Over 6min of 200kph+ lane splitting

[James Deuce]

Best I've done is 265 indicated on me ol' RC30. Probably really about 245, but when I let off 200 felt slooooww and I sat up. F__k me!!!!! Just hung on with my finger tips.

[SPman]

1997 I think, ZX9R.The speed was right (250k +), he set a record and was killed trying to do it again some months later!

[scumdog]

Wked-one, your 300kph run must have been the N.Z. record setting and is your name John Hepburn?
He set the record with a 307.51km - that is the OFFICIAL record anyway.

[SpankMe]

"Pascal AKA "Le Prince Noir" (The Black Prince) does a lap of the Paris ringroad, The France loop "La Peripherique" at speeds in excess of 250 km/h (over 155 mph) on a GSXR-750. The video starts at the five minute point of his eleven or so minute lap.

He died trying to beat his record. There is footage at the end of the clip where there are lots of bikes riding in the dark. They did a lap of the ring road for his send off."

[matthewt]

wkid is dreaming again Besides Mangell wouldn't chase that surely not with his current demerit points

300 on the speedo would probably be 270 actual speed. At the sprints a couple of weeks ago my speedo showed 270 at the first light and 285 at the last light, my actual average speed was 248. Because I changed the gearing on the MV my speedo is out by 17% roughly, the average for a stock bike is 6% - 8% at least.

A 2002 R1 at last years sprints never got above 270 thru the lights. This year a gsxr1000 hit 294 !! That bike with a bit of work could probably break John Hepburns record.

[k14]

Yeah, watch ghostrider. He is insane.

Doing up to 300 indicated on his speedo, down some motorway in holland i think. Then lures the cops into a chase and looses them, doing wheelies 60% of the time.

Highly recommended. I nearly needed to change my undies it was so scary

[matthewt]

Originally posted by bluninja
Well I've done the Arc de Triumph roundabout on a bicycle, and that felt as dangerous

Dont remind me!! I had to do nearly a full circle of the Arc de Triumph in a car with my wife driving. F**K me that was madness. We survived it somehow

[MacD]

I just stood on the footpath and watched the cars go around it, that was scary enough!

[wkid_one]

Matt - the guy on the GSXR Tony - hit 300 at the end of his run - you are talking about a measured trap speed - not a terminal velocity.

Remember - you are talking about an AVERAGE speed over a 1km track - not a one off speed!  The NZ Land Speed Record is not set as an instantaneous speed - it is over a measured course travelled in BOTH directions.

Yes I have done 300kph+. My speedo was reading 299 (the max it reads) and was sitting there for a while before I slowed down.  I am, though, talking terminal velocity - not average speed.

I have been speed trapped by the police at Manfield and the speedo was not that far out - speedo read 269, laser read 264 - so the difference is not as large as you indicate.

Believe what you want - I KNOW what my speedo said

Mangell was there to attest

[750Y]

i saw 888 on my digital speedo. no time slip tho sorry.

[Jackrat]

Can ya,hire this Ghost rider.???
Did 220 on a GSX1100 once,Don,t think I will bother again,no fairing,Tunnel vision,Bike woulda gone faster but I ran out of keen.

[GPz]

All ZX12s do 340 the second you turn the key on!!!!

 

 

[andy1]

done 400kph on my 250 being towed by a busa

[wkid_one]

I don't know how the SBK riders cope - I must have had a focal point about the size of a 50c piece at probably 2km ahead, hardly enuf time to react to anything.

At the last sprints (not the ones just been), Tony hit 300kph by the end of the speed trap (I have the video) - and it was wet and bloody windy - the guy is a nutter.  But because it was wet he couldn't hammer it on the bend before the straight.  He did do a nice 300m rolling burnout to warm the tyre up tho.

Matt - what you have to remember - is the 294 he recorded is an average speed over the 400m - whereby he is still accelerating through the trap and beyond given the run up is limited and has a bend.  Try it on the back straight of Puke - 300kph is easy on a GSXR apparently - ask Kiwidan

 

[wkid_one]

Apparently - the Ducs speedo will only go as far as 220 - then all that will come up is Ducati??  Don't know if this is true of all or any of the models?