haha This morning at about 6 o clock I was on the freeway and all of a sudden I see a bike in my rear view coming up quick. He passed, and I have not taken this car above 90 mph before so I was REALLY wanting to do a top speed run. This massive 4 lane stretch of road had almost no one on it. So I stretched the GTA's legs a bit and took her up to about 120mph and passed the bike guy then let off. He must have been going 110 and the last thing he expected to see was a car passing him.. I had to

Oh and on a side note, on Eastern, and about Tropicana there was a teal RS camaro with chrome Irocs that smashed into a brick wall and actually put a big hole into it. It was up on the sidewalk and the whole front end was smashed. My theory is drinking and driving because this wall was parallel to direction the car was traveling.

Crazy, I just saw a white Camaro with the front end smashed and a state trooper taking him in. Looked like he rear ended someone, but that person was long gone. Stupid people should not drive third gens.

hahaha

bike, car so you passed him and you mean what by that, 120mph isnt anything to brag about when the bike most like tops out at 155 deppending on gearing

Im not trying to say that I beat a bike, Im just sharing this humorous experience I had. This guy was cruising down the freeway in the middle lane at well over 100mph, thinking NO one was going to pass him. Then here comes little old me in my GTA passing him in the fast lane at 120+ mph. The expression on the dudes face was priceless. I saw him double take then I think look down at the speedometer. I was really excited when I made the post because I have never taken it above 90 before.

155? my bike stock i think was supposed to be limited at 187 or somewhere around there by the computer, I have had it up to about 210 with my mods though

yeah but he could have dumped the clutch banged down and blew right past you with ease.

This sounds more like a R I C E R fly by, rather than a 'race'.
Meh, whatever.

a tipical 600cc bike will max out at about 155 with stock gearing, my 02 gsxr 1k was supposed to top out at 184mph although i was never lucky enough to go quite that fast, but 210 sounds like a bit much, what mods, and was it at a track, most i did on my bike was 164ish and did not have the balls or road to go any higher.

My money says 'Busa, see what I did there? lol

my 05 GSXR 600 has seen 180ish, my 06 GSXR 1000 has done 210. It has a full exhaust, power commander, ported head, and a happy button. BUT I have been thinking about ditching the nitrous and getting a turbo off a mitsubishi or some import from a junk yard and welding some pipes up and going turbo. No that wasn't at the track it was on the highway coming home from a club at 3am racing a friend of mine

But about a car keeping up with a sport bike, very unlikely. I had one car keep up with my bike one night up to about 160-170, that was before the ported head and the nitrous, was a twin turbo mustang.

Well I think its great a win is a win, I try and pass every sport bike I can driving around in my minivan all day, and I don't care if they think its a race or not (they might be to busy laughing at me). When I did drive my bike on the road like hell I would let any car pass me or even adimit to it if they did. Just for everybodies knowledge my 06 gsxr 1000 is stock except for a full system a PC 3 and gearing but I can lift up the front end in 4th gear at WOT, so sneak up on them then block as long as you can.

lol i wonder if he turned on his emergency lights after he passed him lmao

Yeah but judging by the info given it wasn't really a race...the GTA merely caught up to the guy as he was cruising at 110....like someone else said...all that bike had to do was hit the gas and he was gone.

Im the same way lol if i see a bike i always try to keep up lol. But I havent ever tried to stand my bike up in 4th gear but now that u say that im going to have to give it a shot lol. I always stood it up in 2nd and just shiftedgears with it up in the air

when you try it just watchout because the bike will be going so fast the air gets under it so lift your *** off the seat to force the front end down agian and stick your head right up against the bubble. god help you if your on the nos when it comes up i'd use the rear brake in that case. good luck

I agree with this, though i wouldnt say its unlikely. There is a crew that rides around tampa with some serious power in their cars that can beat bikes, and right down the street from my house there is a shop called Rennan that the owner built a viper to beat busa's. Its on youtube i think, just do a search for viper beats busa rennan or something if you wanna see it. Thing is a beast though, over 1000hp. People build cars to beat bikes all the time, they just dont roll on the street alot. But by default bikes are faster, i mean look at how much they weigh.

The main factor in building cars that can beat bikes is money, to buy a viper then get it to 1000hp would be like buying a house to most people. I figured out you would take a 3500lb car about 600 to 700hp to match a bike that I have under $10000 into. also the car would have to be streetable so dragsters or big block nos monsters don't really qualify, so your basically into the supercars which we all should have but can't afford, even getting a turbo on a car is almost as much as my whole bike is worth. therefore 98% of all cars on the street are just fodder for sportbikes, unless it rains or snows.

Thats for sure. I use to live in tampa and knew and hung out with quite a few who could kill bikes. Tons of racing on the gandy !!


I agree and dissagree. You dont have to have a TON of $ wrapped up in a car to hang or beat bikes. Ya Im sure that viper has 100K + into it. My vert on the other hand with 383 LT1 and 18psi with 3.45 gears will Prob hand with some bikes. and I have a fraction of what a Exotic car would cost into mine. Its deff. no DRAG CAR. Full interior, all spohn suspension. heat and a/c soon as I put a new compressor back on it.

I'll agree bike killers arnt something you see everyday crusin around, BUT they are deff. out there. Turbo RX7s and Turbo Supras come to mind. Supra aka dyno queens can spit out 600+ hp with bolt ons/ upgraded turbos.

Yea but spend a fraction of the cost of building any car and u can build a faster bike. Turbo a car ok that will be fast, but at the same time turbo a bike, wonder who would win. Im thinking about a turbo for my bike because im not happy with how its performing again

I totally agree. Just stating there are a TON of bike killers out there these days. Now 10-15 years ago Not so much. Now days its a common thing.

Ya a turbo bike would be nice. I miss my GSXR750 and ZX7. Im actually looking to get another bike myself.(R1,GSXR1000,ZX10) and a nice little garrett turbo for it myself. now since I can fab everything up myself again would be a cheap build. - he bike cost.

Im sure there a few cars on the street that can keep up with me, i haven't ran into any though. Not to many 9 sec cars running around here on the street.

But i have seen the same bike i have on craigslist for 6k, so u could probably get it for a little less if the guy really needed the cash lol. If i go turbo though i will be lowering and stretching my bike and getting another for the street. That would kill me in the corners and i wouldn't be able to do anymore stunts on it then either

I agree to a point, but my point is around here. Come to tampa, the street racing scene is second to none, and the thing to do is build a bike killer. Little *** EK civics boosted and stripped down, integras and built 240s with RB's, VQ's Sr's and LS1's the car weighs like 200lbs, boosted turbo II RX-7's on a sat night its not uncommon to see cars running bikes. Its jsut the area, and around here with some of the crews, mafia for one brings out the big dogs.

In my personal belief is bikes are almost always faster, money talks with cars and bikes are a bit cheaper, smaller, lighter and fast while cars are heavy, big engined and fast. Im not arguing that cars are gettting faster than bikes. Problem that i see is most people dont modify their bike, very few do as you describe in my experience. For the most part people keep bikes stock, maybe an intake and exhaust. A modified bike will almost always win, the viper can only beat lightly modified busa's anything else will walk it, and yes its expensive to do that, but so is a good street bike. Im just saying that over here, its becoming quite common to see cars that can hang with bikes. A 500hp 240sx that weighs like 2000lbs is gonna be able to do some damage. I for one will never get on a bike, i drive crazy enough in a car, id kill myself on a bike. But i am noticing a trend, over the past two years i have seen bikes decline on the streets, and im seeing more cars being built.

I need to move to tampa, hell with atlanta

Well we were not racing, I was just describing catching up and passing him at about 120.. I knew if he wanted to he could have blew me outta the water with ease.

This summer I raced 2 GSXR 1000. Yah I got waxed both times but it was hilarious. The second guy was just toying with me as I am rocking back and forth trying to muster up a lil more power, it didnt work. I know I will never beat a bike, but its always funny to try. All it does is make me want to get a bike sooner. Next summer after cam, heads, and headers I see a 600 in my near future, she will be fun

Hi I think its alot of fun to race bikes, I had my buddy with his R1 this summer go with my camaro (which is in the low12s) and in a perfectly straight line he woud get me but corners and braking were a different story I could pretty well hang with him doing ramps. i also noticed the tighter it got the more advantage the car had, he had more in acceleration but I could hold more corner speed. However my car isn't stock by a long shot, but it also isn't an all out track car (I, proudly, still have air and lots of interior insulation). However that one night taught me alot about car performance vs bike.

Well your buddy must be a little scared to push the bike through the corners. If he aint draggin his knee he aint doing **** lol. Things getting tighter shouldn't affect him, he got nervous and backed off. BUT its still fun to be in a bad *** car and run with guys on bikes that dont push them to the limit. Tell him to stop being scared of it worst that can happen is he wrecks.

no he isn't scared, I raced bikes with him for the better part of a decade, i think when it comes down to it cars have way more rubber on the ground , also in the car I think you can afford to drive it way looser in the corners and have alot more lee way for making errors. His bike is also pretty stock and stock bikes really suck for braking and suspension compared to a bike thats been race prepped. The rear shock in my 1000 cost $1000.00 and I've changed my fork cartridges and have worked the brakes(did 15 trackdays this summer $3000.00 in tires alone)

man i miss track days cant afford those right now all i have is the twisties in the mountains now.