top radar speeds from Dunlop tire test

[750Y]

Tuesday’s top radar speeds from the Dunlop tire test at Daytona International Speedway:

Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, 192 mph
Jake Zemke, Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, 192 mph
Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, 190 mph
Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike, 185 mph
Aaron Gobert, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 184 mph
Jamie Hacking, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 184 mph
Jason DiSalvo, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 183 mph
Josh Hayes, Kawasaki ZX-10R Superstock, 182 mph
Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 180 mph
Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike, 180 mph
Tommy Hayden, Kawasaki ZX-10R Superstock, 179 mph
Aaron Gobert, Yamaha YZF-R6 Supersport, 167 mph
Tony Meiring, Kawasaki ZX-6RR Supersport, 164 mph

[bluninja]

Maybe they should have got wkid to do the test. Used to get his bike to 200 mph on the road

TTFN

[jrandom]

Originally posted by bluninja
Used to

Oh aye, there's the rub.

[wkid_one]

No - as I said before 187mph - indicated 299......not radar gun tested

As yes - used toooooo....trying to hit max speed in a different toy now - and no, not a jetski

PS those are track speeds on bike geared differently from the road and not having 3km run up......I was doing 200kph when I hit the straight

[MacD]

You've hooked him, now reel him in!

[bluninja]

Ah! so the guys on the track are doing a standing start on the longest straight? And their factory/sponsored highly tuned (blueprinted?) bikes just don't quite have the grunt your previous bike had?

Next you'll be telling me the road was downhill and the wind behind you.

Interesting that the Hondas are at the top, and the new ZX10 is fairly well down the order. Ah well.

[georgedubyabush]

Interesting that the Hondas are at the top, and the new ZX10 is fairly well down the order. Ah well.

The Top few are superbike, while the R1 and zx10 say superstock, wonder what that means? Cant compare them?

They are quicker than the gsxr1000 'superbike'.

[130wide]

Wkid - you should have been racing at Bathrust Oz, Tony Rees could ONLY manage just on 300Ks down conrod by radar, we should have had your motor then we may have won instead of coming 2nd. from memory when the oz's came over for trans tasman zx12r was hitting just over 300 back striagth of puke and the R1's of Tony and Curtain were around the high 280s, we ran second here also.
But as you say you did change the gearing which would stuff your speedo reading up big time.

[750Y]

The Top few are superbike, while the R1 and zx10 say superstock, wonder what that means? Cant compare them?

They are quicker than the gsxr1000 'superbike'.

they had 2 days of testing. the 'superbikes' were 'factory superbike spec' the 'superstock' were supposedly stock with slip-on & sticky test tyres. the R1's listed were 04's.

[wkid_one]

Day 2 Times

Day 2 Times - (Taken with permission from Road Racing World)

1. Ben Bostrom, Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, 1:47.650
2. Miguel Duhamel, Honda CBR1000RR Superbike, 1:48.475
3. Jamie Hacking, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 1:49.501
4. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 1:49.731
5. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike, 1:49.935
6. Jason DiSalvo, Yamaha YZF-R1, Superstock, 1:49.988
7. Mat Mladin, Suzuki GSX-R1000 Superbike, 1:50.112
8. Tommy Hayden, Kawasaki ZX-10R Superstock, 1:50.577
9. Josh Hayes, Kawasaki ZX-10R Superstock, 1:50.977
10. Aaron Gobert, Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock, 1:51.114
11. Aaron Gobert, Yamaha YZF-R6 Supersport, 1:53.157
12. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R6 Supersport, 1:54.006
13. Roger Lee Hayden, Kawasaki ZX-6RR Supersport, 1:54.328
14. Jake Zemke, Honda CBR600RR Formula Xtreme, 1:54.675
15. Tony Meiring, Kawasaki ZX-6RR Supersport, 1:54.987
16. Damon Buckmaster, Yamaha YZF-R6 Supersport, 1:55.829
17. Aaron Yates, Suzuki GSX-R600 Supersport, 1:56.235

Based on these versus max speeds - the RI's appear to be able to carry some good corner speeds as they are up in lap times, but not in top speeds

[wkid_one]

But as you say you did change the gearing which would stuff your speedo reading up big time.

will do - was running diff rear spocket taming down acceleration - but improving top end slightly - plus was running the Power Commander (which is now for sale by the way)....

PS - wouldn't it be nice to see Bathurst return to its original roots as a bike track - imagine SBK or GP running a round there......nice!

[Jackrat]

You've hooked him, now reel him in!

LOL,nah,chuck em,back.No challange in that one,bites at anything

[XRNR]

LOL,nah,chuck em,back.No challange in that one,bites at anything

He he... smirk!

[XRNR]

But as you say you did change the gearing which would stuff your speedo reading up big time.

Guess these new fangled bikes must get their speedo drives from the gearbox. All the bikes Ive ever ridden get their speedo drives from the front axle. Doesn't matter what you do to your drive train front axle still rotates the same.

[Motu]

Well,some of the British bikes from the 50s had gearbox driven speedos,but gearing changes were mainly done on the engine sprocket,so no matter.Worse was the Smiths Cronometric speedo - which wasn't in metric at all,but in mph.It took a reading every 3/4 second apparently,but seemed more like 10 seconds - you would be staring at the speedo sitting on 98mph for ages,look back to the road in front only to catch the needle jump,look back at the speedo only to see it on 98 again! Sitting at 30mph in the city and see the needle jump to 35! no wonder they didn't use radar!