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Slightly interesting, only slightly...
Any of us that have owned liter m/cycles and even newer 600s and have had the opportunity to do high speed runs on empty boondock roads, have all probably exceeded that '140'.
My 33 yr old Honda Hurricane 1000 has been pushed to almost 160 indicated, probably 150 real speed, and that scoot is old, lower tech engine, etc.
No bragging, but I am certain that all of us that have owned/ridden powerful M/Cs have on occasion taken a run at 'what they will do'.
Having driven on many parts of the A Bahn in rentals, it was fun to see the P Cars come by like I was standing still, even though I had the rental MB gas pedal buried and was cruising at just under 140.
GL, mD
Slightly interesting, only slightly...
Any of us that have owned liter m/cycles and even newer 600s and have had the opportunity to do high speed runs on empty boondock roads, have all probably exceeded that '140'.
I learned to ride in 1990 and have had plenty of opportunity but have never been faster than 92 mph on a motorcycle which I did on this one that I purchased last year... a 2018 Suzuki GSX-S750.
It was plenty fast for me LOL... and I still had a lot of power left. I enjoy riding but man... the wind at that speed was just unreal. Can't even imagine 150+. I guess at 45 I'm just old fashioned.
I learned to ride in 1990 and have had plenty of opportunity but have never been faster than 92 mph on a motorcycle which I did on this one that I purchased last year... a 2018 Suzuki GSX-S750.
It was plenty fast for me LOL... and I still had a lot of power left. I enjoy riding but man... the wind at that speed was just unreal. Can't even imagine 150+. I guess at 45 I'm just old fashioned.
Nice Sled...
Yes, the several times I cranked it on my 'Cane, tucked as much as a 6' 1", long legged Gezzer can 'tuck', the wind was remarkable.
My brother-in-law whom I ride with frequently, has come by me on his 996 Duck like I was parked, lol!
We don't that kind of crazy/stupid stuff anymore...in my early 70s and he is late 50s, and those urges dissipate.
I have 3 scoots, the 'Cane, my '94 GW Aspencade and my first new HD, a '75 Shovelhead.
Seriously considering offing the 'Cane & GW to a nephew, (son of that BIL), putting a few bucks into the Shovel, (a sentimental scoot for me and a fun putt), and calling it a Day, age and interest-wise.
After riding a couple hundred thousand miles since ~ 1964, the thrill isn't fully 'gone', but the vigor & impetus is.
GL, mD
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I've done stupid sh*t on all of my bikes except the current one. My Yamaha FZ-6 saw 100, but I was smart enough to know I wasn't ready for anything faster back then. My GSX-R600 saw 125 and was barely pulling, the GSX-R1000 saw 120+ and it was still loafing along - plenty left in the power band, and I wasn't about to find out how fast it would go.
Riding a Duc SuperSport S now and it's more laid back. Don't get me wrong, it'll get up there and quick, but it's not "twitch my wrist and you're north of 110 even in 6th" power either.
Not a speed demon but with most bikes it is really easy to go above 100 mph without even thinking about it.
With every bike I had, when I found the right time and road, even for several seconds, I test the bike by going as fast as the bike and I can handle.
My very first bike; 1982 Suzuki Katana 650 (5-speed) - in 2006 I hit around 105 mph, I was very new and bike was also old and used up
2003 Honda NightHawk 750 (5-speed) - in 2007 hit around 118 mph, bike couldn't handle much more
2006 Yamaha Vmax 1200 (5-speed) - in 2009 topped out around 135 mph
2007 Kawasaki Vulcan Custom 900 (5-speed) - in 2012 or 2013 topped out around 100 mph
2008 Suzuki DL-1000 (5-speed) - in 2014 going to Bodie Ghost town, hit 145 mph. I am guessing bike was close to its max. I know I was!
2016 Honda Fury (5-speed) - in 2018 shortly after buying the bike and having its ECU flashed, I hit 115-117 mph. It might have handled a bit more. Not sure why Honda caps the stock ECU to 100 mph max?
2017 Moto Guzzi Stelvio 1200 (6-speed), no modification to the ECU yet but I can tell much like the Fury, the Stelvio's rev range is definitely "dumbed down", and perhaps the power is capped but despite being an air/oil cooled engine, it was still able to 125 mph without breaking a sweat but not sure how much more I could push it.
Bear in mind, motorcycle speedos are typically faulty on purpose to show speeds typically 4%-6% faster than they actually are.
That said, a video about a 200 HP sports bike going 140 mph is hardly news-worthy!
If a 140 HP bike was going 200+ mph, that is different story!
My 33 yr old Honda Hurricane 1000 has been pushed to almost 160 indicated, probably 150 real speed, and that scoot is old, lower tech engine, etc.
No bragging, but I am certain that all of us that have owned/ridden powerful M/Cs have on occasion taken a run at 'what they will do'.
Having driven on many parts of the A Bahn in rentals, it was fun to see the P Cars come by like I was standing still, even though I had the rental MB gas pedal buried and was cruising at just under 140.
GL, mD
Good points, all. As an almost-geezer (I'm 52, riding since 1987), I hear you about "been there, done that." Still, I do think some of these videos are a bit amusing. I still have a bit of the old rebel inside.
Funny about your Honda Hurricane, that alone gets a +1. You still have this critter?? I remember when they came out, and the trap speeds from Motorcyclist magazine and a few others. Remember that Honda pretty much always had a 1000cc inline, starting (I think) with the CB1100F of 1983. What a freight train. They had a 750 from years earlier, then a freight train 900, then 1100. 1984, I don't remember, but in 1985 they had that hi-tech V4 1000. Then more V4s... Wish I could have bought one, but they were expensive then and later in the decade, too, so I bought a Yamaha FJ1100: best beast bike of 1984, bar none. Among air-cooled, anyway: their day was done, liquid came in about that time. I put forty or fifty thousand miles on that FJ, until the engine was about dead ('80s bikes: they blew up, period). Much later, same on a Blackbird...
I had that 1150 or so inline cc Blackbird, 2nd Gen, from 1999 to 2010. Slickest, most trouble free bike ever and evil fast. That carried the baton and succeeded the Hurricane series. And yes, I had it flat out once and only once, probably 160mph and didn't hold it that long. Did a track day on it once, just for the hell of it, because with the Penske shock and revalved forks (both for my weight), the sumbetch handled despite being c. 100lbs on the pork side compared to the lightest 750s.
I will say it is interesting to see the modern Panigale and BMW SS1000 do the crazy speeds. Much more bike than I ever had, though the lithe racing literbikes after about 1998 (the R1 came out about then) were dangerous, twitchy, but super competent critters on the knife's edge from becoming unstable and pitching the rider for any or no reason. Friend of mine busted up his R1 not once but twice, a 2002, and I do believe he upset the geometry just a little too much in both instances. He was a good rider, btw, and my track buddy until a very serious accident in 2004 or so put him in a cast and traction with a multiple-fractured foot for God knows how long. Nothing to laugh about, and he seldom rode again. Maybe never.
My Porsche 911s would ease up to a buck twenty, even a buck sixty if pushed (my 911 Turbo in-particular) and just lope along. I had that Turbo at a buck sixty-two out in the real, REAL boondocks once, which I shouldn't have done I suppose, just to see what's what (speed indicated on the radar detector w/GPS). That was no car to enjoy here in the United States, and the last hyper-fast foreign car I'll buy probably for that reason alone: one ticket for 92 in a 55 was enough, my fault of course but a big pain as...."who the hell cares" out in the wilds of Oregon.
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