Fifth Gear at it again - Supercar v Superbike

[tgabber]

Just started (Mon 8:30pm). Tonight they're claiming to have a superbike v supercar raceoff. They haven't given the details of the vehicles yet...

It's repeated tomorrow at 7-30pm as well.
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Kawasaki KMX125 -> Aprilia RS125 -> Kawasaki ZZR600

[mr.z]

It like makeing a rhino and a giraffe have a race, two very different animals... both do different things better than others.. sigh, will they never learn
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[rizo-sri200]

what channel?
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swift kick to the wing mirror puts em straight..
98' Bandit 600 with Slip on

[Silver]

Channel 5

[rizo-sri200]

ta
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swift kick to the wing mirror puts em straight..
98' Bandit 600 with Slip on

[Flip]

Why don't they just do an bike special without any cars whatsoever? A one hour special, once a year or something?

[zaknafien]

For bike show's you want men & motors.
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02 Firestorm.

[18aprilia]

the bike will win easy

[Flip]

Yeah but I refuse to get sky.

[zaknafien]

\o/
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02 Firestorm.

[18aprilia]

it won whaoooo by 4 4ths of a 4? something like that

[paulodd]

and the bike wins!
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1999 Yamaha R6
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[instigator]

very surprised at the result......thought the bike would well lose it on the corners against a lambo

[Flip]

Result! \o/

[tgabber]

So, it was a Lamborghini Gallardo against a Ducati 999...

and the Ducati wins by 0.44 of a sec. The laptimes were 49.69 for the Lambo and 49.25 secs for the Duke.

Also... the Duke is around 10 times cheaper than the Lambo.


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"It's all about dislocating expectation"
Kawasaki KMX125 -> Aprilia RS125 -> Kawasaki ZZR600

[Silver]

4/10ths of a second?

Looking at the circuit I think a fast 600 or a 750 would have been even quicker. It's been shown that on smallish tracks the 600s are quicker than their 1000cc cousins because of braking and faster turning.

[18aprilia]

omg u thought that the bike would lose :O bike alwasy win whooooo

[Visitor Q]

how bloody pointless. wet track. Mild sedated gibbon riding it. backing it out round a corner under braking... WTF? Thats a trick not a racing technigue, under power maybe, but bloody not off the rear brake.

Dry track, John Reynolds, and a 'supercar' that costs 12k. Then well see.

Fucking cagers
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[philcxiv]

Getting the backend out nice skills
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[mr.z]

Like bonny said, you wouldn't need to spend any more than an ok car to get yourself that will at least match a 1/4 of a million £ car...
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[zx636]

What really is the point of these so called "races". What are they trying to prove or disprove.
We had an all honda fixed race recently with a boat they knew could only do 70mph, an F1 car and a slightly modded honda bike. They could have made it a bit fairer by scrapping the boat and using an F1 and a moto gp bike. However, Would not do for a honda gp bike to lose even to a F1 car so its better to say the slightly modded road bike is almost as fast as a F1 car. Nice bit of promotional advertising there.

Now Clarkson the pillock jumps on the bandwagon, and whats this one proven, Nothing except to say its possible for us nutty bikers to get a vehicle 10 times cheaper and faster than a supercar. Sounds like another way for the dreaded curly man to have a snipe at bikers.

Maybe we should e-mail him and ask if he would like to put his new ford GT up against a fully loaded cg125 to show how great a star he thinks he is.

[tgabber]

[zx636]

So I am.

Point is still valid though. These races may be entertaining but prove nothing.

Apologies to Vicky

And Clarkson is still a prat

[Flip]

It's just a show. Don't take it so seriously.

[zx636]

Yea. At my age you start to take everything seriously. Roll on the summer