Clivoris'sss 1/4 mile sprint debut

**madmal64** · 4th February 2008, 21:15

Originally Posted by skelstar

Only if the rest of you are happy to looooooose.

Heh heh 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes'

I may have the fastest Falco there though

Be good to have the marque well represented at one event. There is a guy around here with an RS250 too. That would kick arse!

**skelstar** · 4th February 2008, 21:16

Originally Posted by madmal64

I may have the fastest Falco there though

Be good to have the marque well represented at one event. There is a guy around here with an RS250 too. That would kick arse!

Yeah I assume you mean Mark? Has an R6 and was going to race in VMCC this year.

**madmal64** · 4th February 2008, 21:18

Originally Posted by merv

You mean Bull I presume or has Drum got one now too?

Duh!

Well done Merv. Too much blood in the alcohol system tonight.
But if Drum knows whats good for him........ he will come over to the dark side.

**Clivoris** · 4th February 2008, 21:20

Originally Posted by skelstar

Only if the rest of you are happy to looooooose.

Heh heh 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes'

Originally Posted by Sensei

Sounds like a plan for the Aprilias hooking up . Have a 11.2 sec standing first time out so after afew more HP mods are hopping for to get down under 11 this time out at the drags here on the 23rd of this month . Should be another great day out .

I'm up for it if you do it naked. But I wouldn't be surprised if all y'all necks have atrophied from hiding behind those pretty fairings and clip-ons. Now that I think about, don't get naked.

Let us know how the drags go Sensei.

**skelstar** · 4th February 2008, 21:25

Originally Posted by Clivoris

I'm up for it if you do it naked. But I wouldn't be surprised if all y'all necks have atrophied from hiding behind those pretty fairings and clip-ons.

To be honest mate, its not much better/more comfortable at speed than the Hornet was (if you don't tuck anyway).

**Clivoris** · 4th February 2008, 21:29

Originally Posted by skelstar

To be honest mate, its not much better/more comfortable at speed than the Hornet was (if you don't tuck anyway).

Aaah, but it will be slipperier.

**madmal64** · 4th February 2008, 21:36

Clive what was the vmax reading on your dash? how far out was it to the offical speed?

**merv** · 4th February 2008, 21:39

If by chance your bike is long legged enough and is still accelerating through the quarter the vmax will be better than the "official" figure which is an average only over the distance and sadly is therefore less than you really attained.

So the Busa showed 317 vs 313 didn't it on his GPS.

**Clivoris** · 4th February 2008, 21:41

Originally Posted by madmal64

Clive what was the vmax reading on your dash? how far out was it to the offical speed?

Just had a look and would you believe 257kmh?

**madmal64** · 4th February 2008, 21:45

Damn! Thats pretty accurate then. Only 3 kmh at that speed seems blardy good to me.

**et al** · 4th February 2008, 21:48

Originally Posted by Clivoris

Crack me up Malcolm. They are natural competitors. Next we will have to swap over to see if any of the difference is down to a willingness to suspend mechanical sympathy. There must be another 20kmh somewhere in that monster.

Actually.... I don't think there is too much more in it. The speedo stops at 260kph and I had the needle wound off past that (obviously approx 10% optimistic reading on the Ducati speedo). At Feb Sprints last year I did a 236kph on it so pretty sure that is as fast as she will ever go in its standard form. Although the S4RS has the 999 engine, the gearing is a lot shorter and I suspect that Ducati in their wisdom spec'd it to do a much lower max speed for the sake of safety considering the design eg naked, no steering damper, wheelbase etc. Having said that I am not sure the 999's have that great a top speed either. Best I ever did on my 996 was 255kph so I reckon your effort on the Tuono is very respectable and shows that both you and Aprilia have definitely got their shit together with respect to getting the best speed out of a naked bike. I havn't checked but you probably gave me a good seeing to in the Standing starts as well.

**skelstar** · 4th February 2008, 22:10

Glad to hear Aprilia speedos are acurate. Just been reading about the top-speeds of the Mille over at apriliaforums and it seemed comfortably higher than the Tuono... but then factored in error. But ....