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    We've found him, and I've arranged for him to pace our next rally!!! :)

    Minn. Trooper Writes 205 Mph Ticket

    WABASHA, Minn. - With a State Patrol airplane
    overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly
    set the informal record for the fastest speeding
    ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.



    On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was
    flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the
    Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing
    along U.S. Highway 61.


    When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready
    with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the
    motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and
    again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39
    seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.


    "I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul
    Pioneer Press for Tuesday's editions. "I had to
    double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never
    seen anything move that fast."


    Several law enforcement sources told the newspaper
    that, although no official records are kept, it was
    probably the fastest ticket ever written in the state.



    After about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed
    to about 100 mph and let the other cycle catch up. By
    then Loney had radioed ahead to another state trooper,
    who pulled the two over soon afterward.


    The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider,
    20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong
    Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a
    motorcycle license — and driving 140 miles per hour
    over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.


    A search of speeding tickets written by state
    troopers, who patrol most of the state's highways,
    between 1990 and February 2004 shows the next fastest
    ticket was for 150 mph in 1994 in Lake of the Woods
    County.


    Tilley did not return calls from the newspaper to his
    home Monday. A working number for him could not
    immediately be found by The Associated Press on
    Tuesday.


    Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200
    mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175
    mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph.
    Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.


    Kathy Swanson of the state Office of Traffic Safety
    said unless Tilley was wearing the kind of protective
    gear professional motorcycle racers wear, he was
    courting death at 200 mph.


    "I'm not entirely sure what would happen if you
    crashed at 200 miles per hour," Swanson said. "But it
    wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure."


    ___


    Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press, http://
    www.twincities.com
     

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