[DeTomaso] NPC: Fast and Furious crash site....

Wed Dec 4 13:59:29 EST 2013

Michael,

Those links are related to motorcycles on freeways not general restrictions on size or speed. It makes total sense that a low cc motorcycle (or moped) is not permitted on Freeways where it does not have the speed capacity to go with thr general flow of traffic, that has always been the case in the UK.

Also the UK (and looks like Japan) has staged motorcycle licensing, you can learn on a 125cc, then having passed a test you are allowed up to a 400cc for time period before unlimited. It stops 16 yr old kids going out and buying a Yamaha R1or some other crotch rocket when they have just stepped off a 125cc restricted class.

Julian

From: michael at michaelshortt.com
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:43:18 -0500
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
CC: Pantera351C at hotmail.com; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Fast and Furious crash site....

Looks like you can have more, if you can afford it.  http://www.thejapanfaq.com/bikerfaq-classes.html

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:41 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_motorcycle_access_on_freeways

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:

http://www8.cao.go.jp/kisei-kaikaku/oto/otodb/english/mondai/subject/199400303.html

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

Not true. I go to Japan all the time. You can buy a 200 mph Ferrari or a super bike any day of the week...
Mike

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On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:16, "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:

and I think that most motorcycles their are limited to 125cc, 
Michael Shortt

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Boyd Casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:

They have already done it in japan most cars are limited to 180 KMH which is around 112 mph.

Boyd

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com> wrote:

I just hope this blows over without too much media attention.

I already had one person at work say, "Why do people need to buy cars that go that fast anyway?"
Of course, it started a 30 minute discussion about how I like driving my Viper to work every day, and that just because it will go close to 200mph, I never drive that fast.

Someday, though, there's going to be a national push to speed limit these super cars.  I know it's going to happen, because I saw James T. Kirk driving a Corvette that was not speed limited.  So all of the other cars on the road must be limited somehow.

--Will

From:  John Zeedick <Pantera351C at Hotmail.Com>
Date:  Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:02 PM

To:  Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>, <detomaso at POCA.com>
Subject:  Re: [DeTomaso] NPC:  Fast and Furious crash site....

TMZ has a video from a security camera of the car crashing, interesting he was going through a right-hand sweeper........perhaps he bounced off the outside curbing?

John”I learned my lesson with mid-engine cars long ago”Z

On 12/3/13 10:07 PM, "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

Hi guys,

Take a look at the crash site on Google Earth:

http://tinyurl.com/kdcomk5

Doesn't seem like an appropriate place to be travelling at triple-digit speeds, does it?   Especially with people around.   

Based on the speed and violence of the crash, I can only assume that he was approaching from the south, and lost it at the exit of the long RH sweeper, and spun into the tree on the inside of the 'track' at corner exit.   No way he could have attained that kind of velocity going the other way.

Mind you, if he had made the corner, he was going to have to seriously honk on the brakes to make the 90-degree corner in front of him!

Mike
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