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220 on a motorcycle?

That is nothing for a motorcycle. Just ask Hayabusarider how fast his bike will go; his will outrun most prop-planes. I'm not sure if he has removed the restrictions from it.
 


<< That is nothing for a motorcycle. Just ask Hayabusarider how fast his bike will go; his will outrun most prop-planes. >>



220mph nothing for a motorcycle? What ?!
 


<< That is nothing for a motorcycle. Just ask Hayabusarider how fast his bike will go; his will outrun most prop-planes. >>



I thought a stock Hayabusa would top out at ~192mph or something like that. I'll take it that his has some mods?
 
I saw on Ripley's that a guy on a regular pedal bike drafting a chevy astro van wheelied....at 86mph :Q :Q :Q
His front tire let off a puff of smoke when it landed back on the ground 😀
 
The Hayabusa will easily top out 200+ MPH, but you must remove the restrictions. Most of the top-end bikes have government regulators on them, such as the ZX-12R and Hayabusa.

With the restrictions removed, and perhaps a remapped fuel mixture and exhaust, I've heard of accounts where the Hayabusa can knock 250 pretty easily. Seeing as how the bike is only tested up to 190'ish in design, I wouldn't attempt such speeds.
 
Isn't the speedometer run off of the front tire? If so, why does the speedometer keep reading faster and faster during the wheelie?

ZV
 
I'm pretty sure Hayabusarider has said his top speed at the at the track was 198 mph. I've heard of the hayabusa and ZX-12R going up to 230, but that's read off of the speedo, and the acutal speed is probably more like 210.
 


<< Is that 220km/h? The road looks like its going by at 100km/h at 100 so it seems like it's km/h to me >>


No it's not, look at the small numbers inside...
 
it's MPH, you can see Kph on the inside circle of the speedo. I like how the front wheel's not even on the ground till 140mph.
 
Ok, lets set this straight, neither the Hyabusa, ZX-12R, YZF-R1, nor the GSXR-1000 can top 200 off the show room floor. The fastest measured stock street bike was the first run of Hyabusa's at 197 mph (maybe 198, I can't remember exactly). The only "production" motorcycle to ever break 200 mph was a special edition Bimmota (sp?), and by limited I mean only about 20 were ever made.

In order to reach the outrageous speeds claimed by several members of this thread, you need to add a turbo and other go fast goodies like water injection. Steve Kinzer (of Mr. Turbo corp) had the fastest street legal motorcycle for a while, it was a turbo charged and water injected ZX-11 that did 230+ mph, measured with radar and timing lights. Currently, there is a company in Louisiana which makes turbine (helicopter jet engine) bikes for around $90,000, Jay Leno has one. These are theoretically capable of close to 300 mph buy no one has had the balls to hold the throttle open long enough. Supposedly they do 100 - 200 mph in under 10 seconds.

TomC25,
Yep, open class bikes are down right scary these days. Nearly all current liter bikes will do 0 - 100 mph in 6 seconds, 1/4 mile in 9.8 - 10.2 sec, and top out above 180 mph. I had an older liter bike ('88 Katana 1100) and it was a blast, especially because I had it repainted without any stickers so all of these little 600's would come up beside me and want to race. I'd let them take off, follow just behind them at about 8/10's throttle, and then around 120 take if WFO pass them with a wave. And my bike only had about 125 rear wheel hp, the new bikes have 145+ hp and weigh 150 lbs less, gives me wood just thinking about them 😀
 
Yeah I forgot to mention, this bike is a turbo.

On my bike, A yamaha XT 600 (enduro) the fastest i've ever gone was 120 (well atleast that's where the speedo ends). It was on the freeway with other cars, man you never realize how much rocks and crap are getting knocked around on the freeway until you're getting smacked with them non stop on a bike, and it is quite painful.
 
My dad owns a harley shop and does performance work, and he has had his personal bike up over 190, he didn't want to go any farther cause he didn't have the right tire, but he had about 700 RPM left. He also drags it I am fairly sure his best time was 10.5 I think, not positive. All of this done on a 86 FXRD with full dress, saddle bags the front fairing(sp) and 50 pounds of tools.
 


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<< Is that 220km/h? The road looks like its going by at 100km/h at 100 so it seems like it's km/h to me >>


No it's not, look at the small numbers inside... >>





In other countries that have cars with KM/H on the speedometer, the small numbers in the inside were actually mp/h 🙂
 
Uh, no. The inner numbers were km/h. You can tell because the inner numbers go to 3 digits right where the outer numbers hit 60. 100 km/h ~ 60 mph...
 
"Yeah I forgot to mention, this bike is a turbo". I was guessing that it was. Any idea what type of bike? The other rider is on an Eyabuser 🙂 so if the camera bike is a turbo Hyabusa then that is just nuts on the street.

AlienWho,
You'll need to edit the thread title to "242+ mph on a motorcycle". If you watch the speedometer, it hits it's limiting peg (220 mph) at 10k rpm. The motor keeps pulling to 11k rpm, or 10% higher, therefore the bike is traveling at 220 + 22 = 242 mph. Yeeeehaaaawww! Now I'm really sportin' wood 8===D
 
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