What's the FASTEST Motorcycle you have ever Mounted ?

pf1 said:
Happy Christmas you grumpy old pisshead  :D
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??? I?m working towards Pats description in reverse, got the pisshead and old sorted ...... but you lousy bunch of arse-wipes need let me know when I turn grumpy.

Is the FASTEST defined as: Top speed, or how quick it gets there? Either way I?m out of this one. I haven?t ridden any sports bikes built after 1999, and that?s about the time the real road going rocket ships came out.

I remember a few years ago, my :o a bike came around me in my car while doing 110kph, so bike must have been doing 130kph, and as he got in front of me pulled a power wheelie and disappeared into the distance. To me, that?s scary fast.

And after that, along will come Ron and tell us his SF0 would do that in 3rd. :D



 
Not quite but close perhaps 105mph nearing 8000rpm in 3rd then I got another 2 gears.
Topped out in 5th was well over 120 mph at over 7400+ rpm. She had to be on a good day to that ;o)

That speed is pittance even for modern 650 but between 40 to say 110mph the old Breganzie 750 is well with in the game of modern bikes.
 
yep ... not the fastest but scary good - Mach 3 Kawasaki (I even made the mistake of changing down instead of up due to the reversed shift pattern) and it held together!

Fastest most-likely on the CBX1000.
 
If you thought the Mach3 was scary you should have tried the Z750 turbo. Power came in with a bang, almost impossible to ride in the rain.
 
OK,  so now it seems we have a base line for our (Ron's) thread,
All the posts together seam to read:

1.What's the fastest oldy bike you ever rode,
2.What's the fastest you have ever ridden/driven on the road or track,
3.What's the scariest thing you ever rode or drove,
4.What's the fastest speed you have ever been in control of  (or semi control)

1. My old 1982, Honda CB1100R C,    Was looking at the road not the speedo and was nowhere near flat out,  Fast enough for me and too quick for my experience.
2. 177mph on the satnav,  in my unrestricted Supercharged 5 litre Jaguar XKR with 510bhp.  and still pulling very strongly when I backed off.  Just shipped it last Sunday to England for sale before it killed me.  Fantastic machine in every way possible and sounded like a full NASCAR when you nailed it in Sport mode.
3. The car in my avatar,  5 Litre Supercharged 1936 Lagonda based special,  156mph clocked on the straight at Spa Francorchamps,  Drum brakes and no safety gear.  To be honest it was easy and not scary at all,  however later that day I drove it on the road and nailed it a little,  on the road with other cars around in a car with 330bhp and weighing 990kg (1070 with driver) was silly stupid and realized it after I had stopped.  Last time I did that on the road. :o

Then there was my old Honda 1989 CR500,  bored to 510cc, works pipe and porting,  Absolute mental thing to the extreme!!  On tarmac it would top out at 100mph with long gears, and even with long gears it would wheelie in every gear, just open the throttle and whoooooooh,  Power really cam in with a bang, you really needed to hold on with your legs as well as your arms. Far too much bike for me.  On the rough if it was dry you had no chance unless you were a real pro, it was an absolute animal,  In the mud though it was a lot of fun (when I was younger) until you stalled it,  That kick start was the hardest thing I ever tried, would absolutely stop your foot like kicking concrete if you got it wrong, which is easy when you are dead knackered,  (which was all the time riding that)
4. P51 Mustang dual control.  400mph diving before my mate took over and looped it,  Mixed feelings about that plane,  Very hard work to stay conscious, you get out totally drained, feeling ill, and sweating buckets after 15 minutes aerobatic routine, really an exhausting plane in that respect,  However flying A to B, it is a world beating experience and absolute Heaven looking out over the landscape, cruising at about 250mph with a fucking great Merlin in front of you,  Absolute dream!     

Jules 
 
If you wanna ride fast remember to do it to the end!!


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Probably my bicycle, downhill from Roehampton to Putney (London), when I was 15 or 16. I wasn't allowed a 2 wheeler before then.
Have been at it with a vengeance since.

Paul
 
550cc KTM 2 stoke ex fink desert race bike, an idiot mate used it as a trail bike. Just nuts. My 420cc 1982 Husky 2 stroke 4 speed Automatic, the fastest single track bike I ever rode, at would hold the pipe and then up change Automatically and then repeat much improved with the Kawasaki disc brake frontend. Looped it more than once. Autos have zero engine braking with the throttle closed, scary on big downhills and its original drum was far from good.BMW K1200s never got past 3rd gear heading home from Lagoon in the tight stuff. To fast for me.
 
julian said:
OK,  so now it seems we have a base line for our (Ron's) thread,
All the posts together seam to read:

1.What's the fastest oldy bike you ever rode,
2.What's the fastest you have ever ridden/driven on the road or track,
3.What's the scariest thing you ever rode or drove,
4.What's the fastest speed you have ever been in control of  (or semi control)

1. My old 1982, Honda CB1100R C,    Was looking at the road not the speedo and was nowhere near flat out,  Fast enough for me and too quick for my experience.
2. 177mph on the satnav,  in my unrestricted Supercharged 5 litre Jaguar XKR with 510bhp.  and still pulling very strongly when I backed off.  Just shipped it last Sunday to England for sale before it killed me.  Fantastic machine in every way possible and sounded like a full NASCAR when you nailed it in Sport mode.
3. The car in my avatar,  5 Litre Supercharged 1936 Lagonda based special,  156mph clocked on the straight at Spa Francorchamps,  Drum brakes and no safety gear.  To be honest it was easy and not scary at all,  however later that day I drove it on the road and nailed it a little,  on the road with other cars around in a car with 330bhp and weighing 990kg (1070 with driver) was silly stupid and realized it after I had stopped.  Last time I did that on the road. :o

Then there was my old Honda 1989 CR500,  bored to 510cc, works pipe and porting,  Absolute mental thing to the extreme!!  On tarmac it would top out at 100mph with long gears, and even with long gears it would wheelie in every gear, just open the throttle and whoooooooh,  Power really cam in with a bang, you really needed to hold on with your legs as well as your arms. Far too much bike for me.  On the rough if it was dry you had no chance unless you were a real pro, it was an absolute animal,  In the mud though it was a lot of fun (when I was younger) until you stalled it,  That kick start was the hardest thing I ever tried, would absolutely stop your foot like kicking concrete if you got it wrong, which is easy when you are dead knackered,  (which was all the time riding that)
4. P51 Mustang dual control.  400mph diving before my mate took over and looped it,  Mixed feelings about that plane,  Very hard work to stay conscious, you get out totally drained, feeling ill, and sweating buckets after 15 minutes aerobatic routine, really an exhausting plane in that respect,  However flying A to B, it is a world beating experience and absolute Heaven looking out over the landscape, cruising at about 250mph with a fucking great Merlin in front of you,  Absolute dream!     

Jules
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Jules I think you just aced it with no 4  :D the word adrenaline junky comes to mind
 
no4, for me has to be when 21, in my Mk11 Jaguar, when on a very ,very fast bend, almost not a bend, at something around 120MPH, I felt the rear end sliding out, I corrected a little, but stayed on the power, thinking it would be best, (it was slightly wet on the ground) it walloped, I lost it, did a total 360 across all three lanes including a full circle around the brother in law who I was passing on his 750SF, yes I went sideways in front of him and then sideways, the other side, after him. did another 90 degrees and crossed the grass central reservation (no barriers in them days) and stopped blocking the fast lane in the other direction, missed everything, got flashed at and hooted at, reversed out and drove home, the wires wheels on the front were stuffed with mud and grass, whet and got some radials after that! this was 1973, crossplys were normal.
CLEM
 
CLEMTOG said:
no4, for me has to be when 21, in my Mk11 Jaguar, when on a very ,very fast bend, almost not a bend, at something around 120MPH, I felt the rear end sliding out, I corrected a little, but stayed on the power, thinking it would be best, (it was slightly wet on the ground) it walloped, I lost it, did a total 360 across all three lanes including a full circle around the brother in law who I was passing on his 750SF, yes I went sideways in front of him and then sideways, the other side, after him. did another 90 degrees and crossed the grass central reservation (no barriers in them days) and stopped blocking the fast lane in the other direction, missed everything, got flashed at and hooted at, reversed out and drove home, the wires wheels on the front were stuffed with mud and grass, whet and got some radials after that! this was 1973, crossplys were normal.
CLEM
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Thanks Clem, that brings back memories. Found a Mk2 which had been stored for years and tidied it up nicely. It had nearly new condition Korean "Roadstone" rubber on it which I left on till everything was sorted. If you've seen drifting as in the modern competition style motorsport you'll know how it drove - just without the smoke, lol. the stone used on Korean roads must indeed be bloody hard....
 
Bimota YB8.

260 km/h on a public road... totally bonkers. 

At first I thought, "What a slug..."  The bike was so docile rolling around through a village, then I opened it up on a long straight and it took off like a fucking rocket and had no intention to stop accelerating!  No time to watch either tach or speedo, quickly backed off when I did catch a glimpse of the speedo.  Scared the shit out of me, seriously impressed.

Ridden a few others that may be ultimately faster, but never wrung their necks.

Driving a warmed Porsche 911 at 270+ was an anticlimax.  Far more impressive was the braking power, eyeballs seemed to pop all the way to the windscreen.

piet
 
One of the Sydney Laverda blokes one day appeared with the Bimota with the 1100cc air-cooled carbed engine. The paint job was so under stated it bearly warranted a second look, Gun Metal Gray with red flashes. One owner, the ex-Chairman Of Qantas wife. Both loved riding and probably explained why Qantas sponsored the first few Philip Island GPs. Such a sexy bike, he got it for peanuts, $11k from a bike shop no less. Last I heard it ended up being slide up into an Armco barrier on The Putty Rd, I was always saying to him if it was for sale I WANTED it bad.
 
Scariest- Suzuki TL 1000 , pre recall for steering damper. I took one of the first ones out and nailed it down a straight road, about 90mph, no warning, lock to lock with the front tyre skipping. I must have throttled off and it eventually stopped shaking and went straight. I went back down the road and there was black rubber chevrons made by the tyre for about fifty yards. Never had a bike do that before.Gave it back to owner and told him you couldn?t pay me to ride it ever again. They were all recalled so I didn?t imagine it!

 
In the mid eighties I worked at Bridge Garage in Exeter..part of the Suzuki RG  500 promotion was a day out at your nearest race track with all the Suzuki sports bikes, ten laps on each bike.The late Pill Mellor showed us the lines for a couple of laps and then we had at it.
I briefly clocked  180mph on the straight at Mallory park . My one and only track day. Forever etched on my mind.
 
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