We had a guy at bike night a couple of weeks ago on a Hayabusa that was heavily modified (nitrous, etc...). He claimed it was well over 300HP.

 

Check out the new Buell 1125R, not bad for a Harley Motor. 145 Hp, bike weighs 390 lbs. great numbers for a vtwin.

 

I don't doubt that figure one bit.

There isa Turbo Hayabusalisted on EBay (shown below) that has been set up for high performance street use, and it has a dyno output of 489 horsepower at the rear wheel.

It runs the quarter mile in 8.20 seconds with a speed of 178 MPH. [8D]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Turbo...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Because it's really amusing to hand a guy on a sport bike his *** from a light. Now I am under no impression that a sportster can take a sport bike in the 1/4 or even with some stretch of road, but you can beat inexperienced sport bikes riders on 600cc bike from light to light.

I remember one day of some obese guy on a 600cc sport bike being an ******* at the light and thinking he'll show my sportster a thing or two. Well the bottom line is he didn't. I have no doubt he would have been gone if he was able to wind out that bike, but he wasn't able to in the city traffic. I could see the look on his face at every stop light getting pissed off more and more each minute and it was pricless.

Now if he weighed 150 lbs less and had a liter sport bike it would have been a differenct story. However, it's still amusing. Those 1200 sportsters will surprise a lot of inexperienced riders from light to light.

 

Your either riding Sunrise Blvdor the San Juan 500 a lotif that many want to race you. Get off of those streets and people are usually mellow.

 

Yeah but any experienced rider knows that most Sport Bikes (especially the smaller 600CC class) don't make horsepower at low RPM's.

Let one 'jump off the line' at 7,000+ RPM and see what happens.

 

Having owned a couple of these rockets in my time I'd never consider racing one today, you never know if the guy knows how to ride or not. I'd rather notbe the guardrail for someone launching at these rpms and not knowing how to control it.
The other side of the coin is if the guy does know how to ride you lost........ Bad.

 

Absolutely. However, most kids that want to race you don't know that. They think it's the fastest thing ever no matter how your ride it. I see many of them short shifting their 600cc sport bikes and when you do that they are absolutely impotent.

I am under no illusion that an experienced rider on one of those machines would leave me in the dust, but I still find it amusing to race inexperienced riders that think they can dust you real easily.

 

Oh poop. Just ride your ride and have fun. Plus crictch rockets are made of nothing but plastic and look like crap in my opinion.

 

I get ricer(cars) wanting to race me all the time. During the end of the Nortex ride, a Acura was trying to provok me to race. I looked at Brian like;"Give me a break". During the second half of the ride I had a crotch rocket give me the low hand wave with the finger.


Do I care? Hell no.