Ive had my share of sport bikes. My modded Kawi ZX9r went 9.80's at 147+, and never lost to a car on the street/hwy. The GSXR 1000 with mild mods ran a best of 10.20's @ 140+. The Kawi ZX10r ran 10.00 @ 145+ with mild mods, plus it hit 100mph in first gear! The granddeady of 'em all was the ZX14! 9.90's stock and never tested it after some mods, but it had 212 whp and Im sure would have been mid 9's at that time. Just exhaust on the 14 made it over 20lbs lighter and 12hp.

A good and LIGHT rider can get the newer 600s in the mid to high tens.

These bikes are no joke. No greater ride for the money and with a few mods they get crazy.

 

My gixxer has been 9.71 @140 bone stock and 8.91 @ 155 with stroker motor. I think it would take a 800+ whp car to take me. I can't wait until spring so I can start racing bikes with my car...Kinda curious...

 

Nice kill Sean, unless it was this guy... If so I've beat him already.

 

Hilarious

 

I ran a bike last night coming home from dinner in Mexico as well. Wifey was with me and a bike was riding my ***, hit a red light, decided to give her a go. Was dark so I didn't see what brand it was but was a pretty sizable bike, needless to say tires where cold and I spun 1st-2nd a little and he got a bike length ahead of me, didn't pull on me much from there. Fun times

 

I've got two bikes. One of them is a 06 GSXR 1000. These bikes are scary fast. A rider who is good and light, will do high 9s on these things stock (so the magazines say).

 

Very easily...as I said a few posts ago, mine did it 8 years ago when they first came out...Most any new liter bike now is mid high 9's @140-145ish now, with a decent rider. It's a different kind of race on a roll-on though. I've already beaten 600 and 750's with my 18G's very easily. Haven't had an opportunity to race a liter bike yet...Don't think I'll beat one, but it won't be a slaughter either

 

Sean
I need to run you if you spanking poor little girls on sport bikes LOL
Robert

 

Bikes are like cars. Some are wicked fast.
There is always someone faster...

 

That thing must be heavy as crap with the viper motor in it haha, and nitrous, wtf seriously!

 

I raced a 181 rwhp 'Busa (and got it on tape) that had previously run a 9.1 @ 155. I beat him at around 775 rwhp and was even with him at 730 rwhp.

 

Exactly, once your moving you've eliminated most of the power to weight avantage of the bike. All the weight is already moving.

Lets say on average, 3600lb (with 600ft/lbs)car vs 600lb (with 100ft/lbs) bike (both with drivers), they both have 6lbs per 1ft/tq!! Thats if you start at around 3500-4000k where our peak torque is and you know a bike would start around 5-6K or so. And car has way more HP, but the bike is more aerodynamic...pretty good race...

 

Agree,

You should be able to pull him if he got the nuts to hang on
above 160 mph

 

Bike is a brick. Cars are more aerodynamic. Our cars CD is 0.33 and hyabusa's (most aerodynamic bike) CD is 0.68. ;-).

 

Keep in mind cars are actually more aerodynamic.... My friends all ride bikes (gsx750, 1000, etc) and they all say that above 120 the bike really starts struggling - compared to below ~120... Not saying they aren't as fast above 120, but that it kind of hits a wall.

Also,
When I run bikes they don't start at 5-6k or so - they're usually in 1st gear when rolling at 60-70 which puts them above 10k rpm or so. They won't start out low in the rpm range, they're gonna make sure their revvs are way up before they give the 'go-ahead'