Bike V Cage Part.........................?

[Lou Girardin]

AMCN has just done a comparison at Wakelield park track in Goulburn NSW.
It was between a K5 Gixxer and a Porsche Turbo S.
The cage was driven by Warren Luff - V8 supercar driver, and AMCN editor Sam McLachlan rode the bike. Seems that he's a bit handy as a rider, but not up to Luffs level.
Track conditions were cold, which gave the cage an extra advantage in grip, but the bike still beat the car by a second. Luff said there was no more to be had from the car without suspension mods. The Porsche was faster through 6 of the ten corners and could brake way later thanks to the ceramic brake option that alone costs more than the Gixxer.
But there was no way the Porsche could live with the bike out of corners, even some 600's on the track were leaving it behind.
Acceleration figures were:
400 metres
Porsche 12.47 @ 186 km/h
Gixxer 10.48 @ 228 km/h

0 - 100 Km/h
Porsche 4.26 secs
Gixxer 3.26 secs.

[Sutage]

yeh fuck cars
i was in titirangi today and i saw a porsche go under this underground thing as i went in so i reved my SR shitless, made him smile
made me piss myself
but my SR is leaking oil

[Ixion]

yeh fuck cars
i was in titirangi today and i saw a porsche go under this underground thing as i went in so i reved my SR shitless, made him smile
made me piss myself
but my SR is leaking oil

Oh, that's not good, Where is it leaking from, can you tell ?

[justsomeguy]

Me and a couple of mates went down scenic drive yesterday in cages.... One of which was a 650Hp $100,000+ mad crazy Toyota MR2 - wonder how many bikes could waste that on "The Drive".....


WT?? Anyone??

[unhingedlizard]

they did a test in one of the british bike mags. car were:
BMW M3 CSL,
Lambo Merculiahhhhhhhgo thing,
and a Radical SR3(5?) busa powered thing.

Bike were a Stock-as-a-rock GSXR1000 and a rizla BSB GSXR1000

all on track, drivers were Colin Macrash, one of the bike mags journos and Niel Mackenzie.

Results were,

GSXR1000 Race
Radical,
GSXR1000 Road
Lambo
BMW.

So essientaily what they say is to bet a Italian supercar you need a $20k bike and an average joe blog owner.

[Sutage]

Oh, that's not good, Where is it leaking from, can you tell ?

Not sure its been doing it a lot lately:P Guess i bettr get my ass to the bike maitenance thing learn how to fix it
been riding it pretty hard last 2 weeks, and did a ride yesterday so she isnt happy obviously

[myvice]

Be a slight price difference between the pusher and the bike?
Not much, bike + gear about $25k. High end VW, $250k.
So the car is one 0 more...
Must get back to the budget now as Helen is getting inpatient!

[Sutage]

hey its maybe leaking from the head
or possibly from the chain? i dunno
any ideas? i dont know much about it:P

[Ixion]

hey its maybe leaking from the head
or possibly from the chain? i dunno
any ideas? i dont know much about it:P

Only way really is to clean it up really clean, then run it lfor a bit, and see where the oil is leaking. Then if necessary remove that cover, repeat etc.

Maybe someone who knows the model well may be able to suggest a likely candidate.

Danger is, those little 250's don't have much oil in them. So if you've got an oil leak it can run the level down quite quickly to the point where there isn't enough to lubricate things properly. That gets REAL expensive.

In the meantime , keep a very close eye on the level and top up freqeuntly

[Toast]

AMCN has just done a comparison at Wakelield park track in Goulburn NSW.
It was between a K5 Gixxer and a Porsche Turbo S.
The cage was driven by Warren Luff - V8 supercar driver, and AMCN editor Sam McLachlan rode the bike. Seems that he's a bit handy as a rider, but not up to Luffs level.
Track conditions were cold, which gave the cage an extra advantage in grip, but the bike still beat the car by a second. Luff said there was no more to be had from the car without suspension mods. The Porsche was faster through 6 of the ten corners and could brake way later thanks to the ceramic brake option that alone costs more than the Gixxer.
But there was no way the Porsche could live with the bike out of corners, even some 600's on the track were leaving it behind.
Acceleration figures were:
400 metres
Porsche 12.47 @ 186 km/h
Gixxer 10.48 @ 228 km/h

0 - 100 Km/h
Porsche 4.26 secs
Gixxer 3.26 secs.

Yeah...reprazent!! Nothing like some good ol' car bashing to make a bike nut smile smugly

[Toast]

Me and a couple of mates went down scenic drive yesterday in cages.... One of which was a 650Hp $100,000+ mad crazy Toyota MR2 - wonder how many bikes could waste that on "The Drive".....


WT?? Anyone??

I raced some dudes in a mean as red MR2 back from Piha. I've no idea what it was packing, but it was honestly the best sounding car bar none that I've ever heard (including Porsches and Ferraris getting thrashed big time). Two sets of jaws dropped when I rolled up beside them on my CBR250R with barely and brakes and the exhaust nearly falling off. Little bike on some of them tight corners holds its own well, thank you

[Toast]

they did a test in one of the british bike mags. car were:
BMW M3 CSL,
Lambo Merculiahhhhhhhgo thing,
and a Radical SR3(5?) busa powered thing.

Bike were a Stock-as-a-rock GSXR1000 and a rizla BSB GSXR1000

all on track, drivers were Colin Macrash, one of the bike mags journos and Niel Mackenzie.

Results were,

GSXR1000 Race
Radical,
GSXR1000 Road
Lambo
BMW.

So essientaily what they say is to bet a Italian supercar you need a $20k bike and an average joe blog owner.

Actually I don't think that Niall Mackenzie is your average Joe Bloggs. Still, a decisive victory, go the bikes

[justsomeguy]

......High end VW, $250k.
So the car is one 0 more...
Must get back to the budget now as Helen is getting inpatient!

Uh - those beautiful Italian cars made by germans and owned by germans are actually sumthin laike 600k-700k

[justsomeguy]

I raced some dudes in a mean as red MR2 back from Piha. I've no idea what it was packing, but it was honestly the best sounding car bar none that I've ever heard (including Porsches and Ferraris getting thrashed big time). Two sets of jaws dropped when I rolled up beside them on my CBR250R with barely and brakes and the exhaust nearly falling off. Little bike on some of them tight corners holds its own well, thank you

This was a black MR2 with a widebody kit.....

[scumdog]

Me and a couple of mates went down scenic drive yesterday in cages.... One of which was a 650Hp $100,000+ mad crazy Toyota MR2 - wonder how many bikes could waste that on "The Drive".....


WT?? Anyone??

Yeah but could they do it without losing their can out of the drink holder???

I wonder if cage sites have similar pointless threads? "Hell he was fast but couldn't take more than one mate with him and he would have got wet-as with this rain and I bet his CD stacker wouldn't like all the bumping and jarring.."