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Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 12:00 am: | 
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62 on dirt , 38 on snow, 115 top end (closed course)
Tickets for 45 in a 20, (damn school zone, it was summer for cripes out loud)
120 in a 60, tagged at 85, nabbed from the air. (got out of that one, because the judge didnt think a VW Bug could do 120) Note to self, those white diamonds and triangles on the shoulders of long straight ways arent there for decoration. |
Babired
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:05 am: |
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I don't know how fast I went on my XB9SX but it was on Road Atlanta on the back straight trying to keep up with the Suzukis 600's which was impossible. Anyway the throttle was at its max, I was tucked in, I couldn't twist the throttle anymore! K |
B00stzx3
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 10:28 am: |
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City, after I got arrested for 130 in a 60 in my FOCUS, they still couldn't believe it at the courthouse.
75ish on a turbo Sea-Doo on water. 170ish in my friends 300zx TT (aftermarket turbo's, diplomats son;s car, all modded out) |
Carbide
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:37 pm: |
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I've gone about 1100 mph.
It was in dog mph so you do the math.
Hey, let's start comparing the size of our wangs!!! |
Ourdee
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2008 - 09:50 am: |
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Carbide,
As quoted from Cocoon, "Blue steel, cat can't scratch it". |
Eightvalve
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2008 - 11:07 am: |
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157mph by GPS reading in my 94 Firebird Formula LT4 conversion with an ATI Procharger.
175mph(ish) on my old Busa.
35mph on my Buell. Hey, it was snowing when I bought it and I had no title on the frame. Now that I have a frame with a title I want to add a "1" to the front of that the first opportunity I get! |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2008 - 12:17 pm: |
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ONE MILLION MILES PER HOUR |
K3xb
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 02:58 am: |
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By calculator, redline on a very built ZX11 was 202MPH in wheel speed. Achieved redline across a road built atop a levee along the Illinois/Kentucky boarder. Have since been told by people who'd know that the bike was probably spinning it's tire at top speed and that the tach may not have been 100% accurate, so the calculation was not dependable. It was a wild ride though.
By comparison, 170s at Road America aren't even scary. Getting slowed down for the turn that follows, on the other hand....
Speed is over rated. Drifting through a curve as fast as the tires can handle on any bike is so much more exhilarating than going flat out on a literbike.
My ultimate speed experience so far has been flat out at Daytona on the banking. The bike I was on there was only good for 130 or so but it still scared me more than any of the other stuff I've mentioned. I'd do it again in a heartbeat! |
M1combat
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 04:06 am: |
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"Speed is over rated. Drifting through a curve as fast as the tires can handle on any bike is so much more exhilarating than going flat out on a literbike. "
Well said. |
Sokota
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 07:31 am: |
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Is anyone touching the rev limiter in 5th gear on any track in the USA on a 9 or 12 [w/stock gearing] ? My 05 9sx has touched the limiter but it was a patient wait ,on a slight descending grade [with drummer , "race ecm"], it was not on a track. At Summit Point W.Va its not going to hit the limiter in top gear on the main straight unless I have a serious lack of interest of making the next corner , and upon surviving that I would have about a 3/4 to a mile trip back to properly re-enter the track.... |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 12:55 am: |
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"Speed is over rated. Drifting through a curve as fast as the tires can handle on any bike is so much more exhilarating than going flat out on a literbike. "
Even better when it is on dirt. No traffic, no cops, no speed limit; just you, speed, traction and friction. |
Rpm4x4
| | Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 11:46 am: |
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Speed is over rated. Drifting through a curve as fast as the tires can handle on any bike is so much more exhilarating than going flat out on a literbike.
That is why it took me a week to even open this thread. When you first buy a bike this seems really important. Then after a while you find that the real fun is in the handling. If my bike topped out at 90 I might not ever even find out. |
Skinstains
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 - 12:16 am: |
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will there be a class for the "grow-ers not show-ers" |
Saratoga
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 - 08:09 am: |
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Going fast in a straight line is boring. |
Firemanjim
| | Posted on Monday, December 29, 2008 - 09:21 pm: |
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"Going fast in a straight line is boring."
Not just no, but HELLNO!!
It is so very much fun, going WFO for that long is unreal, nothing like it at all. And El Mirage was just crazy, WFO in the dirt for 1 1/4 mile, spinning the whole way, back end dancing all over the place, very challenging!!
It is not just a matter of jumping on a bike and holding the throttle open, wish it was that easy. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 01:18 am: |
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Anybody who thinks going fast in a straight line at a racing pace is "EASY" (drag or LSR racing) - just hasn't been close enough to it.
I'm afraid that I'm only a road racer and don't have the freaking dedication to get a machine put together that could possibly get some speed records.
Talk to FMJ or Timbo about how interesting it gets - or any drag racer for that matter. Different skill set.
Yeah, to dial up a bike to speed on a straight road somewhere isn't using anything except a right wrist - and just isn't that challenging (I could draw the usual analogy to other uses for the right wrist but this is a family bbs) - But to take a machine and spend a year working on it and working on your skills in an attempt to get just another 0.2 mph out of it or cut another 0.01 seconds off of an ET, is just beyond my ability to understand.
Different? HELL YEAH!
Easy? Not if you want to be competitive!
Will I ever do LSR or Drag? Nope - except to help friends at El Mirage and Bonneville. I'll stick to road racing, it's simpler.
(Message edited by slaughter on December 30, 2008) |
Saratoga
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 09:17 am: |
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Let me clarify.
WFO in the 1/4 is one thing.
Doing 100+ on the interstate for miles on end... no thanks.
Same thing when riding MX or trails- fire roads that go on forever you can keep. The technical tracks and trails are what make it interesting and naturally- selectively- remove competiton by their attrition rates. |
Brumbear
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 10:02 am: |
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I feel at home with the bike leaning and running hard in the apex and the back getting squirley into the hairpins I just like it more than flat out running but it takes all kinds |
Skinstains
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 07:19 pm: |
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At the begining of every roadrace is a dragrace no ?
I started screwing around at the 1/4 mile this summer. It's quite fun and quite difficult. 52" wheelbase, more traction than you know what to do with, and a V-twin. If I remember correctly I got my 05 12R into the high twelves once and my kids 03 9R racebike into the high elevens. I know these bikes will go faster than that but it don't come easy, for me anyway. |
Corporatemonkey
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 07:11 am: |
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Doing 100+ on the interstate for miles on end... no thanks.
I really enjoy covering long distances at a good pace. Now I rarely drastically exceed the speed limit, but I could really see myself covering a few states at triple digit speed (if it was legal).
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