Speeding

[Alps]

115 in a 65, or 75 in a 25. No comments on either, except to say (like Kacie) I was younger then.

[Tarkus]

Oh, and by the way, there's a couple roads in Wilsonville, Oregon, where you can legally exceed the posted limit by 20mph.  The city has a couple of 35 zones that they just randomly posted without going through the legal speed zoning process, so they're still legally 55 zones.  Actually, half of the posted limits on arterial/collector roadways in that town north of Barber Street have no legal basis and technically violate state law, and so any ticket would get thrown out of court on the precedent of the 2010 case Miles v. Milwaukie. 

[Scott5114]

One day as a senior in high school I was bored and decided to see how fast my Chevy Cavalier would go on the way home from school. When I got on the county road to our house I ran it up to just over 100 before I lost my nerve.

I haven't tested my PT Cruiser and I doubt I will try.

[Bickendan]

Oh, and by the way, there's a couple roads in Wilsonville, Oregon, where you can legally exceed the posted limit by 20mph.  The city has a couple of 35 zones that they just randomly posted without going through the legal speed zoning process, so they're still legally 55 zones.  Actually, half of the posted limits on arterial/collector roadways in that town north of Barber Street have no legal basis and technically violate state law, and so any ticket would get thrown out of court on the precedent of the 2010 case Miles v. Milwaukie. 

Details on Miles v. Milwaukie, please. Google's not turning anything up...

[vdeane]

I've sometimes hit 80 on the Thruway (65mph limit) for short stretches when paying more attention to traffic than to my speed.  I also occasionally hit 70-75 on US 11 and similar roads (55mph limit) when passing.

[cu2010]

I've done 75 up US11 with no other traffic around!

I've hit 80-85 on the Thruway before, mostly in an effort to keep up with traffic. Car doesn't seem to like going that fast, though...

Fastest I've ever done is about 95 down a back road, mostly to see just how fast a 1997 Mercury Mistake would go... 

[Truvelo]

It's interesting to see the number of people on here who have only achieved double digit speeds. I would have thought in a country where people drive big cars on big roads that 100 would be more common. Anyway here's my records:
I've done 137 on my Yamaha R6 after some nut I was passing decided he would try and keep up. When he got to 130 his 2 liter non-turbo engine ran out of steam.

The fastest I've done in a car is 130 in Germany. No need to keep an eye out for cops there

[Eth]

It's interesting to see the number of people on here who have only achieved double digit speeds. I would have thought in a country where people drive big cars on big roads that 100 would be more common.

For the most part, the roads I've driven tend to have too much traffic, curves, and/or hills to make it reasonable.  The farthest west I've driven is actually in the state of Florida; places east of there usually don't have very many truly wide open stretches.

And after today, I may have to amend my entry for "most sped by" - finally went to see the east end of I-70 today, and I think I may have still been doing around 55 when the speed limit dropped to 25 entering the park and ride facility.

[agentsteel53]

I've done 100mph in each of the fifty states, and also every Canadian province I've driven to.

[wh15395]

Ha, 130 on I-69 in Fort Wayne, IN when I was a senior in high school in the middle of the night. I had never been more proud of my 1999 Acura RL. Driving between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis on 69, I had a sustained speed between 90 and 100 MPH a few times.

[golden eagle]

I wanted a compact and the Jetta was being returned as I was checking in at Enterprise.

Wait, wouldn't a Jetta be a compact?

It is. At the time I arrived at Enterprise, they didn't have a compact ready. A few minutes later, a Jetta arrived and that's how I ended up with it. Had a compact not arrived, I would've been upgraded to the next classification, though at the same price.

[Tarkus]

Oh, and by the way, there's a couple roads in Wilsonville, Oregon, where you can legally exceed the posted limit by 20mph.  The city has a couple of 35 zones that they just randomly posted without going through the legal speed zoning process, so they're still legally 55 zones.  Actually, half of the posted limits on arterial/collector roadways in that town north of Barber Street have no legal basis and technically violate state law, and so any ticket would get thrown out of court on the precedent of the 2010 case Miles v. Milwaukie.  

Details on Miles v. Milwaukie, please. Google's not turning anything up...

Here you go.  Short version: Milwaukie was photo enforcing a 25 zone that was really a 35 zone per a valid speed zone order. Driver caught going 37.  Driver appeals to Clackamas County Circuit Court, and while she still ended up getting charged for going 37 in a 35, the fine was dropped entirely and the city was legally forced to raise the speed limit.

[agentsteel53]

from what the article states - not only was it a "valid speed 35 zone", but it was signed for 35!!!

I don't think any reasonable person can be expected to follow an invisible lower speed limit in lieu of the clearly posted one.

[SSOWorld]

95 in LA (I-10 east of downtown)... to keep up with traffic.

[Bickendan]

95 in LA (I-10 east of downtown)... to keep up with traffic.

I have to call BS on that. Everyone knows that LA freeways are gigantic parking lots

[Bickendan]

Oh, and by the way, there's a couple roads in Wilsonville, Oregon, where you can legally exceed the posted limit by 20mph.  The city has a couple of 35 zones that they just randomly posted without going through the legal speed zoning process, so they're still legally 55 zones.  Actually, half of the posted limits on arterial/collector roadways in that town north of Barber Street have no legal basis and technically violate state law, and so any ticket would get thrown out of court on the precedent of the 2010 case Miles v. Milwaukie. 

Details on Miles v. Milwaukie, please. Google's not turning anything up...

Here you go.  Short version: Milwaukie was photo enforcing a 25 zone that was really a 35 zone per a valid speed zone order. Driver caught going 37.  Driver appeals to Clackamas County Circuit Court, and while she still ended up getting charged for going 37 in a 35, the fine was dropped entirely and the city was legally forced to raise the speed limit.

Thanks. That got posted to my Facebook wall.

[Sykotyk]

When I was in LA, I was doing 80+ around the freeways at times. Generally I stick to the speed limit or a very low tolerance (+5). Usually if I'm speeding it's because I wasn't paying attention to the throttle or that the limit dropped.

[The Premier]

I've done 100mph in each of the fifty states, and also every Canadian province I've driven to.

You got to be kidding me.

[agentsteel53]

You got to be kidding me.

Serious cat is serious.

[Rushmeister]

Ah, I like this thread.  I'm surprised that there haven't been more triple-digit speeds posted.  I would not have expected that from a bunch of roadgeeks.  Perhaps the most reckless among us tend to not want to admit it publicly - or maybe roadgeeks tend to be a little more honest.

As for me, here goes:  It seems that I have chosen sparsely populated stretches of two-laners for my speed adventures.
135 in a Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4; on US 231 north of Montmorenci, Ind.
130 in an Audi TT roadster (top up, of course); on St Rd 18 east of Fowler, Ind.

I'll always wonder how fast I could have gone if neither car had been speed-limited by settings in the ECMs.  Of course, had there not been something to keep me from going faster, I might not be here to share this with you all.  The factory specs for that model of TT listed a max speed of 152 and who knows what the Mitsu 3K would have done.  Geesh, it would really move.  In both cases I still had a lot of unused pedal under my foot.

Oh, ironically, of the speedy cars I've owned over the years, one that wasn't speed-limited (as far as I know), was a 1995 Z28.  I've never really had a chance to really let it loose on a wide-open highway, but I did have it up to 125 once on a straight stretch of CR 200 S. in Tippecanoe Co., Ind.  Once again, lots of pedal left unused -- just ran out of road.  By today's standards a 1995 Z28 is weak and underpowered, but I'm convinced that GM has done many of us an unwitting favor by keeping the HP down.  Let us just say, without inviting argument and debate on the matter, that the 90s-era Camaro/TA/Firebird was a difficult-to-drive death machine. (I still like 'em a lot, though.)

Now that I'm older and wiser, I'm not likely to take such chances again; but if I do, it will probably be in my daily driver (Audi sedan).  I may just live to tell about it...

[ftballfan]

85-90 while coming down from EB M-6 to SB US-131 in January of this year (clear day)
Set cruise at 82 on I-96 from Fruitport to Coopersville yesterday.
I usually set my cruise between 78 and 80 on the freeway and around 65 on non-freeways with a 55 mph limit.
On M-6 south of Grand Rapids, traffic averages at least 80 mph.
Yesterday I was passed while going 80 on US-31 just south of Ludington.
When going from WB M-6 to WB I-196, I often don't have to get off of cruise control.
I once hit 45 on the road coming into my high school (25 mph limit).
This has all been done in a 1996 Buick Park Avenue.

[Alps]

95 in LA (I-10 east of downtown)... to keep up with traffic.

I have to call BS on that. Everyone knows that LA freeways are gigantic parking lots

Everyone who hasn't driven on one (:

[Rupertus]

Set cruise at 82 on I-96 from Fruitport to Coopersville yesterday.
I usually set my cruise between 78 and 80 on the freeway and around 65 on non-freeways with a 55 mph limit.
On M-6 south of Grand Rapids, traffic averages at least 80 mph.
Yesterday I was passed while going 80 on US-31 just south of Ludington.

I've heard, and found, that 78 seems to be the magic number on most freeways in our state. Sometimes that's not enough though. I remember one day a few months ago where I was doing 85 in the left lane on US 23 north of Ann Arbor and was holding traffic up.

[roadrunner0152]

124 on I-24 between Nashville & Murfreesboro.....in a 79 Corvette Pace Car edition. It probably would have done better than that, but I came to my senses.

[thenetwork]

I have broken the 100 MPH twice on short "just to say I did it" stretches in 2 countries: 

Once in Canada, on Alberta Highway 41, somewhere on a long downhill grade between the Montana Border and the Trans-Canadian Hwy 1 in 1992, and another time in the U.P. of Michigan ten years later on a flat stretch of M-77 between US 2 and M-28.

I may have eclipsed the 100 MPH one other time on I-94 between Jackson, MI & the Indiana border back in 1990, but I was driving a 1983 Nissan Sentra with a speedometer that would be "pegged" at the maximum of 85MPH.