What bike was your first indicated 150mph on?

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Original jelly mould CBR1000, with the owner on the back!
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My 1st big 4stroke, a GPz1100A3 with a big bore kit in it. It was a rocket in a straight line.
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ZX7R P1, 1997 ish.
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GSX-R1100L. When I was 19 IIRC. Just for c'raic, like, just for t'craic.
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Never been that fast either, think I maxed out at 145 on a crb600rr at Silverstone.
I did manage an indicated 135 up Marlow bypass on the Guzzi Centauro one night, that was a cacophony of impending expensive engine noise for sure.
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Weeky's Yamaha R1 at Silverstone TD
I used the bike in Novice (my 2nd Trackday) and he used it in Inters. That bike earned its keep that day.

First time on (private) road was on my ZX9R - owned by a few other members over the years.
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Indicated? '83 GPz11 A1, Jota I had in '79 was fast, but the speedo needle had a +/- of about 30mph so it was anyone's guess how fast it was.
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I remember doing (an indicated) 145 downhill on a French autoroute on my VFR in 1991/92 with 24 bottles of wine in the saddlebags and stuff bag. I was trying for the magic 150 but the weave that started at 130ish was getting worse and I bottled it.

When doing track days I always taped over the speedo, so no idea. Didn't need to know, didn't want to know.
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Lemmy see.....1988 on a gpz1000rx down Cumnor hill. It went into a tank slapper at 150 at which point my ambition to go faster switched to one of simply staying alive.
Fast forward to 1993 and I was dispatching on a fzr1000 exup ru, and 150 was hit almost every day at some point.

In recent years? Only once on the 1198s such was my desperate need to get home after a cold wet grim ride.
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FZ750... flat on the tank and with mirrors folded in (albeit with panniers and camping gear strapped to the back), at the end of a 2 mile straight that ran through the middle of a Belgian army training range - so no turnings, no driveways and a twelve foot high fence with razor wire on top to deter the leaping beasties...
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Ducati 999S, Ducati demo bike at a UKMOC Mallory trackday, Ducati brought along their demo bikes and you could book them out for a session on track. One of the No Limits instructors took a demo Monster S2RS out and totalled it ... Haven't managed 150 0n any of my other bikes as they have been mostly 2 valve Ducatis that struggled to get past 130, did manage 145 on the ZZR600 I had as my first "big" bike, chasing TWPD in Scotland, I was still quite new to faster bikes and it felt more than fast enough to me!
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The Spin Doctor wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:02 pm FZ750... flat on the tank and with mirrors folded in (albeit with panniers and camping gear strapped to the back), at the end of a 2 mile straight that ran through the middle of a Belgian army training range - so no turnings, no driveways and a twelve foot high fence with razor wire on top to deter the leaping beasties...
Both of my FZ750s folded the mirrors back by themselves at anything over 130, aside from that a very stable bike at speed, and my 65000 mile one will still indicate 150, the early ones are interesting to try and stop from any speed.
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FZ750. Hit 150 just as it clicked over 75,000 miles :). Loved that bike.
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Brommo wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:43 pm FZ750. Hit 150 just as it clicked over 75,000 miles :). Loved that bike.
The FZ750 always reminds me of an old school mate who wracked up loads of miles on his all around the world.

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat Dec 31, 2022 3:50 pm Both of my FZ750s folded the mirrors back by themselves at anything over 130, aside from that a very stable bike at speed, and my 65000 mile one will still indicate 150, the early ones are interesting to try and stop from any speed.
Did the later ones have uprated brakes? I can't remember - four pot??

There was a fairly sharp bend at the end of that straight I mentioned... I might have had to brake harder than I planned, to get round it :D
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Post by Le_Fromage_Grande »

Late ones have 17" front wheel, bigger discs and 4 pot calipers from the FZR600 , the late ones are better handling and much better stopping, though the early ones are easily fixed by fitting a smaller master cylinder.
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