take our machines. We are reasonable adults. We do not deserve it. I think of it as an additional tax. So, all riders out there, who pick their speeds rationally, are essentially downtrodden and overtaxed feudal serfs in this draconian system. It is god damned retarded. And it drives me up the wall. It really does.
And they do not have a system in place to assess the situation when the individual was speeding. A ticket for going the speed the OP was going may well justify their taking his bike away. But it also may only warrant a small fine, or no fine at all.
As it is, they blindly and haphhazardly slap on this rider-tax. And this poor man has lost his bike for it.
This is a travesty, but we must endure it, because to speak against it is to be labelled a crazed maniac.
That would pay my insurance for a year and a half!!! 
tears... lol
