Did anybody race any kind of bike? if so what happened and what kinda bike was it?
One guy in my company has a Katana 600.
I dont expect to win but I wanna give him a run for his money.
Can we hang with japanese bikes? Not all of them are lightning fast. I have intake+Y.

 

yeah most bikes run 13 and under in the quarter .......in other words, save the gas

 

you might not be able to take a jap sport bike, but i can take some harleys and a few dirtbikes too

 

I ran my YZF 600R against my friend's Z28 6-speed. My first time ever at the strip and he had loads of experience. I ran a 12.39@110.42 MPH to his 13.4@106. And that's with a bad launch (wheelspin > wheelie > wheelspin) and the YZF 600R is no where near the faster race rep 600's (R6, GSXR etc).

The guy in the Katana can have a bad launch, not shift optimally etc and still do a low to mid 13.

 

Harley's and other cruisers, fine go have some fun. Crotch rockets are a way different beast. Any stock modern sportbike(600+)will KILL a Max and just about anything else with 4 wheels. Amazing bang for the buck when you consider they usally cost way less than 10K!

 

Dude,
Even Harleys run low 14's in the quarter. You might be able to hang with a Ninja 250. Give up on this dream and learn to set realistic goals.

 

Buy a toyota supra TT and mod the F outta it before trying to race motorcycles. The YZF-600 and the Katana 600's are heavy as ***** and not as powerful as the CBR600, GSXR600 and the R6 trio. But still they run at least 13s even with a bad rider. The "faster" 600 cc trio do 11's consistenly and 10's with a professional rider. And 600 is the smallest of the sport bike group. Dont even think about the 750, 1000, 1100 and 1300 cc classes.

 

I hand little kids on their bicycles their a$$es all day, I stay away from the ones with motors however

 

katanas are slow for bikes but power-to-weight ratio says you still lose...

 

Youre kidding right.... no way any car will beat a jap sport bike...

 

I bet a viper will take few sport bikes right off the dealer lot.

 

most all of the sport bikes sold today do at least 12 flat or lower. A majority at our track run 10-10.5.

 

i was waiting to be seated at olive garden a few months ago w/my girlfriend, and another couple, and i saw an older 300zx and a crotch-rocket race from a stand-still. i knew that they were racing, b/c they both were revving the hell out of their engines, the light went green, and they both peeled out a little. the 300 must have been modded,b/c he kept right up with that d@mn cycle.

 

you are wrong

 

I don't know... it might take the Ninja ZX-250R... but would you call that a sport bike?
-Cyrus

 

i bet a harley could hold up with a sports bike from a roll

 

I beat my 7 yr old son on his Huffy just last week (OK, so Huffy and my son are both American made), but he had a bad launch! I wouldn't waste the gas running against a Katana unless I really felt the need to be humbled. I don't know how some of the really modded guys would do, but my money would still be on the bike. It would be interesting to watch, though.

Dave

 

Mmmmm...Hayabusa...mmmm.

 

i wouldnt even waste the gas. plus if i had a jap sport bike i wouldnt want to race much, (if you fall u will die) but heres the upside, when racing off the line turn your car into his bike and knock him off. he falls, you win. although you might have about 2g's worth of body damage, but it depends how bad you want to win seriously though, unless he races a lot i wouldnt race him just for a safety factor, those things are scary as h*ll at high speeds

 

I have raced a few bikes and won. Not off the line of course...but on the highway. My roadkills are Yamaha R6 (stock), Yamaha R1 (modded), Suzuki GSX-R 750 (modded), Honda CBR600 (not-modded, but custom paint), Honda CBR900RR (stock), Honda Superhawk (dunno if it was modded or not). Most bikes can't accelerate that fast on the high end. My Max can. I also tried to run with a modded Hayabusa just for fun, but he backed off after he realized he couldn't shake me. I'm not saying I would have won that one, because he never even opened it up, but I was never loose from him. In this area, we have a lot of young people on bikes, so if you cruise around at night for a while, you are sure to race one.

 

A modded civic hatchback took a Viper in one video, and on another video it took a Ferrari, now bikes are much lighter then our cars, someone explain why even waste gas racing one??? there is no point in racing a motorcycle, go to the track and line up with one..lining up with one is like lining up with a Turbo supra if not worse, the things are very fast, thats they are called crotch rockets!


and yes I did see the video of the supra racing the Hayabusa!!!!but Maximas are not Supras!!

 

There are cars that run high 7's in the 1/4. These cars will definitely beat any stock production street bike even if they are controlled by the best rider.

-Sryth...
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'98 SE 5spd, Pebble Beige, PRCAI
Pacesetter STS, Stillen Y, Stillen FSTB and ACT Clutch on the way!

 

Lets see. 7 second car against a stock production bike. Anything wrong with that picture? Stock production bike means it is totally street legal. There is no 7 sec car that can even think about driving on the street. Not only is there a problem with equipment (lights, horn, tags, inspection sticker, etc...), but also a drivability issue. That is comparing apples and oranges, kinda like comparing a crotch rocket to a Maxima. Or my stock Maxima against my 7 year old son on his Huffy (if he could only get his launch down without too much wheelspin...).

Dave

 

Just making a point about blanket statements. He said any.

You're right about the cars being track-only cars. I've seen street legal cars doing 9 second runs, though. Most bikes won't break 10 seconds with professional drivers on them.

-Sryth...
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'98 SE 5spd, Pebble Beige, PRCAI
Pacesetter STS, Stillen Y, Stillen FSTB and ACT Clutch on the way!

 

Didn't mean to sound like I was flaming anyone. I know what you mean about the blanket statements. Seems like there are a lot of posts about what I would deem to be a ridiculous race. I sometimes wait for someone to post that they took John Force in his Castrol car. Of course it would have to be from a roll (say 50 or so) because we all know that his slicks would give him an unfair advantage from a standstill. But don't we all know that compared to a Maxima, those funny cars have nothing above 80 mph or so? Must be their crappy gearing, or is it their too restrictive exhaust?
But hey, I'm not complaining because I need some entertainment every now and then.

Dave

 

Yeah, WTF. Any street car against a sport bike - never. never. never. I don't care what you're driving. If anyone here beat or even kept up with a modern day sport bike (even a 250), it must have had the worst rider in the world, or they weren't racing you.

Nightrider, what are you smoking, cuz I want some. A stock Hyabusa has 144 rear wheel horsepower, weighs 550lbs and goes 192mph. My guess is the Hyabusa must have been going the other way or something...

 

Geez you guys need to watch more racing vid's. I've seen a ton of ones of 10 second supras handing bikes their ***.

As far as Harleys go .... I thought those ran 15's. Could be wrong though, as I think I got that number from the TV, and not a racetrack.