firestorm top speed

vtrkarl · Post by **vtrkarl** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:33 pm

just curious what the genuine top speed of firestorms actually is,there doesnt seem to be a concrete figure,i,ve seen from 144mph to 160 in mags etc..

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:18 am

With standard 16/41 gearing, 6th gear at 9500rpm gives a calculated 162. Can probably knock a good few off that for drag and stuff, but I reckon 150 is possible.

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:23 am

With standard gearing and a speedo healer fitted.......................... exactly 70mph. Not sure who else reads these forums you see

bigrich · Post by **bigrich** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:12 am

I had my old 'red' one flat out at 165, my newer anniversary model has hit 169 on a dyno but havent had it flat out on the open road!

lee67 · Post by **lee67** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:58 pm

dyno speeds are way over optimistic'.....i reckon a storm should touch a genuine 160 ..as for mine( tl1000) ive had it sat at 180 on clocks, as to what the real speed is , ive no idea..

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:49 pm

The last BIKE test I read on the Storm tested it at 157.5. It was one of the newer, lower power ones.

Saw 140 on the clocks Sunday on a private B road near me and things were coming up quite fast enough!

vtrkarl · Post by **vtrkarl** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:29 pm

ive seen 160+ on mine but clocks are optimistic for sure...seems the same for most storms by the look of it.

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:06 pm

All clocks are optimistic - I read somewhere that GSXR1000 clocks are particularly badly out by 12% or more at 100mph.

I have the sat nav on the TDM 900. With an indicated 90 on the speedo, the sat nav says 82. At 100, it is 93, at 110, it is 107, so the error isn't linear. At 33 on the speedo, I'm doing 30.

Its similar in the car

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:01 pm

Stratman.
That sounds about right for std clocks. It seems 'Storm ones are about 9 to 9.5 % out (ie reading high) if all is in std form re. gearing etc.

LSM

Post by **firestorm996** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:09 pm

At the nurburgring on Dottinger Hohe (1.5km straight) I had indicated 170 but with a 15tooth front sprocket. With the known speedo error it worked out just short of 150mph I think. That was in fifth if I remember rightly, it was still creeping up but very slowly, and when I slotted 6th it just stayed at the same speed.

By rights it should do more than 150, as I got 151.5 out of my naked zed a couple of months back at Elvington

which I was well chuffed with.

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:25 pm

What about the minimoto

A pic would be nice (tho off topic a bit)!!!

Post by **firestorm996** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:13 pm

LotusSevenMan wrote:What about the minimoto

A pic would be nice (tho off topic a bit)!!!

Ok here ya go

LotusSevenMan · Post by **LotusSevenMan** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:31 pm

Very Nice!!!

Pic of my lad a couple of years ago on 'my' Ducati Midi Moto.

He's doing about twent five miles an hour in this all action shot!!!!

Post by **firestorm996** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:45 pm

The midi's are definitely easier to contort yourself onto

Flat out I think mine will hit around 25mph, it's a cheapie but runs quite well. I take it to the kart track at Colne in winter when I can't get a 'proper' 2 wheeled fix!