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Following on from my other thread, what bike did you first see 150 mph on the speedo of?

Mine was a 1985 GSXR750, it just felt fast, no excitement or drama, it just sat that at an indicated 155 like it was nothing, it'd hit the rev limiter in top with a decent downhill.

BTW, I've never seen 200mph on a speedo, so I won't be doing that, I could do fastest ever seen, which for me is 190+ on the highly inaccurate speedo of a 1997 GSXR750.

1987. GSXR750. It made my CB900 and YPVS350 seem slow.

GPZ900R.

I came from a 74 R90S,so jumping 10 years of tech was an eye opener. It was like a rocketship to me.

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:15 am 1987. GSXR750. It made my CB900 and YPVS350 seem slow.

I went from a tuned 350 YPVS to the GSXR, the GSXR felt very fast and easy to ride by comparison, you just opened the throttle and it went like feck, the YPVS you had to watch the rev counter and change up at exactly the right moment to get the most out of it, the GSXR was also very stable at speed compared to the YPVS, the early GSXRs had a reputation for being wobbly at speed, mine was fine on Michelin Hi Sports and Metzeler MeZ1s, but was dangerous on Dunlops.

The Striple

I've never gone that fast, even on track. Think the fastest I've been is 115mph on a TDM850.

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:27 am

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:15 am 1987. GSXR750. It made my CB900 and YPVS350 seem slow.

I went from a tuned 350 YPVS to the GSXR, the GSXR felt very fast and easy to ride by comparison, you just opened the throttle and it went like feck, the YPVS you had to watch the rev counter and change up at exactly the right moment to get the most out of it, the GSXR was also very stable at speed compared to the YPVS, the early GSXRs had a reputation for being wobbly at speed, mine was fine on Michelin Hi Sports and Metzeler MeZ1s, but was dangerous on Dunlops.

I had the CB900 for road and 350 was my well sorted race bike.
Rich mate bought a new 750 which was awesome. No way I could afford such a thing until finished racing.

Beancounter wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:32 am I've never gone that fast, even on track. Think the fastest I've been is 115mph on a TDM850.

Wuss !

I'd say it was probably my Thundercat, the day i collected it. Went for a pint at the Hen and Chickens in Ormskirk and walked over the road to Almaxx motorcycles, walked out with a Thundercat in red and white... oh my, was that thing EPIC !!!! Jeeeeeeez.

Zx9r

I did an indicated 166mph on my R6.

I had the video up on youtube for over a decade, but a couple of years back I got paranoid and took it down.

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:33 am

Beancounter wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:32 am I've never gone that fast, even on track. Think the fastest I've been is 115mph on a TDM850.

Wuss !

Aye. The 115mph on the TDM was accidental.

Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:15 am 1987. GSXR750. It made my CB900 and YPVS350 seem slow.

Similar experience when I went from my 1980 RD350LC to a 1989 VFR750F. All of a sudden I was doing 120mph every time I went out, even on the way to work. I also developed neck and shoulder muscles I'd never had before from the high speed wind blast.

Beancounter wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:32 am I've never gone that fast, even on track. Think the fastest I've been is 115mph on a TDM850.

I've only ever ridden a couple of bikes (jellymould CBR1000 and 916) capable of those speeds!

Also, I've rarely been on tracks, so on-road tended to stay below 100 as that's automatic ban territory.

I’ve also seen it on my big spec Evo 8 that I owned years ago, it could get to 160 very easily. 35-160 pull, 0-130 and an onboard. Excuse the crap camera, it was starting to fail and would record like this.

KungFooBob wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 11:39 am I did an indicated 166mph on my R6.

I had the video up on youtube for over a decade, but a couple of years back I got paranoid and took it down.

I test rode a 2002 R6 and did over 150 on the test ride, I bought a GSXR750K2 instead because it felt a lot better cornering at speed - I was 36 and should have known better.

150 was easy, getting back to zero quickly was a challenge.

Never have! Hit 130 on a cbx 6 cylinder bike in the early 80s and it was a wrestling match that frightened the shit out of me so much i chose never to repeat it! That said I inadvertently hit 120+ on the MT and it wasn't exactly scary at all. But, as a general rule I don't go into 3 figures. Things happen too fast up there for me!

My GPz750R hit an indicated 150 but i would say that was very optimistic and realistically about 140 maxxed out. My ZX6RG2 has done about 150 but my speedo was bust at the time and i was riding with Animal on one of the long fen roads with a 50mph limit. When we stopped at the cafe he said "congrats, you tripled the limit" as the speedo on his bike was reading 154.

My little 636B1H did an indicated 167 a couple of times but couldn't get any more out of it and alongside a bloke on a brand new R6 he pulled away slowly and at the petrol stationed said his was reading 170

I have only seen 145 out of the Multistrada which is the claimed top end by Ducati

ZX6R.
I was racing some idiot in a Subaru at the time who wanted to ‘play’. I think his restrictor kicked in at 155.
FWIW I won and I have never ridden that fast again.