Disclaimer: If you enjoy safe driving do not watch the following clips.

Title: Ghost Rider.
Terrorizes: Various towns in Poland.
Specialty: Ridiculous and over-the-top wheelies.
Video discription: The Ghost Rider instigating an officer, followed by him being chased by multiple police vehicles while wheeling around a corner at triple-digit speeds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1CkPcICaY&feature=player_embedded - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1CkPcICaY&feature=playe r_embedded

Title: ÷åðíûé äüÿâîë (Black Devil).
Terrorizes: Moscow, Russia.
Specialty: Somehow not dying.
Video discription: Honest to god, just watch the video and really try to count just how many times he almost dies. You'll lose track very, very quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE&feature=player_embedded - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE&feature=playe r_embedded

I in no way condone or suggest riding a bike in that way, ever, but my god does it make for some interesting video.

Not quite Dawg, I don't know what the police over there use, however the VPD uses a Eurocopter 120, its one of the most common Police helicopters.   It has an econo crusing speed of 191kph, (roughly 120mph, with a max sustained of 226kph, and a "HOLY CRAP FALLING OUT OF THE SKY AND BLOW UP, speed of 278)  and that is straight line long run up to get to that speed.  That motorcycle can run dead stop to 200kph in 10 seconds flat, as well as change direction, stop and take back off much quicker than the helicopter can.  Given a top speed run, that bike should close on 190mph 300kph.

This Ghost rider series of video's has been going on for nearly 10 years, and never been caught or killed in action.  Hence why he has gotten rather brazen in his antics. 

      I kinda admire the guy for his obvious skill as a rider, and although I am in no means a motorcycle guy I do have to appreciate just how amazingly fast they can be setup to go.

Oh here is the stats on the Eurocopter.

Technical data for EC-120

Main rotor diameter: 10.00m, fenestron diameter: 0.75m, overall length, rotors turning: 11.52m, fuselage length: 9.60m, height overall: 3.40m, height to top of rotor head: 3.08m, empty weight, standard: 960kg, empty weight, typical passenger fit: 1007kg, max T-O weight, internal load: 1715kg, max T-O weight, external load load: 1800kg, max sling load: 700kg, never exceed speed: 278km/h, max cruising speed with 1715 T-O weight: 226km/h, econ cruising speed: 191km/h, max rate of climb at sea level: 366m/min, service ceiling: 5180m, hovering ceiling, IGE: 2820m, hovering ceiling, OGE: 2320m, range, no reserves: 727km, endurance, no reserves: 4h 32min

Graeme wrote: The only thing I picture are these guys one day killing somebody's little girl or boy just riding in the back of the car and he goes through the car as they happen to make a left in front. Maybe I'm a prude.. but if it was up to me these guys would have been shot by now. Not worth having in society.

Gotta say though, I disagree. I've been looking at all the whole "speed kills" argument. In city streets, sure, I totally agree. On the highways though, there wasn't any distinguishable difference between Montana's crash figures before and after they implemented speed limits. This is because people typically fall into one of two catagories:

1. People that will go as fast as they're comfortable doing. Or...
2. Those who go faster than they can handle, who are unlikely to follow the limit anyways.

Sure, the second guy was getting waaaay too close to other drivers, and that was unsafe, but the first isn't endangering people on the road any more than the boys in blue chasing him. Less so, I'd even say. lol

Fatalities as a result of crashes, and quantity of crashes themselves, remained the same. Give me a second, I'll go pull the source for you.

As for excessive and controlled, no, they are not stupid. If I'm doing 30KM/H over, that's still speeding, but that's controlled. If I'm doing 60KM/H with no one else, that's still controlled. If I'm doing 60KM/H in traffic, yes I'm an idiot, but then again, I'm probably not going to give a second thought to some "speed limit" anyways.

Hehe, go watch the street racer in Stockholm (Drives a Gen III Impreza STi) against the police chopper. You'll eat those words.

Street Racer + Helicopter + Tunnel + Balls = Street Racer - Helicopter.

Took me a while to find. Here you are. Clearly when you speed, you're going to have more and more crashes, as most people would be quick to point out out. http://www.motorists.org/speed-limits/safety-setting-limits - No, no (Please scroll down to free-flowing speed and 85MPH and results) you don't. In fact, while that doesn't say "200MP/H MAKES US ALL SAFER", the Transportation Research Board meeting never actually found any strikes against Montana when they swapped from 75MP/H to Unlimited top speed back in 1980 all the way up to 2000 when that meeting was held. They did find http://blog.motorists.org/national-speed-limit-effect-on-traffic-safety-fuel-prices/ - one thing against driving quickly on the highway... I'm sure glad we pay someone to discover driving with your foot to the floor consumes more fuel.

You see, Graeme, most (Not all, I'll admit) humans have an active section of their brain (Parietal Lobe) located towards the rear, close to the stem. That part of the brain doesn't want us to do 200KM/H when it's snowing out, because it knows it needs the host body to survive to keep the brain alive. That's why most humans, even those who like to go fast, will slow down in traffic, when passing, when weather sucks or when the car just isn't taking it; We want to survive. Those of us who lack that self-preservation are probably not going to heed the threat of a small monetary fine, given that they're endangering their lives already.