Fastest speed? - What bike?

[koba]

Sounds all good - wish it were closer.
Would "clear up" the odd bullshit claim you see here - you can't "go off the revs" as they are often far from accurate also.
Don't think anyone has to worry about the cops reading this - if they knew much about bikes they wouldn't believe the tall stories either.

Regards

haha so true!

[FruitLooPs]

Indicated 175km/hr on an RG150 at ruapuna. Probably closer to 150 in reality

Haven't really tried maxxing out my 750, save that sort of thing for a trackday I think.

[bimotabob]

Hi

A Instrument repairer once told me that the higher the top speed on the speedo the worse the accuracy problem becomes.
One would have though the advent of electronic speedo's would cure this - but it hasn't.
Infact it seems like a marketing ploy as nearly always they read high.

I have speedracer which is a small program that you imput details like final drive ratio and internal ratios etc and it tells you road speed in km/miles at any RPM, drop between gears etc.
If anyone wants it PM me and I'll email it as I can't add it here as a attachment.

Great for checking your gauges and for working out your ideal sprocket sizes.


Cheers

[90s]

88mph in a deLorean engined bike ... then I went back in time ...

[Finn]

88mph in a deLorean engined bike ... then I went back in time ...

Dude, of all the things you could have bought back to the future, you chose a 1988 Suzuki?

[90s]

Dude, of all the things you could have bought back to the future, you chose a 1988 Suzuki?

erm ... I thought it was fitted to run on garbage ... but in fact I misread the add and it is fact ... just garbage. Maybe I should have gone to the future?

(and bought back the 2015 2800cc B-king super-naked without even a frame)

Oh hold on a mo Finn are you on a Ginny? Humph sir!

[Finn]

Oh hold on a mo Finn are you on a Ginny? Humph sir!

It's from this century though.

[90s]

It's from this century though.

Advantage Finn ...

[koba]

Hi

A Instrument repairer once told me that the higher the top speed on the speedo the worse the accuracy problem becomes.
One would have though the advent of electronic speedo's would cure this - but it hasn't.
Infact it seems like a marketing ploy as nearly always they read high.

I have speedracer which is a small program that you imput details like final drive ratio and internal ratios etc and it tells you road speed in km/miles at any RPM, drop between gears etc.
If anyone wants it PM me and I'll email it as I can't add it here as a attachment.

Great for checking your gauges and for working out your ideal sprocket sizes.


Cheers

Centrifugal force would affect tyre size too, so even inflation pressure would have an effect...

[White trash]

My old K3 600 was indicating 288 on stock gearing. Was timed at an average of 261 over the flying quater which wasn't too bad for a bike with 600kms on the clock.

299 indicated on a thousand cc sportsbike is a piece of piss now days. I'll let ya know in November what the "actual" fastest speed I've travelled is.

[BarBender]

I'll let ya know in November what the "actual" fastest speed I've travelled is.

You'll be riding my bike then WT?

[_intense_]

was leaving my mates TLthou for dead and after seing something a little over 200 on a quick glance down, a little bell in the back of my head went *if anything happens at this speed your F***ed... haven't seen anything even close to that speed since. The awesome/scarey thing was my baby wa still pulling hard, would love to top her out on a race track :

[speedpro]

was leaving my mates TLthou for dead and after seing something a little over 200 on a quick glance down, a little bell in the back of my head went *if anything happens at this speed your F***ed... haven't seen anything even close to that speed since.

As long as you don't smack into anything it isn't too bad. Hitting the deck hurts and the friction burns sting like hell. I've binned it at Puke flat out in 4th, which was 120mph at the drags. Went from the braking mark to the corner on my head/arse/back/hands/knees/elbows/etc etc. First day at the track on the new bike - damn!

[EJK]

130kph on my Scorpio lol
Beat that!

[Pancakes]

Cracked 130 on a pushie! (hill, carefully draughting co-ordinated car and motorbikes)

85+ on the flat with no help at all on the push-bike into the back of a parked car, folded the bike and flung myself into a hospital bed, still got the scars from that one!