100km/h wheelspin...

[Toast]

What does 100km/h straight line wheelspin feel like?

I'm curious as to whether the below experience is likely to be wheelspin or the bike popping out of gear?

I thought I'd give wheel standing in the wet a go this morning. To my surprise, it actually came up really sweet and fast (go the Pilot Powers).

I dropped it down at about 100, since going past that is reputed to cause instant death of all within sight, and gave the throttle a bit of a blip to soften the landing.

It didn't soften the landing much though, and it felt like the bike had just popped out of gear, with the revs spinning up to near redline, which it has never done to me before. But, it felt really planted, no swaggering of the rear like when spinning it up on the polished concrete of my work carpark.

Any ideas on this?

Cheers.

[beyond]

Sounds like you were right in the meat of the torque range and the wheel spun up.

I've overtaken some cars coming back from Napier to Taupo and as I pulled out to overtake and came alongside on an overtaking lane, my tacho redlined
and they were looking at me and I was looking at them and I wasn't going anywhere.

Not much fun if the rear decides to try and overtake the front though, but if everything is aligned right and you are completely straight, it does happen.

[Devil]

This is also assuming you didnt bump the clutch when you blipped the throttle. Some a fairly sensitive (depends on how you like your levers really).

The only 100km/h wheelspin i've had was pretty obvious.

[WRT]

Just grab another gear and pull the throttle back on . . . Sooner or later you will feel it take up, the speed gently builds and the rev's gently drop back down until all of a sudden the bike screams towards the horizon as the revs start climbing again. Great fun (if you are expecting it), but keep it in a straight line.

[JimO]

many years ago i saw a guy on a big jap bike take off at the lights in Dunedins Octagon, smoked the back tyre as the front wheel lifted off the ground about 2 feet.it may be hohum now but in 1977 it was bloody fan-tastic

[Fishy]

Bike didn't jump out of gear into neutral did it?

[Toast]

Definitely no clutch involved in it.

It seems it probably was wheelspin then. I've just never experienced it at speed, in a straight line, only out of the odd corner here and there, so it just seemed weird to me that the back didn't step out even the slightest amount.

All good...

[DEATH_INC.]

Sounds like 'spin to me, quite often at speed it won't try to go sideways on ya...

[Toast]

Bike didn't jump out of gear into neutral did it?

That was my first thought...but thinking about it now, it dropped and accelerated afterwards, so unless it jumped back in to gear by itself...prob not.

[arj127]

at 100kph years ago. Was on the motorway doing 90 behind a car (damp road), only slighty cracked the throttle open to pass and immediately the bike was redlining. Thought i had blown the clutch so backed off, tail started swapping a little so put the power back on and it came straight. A freaky feeling first time, know to just roll the power on in the wet now.

[Lou Girardin]

I had the rear spin up at 110 k's while overtaking and I sure knew about, the bitch tried to highside me.

[bugjuice]

i've had a few from clumsy downshifts (so more chatter/lock-up), but also got touchy in the wet too and some were from trying to wheelie too.. felt like it was gonna keep goin straight.. most of the time...

[onearmedbandit]

Had spin before at over 100km/h in the wet, sometimes you only notice the revs rise rapidly, other times you notice the back wheel coming around to greet you!

[Titanium]

Front straight at Manfield on the Shaun Harris track day ...... hit the white paint in the wet at the same time as the power came on ...... wheel spin about 160 -180 kmh ....... was a pucker moment ......

[TonyB]

Yep, sounds like spin all right. As the wheel is spinning pretty fast it no doubt is pretty hard to push off line- gyroscopic forces etc. I've had the FZR wheel spinning for ages at high speed on gravel, the rear just tweaked a bit to the left (road camber I guess) and stayed there.