Moto GP eat your heart out

[Small_Fryz]

That is extremely crazy, if anybody has ever riden a half decent bike you will understand just how simply crazy this bike is. Those wheelies are pure power, no balance point at all. Pure acceleration power.

 

[UnoMOTO]

True...I don't hear any clutching to get it up. That guy has some serious nuts!

 

[Dougboy]

wow those are some crazy !@#$%^& to do that on public road

I think their speedo read 280

 

[Z]

I love this video. It's been in my collection for years. I can't help but watch it every now and then.

 

[Jim Prower]

Get that motor in an Alto Works!

('course, not too fond of the highway scenes...I kept imagining that thing just getting pancaked into one of those cars.)

 

[Duke]

Ghostrider is a total idiot. I just hope that when he finally does get killed, it's only him that dies, and not somebody innocent. I never have been, and never will be impressed by his kind.

 

[Roo]

I want that engine. Should be able to make a nice project Mini around it.

Bet he ran out of petrol after each run down that runway, though.

Rossi > Ghostrider, anyday.

 

[blackhound1022]

i dont think it 280 MPH

It has to be something like KPH or so.

Btw, those are freaking fast bike alright. Acceleration is unbelievable alright. Do it on highway or public road? i lost my respect for these guys.
👍 and 👎
I rather take that bike and take it somewhere more safer.

 

[Omnis]

i dont think it 280 MPH

It has to be something like KPH or so.

Btw, those are freaking fast bike alright. Acceleration is unbelievable alright. Do it on highway or public road? i lost my respect for these guys.
👍 and 👎
I rather take that bike and take it somewhere more safer.

Yeah, the guy was doing 280km/h, which means his friend on the Frankenbusa must be well at 200mph.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Ghostrider is a total idiot. I just hope that when he finally does get killed, it's only him that dies, and not somebody innocent. I never have been, and never will be impressed by his kind.

I dont care about the ghost rider and his antics. I just care about how :censored:ing crazy that bike is. Simply.. out of this world.

 

[Carlos]

The R1 was doing 296km/h while the busa was still doing wheelies out of pure power, no respect? talk again when you have driven a fast bike its the same if you have a ferrari to kick the pedal now and then.. and this guy has some great skills ^^

 

[Jim Prower]

I think people forget that, sometimes, even Schumacher, Rossi, and Tsuchiya crash. and, when they do, It happens in a controlled situation, with other professional drivers/riders, not out on the highway, where, when you do crash, it's MUCH harder for Mrs Percible in her Minivan (or Big Bubba in his 18- wheeler) to avoid you. Hell, people could lose control when you give them a heart attack passing them. Not to mention, that some road-raged freak might try to block you or cut you off.

No place for these sort of antics on the road.

I never wish death on anyone, but I sincerely hope Ghostrider gets his license taken away, and gets some good, hard jail time, someday.

It's sad to think he might completely destroy that motorcycle someday, but, the way he was riding, the chances of it happening in the next 12 months are pretty good.

I still say save the engine and put it in an Alto Works, or build your own GSX-R4 or Sports Prototype.

 

[blackhound1022]

The R1 was doing 296km/h while the busa was still doing wheelies out of pure power, no respect? talk again when you have driven a fast bike its the same if you have a ferrari to kick the pedal now and then.. and this guy has some great skills ^^

Yeah, that some mad skillz there... but on the public road? no. He risking everybody inoccent(sp?) life here... Including himself.

I think people forget that, sometimes, even Schumacher, Rossi, and Tsuchiya crash. and, when they do, It happens in a controlled situation, with other professional drivers/riders, not out on the highway, where, when you do crash, it's MUCH harder for Mrs Percible in her Minivan (or Big Bubba in his 18- wheeler) to avoid you. Hell, people could lose control when you give them a heart attack passing them. Not to mention, that some road-raged freak might try to block you or cut you off.

No place for these sort of antics on the road.

I never wish death on anyone, but I sincerely hope Ghostrider gets his license taken away, and gets some good, hard jail time, someday.

It's sad to think he might completely destroy that motorcycle someday, but, the way he was riding, the chances of it happening in the next 12 months are pretty good.

I still say save the engine and put it in an Alto Works, or build your own GSX-R4 or Sports Prototype.

Now, we're talking. That i would do. Take the bike and... do something with it. At least i would just take it somewhere more safer as i said before.

We never really want somebody to die, but whatever he doing, he threating inoccent life at that moment. If i see that thing after me, i would just be more pissed and scared. I mean, what if he slip? Bike flying in air, land on nearby car, causing choas, and i have to drag along for a ride?

Hell no. Better off for safety, he need to stay away from public road.

 

[a112]

Ghostrider is a total idiot. I just hope that when he finally does get killed, it's only him that dies, and not somebody innocent. I never have been, and never will be impressed by his kind.

Isn't he dead already,i somewhere heard that he died.

 

[Kuken]

Isn't he dead already,i somewhere heard that he died.

He got caught by the police because his engine died.

 

[blackhound1022]

Finally. What the news? And what his punishment?

 

[MistaX]

Not true. Nothing happend to him.

Infact he's got some new movie coming out soon.

His 5th.

 

[Omnis]

Boop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Rider_(stunts)

 

[UnoMOTO]

I am slightly curious about the lashing that the ghost rider is getting in here. Considering everybody in here is a speed nut in one way or another I just don't get the bashing. I'm sure that its safe to say that MOST of you have broken the speed limit at some point(GOSH...I bet It was on a public road!). From there its just a degree of your risk tolerance or skill level. For instance...If you have never went over 100 mph in a car, you would think that doing it on a bike is knocking on deaths door. If your doing 100 on a bike you might think that 150 is the end of the world. Its very much about persective. Once upon a time just a wheelie was cool, but now to get a second look you have to do a one handed, high chair, circle wheelie to say that you accomplished something.

More to the point is that the Ghost Rider has mad skills and What is dangerous to you is definetly not to him. To you it looks like he is riding on the edge of the limit. For him its just another ride. Am I way off here? What do you think?

 

[Jim Prower]

Oh, I don't know, Why don't you ask Valentino Rossi?

Now, imagine that happening on a straight road (not a sand trap) with cars all around at highway speed, with unskilled drivers in them. You're asking for at least a bike/car collision. Maybe a pileup, if the road's packed enough.

I do admit going ten over in the passing lane when I have to make a left turn to accommodate the moron on my rear bumper who doesn't have the patience to take things a bit more slowly. I almost never speed in town, and on two-lane roads, or in the driving lane. but, doing 200MPH on a shakily modified motorcycle on a public highway, with a maximum speed of 80 for most cars...that's asking for a death wish. Your closing speed on another car, MINIMUM, is 120 MPH. Like hitting a brick wall.

Besides, how much skill does it take to twist a grip, tuck in, and hang on? So he pulls wheelies at high speeds. Big whoop. You see jerks on YouTube doing it all the time.

I'd like to see him ride the Small Block Chevy-powered "Widowmaker." or try to, anyway.

 

[Duke]

I am slightly curious about the lashing that the ghost rider is getting in here. Considering everybody in here is a speed nut in one way or another I just don't get the bashing. I'm sure that its safe to say that MOST of you have broken the speed limit at some point(GOSH...I bet It was on a public road!). From there its just a degree of your risk tolerance or skill level.

More to the point is that the Ghost Rider has mad skills and What is dangerous to you is definetly not to him. To you it looks like he is riding on the edge of the limit. For him its just another ride. Am I way off here? What do you think?

Yes, you're WAY off base. Even you have to recognize the difference between running 10-15% over the speed limit, and running 100-150% over the speed limit.

Did you not read the posts about the possible effect on the innocent drivers around him? I don't give a flying fig how good a rider he is - given the variables that are totally outside his control on a public road, his riding skills border on irrelevant.

He's got NO control - zip, zero, none - over what's happening in traffic ahead of him. What if he's coming up at 150 mph and somebody shuts the door on him? He and that bike become an armor-piercing shell, just ready to punch through a minivan full of kids.

All the 'looking far ahead' and 'fighter pilot reactions' in the world will not help you pull off a physical impossibility if one is suddenly slammed in front of you. And that's when a simple mistake on the part of the other driver suddenly becomes a tragedy because of the insane and irresponsible speed of the stunt biker.

Let me tell you a true, personal story. This happened to me, though I would still feel the same way about bandit drivers/riders if it hadn't.

I'm a careful, attentive driver and as a sometime-motorcyclist myself, I'm more aware of bikes than your average car driver. I have a convertible. One day I was driving along in the left lane of a 3-lane freeway with my wife, top down, cruising at 65mph in moderate traffic. There were cars all around, but not bunched up too tightly. There was a car following me several lengths back; that's about all I could see in my rearview mirror.

Suddenly there was a literal explosion of sound directly in my left ear, startling me enough to make me jerk the wheel to the right. This caused the guy behind me to lock up his brakes, skidding sideways and almost getting hit by the guy 2 cars behind him. The guy who was in the middle lane a little behind me also jerked to the right to avoid me, running a pickup who was in the right lane off the shoulder into the grass, where he spun a 270 and came to rest in some bushes. It was pure luck that there were no actual collisions, though the truck was lightly damaged.

What happened...?!

The explosion of sound was large sport bike with an open exhaust, travelling at least 100mph, ridden by an idiot like Ghostrider. With his uber-733t riding skillz, he had come up behind the car behind me and decided to pass us on the narrow shoulder between the left lane and the jersey wall, in a space about 5 feet wide between our cars and the wall.

Because of the car behind me, the biker's decision to pass on the shoulder, and his irresponsibly high rate of speed, I couldn't see him coming up from behind.

Because he was travelling nearly double the speed of traffic, I couldn't hear his exhaust at all until it was directly next to my ear - 3 feet away, unmuffled, and at nearly wide-open throttle. And of course I had no helmet on since I was in a car. So I was exposed to an instant blast of very loud sound and the flash of a startlingly fast vehicle flying through a space where I had no reasonable way to anticipate it. The biker swerved across in front of me, passed between a bus and a truck riding the white lane marker, and disappeared.

The biker survived the encounter unscathed. But 6 or 8 innocent people around him almost didn't. And it was just because he felt like excercising his right to be an asshole on a public road - behaviour and situation identical to the crap Ghostrider pulls in his movies.

Starting to get the point yet? No matter how good you think you are, you have NO RIGHT to put innocent people at risk just to get your adrenaline and testosterone booster.

 

[Jim Prower]

Applause for Duke!!!

I know that I often check my mirrors, and there have been times when someone who thinks they're all that comes blasting up behind me, (usually in a car, not on a sportbike) and I have to drive on the shoulder to avoid getting hit. I can think of a situation with a white Durango recetnly (was straddling lanes), and another with some kid in a black Monte Carlo.

 

[Duke]

I check my mirrors so often that my wife smacks me because she thinks I'm not looking ahead enough. I hit my rearview about once every 6 seconds. So Mr. Macho on the motorcycle came over the rearward horizon fast enough to blast past me in 5 seconds or so - way too fast to be even remotely acceptable in traffic.

 

[Jim Prower]

Well, a bike's hard to see, and as close as traffic sounded, he could easily get lost.

What makes me sick, is if he knew what he'd done, he'd probably joke with his buddies that "Hey, I almost caused an accident."

Jackass.

 

[UnoMOTO]

I certainly in now way shape or form am trying to say that its ok to double any speed limit whether it be 20 or 120. I was just stating his ability to control himself is different then what you think it is. You, I and every other driver will never be able to control all conditions. My comments were not to legitimize any of his actions. I am sorry you might have taken it that way. I was trying to explain what "Being in control" looks like and how that means different things to different people.

I also have a story to share which might give you a clue of what I mean. More then a year ago my wife and I were out riding with her mom and dad. Us on my R1 and them on their harley. They were following us and ended up taking a corner too fast. It caused them to cross the double yellow and hit a car head on. Nobody should ever have to see that. They were only going 45 mph. I made it around that corner fine, but per skill...machine...or human error they didn't make it. I better understand the importance of riding within your skill level. Trust me I know what safe riding means on public roads. Sorry I led you down that road. It looks like you got a bit emotional and didn't actually read my post.

 

[Small_Fryz]

I just want to point out Rossi crashed while "racing" aka riding on the limit of his skill and machine. Is the ghost rider riding on his limit? Again im not trying to defend him just compare apples with apples. If you ride at 95% the chances of falling off due to driver error is extremely unlikely (doesnt mean a car cant turn in front of him).

But i agree with most people, he shouldnt be allowed to do this and its against the law. Youd never see me doing it thats for sure. Putting innocent lives at risk is not something i wish to do.

Besides, how much skill does it take to twist a grip, tuck in, and hang on? So he pulls wheelies at high speeds. Big whoop. You see jerks on YouTube doing it all the time.

LOL!!!!

Yeah mate its so easy just twist and hang on. I'll remember that next time.

Seriously just from that comment am i right to assume youve never done a wheelie on a bike before, let alone a high performance bike and definetly not a 499hp hayabusa?

Just so you dont come back saying i cant/dont do wheelies i can wheelie only about 600ft or so. Nothing spectaclur but still, its a wheelie.

 

[Duke]

I certainly in now way shape or form am trying to say that its ok to double any speed limit whether it be 20 or 120. I was just stating his ability to control himself is different then what you think it is. It looks like you got a bit emotional and didn't actually read my post.

Actgually, it looks like you got a bit defensive, and didn't read my post.

More to the point is that the Ghost Rider has mad skills and What is dangerous to you is definetly not to him. To you it looks like he is riding on the edge of the limit. For him its just another ride.

Doing a 150 mph wheelie on an abandoned runway is all down to skill and a tiny bit of luck. It's well within the 'mad skills' limits of the Ghostrider and he's perfectly OK doing since it is only his ass that's going to get sanded off if he drops the bike. For him that may well be just another ride, and frankly, how dangerous it looks or is means nothing.

But AGAIN, no matter how skillful he may be, in traffic it is NOT just 'a matter of perspective'. Since the majority of that video was him flying down crowded roads with a speed differential approaching 100%, I don't see how you weren't trying to legitimize it, especially since you specifically mention us being hypocritical for criticizing him when we ourselves have probably sped on public roads.

 

[Car-less]

But AGAIN, no matter how skillful he may be, in traffic it is NOT just 'a matter of perspective'. Since the majority of that video was him flying down crowded roads with a speed differential approaching 100%, I don't see how you weren't trying to legitimize it, especially since you specifically mention us being hypocritical for criticizing him when we ourselves have probably sped on public roads.

Many people do exceed the speed limit on public roads - 70mph on a UK motorway will often see you on the inside lane and being passed by lorries.

However, motoring along at twice the speed of surrounding traffic is a whole other ballgame. All it takes is for one driver somewhere ahead to glance in their mirror, and seing a motorcycle 1000 feet behind assume that it is safe to pull over into the next lane. How long would it take to close that gap on one wheel at 150mph, and more importantly how easy would it be to stop in that time? Who would be in danger of death or serious injury on that busy road? There's a whole lot of innocent motorists without his mad skillz that would be unable to avoid the pileup he just caused.

As for Rossi, and other professionals. Whether they are racing at the limit of their machines capacity and their own skills or not, they are doing so on a closed track, and without innocent traffic crawling along tired after a long day in the office. Everyone on the track is wrapped up in the best protective clothing, and backed up with emergency services on standby at the edge of the track. At least they are prepared for the possibility of an accident.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Isn't he dead already,i somewhere heard that he died.

I don't care, if I'd see him passing, I'd hope there'd be a small rock in his way!

Jees, 500 HP on a motorbike, that's just suicide...

 

[Omnis]

Don't european police have helicopters? I don't understand why they don't just follow him with one and bust him at his little stupid cafe.