Got smoked by a CBR 750
#52
09-20-2010, 09:05 PM
Racing a sport bike,......... I love to tell this story.
Years ago I was sitting a red light on my Ultra when a guy on sportbike pulls up in the next lane. He says in a loud threatening, challenging voice so everyone at the intersection in their cars could hear "Wanna Race?". It's dead silence except for the noise of the engines and everyone is looking at me. So I look at him and say, "Sure, first one to Florida wins!" Everyone in ther cars busted out laughing......AT HIM,.....and he knew it too. He sat in stewing slience. When the light turned green he sped off like an idiot. I rode away with traffic.
Then there was the time I was tooling along and a sport bike decides to have fun with me and tailgate. So I slow down to slower than a crawl which pissed him off. He passes me and speeds off. I pull into the lot of a hillside food joint popular with bikes, and there he sits. I park and he comes over and starts calling me old man in a joking manner. I say "Think you can follow me?" He nailed his coffin shut when he said "There ain't nothing you can do that I can't". So I said "Follow me and first one to put their foot down or drops their bike loses". He says "Quit talking and start riding". So I lead him around the lot at slow speed and he is yelling and honking his horn. I make a sudden turn and ride up a steep incline to the top where it meets a wall. He's still behind me but lagging now. I stop suddenly with my feet up, lock the bars to the right, make a full lock u-turn on the incline and ride down to the lot. He tries to put his foot down, but the incline is too steep. He dumps the bike on it's side and both come sliding down. I park and go inside and order something to eat.
Old age and treachery will win in the end.
Years ago I was sitting a red light on my Ultra when a guy on sportbike pulls up in the next lane. He says in a loud threatening, challenging voice so everyone at the intersection in their cars could hear "Wanna Race?". It's dead silence except for the noise of the engines and everyone is looking at me. So I look at him and say, "Sure, first one to Florida wins!" Everyone in ther cars busted out laughing......AT HIM,.....and he knew it too. He sat in stewing slience. When the light turned green he sped off like an idiot. I rode away with traffic.
Then there was the time I was tooling along and a sport bike decides to have fun with me and tailgate. So I slow down to slower than a crawl which pissed him off. He passes me and speeds off. I pull into the lot of a hillside food joint popular with bikes, and there he sits. I park and he comes over and starts calling me old man in a joking manner. I say "Think you can follow me?" He nailed his coffin shut when he said "There ain't nothing you can do that I can't". So I said "Follow me and first one to put their foot down or drops their bike loses". He says "Quit talking and start riding". So I lead him around the lot at slow speed and he is yelling and honking his horn. I make a sudden turn and ride up a steep incline to the top where it meets a wall. He's still behind me but lagging now. I stop suddenly with my feet up, lock the bars to the right, make a full lock u-turn on the incline and ride down to the lot. He tries to put his foot down, but the incline is too steep. He dumps the bike on it's side and both come sliding down. I park and go inside and order something to eat.
Old age and treachery will win in the end.
#53
09-20-2010, 09:06 PM
MADDOG187 wrote:
"If you look , you will find that triumph and norton ruled the world till the japs came over , nothing could touch those bad boys"
If you're talking stock vs stock sure. However stroker XLCH sportsters held nearly every national record in dragracing here in the good ole USA until the inline 4's took over in the early 70's. Leo Payne was famous for whipping those Brit bikes on a regular basis. He was running 11.0's in the 1/4 mile on a street licensed 83" XLCH way back in 1968.
Check out this link about the golden age of Harley drag racing:
http://www.hotbikeweb.com/features/0...ing/index.html
"If you look , you will find that triumph and norton ruled the world till the japs came over , nothing could touch those bad boys"
If you're talking stock vs stock sure. However stroker XLCH sportsters held nearly every national record in dragracing here in the good ole USA until the inline 4's took over in the early 70's. Leo Payne was famous for whipping those Brit bikes on a regular basis. He was running 11.0's in the 1/4 mile on a street licensed 83" XLCH way back in 1968.
Check out this link about the golden age of Harley drag racing:
http://www.hotbikeweb.com/features/0...ing/index.html
#54
09-20-2010, 09:17 PM
not to rub it in any but the cbr was probaly a 600.. never made a 750.. i had a 88cbr1000 could hit 130mph on the on ramp before i even got to the highway.. could be back down to 55-65 before i merged into traffic.. them bikes are insane, a 600 over 100hp will hit 160mph most heavyweight bikes(over 1000cc) will do close to or over 200mph.. just not in the same class.. the top fuel dragbikes are still dominated by harley.. they dont have a hd part on them anymore thou
#55
09-20-2010, 09:27 PM
not to rub it in any but the cbr was probaly a 600.. never made a 750.. i had a 88cbr1000 could hit 130mph on the on ramp before i even got to the highway.. could be back down to 55-65 before i merged into traffic.. them bikes are insane, a 600 over 100hp will hit 160mph most heavyweight bikes(over 1000cc) will do close to or over 200mph.. just not in the same class.. the top fuel dragbikes are still dominated by harley.. they dont have a hd part on them anymore thou
#60
09-21-2010, 01:04 AM
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