Go Bruce!

[sAsLEX]

speedpro boasts a 200 mph '73 kawasaki and accuses Finn of posing....

nice.

probally a lot more work and real biking to get a 73 to 200 than buying one out of the box that can do it!

[Sparky Bills]

Nothing but RESPECT!!

[Two Smoker]

Bruces GSX-R1000 will be putting out more than 200hp at the back wheel if it is the Superbike...

[emaN]

206mph, that is fast! Is the Sulby Straight a downhill section? What's the corner like at the end of it?

Nope! it sure ain't. Have a read to get a first-hand account of what it's like.

Steve Hislop:
"You've probably hooked back into 5th gear by this time, around the little ivy covered wall there, around the right and you can nearly hook top gear as you go around the left. If you've got it right then you're carrying all that speed up the Sulby Straight. Quarry Bends is so fast you have to get it right and on a good big bike, you can hook into top gear - if not just exiting that last left, definitely before the little right flick as you suddenly come along. Then you've got a recently resurfaced section, then you've got the fast left and your on past the Sulby Glen and along the rest of the Straight.

Sulby Straight is just like a green tunnel at that speed. You can see the light at the end but it's just a tunnel. You can imagine pulling 30,000 revs, 180mph, you're just bouncing, the engine revs are kicking up all the time. You're trying to hold yourself down, it's belting you on the chest, you're actually getting kicked above the screen and you get to the village. You go through the right kinks, still flat and the braking point should be about at the 200 metre board which is up on the telegraph pole. Serious hard braking here, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd and then into the bridge. The last couple of years that I did it with bigger bikes, by the time I'm getting to the right kink in the village you're just quite happy to start braking. Spectators sitting at the side might say "Bit of a wimpy shot that", but it's just by the time you get there you've had enough."

[roogazza]

My old '73 Kawasaki Z1 has been clocked by Police Lazer at 312KMH(196mph) down the back straight at Puke, without a fairing. A nice slippery new 1000 wouldn't need much done to reach 200mph I would think, especially on a 1 mile straight.

Another reason to disbelieve police radars !!!!!! How do you hang onto a naked bike at 312 KPH ?????
I heard the other day that someone (nameless) in the Hutt valley was claiming his new ZX10R wheelies at 190 MPH !!!!!!!!!!!

Do you get prizes for these claims !!!!!!!! Gaz.

[speedpro]

ahhh - this is the same speedpro that said this about finn:

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Without getting into a slanging match or a "mine is bigger than yours" competition . . . ??? Ah what the hell . . I still think your choice is all about posing, or maybe I'm just too old and sensible now. If you were buying the bike for something like it's intended purpose I wouldn't have posted my first comments. You strike me as one of those yuppy wankers who buys a bike to be a "bikie" only to end up a yuppy wanker with a bike.
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speedpro boasts a 200 mph '73 kawasaki and accuses Finn of posing....

nice.

"196"mph '73 Kawasaki. There's a few things been done to it, and yes, it is a bitch hanging on at that speed, for 2 reasons. 1 - it's bloody fast and 2 - it's still accelerating hard.