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Found this on another forum.  Pretty cool....  I think a K5/R1/10R might have put in a little better showing, but I think the MV represented bikes fairly well.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=31&article_id=2572



Chris  

Thanks for the link Chris. I'll be sure to not have a top end race for pinks with any of these cars.  

i think i watched all the vids twice.  And the bike one a few more times.  That was pretty awesome.  I got a Ninja 500r and i can do the 1/4 mile in about 12.5 to 13 seconds.  That means that on my $7000 (canadian) bike i can beat a few of those cars to the quarter mile.  And the cheapest one there including mods, is probably in the $70k range.  Man did they get ripped off.  I beat the doors off a corvette on 50st a few months ago in a drag he wasnt happy at the next light so i turned, but i almost wanted to tell him that he got beat by one of the slowest sportbiles available.  

Yep.  Bikes are quick, but a car with a bunch of hp will have a much higher top speed than a bike.  Bikes still rule though.  

They didn't have a video of it, but I thought it was funny on the first page that they included a Toyota Prius.  I think it barely went 2000 feet by the time an Indy Car has covered a mile....    


Chris  

I didnt see a date when these tests were done.  But i noticed the bike did the 0-60 in 3.1 s.  Well according to your Mag (i think) the zx-10R and an R1 could do it in about 2.5s.  So this test cant be that new.  

September 2005.  

0-60 in 3.1...  Yeah, it could have been better....  I wonder how much experience the guy has on a $42k MV.  He does ride/write for a cycle mag, so he is probably pretty good.  I am sure a smaller guy like Kent could improve on the times/speed some.  But I don't think that a couple seconds quicker over the mile and 5 or 6 mph faster would have improved the bikes position in the test.  I wonder how a turbo bike would have done in this test/competition?  Put the 500 hp turbo kit from Muzzy's on a ZX-10R....    They did turbo/supercharge a number of the cars.


Chris  

Well there was a bike mag that had a 700 horsepower sportbike on it once.  I would love to see what it could do if the owners ever took it off the dyno and could find tires that it wouldnt blow off in 3 seconds on drag strip.  

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I didnt see a date when these tests were done.  But i noticed the bike did the 0-60 in 3.1 s.  Well according to your Mag (i think) the zx-10R and an R1 could do it in about 2.5s.  So this test cant be that new.

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thanks man.  I guess i got it sitting around here somewhere.  I kinda read all the bike mags that i can get my hands on.  (unless they got a cruiser on the front)  

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thanks man.  I guess i got it sitting around here somewhere.  I kinda read all the bike mags that i can get my hands on.  (unless they got a cruiser on the front)

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Your right its a beautiful bike and i dont feel bad for buying an inferior bike mag to read about such a bike