Cars vs a bike

[James Deuce]

It was only a GSR600 anyway. What were they thinking?

[wbks]

No the tard lost because it was slower. The superlite is a sports car and a 50 year old design at that. As far as the 1098 goes, how could a bike that has 900 hp/tonne loose against a 4 seat saloon car that has 300hp/tonne?

WSB vs F1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6eH...eature=related

The fastest track time at Nurenberg is in a car Radical R8. The fastest track time at Ruapuna here in Chch is a super cart.

You want me to site a few tracks where the record is on a bike? The bike could lose against a car with 300hp/tone because cars have more than four times the rubber on the ground to brake and cut tight lines with. Yea, that WSB vs F1 is the kind of crap I was talking about. That's comparing a purpose built race car at the pinnacle of car racing to what is a heavily modified road spec bike. Formula one vs motogp, cars ARE faster, but with the different rules and regulations blah blah blah it's comparing apples and oranges. But that isn't cars vs bikes, thats racing vehicles vs racing vehicles, not car vs bike i.e a car you see on the road and a bike you see on the road. There's a reason they always compare exotic, often custom cars to off the shelf mid priced bikes, it's because bikes are usually faster. But who cares........

[martybabe]

Interesting but the one race that a bike will always win against a car is: Performance per Dollar.

Out of the box for $11,000 my bike does 0-100k in 2.54 seconds, I doubt there's a production car available for any money that will beat that but even if there were it would be ridiculous money to buy that performance. If you wan't to compare the two 'fairly' then I suggest a race between a Suzuki Hyabusa 1300cc 0-100k in 3ish seconds 280? kph,and a Suzuki Jimny 1300 cc 0-100 in 17 seconds and 140 kph? down hill with a tail wind.

The simple fact is, my bike bought for $8000, is quicker than,( being generous here) almost all of the cars on the road.

[wbks]

Interesting but the one race that a bike will always win against a car is: Performance per Dollar.

Out of the box for $11,000 my bike does 0-100k in 2.54 seconds, I doubt there's a production car available for any money that will beat that but even if there were it would be ridiculous money to buy that performance. If you wan't to compare the two 'fairly' then I suggest a race between a Suzuki Hyabusa 1300cc 0-100k in 3ish seconds 280? kph,and a Suzuki Jimny 1300 cc 0-100 in 17 seconds and 140 kph? down hill with a tail wind.

The simple fact is, my bike bought for $8000, is quicker than,( being generous here) almost all of the cars on the road.

Thats a good point. Spend a quarter of a mil on an R1 and see how many road legal cars can keep up...

[Flip]

I take the point that they are completely diferent types of vehicles. The average sports bike has a lot more in common with a WSB than your average car has with a F1.
Take your typical $30k super bike, there is nothing on 4 wheels this side of $130k that is going to look at it and I am thinking here about enthusiast cars like a Aerial Atom, Exige, Xbow or Superlite. I'm not talking about the really big ticket supercars because these to me are just status symbol cars in NZ.
Even my big old Harley is faster than 98% of the cars here off the mark, which is not saying much.

[CookMySock]

Even my big old Harley is faster than 98% of the cars here off the mark, which is not saying much.

I have had a "big old harley" pull up to my 650s' rear footpeg at the end of a 2km straightaway.. and he was nowhere to be seen beforehand

Steve

[Flip]

Stock HD,s are pretty slow, but there are a lot of go fast bits available for them. My brother has a evo that halls ass. Don't know what it produces but he leaves my twin cam for dead.

[Genie]

Thanks for this....laughed my little arse off.

[musicman]

At least it seems the biker kind of redeems himself in other vids!

[EJK]

Here's another interesting vid.






GT3, 911 Turbo, Boxster... and huh?

[YellowDog]

I like this one:

[mattian]

I like how in the rematch that big porsche can't even turn around properly.... has to reverse up and then guns off in the opposite direction really slowly. Reminds me of my local shopping mall this week.

[zeocen]

In the real world bikes are not as quick as people think.

Mate, in the real world, the bike gets to his destination and the car gets stuck behind a truck.

[Mikkel]

Mate, in the real world, the bike gets to his destination and the car gets stuck behind a truck.

In the real world the biker would hit unmarked roadworks and go for a long slide.
In the real world someone would fail to see said bike and pull out right in front of it.
In the real world someone in 4x4 towing a boat over a mountain pass would cross the centerline around a blind corner and clean up the biker.

[Flip]

In the real world the biker would hit unmarked roadworks and go for a long slide.
In the real world someone would fail to see said bike and pull out right in front of it.
In the real world someone in 4x4 towing a boat over a mountain pass would cross the centerline around a blind corner and clean up the biker.

Ok

1 was you.
2 was me.
Who was 3?