Cars vs Bikes #64,001

[onearmedbandit]

Because the rider is the biggest factor.

Regardless of that, why do we get every performance figure but not cd?

[XP@]

Regardless of that, why do we get every performance figure but not cd?

I'm sure we used to get cd numbers for prone and upright positions... or was that top speed. Has anyone got any mid 80's brochures to check?

[Fishy]

There was a 800+hp evo at up the road today, Yes dyno proven and it lost traction at about 60km/hr when it hit boost...

Was that Zoebs one? he has an Evo 3 thats road legal and I've seen it do low 9 second quaters, I think its in the 8's now.

[Fishy]

it lost traction at about 60km/hr when it hit boost...

You should try taking a seat in a well set up drift car, those things lose traction at over 100kph no problem.

My brother has his sylvia set up well and he can step his sideways on the motorway in 3rd at around 100kph.

[Two Smoker]

Most cars wont touch a bike, but there is a few cars out there that will out launch and beat a bike.... Mate of mine at work (when i eventually get back to work...) has a Evo 4 ( DVS 4 ) With over 450+hp (the turbo is HUGE!!!) That i would see giving most bikes a good going over...

[Fishy]

Most cars wont touch a bike, but there is a few cars out there that will out launch and beat a bike.... Mate of mine at work (when i eventually get back to work...) has a Evo 4 ( DVS 4 ) With over 450+hp (the turbo is HUGE!!!) That i would see giving most bikes a good going over...

Yeah most cars as you say.

A mate of mine has spent literally hundreds of thousands on his cars over the years and has had some very very rapid cars!. One being a GTI-R pulsar with 550HP.

I raced him on my old 1995 tigerblade from Maraetai through to Whitford then back up to the Pt View Drive roundabout......

I could pull away from him on the straights but he hardly had to back off the corners. Hate to say it but his little shopping trolley on steroids was fairly even with the blade on the open road...mindue though I am a nana rider

[Lou Girardin]

So a modified GTR that is capable of 10.2 1/4's on road legal tyres wouldn't beat a turbo'ed GSXR1000 off of the line? I don't think so Tim. You try (not that I have) launching a std wheelbase BIG power sportsbike hard from a standstill. I'd guess you'd be fighting wheelspin and wheelies too much to be able to beat a 4wd 10sec car.

Where did it do 10.2? On a strip with a nice coating of sticky rubber, or at the lights with tar snakes, diesel/oil and other shit on the surface.
Have a look at a time slip for a car like that and I'll bet most of the 1/4 time is made in the last 200 - 400 yards.
In theory a grunty 4wd should eat a bike in the wet from the lights, but I've cleaned up a few now on a sad old Bandit.

As for the Cd figure, what model are you going to use for a standard rider, a Japanese racing sardine or a fat git like me, and will he be tucked in or sitting up?

[imdying]

Where did it do 10.2? On a strip with a nice coating of sticky rubber, or at the lights with tar snakes, diesel/oil and other shit on the surface.

Probably the same place that the bike figures come from, the strip.

[Pixie]

[Pixie]

As for the Cd figure, what model are you going to use for a standard rider, a Japanese racing sardine or a fat git like me, and will he be tucked in or sitting up?

You don't know fat till you've seen the guy I saw with an R1 disappearing in his arse crack

[Pixie]

Got flied lice?

which would you like: head or pubic

[Ixion]

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Have a look at a time slip for a car like that and I'll bet most of the 1/4 time is made in the last 200 - 400 yards.
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Uh, 1/4 mile is 440 yards , so I'd guess most would be in the last 400 yards.

[Sniper]

Watched a modified ZX10 (50 shot nos and other stuff) kick a 850hp Evo8 arse last night. Rolling start and was close but not when the bike nailed 4th and took off. I have the video at home and will post it tonight

[Pixie]

Yeah most cars as you say.

A mate of mine has spent literally hundreds of thousands on his cars over the years and has had some very very rapid cars!. One being a GTI-R pulsar with 550HP.

I raced him on my old 1995 tigerblade from Maraetai through to Whitford then back up to the Pt View Drive roundabout......

I could pull away from him on the straights but he hardly had to back off the corners. Hate to say it but his little shopping trolley on steroids was fairly even with the blade on the open road...mindue though I am a nana rider

Ultimately,one's a shitbox shopping car.How much power it's got will never change that.
And the other's a bike

[carver]

so guys, sport bikes aint so fast on the corners, but what about a well set up supermotard?say KTM 525 or similar? maybe a crf 450?
after getting my lisence back last week i couldn't help using me kwaka's torque to smoke a 180 SX, he just couldn't keep up, ha ha..