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Motorbike ridden at 163km/h

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Excessive speed: A motorbike rider was allegedly caught travelling 63km/h over the speed limit. Photo by McPherson Media Group

A Finley man has been charged with allegedly riding a motorbike at 163km/h in a 100km/h zone on a rural road near Yarroweyah.

Cobram Highway Patrol Police pulled the rider over on the Benalla-Tocumwal Rd on Saturday, May 20.

Cobram police Sergeant William Dockrey said the 50 year-old Finley man had only had the motorbike for three weeks.

It was impounded and the man was charged with excessive speeding. He will appear in court at a later date.

The incident happened in the same area as two recent fatal crashes.

One was between a truck and car on May 4, the other was on April 20 and resulted in the deaths of five people after a car, ute and truck collided on the corner of Labuan Rd and the Murray Valley Hwy.