Online magazine article - How fast is your (old?) bike...

hotcam · Post by **hotcam** » Thu May 27, 2010 4:50 am

So what if your motorbike is over 10 years old, it will still demolish a £150,000 supercar away from a set of traffic lights...

We gate crashed Autocar magazine's annual 0-100-0 contest and brought along a selection of second-hand motorbikes to see just how cheaply you can wipe the floor with the fastest, most expensive cars in the world. ...

...As the car guys stroll around polishing their Porsche GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Ford GT40 and other such exotica, I'm unloading a £1,500 Yamaha Thunderace, 1984 Katana 1100 and Honda Goldwing from the back of the van. My initial credibility when I showed up on the GSX-R1000 K7 is gradually being eroded as my ever-increasingly odd selection of weaponry is unveiled....

http://www.visordown.com/features/zero- ... 11616.html

stan · Post by **stan** » Thu May 27, 2010 5:52 am

another great find Cam, but of course we all know what the outcome of such a test would be anyway, thats why we are all here

stan

sickle44 · Post by **sickle44** » Thu May 27, 2010 9:51 am

Just not sure if the GoldPig would've been as fast as the cars, other two bikes without ? crushed them, until top speed was an issue.
Very cool though Cam!

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Fri May 28, 2010 9:13 am

awesome article!

kiwi60 · Post by **kiwi60** » Fri May 28, 2010 12:25 pm

Interesting article, but the next one on Stoner going to Repsol Honda was also interesting as it opens the question - will Rossi leave Yamaha and go to Ducati as has been whispered for some time?????

Schoon · Post by **Schoon** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:34 pm

I always knew there was something special about the Ace!

:cool

Post by **FZRDude** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:36 pm

There something special about all of our bikes. WOOT!

Big Jon · Post by **Big Jon** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:36 pm

Fun article, Road and Track did a similar thing back in 1994 with production cars (no Atom

) and then threw in a ZX9 for fun. Being all road legal and stock vehicles it was a great read. Oh, the big Z, stopped before 2/3 of the pack hit 100.

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:43 am

Well I do not know about the Ace (I have a '94 FZR1000). The article said "The 'Ace' was only a second slower 0-100mph than the K7 GSX-R, managing it in 6.7 seconds compared to the Suzuki's 5.4 sec."

All the FZR1000 articles that I have, as reprints of the originals from Cycle World, etc ..., list the 0-100 MPH time in the range from 5.6 seconds to 6.0 seconds ... depending on the model year (91-95).

6.7 seconds ?? Either the Ace was slower than the FZR1000 or the rider in the article was slow.

Schoon · Post by **Schoon** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:41 pm

djalbin wrote:Well I do not know about the Ace (I have a '94 FZR1000). The article said "The 'Ace' was only a second slower 0-100mph than the K7 GSX-R, managing it in 6.7 seconds compared to the Suzuki's 5.4 sec."

All the FZR1000 articles that I have, as reprints of the originals from Cycle World, etc ..., list the 0-100 MPH time in the range from 5.6 seconds to 6.0 seconds ... depending on the model year (91-95).

6.7 seconds ?? Either the Ace was slower than the FZR1000 or the rider in the article was slow.

Looking through my article reprints, the Ace ran in a 5.6 to 6.2 second range. My guess would be that being 13 years old with x amount of miles on it, it was not the in the freshest of tune.

Schoon · Post by **Schoon** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:48 pm

Big Jon wrote:Fun article, Road and Track did a similar thing back in 1994 with production cars (no Atom ) and then threw in a ZX9 for fun. Being all road legal and stock vehicles it was a great read. Oh, the big Z, stopped before 2/3 of the pack hit 100.

I have the articles by both Cycle World and Car & Driver pitting the Ace against a Viper GTS it also is a great read.

Schoon · Post by **Schoon** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:58 pm

FZRDude wrote:There something special about all of our bikes. WOOT!

Meant no disrespect Sorry!

JasonL · Post by **JasonL** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:05 am

Just shows how mind-bending modern sports bikes are: completely civilised, reliable, affordable, and 0-100mph in under 6 seconds. Just think about that for a second....0-100mph in 6 seconds.......

0-60mph in 6 seconds is a pretty fast time for a car.....

Post by **FZRDude** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:31 am

Schoon wrote:Meant no disrespect Sorry!

None taken. :rock

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:20 pm

the newest Sport Rider has a great comparo of the new M3 vs the S1000R at streets of willow

the S1000R spanks it mercilously at less than a 3rd the cost, out turning braking and accellerating it, ticking off a 1:24.xx vs the M3's 130.x

MsHap · Post by **MsHap** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:11 am

I love that! alot of the bikes here r amazing. can u imagine some of the really worked FZRs going up against some cool cars.

It is also cool because bikes cost less. like my duc was used and cheap and i get more attention then alot of sports car that cost 10 times more money or more Actually the new vet base price on the signs is more then 20times what Noodles cost and unless it has the badest rims and body kit Noodles gets more compliments.

Jello 2