Originally Posted By: horse123
Yeah I don't know why you'd bother stopping if you were on a "superbike", especially if you knew you got caught at a high enough speed to carry jail time. Just go for it, the bike should be faster than the plane if the plane wanted to pursue you.
Perhaps you have a misunderstanding of how aircraft patrolled highways work.
First, and by far most important, you will rarely if ever, know that you have been clocked by an aircraft until a trooper in a patrol car pulls you over. Second, most modern Cessna 172 variants have a top speed of 140 mph or more. I could be wrong here, but after a super bike maneuvers through traffic, slows down to take an off ramp, and maneuver corners, it's effective overall speed isn't going to come close.
But if some guy on the bike is so [censored] bent on endangering himself and everyone around him, all to escape responsibility for his actions, then I'm sure that at least one patrol car can get close enough to take his license plate #, let him go for the time so he doesn't kill anyone, then track him down later to haul his sorry butt to jail, for many more offences than he had originally committed.
When recently taking a cross country vacation, I noticed the distance markers used by planes to clock speed, on highways in a number of Mid-Western states. I suspect aircraft speed enforcement is still quite common.