Motorcyclist in high-speed viral video arrested

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Motorcyclist in high-speed viral video arrested

Xinhua, October 5, 2015

Beijing traffic police have detained the hero of a viral video showing a motorcyclist completing a lap of a downtown ring road at speeds of up to 237 km per hour.

The motorcyclist, a native of Guangxi, is escorted off a train on Saturday, October 3, 2015. [Photo: Weibo.com]

The man -- identified as Pang, 30, from Liuzhou City of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region -- was caught in Nanning, capital of Guangxi, and sent back to Beijing on Saturday. He was detained for dangerous driving, a spokesperson with the Beijing Traffic Administration Bureau said on Sunday.

The clip, viewed more than 220,000 times on popular video sharing website Youku, shows the motorcyclist darting along the 37.5-km second ring road in 13 minutes and 43 seconds. He told media before his custody that he recorded the journey in the early hours of Aug. 22 with an action camera.

His maximum speed nearly tripled the limit on the ring road, where motorcycles are banned from the road's major lanes. He was seen overtaking other vehicles.

Pang claimed his "personal best" for a lap of the second ring road was 11 minutes. He said he had clocked up 270 km per hour in Nanning.

Pang's thrill-seeking followed a high-profile race between a Ferrari and a Lamborghini in April in Beijing.

Both vehicles were severely damaged when they careened through a tunnel guardrail before smashing into walls at speeds of more than 160 km per hour. The two drivers were sentenced to jail terms of five months and four months separately.