Bike beats car test -another car mag learns the truth!

[MD]

Browsing the magazine stand as you do and not one to ever give a damn about car mags but one caught my eye.
Road & Track SPEED was the mag and they tested a standard ZX6R and standard Corvette 6 litre against a fully race modified skyline and slighly modified ZX10- they called it performance modified with a muffler and suspension changes only. yeah right that's all they do to superbikes. That's a 6000cc car against a 600 cc bike - well alright it was a 636, big difference.
Anyway the results upset the poor car enthusiasts.
They admitted the bikes power to weight would always win the sprints but were shocked by how much and that both bikes cleaned up in lap times around some twisty yank track.
What made my day was that the 636 won the 0-60mph over the zx10 . Lets not bother even looking at the piss poor car quarter mile times. Ok well the 10 almost halved the cars time and the 636 was about a second behind that.
The 10 beats the 6 past 60mph in the 0-100mph runs. And why wouldn't it.
Yanks are so anally retentive with analysis stats and graphs for this that and all sorts of crap data. They had GPS devices on the bikes helmets and worked out that the rider shaved 190 ft off the circuit length by carving tighter turns and get this - by leaning he was hanging his head off the edge of the sealed track! thereby shorting the track. I think they were trying to say this was cheating until they discovered the Skyline also hung a wheel off the track in the inside of some turns. Cheating bastards in cars.
Not enough to get me to waste my money on a car mag though.

[Phenoix]

haha, clock up another for bikes

[Storm]

And thanks to you, none of us have too Well done that man

[ducatilover]

muahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa[evil kawasaki fan laugh]

bikes rule......lucky for them it wasnt a gixxa

[myvice]

So the moral of the story...
If you want a break, get a Kuick Kwak!


And I'm on a Suzuki? Where's my loyalty? At least I dont drive!
(unless forced by Mexican gunmen)

[ducatilover]

So the moral of the story...
If you want a break, get a Kuick Kwak!


And I'm on a Suzuki? Where's my loyalty? At least I dont drive!
(unless forced by Mexican gunmen)

bloody mexican gun men......dont worry i 'ride' or attempt to ride a suzuki, and am about to commit sacrelege and by a honda

[jimbo600]

That's cool man. Good to see you have a 636 again. You change bikes more often than an Italian swaps sides during a war mate.

[madboy]

Sounds like both of those bikes had a bit more ZING than the cars...

Not having caught up with you in a while MD, is there a story re: the 636 back to Blade back to 636 fit for publication? Or does this prove I'm too lazy to search?

[NordieBoy]

They had GPS devices on the bikes helmets and worked out that the rider shaved 190 ft off the circuit length by carving tighter turns and get this - by leaning he was hanging his head off the edge of the sealed track! thereby shorting the track. I think they were trying to say this was cheating until they discovered the Skyline also hung a wheel off the track in the inside of some turns. Cheating bastards in cars.

Ummm....
All that means is that the riders head did 190 ft less per lap.
His wheels on the other hand probably didn't go off the edge of the track whereas the Skyline's ones did.

[Toast]

Wooo, everyone's favourite topic...

What sorta track was it? Heaps of long sweepers? Tight turns accelerating on to straights? Heaps of chicanes, switchbacks? Or what?

[Motu]

When I see a bike holding any outright record against a car I might believe you.I wonder why Rossi wants to do F1? Perhaps he knows they are a shit load faster than any bike?

[NordieBoy]

When I see a bike holding any outright record against a car I might believe you.I wonder why Rossi wants to do F1? Perhaps he knows they are a shit load faster than any bike?

Because he wants a new challenge as he's done everything in MotoGP?
Other than racing a 250 aginst the 990's.


Hmmmmm.....

[k14]

MOTOR (auzzie mag) ran a test of a stock K5 gixxer vs a porsche turbo at a track in auzzie a few months back. Was quite surprised to see the bike beat the car by a few tenths around there too. They also had a v8 supercar driver driving the turbo but only had a bike mag reporter riding the gixxer, so I'd say if they had a proper bike racer then it would have been even a bit faster. Still will never be able to contend with fully tricked out cars but its closer than most people tend to think.

[Motu]

. Still will never be able to contend with fully tricked out cars but its closer than most people tend to think.

MotoGP compared to F1? Top Fuel drag bike and Top Fuel rail? WRC car and ??? No way Sonny.

[Toast]

When I see a bike holding any outright record against a car I might believe you.I wonder why Rossi wants to do F1? Perhaps he knows they are a shit load faster than any bike?

Ofcourse cars are going to be quicker than bikes when money's no object...pure grip from big contact patches, the awesome braking taht comes with that, downforce, still extremely light, etc....but the cool thing is that these are the bikes we can all ride fucking over the cars most will only dream of...