What's the fastest you've ever been on the road?

[RC1]

the TLS cant go much over 100kph,

[puddy]

A couple of years ago I was riding along SH16 coming back from Wellsford and I opened it up a bit to pass some young fella on a ZXR250 and a soccer mum in a Toyota Previa (think they got the last laugh!). It was only a brief manoeuvre, but I was fortunate enough to meet a nice man (he did have some sort of a gun) who gave me a certificate for my efforts (cost me $640? when i went to redeem said certificate) and a voucher that gave me 28 days off riding/driving any vehicle. About a week later a letter arrived which said that I'd won 50 bonus points, and if I tried a little bit harder, I'd be eligible for another voucher that would give me a further holiday from riding/driving for far more than 28 days! Lesson learnt!

[alanzs]

173 (+-) mph on a '99 Hayabusa on the road from LA to Las Vegas. RPM's were about 8,000, with an 11,000 redline. Bike was hardly breathing hard. I was the limiting factor.

Used to regularly do a 400 mile ride in four hours with three gas stops and a 30 minute lunch break on the Interstate 5 from LA to Oakland/SF Bay area.

Now, I go about 70 kph ripping around the back roads, scaring sheep and cows wherever I go and terrorizing little villages with my motorcycle.

[Gremlin]

Not the fastest I know of, but fast enough to get into huge trouble.

Unable to do it again now, which is a good thing.

[Boob Johnson]

I had a dream I did 250km/h on my TL, was such a vivid dream, could of sworn it actually happened (last weekend on the Motonui straight)

[Deano]

275kph - actual speed.

Speedo was reading 298 at the time.

Closed road of course.

This was on 2005 CBR1000RR

[BOGAR]

Fast enough to find a 20km difference between my bike and the GPS. Since been fixed and now i find i only do 100kmh.....
Hope to find out how fast it can go on the next track day.

[cave weta]

Back in about 1985- when the most powerful bike I had ever ridden was a CB350 twin, My Big brother let me out on his Castrol 6hour Suzuki GSX1100 black piper. I was 18years old and got it up to 260kmh before my sphincter
started to fribulate! - of course - this was not on a public road. I was on the race way of our Dairy farm.

[Tank]

I must be one of the few people that go faster in a car than I do on a bike.

I know all too well the 'need for speed', but for some strange reason I just dont have it on the bike - must be some kind of zen thing where I just enjoy the ride.

My fastest - probably about 160 - but that was only on straights where I was catching up to the rest of the riders on a Boulevard rally.

God - Im turning into a nana with old age.

[MisterD]

Whats this "scenery thing" you speak of?

That's what you hit when you get it wrong in the twisty bits.

[Maha]

I went fast once (well I thought I did) but when I got to the other end, the rest were already 1/2 way through their drink and onto their 2nd smoke...

[Subike]

South Ryre Road,
Closed Road
Cant Car Club public times trials day 1984

anybody good at maths and ratios?

engine speed 9750rpm,
Gear ratio (overall) (1) 12.08, (2) 8.78, (3) 6,94, (4) 5.58, (5) 4.77.
rear ratio 3.26:1
rear tyre size 4.50H17

Thats enough info for somebody to work out what the true speed was.

[MSTRS:Me]

Speedo error will make a mockery of anything I say. So I won't.

[idb]

Speedo error will make a mockery of anything I say. So I won't.

Alcohol does that to me.
All my past deeds were more heroic when I tell them in the pub for some reason!

[OutForADuck]

Now do I buy into this "mine is bigger than yours" thread What the hell maturity is over rated!!

A few years ago on a spanish motorway, 3am with cool perfectly still air, a group of us wound up and up for miles until we started a gentle downhill straight approaching a Peage (toll booth). The "slightly warmed" T595 showed 180MPH on the clock.... but the radar at the Peage station showed 281Kph (175Mph) as the attendant explained in broken english that the police had just gone to get some dinner .

Taking a few minute to think what my holiday would have been like from inside a spanish jail I decided to slow down and now as recently as last year on the SH16 I saw a bunch of bikes on the back of a truck just beyond the police speed trap and a matching bunch of leather clad suicidal men Taking it on the track... yeah taking it on the track...