Been there, done that (almost, 180 in street clothes running from the law on a county road at night), don't really want to think about it.

/ got away.
// used up one of my lives.
/// seriously gives me the willies when I think about it now.

It's kind of funny that a bike capable of going 200mph needs two guys to push it to get it going.

Uchiha_Cycliste: Meh, it was like snowboarding in a white-out. There was really no way to appreciate or gauge the speed.

This. 190 on the salt flats looks pretty much the same as 80, 110, and 140.

/now, 160 on the Schuylkill Expressway, just outside Philadelphia = scary as fark.

um, looks like boring?

rotskyinstitute: um, looks like boring?

Precisely.

Perhaps a little slower, but much cooler to watch. (new window)

My brother-in-law is a state trooper and he pursued a teenager who was doing 140 on his crotch rocket. When he finally pulled him over, he asked why he was going so fast. "I didn't think you could catch up." Future of America, ladies and gentlemen.

do that on the straight aways coming home. they spent all that money on a custom bike to do what the average joe can do with a stock bike?


/vfr800fi
//yeah...it can

madcan34: *yawn*

Exactly.

Try this for 30 seconds. His front will comes back down to the road at around 140mph and goes on to much more than 200....

Link (new window)

I've been passed by people on bikes going about this speed.. scary thing was, I was about to change lanes and pass the car ahead of me, I looked in the back mirror and saw a dot, then was about to put on my signal, looked again, and the dot was then two motorcycles directly behind me.

retarded on a public road.

for all the "my Busa does this stock folks"

the bike was a 900cc Triumph triple, NOT a 1300cc bike.....and doesnt have a stock top speed of anything near 200mph

Also top speed for that class at bonneville was 200.249 mph....
so getting such a small motor to go over 200mph is a pretty big accomplishment......oh, and on salt, not a paved surface.....

Here's Pynchon (his handle) on the the mountain section of the TT course. This is around race day where the roads are open to the public but are one way only. There's traffic and it's obvious he's insane, but he's not breaking the law in this video.

There's sound, but you have to turn it WAY up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_CovlSAAOM (new window)

Annnnnnnnd once more, with feeling...

Link (new window)

/stupid link button

That's nothing hotshots. I once went 437mph on a stock Vespa.... running from Johnny Law of course. I was completely naked and my BAC was .40!

winner ^^^^^

my honda express can beat your vespa

Good movie.

No.1: Try this for 30 seconds. His front will comes back down to the road at around 140mph and goes on to much more than 200....

First of all, it's "wheel".

Second, the speed is in kilometers per hour. He maxxed out the speedometer at 220 kph which is 137 mph.

Still a cool video since the trees really show how fast he was going.

Maybe all you FARK bikers can answer this for me: is there a reason to constantly rev the engine like that before he starts, or is he just doing it because it sounds cool?

That video needed more markers in the first person view. It was tough to tell how fast he was going with out a frame of reference.

Still pretty cool though.

Count-Blah: I've been passed by people on bikes going about this speed.. scary thing was, I was about to change lanes and pass the car ahead of me, I looked in the back mirror and saw a dot, then was about to put on my signal, looked again, and the dot was then two motorcycles directly behind me.

retarded on a public road.


THIS. Farkin' idiots.

Isn't he supposed to evolve into a slug now or something?

puckrock2000: Maybe all you FARK bikers can answer this for me: is there a reason to constantly rev the engine like that before he starts, or is he just doing it because it sounds cool?

Sounds cool.

puckrock2000: Maybe all you FARK bikers can answer this for me: is there a reason to constantly rev the engine like that before he starts, or is he just doing it because it sounds cool?

Considering the bike engine was tuned for maximum speed, it's lower then sustainable idle speed is probably a result of that. Normaly reving an engine like that over and over is a good way to flood it.

NyQuiLlama: That's nothing hotshots. I once went 437mph on a stock Vespa.... running from Johnny Law of course. I was completely naked and my BAC was .40!

Damn! your nuts must have been riding biatch.

Tenebreux Quote 2008-10-07 10:47:21 AM
thedarkshadow: Good movie.

No, fark that movie. Worst New Zealand Accent ever shat in the collective mouths of the public by Hollywood. Awful. Kill it with fire.

You don't like the movie because of the accent?

Who the hell watches a movie because of the accent and then doesn't like it because of the acccent? I couldn't care less if he speaks Russian with a Scottish accent. I liked the story. I'm from North America. How the hell would I know the difference between Australian and NZ accents? Why would I care?

//you cut the crust off your sandwich's and wash every single item bought at the grocery store, don't cha?

Was the towel fanning really doing anything?

no

Editing farktards, learn it.

I clicked away 30 seconds after watching some asshole go "vroom vroom". I can watch my kids do that all day.

I'd like to see him wreck! I'm Cruel.

Wanna see what 200 420 MPH looks like on a motorcycle?

"Chance Darling"? Sounds like a character from one of those vile Lifetime channel romance flicks.

I dunno, I've got an 1100cc bike and I think it's top speed is just above 140mph/225kmh that could just be gearing though. In all fairness it gets to that speed at an insane (at least insane for me) rate of speed. So I'm not sure how you guys with a stock 900cc bike could even approach 200mph, unless you've got more gears than a semi-truck

Der Poopflinger Quote 2008-10-07 02:12:49 PM
I dunno, I've got an 1100cc bike and I think it's top speed is just above 140mph/225kmh that could just be gearing though. In all fairness it gets to that speed at an insane (at least insane for me) rate of speed. So I'm not sure how you guys with a stock 900cc bike could even approach 200mph, unless you've got more gears than a semi-truck

It's gear ratio my friend, not number of gears (hence the push start at the beginning). I'm not going to go over the principles since it's explained a billion times on the intertubes, but suffice it to say if your ratio approaches 1:1 the faster you go.

thedarkshadow: Der Poopflinger Quote 2008-10-07 02:12:49 PM
I dunno, I've got an 1100cc bike and I think it's top speed is just above 140mph/225kmh that could just be gearing though. In all fairness it gets to that speed at an insane (at least insane for me) rate of speed. So I'm not sure how you guys with a stock 900cc bike could even approach 200mph, unless you've got more gears than a semi-truck

It's gear ratio my friend, not number of gears (hence the push start at the beginning). I'm not going to go over the principles since it's explained a billion times on the intertubes, but suffice it to say if your ratio approaches 1:1 the faster you go.

thanks for that FYI, but I'm pretty sure a 900cc stock bike isn't going to have a 1:1 gear ratio. I dunno though, I'm kinda newbie-ish to the bike scene. I work on the "I like how it rides, feels, and runs" principle in motorbikes it's not about high speeds for me.
1981 GS1100E

fuzzwell: puckrock2000: Maybe all you FARK bikers can answer this for me: is there a reason to constantly rev the engine like that before he starts, or is he just doing it because it sounds cool?

Sounds cool.

and an entertaining way to annoy those neighbours who piss you off

Anyone else waiting for him to drive through a mountain?

/not sure where you'd put the oscillation overthruster on a bike

rotskyinstitute
um, looks like boring?

That.