Caught doing 205mph!
Discussion
IOLAIRE said:
It's been a few years since I did any biking in this country but I would find that hard to believe from a Honda 1000. But if this guy tuned it to do this the Honda works team should bail him and give him a job!!
How many of you bikers think that's possible?
Well, the Hayabusa and the ZX12R are electronically limited to 300kph (186mph). Without the limiter they will both apparently touch 200mph with the bare minimum of tuning (induction and exhaust mods).
The Honda equivalent is the Blackbird, which is not as quick as a Hayabusa or a ZX12-R and is not renowned for being as easily tuned. The sportier Fireblade is a different kind of bike - quicker than these around a racetrack, but not so potent at the top end. IMHO it would take an awful lot of work to get a Fireblade or a Blackbird above 200mph. Thenagain, the fact that the newspaper identified the bike as a Honda 1000 doesn't mean that it was actually a Honda 1000...
Streetcop said:
I'm having a reverse mid-life crisis...
I'm going to either sell my Honda Blackbird and get out of biking...or down size to a trail type...(BMW F650 or something.....)
I must be getting sensible or something...
Street
No, don't do it. Don't think of the top speed potential - think about all that glorious mid-range roll-on acceleration. That "ride all day, well within the design limits" sensation that only a big bike can give you. That blinding any-time, any-gear potential that is probably the greatest safety aid to two-wheeled travel. Pull yourself together man!
Streetcop said:
Worried about death and injury..(I attend many bike crashes at work and the memories stay with you)..
Street
I honestly believe you are safer on the Blackbird, with its huge reserves of power, superb chassis and brakes, than on a (comparatively) gutless traily with long travel suspension, semi-knobbly tyres and rubbish brakes.
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