11-10-13, 09:50 AM
I've had three busas and a zx12r and ran thenm at woodbridge(3 mile runway) and Elvington to get a best top speed thru the timing lights, via an Internet forum called 200mph, over the last twelve years or so.
That 180 mph ish he is doing on a fifty yard wide runway with no other traffic is intense..I can't imagine how it would feel on a normal road with traffic. It's a mile every twenty seconds..you almost cannot think ahead fast enough to react to stuff coming over the horizon. Them extra miles from 190 to 200 are so difficult to achieve to to needing so much more power the faster you go to overcome wind resistance. Best I ever did was 196 on a 187bhp zx12r, my mate Andy was running alongside on the exact same bike making 250 bhp as it was supercharged, and for his extra 63 bhp he just cracked the double ton at 202.
And how about this for speedo error, my first busa had the legendary 220 mph clocks. I went thru the timing lights at Elvington indicating past the 220 at about 225. My actual true speed...181.2.
That 180 mph ish he is doing on a fifty yard wide runway with no other traffic is intense..I can't imagine how it would feel on a normal road with traffic. It's a mile every twenty seconds..you almost cannot think ahead fast enough to react to stuff coming over the horizon. Them extra miles from 190 to 200 are so difficult to achieve to to needing so much more power the faster you go to overcome wind resistance. Best I ever did was 196 on a 187bhp zx12r, my mate Andy was running alongside on the exact same bike making 250 bhp as it was supercharged, and for his extra 63 bhp he just cracked the double ton at 202.
And how about this for speedo error, my first busa had the legendary 220 mph clocks. I went thru the timing lights at Elvington indicating past the 220 at about 225. My actual true speed...181.2.