Top 20 Speeds for 2017 Texas Speeding Tickets - and what vehicles were involved

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From the annual list posted in the Houston Chronicle:

#20: 139 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: I-20 in Eastland County
Ride: Red 2007 Suzuki motorcycle

#19: 140 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: I-10 in Bexar County
Ride: Blue 2008 Honda CBR

#18: 140 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: I-10 in Bexar County
Ride: Black 2008 Yamaha motorcycle

#17: 140 mph in a 60 mph zone
Road: SP-601 in El Paso County
Ride: 2015 Aprilia RSV

#16: 140 mph in a 50 mph zone
Road: Custer Road in Collin County
Ride: 2015 Ford Mustang

#15: 143 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-90 in Coryell County
Ride: Black 2013 Kawasaki motorcycle

#14: 143 mph in an 80 mph zone
Road: TW-130 service road in Williamson County
Ride: Black 2014 BMW i8

#13: 144 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-190 in Coryell County
Ride: Blue 2015 Suzuki motorcycle

#12: 144 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-190 in Coryell County
Ride: Green 2016 Yamaha motorcycle

#11: 145 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-6 in Falls County
Ride: Red 2009 Pontiac G8 GT

#10: 146 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: SH-67 in Johnson County
Ride: White 2017 Chevrolet Corvette

#9: 149 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-70 in Fisher County
Ride: White 2017 Suzuki GSX

#8: 150 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: I-35 in Hays County
Ride: Blue 2009 Suzuki GSF

#7: 155 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-81 in Wise County
Ride: Black 2016 Kawasaki 800

#6: 156 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: I-40 in Carson County
Ride: Red 2016 Chevrolet (no model listed)

#5: 156 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: SH-195 in Williamson County
Ride: Black 2006 Suzuki GSX

#4: 156 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: SH-195 in Williamson County
Ride: 2014 Chevrolet SS

#3: 160 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-44 in Nueces County
Ride: Red 2006 Suzuki motorcycle

#2: 160 mph in a 55 mph zone
Road: I-45 in Galveston County
Ride: Silver 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8

#1: 181 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-90 in Coryell County
Ride: Red 2012 Honda CBR1000

All I've gotta say is you bike riders in Texas have a death wish!
I've been riding for over 30 years and know that if you blow a tire at that speed you're going to end up as just a looooong grease stripe on the road that's going to get cleaned up with just a dust pan and a broom - or a sponge.
But kinda cool that the #2 spot - and the top speed by a car - is held by a Mopar!


 
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All I can offer as advice to those people operating vehicles at those speeds on public roads is this...

Inertia is an unforgiving *****.
 
Force is mass times velocity squared so an impact at 100 has forty (40) times more force than at 50 mph.
 
And if you run full speed at a brick wall Your arms will not prevent your face from becoming intimately acquainted with the rock. In fact, if you are over about 40 (purely a guess) And you take a misstep, even at half speed, it will will be hard to predict if your face will meet the gravel or not. From age 55 on, I learned not to try to prevent the pain, but rather to place my hands in front of my face, and take it on the backs of my hands, or a shoulder, or the forearms, or on the knuckles; anything but not on outstretched arms with palms down. They say your head is only like 7 pounds;but when you fall down face-first, your neck muscles might as well be wet noodles.
I fell down three times last year, hard falls. front down every time. Nothing broken, nothing dislocated, I'm getting good at at it.
What's the point AJ?
Well Ddaddy said it best; "inertia is an unforgiving *****"
When you highside off the bike, it's a very long flight path and things don't seem so bad. but that all changes when you stick the landing. I thought I was coming in at just a few miles an hour. Little did I know........and that was at just 50 mph.
Thanks be to the full-face helmet and mandatory helmet laws. The helmet did not survive.My head seems just fine,lol.
"inertia is an unforgiving *****"
 
I wonder how much difference there is in biting it at 80 mph vs 140 mph.. I'm pretty sure you're still dead.. Just a lot cooler story and photoshoot!
 
Douche bag riders should be photographed. License plate Rin. Owner arrested and thrown in jail. ( unless he was in the writer and can prove it.)
Can no longer own, be licensed, ride a bike ever again.
Have a nice day one less douche bag on the road!
 
Having owned and ridden the original 'ninja bike' back in the day (Kawasaki 500 Triple), I was thinking about this thread. As I recall, once you got over a certain speed, it was all enough of a blur to not make much perceptual difference... 90 looked like 110, etc.

I have no problem with bikers going fast... no more than for car guys in SRT's or Hellcats. And if a biker hits you in your car, your gonna be a lot better off than if he hit you driving another car.

With 3 falls in a year, AJ needs to give it up! LOL
 
I say if these guys are bent on 140+, keep 'em on bikes! I'd rather they slam into a vehicle on a bike than in a 4000+ pound car...
 
The old H1 and H2s.... The first Muscle bikes! Had an H2...My friend had an H2 all tricked out for drag racing... Wicked fast even by todays standards.

Hitting 140 on todays sport bikes is nothing. Thats why I dont ride them. I dont have enough self control.
 
140 in my Mustang : serene. 164 on my Gixxer : Felt "compressiony", bordering on time warpish. Yeah, I know I was bad. Today I dont have a piece of Alpinestar apparel left. Personally my biggest fear was Whitetails.
 
mbaird said:
The old H1 and H2s.... The first Muscle bikes! Had an H2...My friend had an H2 all tricked out for drag racing... Wicked fast even by todays standards.
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You know it! I considered an H2 but I knew too many guys getting injured/killed on them. The H2 was the 750 Kawasaki Triple for those who are not familiar.... the H2 was the only production bike that could beat the H1 in the 1/8 mile at the time.

The big problem I found with the H1/H2 was the suspension and frame design... at over 90, the damn thing would develop some weird shakes in the steering..... I literally had to grab the bars hard and stiff-arm them to keep them from vibrating back and forth and scaring the crap out of me. The factory put an adjustable steering damper on it for that, but a damper setting high enough to control the vibrations was scary 'cuz then you couldn't move the bars quickly enough if you had to.

It was a trip though..... dang, I survived another episode of youthful invulnerability!
 
nm9stheham said:
You know it! I considered an H2 but I knew too many guys getting injured/killed on them. The H2 was the 750 Kawasaki Triple for those who are not familiar.... the H2 was the only production bike that could beat the H1 in the 1/8 mile at the time.

The big problem I found with the H1/H2 was the suspension and frame design... at over 90, the damn thing would develop some weird shakes in the steering..... I literally had to grab the bars hard and stiff-arm them to keep them from vibrating back and forth and scaring the crap out of me. The factory put an adjustable steering damper on it for that, but a damper setting high enough to control the vibrations was scary 'cuz then you couldn't move the bars quickly enough if you had to.

It was a trip though..... dang, I survived another episode of youthful invulnerability!
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There was a cure if I remember, welding braces to the downtubes. and a homemade fork brace. They were a wild ride in 1st gear. either you wanted more, or got off like jello and gave it back to your buddy, saying"no thanks."
 
They weren't just 750s.... They were 750 2 strokes! Quicker than the Yamaha RDs but the RDs had better chassis for handling.

Kevins H2 had been raked for stability, lowered, wheelie bars, 3 into 1 pipes, ported... Etc....
It could use those wheelie bars with a crack of the throttle @ 40 mph! I could barely stand to ride on my bike behind him because his was so loud!
Same guy had a 63/64 Max Wedge car around 1981.
 

At those speeds the only thing a helmet is good for is body identification. Just saying...
 
No... He was dying of cancer at age 19 and lived life to the fullest... Unfortunately he was also a bit of a narscacistic *** that didnt care for anyone but himself. Was horrible to his mother ! Died by age 23 I think...
 
140 doesnt seem that fast on a modern bike. You get there quick!
BMW SS1000R... 398lbs and 198 hp
Do the math... Lol
 
Dirtbikes and Dual Sports for me now.
New Sportbikes are just too fast for a reckless guy like me. There are no speeding tickets on the trails.
 
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