First bike you did a Ton on.

[roogazza]

Suzuki T20 X6 1965. (first 6 speed box) Some, that are still alive would remember the Jap beginnings when 250's were the biggest you could buy. You were usually up against Triumph Bonnevilles and Saints belonging to the "25 Club" and the like which struggled to the "Ton " anyway. Gaz.

[Crisis management]

Probably in 1973 (long time ago and there is a bit of "the older I get the faster I was" syndrome here) on a purple metalflake Suzuki T500 with custom chambers pipes and z bars so low my knuckles dragged on the ground.
This criminal act was probably commited between pakuranga and maraetai in Auckland.



I could be wrong mind, alzheimers is like that!

[justsomeguy]

In 1975 on a 1973 Yamaha RD350. Next question, when did you first do the ton on the gravel? A week later in 1975, same bike. I was 15 in 1975. Fastest I have ever ridden on any bike was on a Hayabusa, indicating off the clock at 300KPH. That was last year.

Nice

I'm still waiting to see what life's like the other side of 300... stuck at 276 with the 636. The new bike is supposed to have potential...maybe a little tweak to the gearing....

[vifferman]

Even though (yes - even though!) I've been riding since 1974 or summat, I didn't actually own a bike capable of such stratospheric velocities until 1994. I got close (but no cigar) as a pillion: 95 (indicated) in 1974 on a Suzuki T500, and about the same on a Z1 in 1977. Both, incidentally, were in a 30mph zone, on the same road.
I finally cracked the ton in about 1996 on a VF500, about 12 years after doing it in a Fiat 132 going down the west side of the Kaimais.

[TLDV8]

First Ton
H2B
Almost... S1B

Ton on gravel for Terbang ..Z1000J, south side of Haast Pass..... The twilight zone,redline in top.. CBX/6.

[scumdog]

In 1972 or thereabouts on a mates CB750.

On a closed road while wearing protective T-shirt, shorts and steel-caps though...

131mph in flying 1/4 in the lorry is the fastest accurate land speed I've known.

[Scouse]

1974 RD350...................

[MSTRS:Me]

...1971 T500 Suzuki. ...

... '73 T500 Suzuki! ....

...a purple metalflake Suzuki T500 ....

....on a Suzuki T500, ....

I'm seeing a pattern here...
Twas also a trusty T500 for me, around 1974. When the cop (in his 1300 Cortina) caught up, eventually, I got done for 'estimated 65-70mph'. No radar, see, and he couldn't go over that on his speedo to get the 1/4 mile reading required.
Strange thing about those bikes was the ultra-low gearing. 4th and 5th were both overdrives. But insufficient hp to top 112mph in 4th...and 5th couldn't even maintain that

[Crisis management]

Strange thing about those bikes was the ultra-low gearing. 4th and 5th were both overdrives. But insufficient hp to top 112mph in 4th...and 5th couldn't even maintain that

Porting, pipes and jets are wonderful things!


Except in the hands of a spotty adolescent wannabe tuner....

[avgas]

First time i personally did the ton was on an 88' RGV250, i think it was about mid 96.
I was riding a friends bike home for him, i had no license, and various illegalness ment i had to run from the cops. So i instinctively opened the tap and never closed it for sometime heading out of Tauranga.
Scared the shit out of me.

[90s]

May have glimpsed an indicated ton in '89 on a friends K5, which was a late '70s CB350 variant. But hanging on and scared witless wasn't sure. Probably was about a real 85mph in any case.
Still.
Otherwise might've been my current GSX on the Coro loop. Overtaking a Fonterra doube-truck thought I saw 205 on the dial. But then I realised I had misread it and it was 100.00kph.

[KEN]

Did my first Ton on a 1962? Triumph Tiger 110
on John Wilson Drive {Dunedin} no lid! Crazy Days....

[tri boy]

1978 Suzuki GT250 X7, probably had a tail wind though!

+1. Those things could get up and F**k off.

[hXc]

Earlier this year on MICRO's Hayabusa. 220km down the back straight. Was fucking quick. Would I do it again? hell yeah!

So we're not talking 200kmh here, we're talking 100mph (160kmh)...
In that case...Some time last year on the trusty Spada. 170 indicated. Should be fairly accurate; at 180 indicated, it's doing 172kmh - tested by previous owner at Carterton sprints.

[Masterchop]

I think I managed it on my RD250, well the speedo said so.
Then definatly made it in early 80s on my RD400G, That thing flew,I always rung its neck along the main road from Porirua to Paremata.

And man would it wheeelieeeee.