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  1. #61
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    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 imdying said, the same place that we get bike stats from, with a professional rider in ideal conditions.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou Girardin
    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?
    Lou, I am not asking for bike plus rider cd factors, despite the influence a rider has on the final figure. What I am asking (and I thought you would have picked this up from my posts) is for cd factors for bikes. Sure it may have little bearing in the real world (rider influence) but seeing as we get every other figure thrown at us, why not bike specific cd factors?

    We get power to weight figures with almost every bike, but that too has little bearing when comparing a 65kg rider on a K6 750 against a 120kg rider on a K6 1000.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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?
    You buy it, then bring it out for a ride, I'd be interested to see what I'm missing out on.
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  3. #63
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toast
    You buy it, then bring it out for a ride, I'd be interested to see what I'm missing out on.
    140km/hr on the straights?
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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

    Lou, I am not asking for bike plus rider cd factors, despite the influence a rider has on the final figure. What I am asking (and I thought you would have picked this up from my posts) is for cd factors for bikes. Sure it may have little bearing in the real world (rider influence) but seeing as we get every other figure thrown at us, why not bike specific cd factors?
    Just as pointless as power to weight ratios really. I suspect that some naked bikes may have better Cd than a sportsbike when the rider's absent.
    Speed doesn't kill people.
    Stupidity kills people.

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