A PAIR of drivers were clocked travelling at excessive speeds through the northern suburbs last Friday.

Just before midday on Friday, November 20, a motorbike rider was observed travelling more than 80 kilometres an hour over the speed limit.

A traffic patrol member spotted the motorcycle travelling on Main North Road at Salisbury but did not pursue the vehicle.

Instead, the police helicopter tracked the motorcycle along Midway, Yorketown and Adams Road and was clocked travelling in excess of 160km/h in an 80km/h zone.

Police tracked the motorbike to an address in Craigmore where the rider, a 37-year-old Craigmore man, was reported for numerous traffic offences including driving at speed and in a manner dangerous and driving an unregistered and uninsured motorbike with unassigned registration plates.

Further investigations revealed the man had not held a driver’s licence since 2004.

The motorcycle was also defected and impounded for 28 days.

Later that night another driver was detected travelling at more than 100km over the speed limit.

Just after 9.30pm, police were conducting static speed detection duties on Main North Road at Kudla when they detected a silver Toyota sedan travelling at 196km/h in a 90km/h zone.

Police activated their warning lights and the sedan stopped a short distance away.

The driver, a 26-year-old Elizabeth Downs man, submitted to a drug test and returned a positive result for methamphetamine.

He was issued with a driver direction notice not to be seated in the driver's seat of a motor vehicle for 24 hours.

He was also reported for excessive speed and drug driving, and his silver Toyota sedan was impounded for 28 days.

Both men will summoned to appear in court at a later date.