TVR's and bikes

[craigw]

Sorry Mhibbins, had a baby on monday so half asleep & didn't see the wink, cheers.

[mhibbins]

quote:Sorry Mhibbins, had a baby on monday so half asleep & didn't see the wink, cheers.

No worries. Big congratulations though, boy or girl?

Is this your first? We had a baby daughter in November of last year - our first. It's pretty knackering although it's absolutely magic once you've got into your stride. The first week or two are the absolute pits in terms of sleep and worry and so on, after that though it's just superb (although I still hide at nappy time).

Take care,

Mark

[craigw]

first baby, boy called Oscar, you're right, knackering but wicked.

Sorry to bore the rest of you

[funkyboogalooo]

quote:
Errrrrr by my sums an R1 for example

152Bhp
174Kg

873.6 Bhp/tonne

Alright the weights are dry and without a rider but knowing TVR I'd say the Tamora's stats are too.

Even so if we say 15Kg for fluids and an average rider weight of 90Kg that still works out 544.8 Bhp/tonne and those figures put them up with the real exotica. Oh yes I'd also add that unlike TVR Yamaha's power figures are normally pretty accurate (and often conservative) and measured at the back wheel

>> Edited by mel on Wednesday 12th June 11:04

your right mostly but (ok im an anorack) the R1 aint 152 at the wheel more like 130. Still a massive power/weight. Trouble is getting all that power down without lofting it. Still quicker than most cars though. Providing you can hang on.

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[nightflight]

I've not read all of this thread, but I doubt if I'm the only TVR owner who is also a biker. I've got a Griffith 500, but if I want performance, the bikes win every time. My two fastest bikes are a Honda SP2 and a Honda Blackbird. The mid range acceleration is just staggering. My Griff wouldn't stand a chance. Perhaps after an LS conversion it will be different !

[patchb]

Cor, 14 years!

[bogie]

patchb said:

Cor, 14 years!

a record resurrection perhaps?

I have had TVRs and bikes too, just bikes these days though...well and other cars...

[theshrew]

A TVR is on my wish list

[Adrianw]

Griffith 500 and Gsxr750 own both , both cool in different ways. Both have good torque curves , but the gxsr is just too quick for my griffith . 2002 - is this one of the earliest threads ?

[Johno]

Is it scary I replied to this 14yrs ago ..... Still got a TVR, Griffith 500se now though, still going to bike races.

[Wedg1e]

I was 'between bikes' when the thread was new although I've now had TVR Wedges for nearly 21 years and been riding Pan Europeans for 10.
Could be time for a change on the bike front though...

[theshrew]

Wedges for the win

I was in a buy a Wedge or Bike tussle with myself. In fact I think it was you contacted about buying one before I got a bike. Twas only the fact that I can't fit a car in my garage at home and it would be a pain finding somewhere to keep it that I went for a bike.

Looking back I'm glad a car wouldn't fit. Getting a bike has been the best thing I've ever done.

One day I shall own a Wedge

[RemaL]

Nope never been a fan of the plastic kit cars myself

[Biker 1]

Hells teeth this is an old thread!
Don't see many TVRs around anymore - most in the great scrapyard in the sky no doubt, & their drivers in old peoples homes.....
These days its Aerial Atoms & the like - buggers to keep up with! I dragged a modded Subaru WRX the other day - just about got the better of him up to motorway speed....

[Phud]

TVR Griff 500 and and SP-2 here, both make me grin and scare me in equal measure.

As I said on a speed awareness course, these two make me feel as if I am involved, my runabout makes me feel detached from the fun of motoring, and is was in that, detached and not focused, I got caught...

[Wildfire]

Wow!! 2002 saw me get my first TVR (wish I still had my S3). I was always a staunch car person. Mini, TVR, Lotus in those days.

Now I have the TVR, but 2 bikes. Very luck to have the dream car and bike in the garage!

[tvrolet]

road-registered TVR Tuscan Challence race car, that I did a ground-up build currently with an LS3. Dyno'd and weighted for the SuperLap series at KnockHill last year at just over 500hp, and 1100Kg with me, with all the race gear and a full tank of fuel - so the car alone with a light fuel load will be sub 1000Kg. And did I say 525 ft/lb?

The Indian wouldn't see which way it went, and even the old GPz1100 wouldn't have a look-in. Certainly at my level of skill, bravado, testicle size etc I'm way quicker in the car than I'd be on a bike; any bike. I can edge into 57 second lap times at KH in the car, and I know there is no way I could match that on 2 wheels. Clearly others could and regularly do, but I just don't have the whatever-it-takes to corner as hard or brake as late on a bike as in the car. But then the car is fairly exceptional and hardly a typical TVR; and it's actually fairly unpleasant on the road as it is basically a race car with lights.

But the bike is the transport of choice on a sunny day, or for a road-trip.

[The Beaver King]

TVR and Bike owner here!

We still exist

[Wedg1e]

Wildfire said:

Wow!! 2002 saw me get my first TVR (wish I still had my S3). I was always a staunch car person. Mini, TVR, Lotus in those days.

Now I have the TVR, but 2 bikes. Very luck to have the dream car and bike in the garage!

I remember seeing you at a couple of NE PH meets Still have the silver 390SE I bought in 2000 though my Esprit went in 2006 (and last time I saw it was worth three times what I sold it for ).

[black-k1]

I loved my Chimaera. Originally a 5.0 but I had a 5.3 V8 Developments engine fitted to give a true 300bhp and 300 ftlb.

While it was both quick and great fun, I sold it because the performance was nowhere near that of the bike (then K12000S) and the bike was so much easier to make progress on.