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In the world of sport motorcycles, he has become known simply as "205 Tilley."
About the time Sam Tilley makes his first court appearance next week after being ticketed for driving 205 mph on his motorcycle, a magazine will hit the newsstands with his first and only interview — in a publication called Midwest Quick Throttle Magazine.
Tilley, 20, is the Stillwater man who was ticketed near Wabasha on Sept. 18 for allegedly riding 205 mph in a 65-mph zone. He was participating in this year's "Flood Run," an annual motorcade of motorcyclists.
To put 205 mph in perspective, it is the minimum landing speed of a space shuttle and 42 mph faster than the take-off speed of a Boeing 777 jetliner.
While the Minnesota State Patrol has said it stands behind the speed calculation made by a trooper in an airplane with a stop watch, Tilley says in the interview he wasn't going that fast.
"He doesn't say (in the interview) how fast he was going, but he's more inclined to say it was closer to 111 mph," said Pat Andrews, editor of Midwest Quick Throttle, which is based in Eagan and distributes about 60,000 copies a month.
Tilley makes his first court appearance Oct. 25 — an arraignment before Wabasha County District Judge Terrence Walters.
Andrews said that in the interview, Tilley expressed concerns his legal woes might give motorcyclists a bad name.
Tilley could not be reached for comment for this article. Although the Midwest Quick Throttle interview is the only one he has granted, Tilley has expressed himself online in various sport bike forums.
On those forums, contributors have reacted to news of Tilley's alleged speed with admiration, incredulity and, in some cases, outright hostility. In a post to a forum at www.sportbikes.net three days after he got the ticket, Tilley said, "it is time to clear some things up."
"The stop watch method may be accurate at times, but this is un-conceivable (sic) for my motorcycle to approach 205," he wrote.
"I hope this clears things up for everybody, I am just sick of everyone saying things about what they don't know, making me look like this horrific person. People speed, and if anyone knows anything about the 'Flood Run' … I would be a hell of a lot more concerned about the 7,000 bar-hopping motorcyclist (sic) out on the road. Ninety-nine percent of the people you hear things from are misinformed."
Tilley was riding a Honda RC51, a 999-cc, 126-horsepower motorcycle that some sport bikers consider a "platform," meaning that its performance can be enhanced through various after-market modifications. One of the garages that does such work locally is Hitman Motorsports Inc., in White Bear Lake. A couple of days after Tilley got the ticket, he took the motorcycle there to have its performance measured on a dynamometer.
Steve Ackermann, a mechanic at Hitman who races bikes professionally said they couldn't get Tilley's bike to go faster than 159 mph.
"The bike is basically bone stock, except the pipes and a power commander," he said.
The latter device manages the motorcycle's fuel system for peak air-fuel mixture.
How fast does he think Tilley's bike could be ridden?
"Maybe 165 mph, on a good day," Ackermann said. "With the physical capabilities of the RC51, you can't get it up to 205. Unless you threw it out of an airplane."
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I like the "With the physical capabilities of the RC51, you can't get it up to 205. Unless you threw it out of an airplane."
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