Have u tried sports bikes & decided they are too fast?

[notbike]

no

[chickenstrip]

Are they fast enough?
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[chickenstrip]

Posting feck-up
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[chickenstrip]

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[Undinist]

I saw 204 on the clock of my Hayabusa. The radar said it was 186. This was on a runway at a meeting of the 200mph club. The regulars told me it was the typical maximum for a derestricted Busa without engine mods or lowered suspension. To reach this speed the advice was to put your chin on the tank, arch your back to make an egg shape, and put one hand behind your back.

[chickenstrip]

[Undinist]

Not many people did hit the magic number! That was years ago when the Busa had no competition. Maybe things are different now. The web site still seems to be going but I can't get on it - maybe it's down for maintenance or something. It's 200mph.org.

There was one guy who could get a Busa with stock internals to 200. He lowered it almost to the ground - which was possible because the runway was exceptionally smooth. He was a tiny shrimp of a guy who wore leathers with no armour. He did lots of prep but he wouldn't give away all the details. We did see him pressing the brake pistons into the caliper before each run to reduce drag.

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[redeem ouzzer]

So this whole thread is a vehicle for the OP to tell us how much of a man he is with his short circuit racing and 200mph top speed attempts.

It's ok, we all think you are great. You can stop willy waving.
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[SirFallalot]

This morning I shared a bit of my commute with a supermoto.

I heard they're really good urban machines so I followed him for awhile in light to medium traffic.

I gave up after a few miles, not because my bike couldn't keep up, but because I found him to be driving more recklessly than I feel comfortable with on my commute.
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[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

4g, 5g? All sounds very useful if you're talking about mobile phone/tablet technology, but not so much on a bike.

All this 5G acceleration and V-max+1 on an empty motorway business just sounds very very expensive to me, and a huge waste of fuel and resources once you've spent rediculous money on machinery that is.

I did read a magazine article about a guy who'd built a naked Spondon street fighter thing, with about 305bhp including the Nitrous system. The bloke was a fighter plane pilot so I could almost understand it, but it was still a huge waste of cash and on a bike that was built very much more for function than form.

I personally think that any completely naked bike that can if needed sit at 140mph in any conditions, if the rider could stand the wind blast is more than sufficient or excessive even.

I've done just 90mph on a Trail bike sat bolt upright and it isn't an experience I'd want to have on a regular basis.

[JackButler]

If the real truth ever comes into it then most sportsbike owners are on the wrong bike. They bought the bike they wanted & not the bike the needed.

It's called 'Living the Dream'.

[garth]

I barely ride my gsxr750 on the road, not because it's 'too fast' more so that's it's not engaging at normal road speeds.
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[chickenstrip]

Is it a question of the faster it can go, the faster it can snap knicker elastic?
But once you get beyond a certain age or physical state, you can have a feckin SR71, and those knickers still ain't coming down
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