Whats the quickest you've ridden?

markg · Post by **markg** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:46 pm

Wondered how many 'Stormers out there would like to admit how fast they have ridden on a public road.
Yesterday me and a work colleage on his 99 Fireblade were riding home from work and although when he usually hares off at warp speed I let him go(self preservation of licence and life methinks)yesterday I just wound it open to match the 'storm for performance against a blade in a straight line.
He only just started pulling away slightly from me at about 120mph and by the time we had finished going down this(empty)bit of road I had an indicated 170 on the clock she was still pulling.
Yes I know doing this was pretty stupid but it was one hell of a buzz and I was surpised at how good the bike was up against a Blade in a straight line.
Anyone have any idea how innaccurate the clocks are on a Firestorm?His clocks also read 170 but i'm a realist and realise I could probably knock about 20 mph off that in real terms.

yellafella · Post by **yellafella** » Thu May 19, 2005 8:50 pm

Had 150 not too far from Brands on my old ZX10. Was keeping up with my present storm, zx9,mille r, and a 949 (?)
We all backed off for the sliproad and quickly realised my speedo was shagged at 150. Got to Dover and discovered the ducati clock ( digital if i remember ?) also packed up about then, with a final speed showing of 160.
We were crazy to have risked that but ?????????????

Dont forget though, we actually backed off before reaching max speed ! How much was left i know not !

Galaxieman · Post by **Galaxieman** » Fri May 20, 2005 4:40 am

160+ (calculated). I had her at ~9.1k in 6th, and the Hayabusa I was following hadn't dropped it wide open and left me yet. I never saw what the speedo read, it was probably pegged. I was kinda otherwise occupied watching the road at that speed. Backed out and 110 indicated felt SLOW. I plugged the numbers in a gearing spreadsheet and with the stock 16t front she should have been running over 160. With my new 15t on the front, 160 is where she'll hit the rev limiter now.

May be a bit optimistic given wheel overspin at those speeds, but hey, it's my story, I'll tell it however I like. Yes, the 'busa did drop the hammer right before I backed out, and just walked away... However, when we got to where we were going, when the rest of the group (600 class machines) finally got there, one guy yelled "Busas and V-twins to the back!" I was bike 4 behind two busas and an RC (SP2 to you folks). Had time to smoke a fag before bike 5 rolled in...

essexbloke · Post by **essexbloke** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:09 am

Trip from Brands Hatch - Home (seems a common theme)

had an indicated 175.... chasing a freind on his duke 916. (& keeping up too)

we reckoned it more like a true 155-160 though...

sparky750 · Post by **sparky750** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:45 pm

had a go on a turbo'd bussa and it had a few other mods lets say it was indicated at 220+ of course that was on a private road officer

droid · Post by **droid** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:51 pm

140 on a shonker of a Big One.

Yeah, sounds wimpy, but it needed most of a motorway lane to contain the weave! (Bloik!)

Droid

DD · Post by DD » Sat May 21, 2005 11:17 am

fastest on the VTR would be 250kph more left fastest ever on a Busa @ 270kph with heaps left but I wimped out, sh1t at that speed theres a lot going through ya mind...... I'd like to bust the 300kph mark one day tho.

trebs · Post by **trebs** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:41 pm

I really have no idea of my fastest, I'm not a speed merchant really..
I do remember laying flat on the NS, full chat in top, going downhill and over the viaduct in Namur. Everything was too blurry to read. The rush, vibration and noise felt like I was doing about warp4, in reality about 130

Fastest escape though, I remember that well.. about 12 years ago.
On the aforementioned NS, along Embankment in London, going to Chelsea bridge. 3 CBR600's VFR and me, hmm.. making progress.. Saw copper number 1, too late, copper number 2 stepped out from behind a tree and hairdryered the lead bike at 95. We got a right rollocking, then sent on our way. One of the group was pouting a bit, he had just started at Hendon training school and could see his career washed away before he even started.

We behaved that night.

thom353 · Post by **thom353** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:27 pm

155 on the 331 towards Alsershot, i have all standard bits apart from Quill exhausts. I must say since adjusting my front folks, doing that sort of speed seems alot smoother.

Not that im up at the top end of the scale that much, boys in blue are every where down at the sharp end

robin1000 · Post by **robin1000** » Sun May 29, 2005 9:26 pm

I went through the speedtrap on the Glencrutchery road at 152mph. Bottom of Bray Hill probably around 160mph or so. May not be the quickest anyone has been, but it sure felt like it!

RAINMAKER · Post by **RAINMAKER** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:24 pm

indicated 178 mph on my blackbird, somewhere near Birmingham, all I could see was overhead bridges going by real quick, but then it was Raining, how mad was that..............

droid · Post by **droid** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:22 pm

Given the number of scameras round Brum, bloody mad!

Stormin Ben · Post by **Stormin Ben** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:28 pm

Had an indicated 160 on Dottinger Hohe on the Nurburgring with a +2 teeth rear sprocket
Didn't feel like anything

The scariest was on my old ZZR600
Going up the Alcester road towards Brum with a broken speedo cable I noticed the bike revving to 13,000rpm

A few days later after fixing the cable I was up there again. Glanced down to see it doing 13,000 again and thought "Ooh, I wonder how fast that is then?"
However, I should have looked up before looking across at the speedo coz by the time I'd lifted my gaze back to the road I'd started on the curved part and had drifted from the outside lane to about 2feet from the left kerb.
Clench of seat, big shove on right bar and I avoided the kerb and subsequent 10 foot drop by a gnats

But I survived it and learnt a valuable lesson

Ben

grinner · Post by **grinner** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:14 pm

Ben, if your speedo/gearing is the same on the zzr as mine, that's 140mph!

Shame I can't get it on mine, restricted to 130!!

Any way, only 150 on the storm so far, Brands indy is too short (or my kahones too small!)

markg · Post by **markg** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:02 pm

VTR1000KAZ wrote:
I intend to have a go with my Mille too......and I don't have to watch the clock on it either.....there is a computer on board that registers your top speed!

Blimey,hope that Mille computer has a quick reset button,get pulled by the plod and it could be an admission to guilt

just a thought.

Must admit on the very few(one

)trackday I done I taped over the speedo because I was advised to.This was round Snetterton(longest straight on a racetrack in this country and all that)on my old fzr600.in top gear and at about 13000rpm i'd guess I was doing about 145mph.
Hopefully soon I can take the 'Storm round there one day when i'm rich again and see what it does.I think like Kaz says,ya have to keep a track of your gears as i've done it more than once when the bike has been pulling great and all of a sudden the limiter cuts in