oooooooooooh you little tease!!

[Villers]

Took the bike out for a bit of a tour/thrash tonight for the first time in ages. Was uneventful until I found myself on the turn off for the bypass behind some kind of Westfield. On closer inspection it said 'MegaBlade' across the back.

Bloke sat in it was eyeballing me and revving the nuts off it at the junction and as we were about to turn onto a roundabout heading for a 2 lane dual carriageway I thought we had an accord! Im not one for racing but Ive always had an admiration for these things and I'd love to be fortunate enough to own one. Hence I was gagging to see how fast it was as the noise from it had already whipped me up into a stupor.

Anyway the rather poor ending is that he set himself up to really hammer it off the roundabout and then pulled off into a residential estate. Leaving me waving my fist in the air in dusgust. I was so looking forward to it, I wouldnt have cared even if he trounced me!

Bloody gutted, he knew from the first second he was going to do it too I bet. Made me look a right dick!!

On the way home I wondered if he'd have done that had I been a four wheeled opponent. Im off to look for one on ebay
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[benjami]

I saw a DT125x beat a ferrari off the lights.

Ferrari guy was revving at him, then they both went for it (seemingly).

Unfortunately I was in the girlfriends micra (she was revving at the ferrari though )

[Acemastr]

[tutton]

[Acemastr]

curious why he thinks he might get trounced then! he has silly power!
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[tutton]

[Acemastr]

I'm missing the reason you've just quoted specs of a CBR900 lol...

westfield... busa...
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[mistergixer]

[tutton]

[Villers]

My inital impression was that he would get round the roundabout a hell of a lot quicker than I would have and gotten a headstart, mainly because of the bloody 206 in the way.

The other reason is that the bypass is very windy, and although I have no fear of ragging the bike right to the top end I hate to do it with cross winds so maybe would have had to 'just' beat him instead of going silly.

The busa would have tortured him straightline for sure, but given the choice of the car or the bike? Car for me every time, what a class little toy!

Ive been looking on piston heads £10,500 for a Westfield 'MegaBusa', now you're talking!!
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[Acemastr]

128mph seems a bit... low... for such a powerful engine in there, gearing a bit crappy?
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[mistergixer]

Brick-like aerodynamics too.
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[Mellow Matt]

I'll give you a race in my Locoblade if you like! Not been able to test it against any bikes yet...

Mine weighs about 450kgs and has a 954 engine in, so should be a pretty fair match for most bikes, although the top speed is pretty low, I'd imagine it wouldn't make a true 120mph, the gearing's too short to go any higher, and it's as aerodynamic as a brick (although it has a tiny windscreen), as has been said.
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[Pete.]

[Villers]

[Pete.]

Villers if you take 12 seconds to get to 120mph you need to hang up your gloves

Try 10.3-ish to 130
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Villers]

Conservative estimate Geri, Im not one to end up in the 'It can't do that' debate. Notice I said 170bhp and not 180

Besides we arent all balls-of-steel sprinters like yourself
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[Pete.]

Don't under-estimate yourself - as a dragracer/sprinter I'm crap. Got told off by Paul 'Grumpy' Watson once 'if you weren't pissing about doing wheelies that woul dhave been a good run'

10.3 would be easy after a days sprinting practice on the runway or at the strip mate - you should try it sometime.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Mellow Matt]

[Villers]