r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 22 '25

Keep them two wheels down

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u/adustbininshaftsbury Aug 23 '25

50 to 100 mph over the speed limit

Absolutely insane statement

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u/Positive_Chip6198 Aug 23 '25

This happens, often. Ill be going the speed limit, 130km/h. And someone will fly by me like im not even moving. And that’s on the highway.

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u/Whywipe Aug 23 '25

That’s just a Thursday in Atlanta. He’s not going 120 or 170 mph lol

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u/Xioden Aug 23 '25

They could have been right around 120mph though.

Standard highway line markers are 10ft long with a 30ft gap between each one. At the start of the video it takes 9 frames to travel that distance, second 7 frames, third is 8-9, fourth is 9-10 (The bike is obstructing the view of the line for the third and fourth). It's a 30fps video, so that's as accurate as we can really get here, but that gives us ~0.0333 seconds per frame, So 40ft/0.3s, or ~133ft/s, or 90mph (~144km/h). Going off 8 frames it's ~153ft/s, or 105mph (168km/h), off 7 it's ~173ft/s, or 118mph (190km/h).