"Drop a gear and disappear"

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

 

The crazy thing is you can't judge top end charge off of quarter mile times, because they are CG height limited at lower speeds.  They pull a lot harder at thr top end, relative to how a car accelerates.  Said ZX10R rider mentioned that he could not use full throttle in 2nd gear.  And that 1st gear was good to 90.  So picture what your quarter mile times would look like if you had to feather the throttle below 110-120 or so.

 

Liter bikes are nuts.

Yep, not unlike a lot of ridiculously high HP cars.  They struggle to put power down, the difference is a bike stands up, while a car spins the tires.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Wow, found an oooooooooold video.

The fascinating part is not how quickly he accelerates to 140.  The fascinating part is that at 140, the front wheel touches the ground again, at which point the rider begins accelerating in earnest.

To be clear, that speedometer reads in kilometers/hour, so 140 km/hr = 87 mph.  Still, a Haybusa is scary fast.

In reply to stuart in mn :

It reads in miles per hour.  70 on the outer ring is roughly 110 on the inner ring.

i have witnessed turbo 'busas carrying the front tire through the 1/8th mile, then shifting to 4th and taking off. 190mph+ trap speeds.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Isn't that damn near 300mph?

Even old superbikes are stupid fast.

A 1983 GS1100E does the quarter in 11.3-ish

An 04 VMax does it in 10.4 and it's not even a sportbike.

Appleseed said:

I ride a 40 year old, 200cc, 10hp bike. Its out of gas at 70mph. In the 12 years I've been riding it,  I have never had someone out accelerate me from a stop light.

My wife's Vespa 300GTS will out accelerate a lot of things. 23hp but the variator keeps the engine at max output the whole time.

In reply to yupididit :

Looking at the speedo, he was at 200mph at 9k, he was holding it at 11k for a while.

When I originally saw that video forever ago, it was labeled something like 0-250, which checks out pretty close if 1k = 22mph.

435 kph is 270mph ish. Is that possible? I could believe over 200, but nearly 300?

maybe messing with the gears made the speedo read wrong? Crazy stupid fast either way. 

In reply to Appleseed : wait I didn't know they made the tw200 40 years ago!

Folgers said:

435 kph is 270mph ish. Is that possible? I could believe over 200, but nearly 300?

maybe messing with the gears made the speedo read wrong? Crazy stupid fast either way. 

It's fast enough to kill him if anything goes wrong.

That bike was not doing 270.  Agreed on how well it would work out if there was a failure.

In reply to Beer Baron :

1/3 of that speed is properly sufficient.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

He achieved warp!

yupididit said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Isn't that damn near 300mph?

I stopped riding sport bikes when two of my buddies left me behind on their hyabusa's going up i57 into the city at 185. I slow rode it home, sold it and have ridden very little since. I have no control and to get walked away from at that speed is insane. 
 

Edit: I should say "indicated 185" since the supposedly topped out at 180 in stock form. 

My FZ-09 was so good at accelerating away from problems. Any gear, any speed, the torque of that triple just shot you forward. IIRC, those were top speed limited to 129. They hit 125 in the quarter in under 11 seconds. top speed tuned out I heard they were stable through 140.

Never got a bike because of how stupid I am in cars with 14-21 lbs/hp

In reply to P3PPY :

Get a bike with 14hp. Like a Piper Cub, you'll just barely kill yourself .

11GTCS said:

No question that’s quick!  He spent plenty of time dawdling along so the statie could get his numbers though.   I saw an open road tolling station overhead a few seconds into “takeoff”too.  I’m pretty sure there are cameras all over that so it’s likely someone was waiting wherever home base is. 

There is zero chance he has plates on his bike if he is riding like that. Local guys have plate hiders where they just tuck up under the rear fairing at speed just for this sort of thing. Plus they dont pursue bikes in SoCal anymore. 

chandler said:

I stopped riding sport bikes when two of my buddies left me behind on their hyabusa's going up i57 into the city at 185. I slow rode it home, sold it and have ridden very little since. I have no control and to get walked away from at that speed is insane. 

That's insane.

I once got my Triumph up over 100 on a public road. Not much over 100. This was a flat, straight, clear visibility stretch of Hwy 1.

It was thrilling until I stopped and thought for even a moment about how little time I would have to react to *any* change in the environment, and what would happen to me in that event. There was no challenge or skill to going that speed. My fear and self preservation quickly outweighed any thrills.

100mph on a naked bike feels like you have a monkey on your back, trying to pull your head off.

A number of years ago, Car & Driver or one of them setup a test course that was supposed to simulate a city street layout, and they had a modern cop car from the Big Three (Crown Vic P71, 5.7L Charger, FWD Impala) and then a Subaru WRX and some sort of motorcycle, a BMW S 1000 RR I want to say. The Subaru WRX so handily trumped the cop cars that they didn't have the heart to even break out the bike

There is a few turbo busas in my area and a guy who does turbo tl1000s and they are nuts how fast they accelerate. 

NickD said:

A number of years ago, Car & Driver or one of them setup a test course that was supposed to simulate a city street layout, and they had a modern cop car from the Big Three (Crown Vic P71, 5.7L Charger, FWD Impala) and then a Subaru WRX and some sort of motorcycle, a BMW S 1000 RR I want to say. The Subaru WRX so handily trumped the cop cars that they didn't have the heart to even break out the bike

On a related note, I used to love the tests that MSP published of Police Vehicles.

https://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,4643,7-123-72297_30536_53738-16274--,00.html

A few years earlier (list only goes back to 2010), they had a test where the fastest car in the test ran 16s.

I just sold my literbike. while mine wasn't crazy like a Busa, it was a 1200cc Bandit (tuned for touring).   It still accelerated fast enough to blur the road in front of me.

As others have mentioned,  that type of acceleration is flat-out addictive.      

I owned that bike for over 10 years and I still was mildly scared of it with over 100,000 miles of seat time on it.

A turbo tl1000 sure sounds like a mellow ride.... lord.

I've only seen three digits on the speedo on my VFR800 a couple of times and every time I was like "okay, done with that experience for the year".  No thanks at all to that kind of thing on my Z900rs.