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New Thu 26 Jul 18 10:19 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - VxFan
A reckless biker has been jailed for 21 months after filming himself speeding at almost 200 miles per hour - believed to be the highest speed reached by a motorbike on British roads.

Police found hundreds of videos and images of reckless driving on his laptop.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5971773/Idiot-biker-jailed-filming-speeding-200-miles-hour.html (also reported elsewhere)
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 12:30 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Old Navy
No doubt social media strikes again. I wonder at the thought processes of people who don't realise that a dashcam records their own poor driving skills while they are judging others.
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 13:55 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Zero
Shock horror, Daily Mail ONLY exaggerated headline by 5%
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 16:16 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - No FM2R
>>Daily Mail ONLY exaggerated headline by 5%

It's worse than you think.

5.82%
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 16:26 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - CGNorwich
Aren't they allowed to exaggerate by 10%+2?
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 13:29 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - DP
>> believed to be the highest speed reached by a motorbike
>> on British roads.

I think they mean the highest speed reached by a motorbike where the rider was caught. :-)
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 16:37 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - commerdriver
Surely if he is stupid enough to think that the police do not look at the internet and social media he is too stupid to have a licence or be in charge of a motor vehicle of any kind.
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 17:47 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - sherlock47
>> Surely if he is stupid enough to think that the police do not look at
>> the internet and social media he is too stupid to have a licence or be
>> in charge of a motor vehicle of any kind.
>>

That probably disqualifies about 90% of the under 30s on the roads and 50% of the people here!
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 18:01 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Pat
I'm disqualified, everyone needs to have a bit of fun sometimes.

Pat
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 21:49 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Driver
What a plonker!

At that speed, one error and he's potentially dead, with the real potential for taking innocents with him.

Double plonker for videoing himself doing it.

Total numpty.
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New Thu 26 Jul 18 23:01 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - commerdriver
Don't have any problems with speeding or even taking a picture but putting it on the internet is stupid, even if a policeman doesn't see it himself somebody is sure to send a link, that's the stupid bit we are now in a world where everyone has a camera and most of them are linked to the web.
Would people on here really publish evidence of themselves at a highly illegal speed thinking they would get away with it
Last edited by: commerdriver on Thu 26 Jul 18 at 23:02
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New Fri 27 Jul 18 01:01 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - No FM2R
To be honest if I had a picture of me at 189mph I wouldn't put it up in here simply because of the judgement and abuse I would expect to get. [Or frankly give if someone else posted them]

So an interesting question would be, what environment did he expect to share those videos and pictures in where he would be admired?

We are all (and I mean *all*) driven by our audiences.
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New Fri 27 Jul 18 06:55 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - sooty123
So an interesting question would be, what environment did he expect to share those videos
>> and pictures in where he would be admired?

Friends, family and biker groups showing it at home maybe?
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New Fri 27 Jul 18 07:09 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Old Navy
>> Friends, family and biker groups showing it at home maybe?
>>

He is not a solitary idiot then.
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New Fri 27 Jul 18 07:20 
 Biker jailed filming himself at 189 mph - Old Navy
It is never a good plan to surprise other drivers. I like to think I know what is going on all around me on the road but I would be surprised by an almost 200mph bike overtaking me. I was overtaken by a fast moving bike on a quiet rural road recently, I saw him way back and gave him a flash of my left indicator to let him know I had seen him. I received a cheery wave (I think) as he passed me. :-)
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