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did anyone watch the AA Torque Show last night? Testing the new Falcon XR6 Turbo (cor!) Typhoon. Aaron Slight fanding it around a race track, was it Taupo?
Pretty cool, he's sure laid back, sliding this thing around while talking to the camera. Looked a pretty good show, not sure what was up with the old guy and his shirt, looked like it had about 100 or so different badges all over it.
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yes gav it was taupo race way, i watched a bit of it, its a pity we don't hear anything about slight any more )c:<Originally Posted by gav
did anyone watch the AA Torque Show last night? Testing the new Falcon XR6 Turbo (cor!) Typhoon. Aaron Slight fanding it around a race track, was it Taupo?
Pretty cool, he's sure laid back, sliding this thing around while talking to the camera. Looked a pretty good show, not sure what was up with the old guy and his shirt, looked like it had about 100 or so different badges all over it.
but them the way it goes
looks okay, apart from that damn presenter who is a tosspot
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Which just goes to show how slow a car is for a person whose brain is calibrated by bike racing.
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Indeed. I've seen a few car vs bike comparisons where Aaron Slight was the "rider of choice" for people keen to see curry fed to a motorcycle. Needless to say, no contest.
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Along the "no contest" lines - I was watching Top Gear the other night and they mentioned some Ferrari spitting out 118 horses per litre... "an astonishing amount".
Lemme see... my bike spat out 110bph on the dyno.... 900 ccs
so 110*(100/90) equals (drum roll please)...
122.2!
WOW an AMASING amount! An from a bike 11 years old. How does Suzuki do it - it must be one of the most powerful vehicles on earth!... oh no... wait... I read about a R1 spitting out 160 to 170 bhp (ok to be fair it'd been tricked up by a specialist with no end of money in sight...)
I always love the bike v car comparisons though.
Here endeth the lecture
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You have a point MDU, and I love to trot out to car enthusiasts, "yes 100bhp/litre is a lot, but the RGV250 trotted out 200bhp/litre 14 years ago."
Always ends the conversation with the car guy looking a little ill.
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A Formula 1 car doesn't do too bad really....
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You're right... and credit where it's due...
(from http://www.answers.com/topic/formula-one)
"Modern F1 cars are single-seat, open cockpit, open wheel racers. They must be constructed by the racing teams themselves and are required to be powered by 3.0-litre, ten-cylinder naturally aspirated engines. Estimates put the best engines at or about 900 BHP at 19,000 RPM"
300 bph/litre?!?!?!
YEE HAA!!!!!!
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uh oh, I smell another cars vs bikes thread again...
ya ya ya power to weight...
blah blah blah mehcanical grip...
here endeth the lesson...
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bike motors are made to go harder and fall apart after a few kms...
ive got a ZZR250 that puts out (claimed standard) 40hp (plus its got an exhaust and hi flow air filter.....)
40 x 4 = 160hp per L!!!!
my 1.3L rwd corolla puttin out a whopping 100hp will keep doing so for a good 200 000kms before it needs another rebuild!!
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going....
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wooooooooooo go the RGV
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Formula 1 is the pinacle of motor sport,even though the technology excedes any other motorsport series they are heavily restricted to keep the speed down - I wonder what they could do if they really tried?
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I agree, I saw mention (on that page I think) of the spuercharged cars putting out 1000bph in the '80s. I don;t know what capacity they qwere talking about though.
Kinda interesting to look at the whole output/capacity thing though. I remember seeing a glowplug engine spinning at some obscene rate putting out 1bhp from something like 10ccs? I'll try to find it.
Bloody amasing though
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No it doesn't actually.
Performance bikes nicely went out and proved that a Valkyrie can outbrake a sporty car with ABS, traction control, and Yaw control IN THE WET. That was a Valkyrie without ABS too. It was varying wet conditions too, meaning not a consistent level of grip.
Cycle World also went out and proved that the onlt significant grip deficit between a car and a bike is braking up to the apex and at the apex. Everywhere else the bike could accelerate and deccelerate harder and/or faster than the cars they were testing against.
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But what about maximum lateral acceleration? I would have expected that that would be where bikes fall down (literally...) against cars.
Jeez, this is so old, we must have done this at least twice before. Anyone have enough energy to do a search and link back to a relevant thread?
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