What's it like to do 150 mph on a bike?
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Seems a silly question but I'm genuinely interested. One of the items on my bucket list is to do 150 mph in a car on the Autobahn. One small problem - my current car won't do 150. But my bike will (2012 Daytona). And I've been thinking about planning my first European bike trip, maybe next year. I have friends in Munich and it would be nice to visit them on the bike. So it seems obvious to try and do the 150 on my bike, rather than a car.
But how difficult is it to do 150 on a bike in a straight line? Obviously anyone can crank the throttle open and hang on, but how much skill is required to stay on? I've done over 100 on my bike and found that no issue at all, but I can imagine that at higher speeds things like wind direction & speed, road surface etc can come into play. Or is 150 no real difference to 100?
But how difficult is it to do 150 on a bike in a straight line? Obviously anyone can crank the throttle open and hang on, but how much skill is required to stay on? I've done over 100 on my bike and found that no issue at all, but I can imagine that at higher speeds things like wind direction & speed, road surface etc can come into play. Or is 150 no real difference to 100?
Agree - its pretty effortless. managed to get 170+ on my gixxer down a runway with a camera on my head..! Vid here:
http://youtu.be/i1GBN5w56YM
http://youtu.be/i1GBN5w56YM
I did 152 (indicated) on my 675 without using 6th gear, on a fairly short stretch of private dual carriageway. It does over 100mph in 2nd (I know because I was checking what it'd do in 2nd gear when I got pulled over). I got let off. I'm not a chav. It's easy to go that fast, but it's a bit deafening.
I often hit 160/170 on my Ninja on my families private drive.
It's very windy and I'm not sure if it's because I wear glasses but things do get blury, especially police cars. (That I can see in the motorway opposite, obviously)
Little undulations in the road feel like hills and get the back/front end wobbling slightly but you've just got to keep it pinned.
I find after a 30 min ride my forehead hurts from the wind pressure.
Doing 70 is so sloooooww, much like Pistonheads servers.
It's very windy and I'm not sure if it's because I wear glasses but things do get blury, especially police cars. (That I can see in the motorway opposite, obviously)
Little undulations in the road feel like hills and get the back/front end wobbling slightly but you've just got to keep it pinned.
I find after a 30 min ride my forehead hurts from the wind pressure.
Doing 70 is so sloooooww, much like Pistonheads servers.
y2blade said:
on one wheel or two?
OP's in kent. Early sunday morning A21 Westerham turn off to Southborough, reccy one way, turn around and V-max Southborough to Westerham turn off.
1 mile downhill section that usually has a tail wind has added 10mph to quoted top speed of one bike I had that came a little over geared.
I've heard all of this from a friend of course, including doing the 9 miles in just over 3 minutes on that road on a ZZR1100.
smack said:
Hitting VMax on a bike is a piece of piss. Doing extended high speeds on a bike, is hard work and physically draining.
This. Yesterdays run saw a maintained speed of 230- 268 kph for 20 minutes!. Easy to get there, keeping it there is another matter. And fuel don't last long either.
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