20 year old Samuel Tilley received a ticket for a jaw-dropping 205 mph. On his defense he says that he might have been driving at about half that speed (since the biker he was driving with got ticketed for driving at 111 mph).
As the star tribune writes:
A Minnesota State Patrol pilot saw Tilley from the air and used a stopwatch to time him as he passed quarter-mile markers along Hwy. 61. The pilot’s reading of 4.39 seconds translated into Tilley’s 205 mph speed.
As The Smoking Gun wrote:
SEPTEMBER 22–The below Minnesota speeding ticket should be in a museum someplace. That’s because motorcyclist Samuel Tilley, 20, was clocked Saturday afternoon going 205 mph on his Honda. That was 140 mph over the limit on U.S. Highway 61. Tilley was clocked at Indy car speeds by a State Patrol pilot flying overhead, stopwatch in hand. The pilot radioed ahead to a state trooper who pulled Tilley over and issued the reckless driving citation. Tilley, the son of a sheriff’s deputy, displaces William Faenza at the top of TSG’s speediest driver list. Faenza was nabbed last September when Pennsylvania cops clocked him doing 182 mph in his Lamborghini Diablo.
Samuel Tilley was driving this bike:
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The ticket he received was this one:
[...]tests conducted recently at Hitman Motor Sports in White Bear Lake revealed his bike’s top speed to be 159 mph. “You strap the bike down and power it up,” Andrews said. “You check horse power, power curve and max speed on it. It doesn’t lie.”
After becoming an underground celebrity, he gathered money for a good cause: It was for the Gillette Children’s Hospital.
Tilley showed up at Yarusso Bros. Italian Restaurant in St. Paul on the restaurant’s “bike night” on Oct. 6 to sign T-shirts, Andrews said. The money raised was sent to Gillette Children’s Hospital.
“He was the belle of the ball,” Ard said. “Every rider there wanted to speak with Sam Tilley.”
Tilley is scheduled to appear in Wabasha County Court on Oct. 25.