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Posted: 10:54 - 08 Sep 2020 Post subject: Fastest you've been? |
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What's the fastest you've been on your bike (on a closed circuit of course)? Was able to hit 184 mph (GPS verified - speedo was pretty well calibrated, and showed 299kph but revs were still climbing). Was scary trying to get it back down again before the tarmac ran out ____________________ DILLIGAF |
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Nice try police but you'll have to do better than that to get any admissions from us. |
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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MarJay But it's British!
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Posted: 11:32 - 08 Sep 2020 Post subject: |
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Perhaps not fastest but memorable, in 1991.. 120 mph (on the clock) on a pre-divvy XJ600. I-O-M mountain section trying to keep up with my mates on FZ750 and FZR600. The roads had just re-opened and we weren't far behind the 'Roads Open' travelling marshall.
I was concentrating hard (as you might) when a ZZR1100 came past, two-up and on the back wheel.. I kid you not. ____________________ Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750
Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600 |
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notbike Formerly known as notabikeranymore
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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145 (indicated) on the VFR. Honestly it all feels the same for me over about 100, so I've never bothered to repeat/exceed it. ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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155 indicated on the GPZ. Felt like there was more, but there was a roundabout on the closed circuit. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5 |
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An indicated 180 on an FZR1000EXUP.
The runway ( ) I was on came over a crest, and there it stretched out before me, straight and empty. Right, let's see what it'll do, thinks me. So I pinned it. Got to about 120 and tried to tuck behind the screen...and couldn't because of the wind blast! So I eased off a bit, then tucked down, and pinned it again.
Fastest I'd seen on a clock before then was 150 on my 750 Turbo, but that was probably quite an inaccurate reading - Kawasakis in particular were notorious for optimistic speedos at the top end back then as I recall it. So I was quite impressed by an indicated 180, especially as the bike was rock steady and well behaved at that speed, no suggestions of a weave, not fazed by any bumps or other runway ( ) irregularities.
Fastest I've been since then, which was about 1990, is a little over an indicated 160 on a couple of the Fazer thous I've had. On my current one, the needle was still creeping slowly up after that figure, but I ran out of available runway ( ) and had to ease off again. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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yen_powell wrote: | 140, 2 up on the A39 between Plymouth and Exeter on my first FJ1200. I was following some flash car who tried to leave me behind. I missed my planned exit because no way was I going to be able to slow down in time. |
Oh god, that reminds me.
When I was ~20 or so, maybe 21 at most, I had an old CBR600F. It was a great bike and I loved it very much, but I rode it like a prat a lot.
Being that I'd dropped out of college twice and my only real experience was several years working retail, it came as a massive surprise to every single person who knew me that I somehow made it through the first two or three stages of the interview process to become a fireman. The final interview stage was a formal sit down interview with the station and area chiefs. I was informed that only 3% of applicants make it to that stage.
It's the middle of summer, roasting hot. I stayed at my dads place the night before as it was a little closer to the fire station I was to interview at in Reigate. Suited up under my textiles, with shoes and a jacket in my backpack, I was roasting hot and sweating before I even got on to the bike, and then to top it off I left a little later than planned and so was only going to make to the interview with a few minutes to spare to get stash my bike gear somewhere at the other end.
You'd think that would be enough for me to cop on and take it seriously, but 20 year old me was an idiot.
On the way to the interview I ended up side by side with a BMW M3 at some traffic lights. She pulled away fast from the lights and I felt compelled to play along, only I followed her onto a slip road onto the M25 instead of going straight across a roundabout - it was far too late to turn back by the time I had realised.
With about 10 minutes to get to the station, I did myself a nice 21 mile loop around the M25 and M23, all the way down to Gatwick airport and back. Needless to say I arrived late, stressed, hot, sweating, angry, and generally not in a good state to do an interview.
I didn't get the job.
Edit: Hey! I found my thread from the time - turns out I was 19:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=169544 ____________________ I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock. |
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3 yr old ZZR1100, Autobahn, '97. Maxed out, indicated north of 180, so probably 165 in reality. Shortly after that, coming out of a restricted zone and building speed again, but still about an indicated 140, I was passed by something vaguely Audi-shaped like I was standing still. It was my first, and probably last, experience doing that sort of speed and see something gaining on me in the outside lane, flashing it's lights. ____________________ '98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine) |
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As fast as a modified Hayabusa can go.
https://i.imgur.com/1cpcNUi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XNS1GNr.jpg?1
On a runway obviously. Never on the motorway, because many kittens would be killed.
And we don't like dead kittens. ____________________ Quietly and consistently taking the piss.
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Fatter and faster than Fret
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 230 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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