High speed racing bike vs car

[Ronin]

I'm sure I saw a child about to walk out onto the road

3 puppies died.

[racefactory]

Thanks mate I enjoyed the video.

Probs to the porsche driver, not bad skills at all... he was cornering nicely on the edge trying to keep up with those bikes.

[avgas]

Pfffffttt pussies.
No corners there - its basically a drag race.
a case of who has the faster bike/car.

NZ should expect this if they keep cutting up the good roads to make way for "safer"
highways.

I am still pissed about what the K gorge now looks like.

[YellowDog]

Thanks mate I enjoyed the video.

Probs to the porsche driver, not bad skills at all... he was cornering nicely on the edge trying to keep up with those bikes.

Those 911s don't corner well. With the way he was fighting the wheel and his poor cornering lines; if it wasn't for stability controland active suspension, he'd have been off the road.

His cornering seemed to get better as the video progressed.

IMHO, probabbly a little fast given the amount of traffic on the road.

[onearmedbandit]

Those 911s don't corner well.

Really? Maybe the 993 models and prior (excluding the 4wd variants), but 996 models onwards, including the rwd models have superb handling. In fact even the early ones do, so long as you don't back off mid-corner.

Look here for skid pan test results.

[Toaster]

IMHO, probabbly a little fast given the amount of traffic on the road.

I agree totally. On a track, fine.... but on a public road where the speed differential between the traffic and this guy racing the bikes is so great? Just plain stupid.

[YellowDog]

Really? Maybe the 993 models and prior (excluding the 4wd variants), but 996 models onwards, including the rwd models have superb handling. In fact even the early ones do, so long as you don't back off mid-corner.

Look here for skid pan test results.

I'm a bit bias here as I used to drive a 928S4 very very quickly and with its 51%/49% balance, it would p!ss all over the 911s. That's until they got all the electronic management gismos

[Toaster]

they got all the electronic management gismos

That is one thing that takes away from the experience of driving - too many techno bits running the show, rather than the driver themselves. To me that is one of the beautiful things about motorcycling - it still feels like a raw riding experience and not by computers and gizmos.

[mattian]

Don't they have a way of tracking down morons that upload videos like this and impounding their vehicles?

[YellowDog]

That is one thing that takes away from the experience of driving - too many techno bits running the show, rather than the driver themselves. To me that is one of the beautiful things about motorcycling - it still feels like a raw riding experience and not by computers and gizmos.

100% with you on that one.

Take an 80kph bend in a Porsche 911 and the dampers stop the car leaning the opposite way to the bend. Other than the back and arm strength of the driver, there's nothing to stop the driver leaning the wrong way.

Bikes corner properly

[Flip]

That is one thing that takes away from the experience of driving - too many techno bits running the show, rather than the driver themselves. To me that is one of the beautiful things about motorcycling - it still feels like a raw riding experience and not by computers and gizmos.

Yea not like bikes have slipper clutches and traction control now days.

I think the bikers were wimps. Given the road was basically straight and the bikes had at least twice the power to weight ratio of the 911 they should have left the car in their dust.

[Dave-]

Pfffffttt pussies.
No corners there - its basically a drag race.
a case of who has the faster bike/car.

NZ should expect this if they keep cutting up the good roads to make way for "safer"
highways.

I am still pissed about what the K gorge now looks like.

yeah that was my thought exactly, NZ does have roads like that big wide pissy shitty corners.....it's called state highway 1, although their surface is probably nicer than SH1.

also agree with flip, the bikes should have smoked the porsche

[EJK]

That Porsche sounds amazing.

[Kickaha]

also agree with flip, the bikes should have smoked the porsche

On that road they might, anything with a decent amount of corners, especially slower ones the bikes would get dicked

[racefactory]

Those 911s don't corner well. With the way he was fighting the wheel and his poor cornering lines; if it wasn't for stability controland active suspension, he'd have been off the road.

His cornering seemed to get better as the video progressed.

IMHO, probabbly a little fast given the amount of traffic on the road.

Watch any nurburgring record or fast road car lap or GT500 qualifying... the wheel is all over the place. The guy was doing alright... lets see you do it better.