I did 176 mph two up, on a blade.

Skill Magill

How fast have you gone? I've also come back from wexford on a TL 1ooo but couldn't look at the clocks, for reasons I'm sure you'll understand.

mister gullible

Got me '75 Landrover up to about 55. It's not a motor bike but it's just as windy.

Skill Magill

mister gullible wrote: »

Got me '75 Landrover up to about 55. It's not a motor bike but it's just as windy.

hah!

BrokenArrows

A mere 130mph. Clocks were probably off so more like 120. Kawasaki ER6F.

P.C.

mister gullible wrote: »

Got me '75 Landrover up to about 55. It's not a motor bike but it's just as windy.

I got am old Landrover up to 60, but that was down hill in neutral.

bm69

Skill Magill wrote: »

How fast have you gone? I've also come back from wexford on a TL 1ooo but couldn't look at the clocks, for reasons I'm sure you'll understand.

Worst statement Ive ever read on boards. You obviously wouldnt drive nails if you couldnt manage to look at your clocks during a spin.
I got 177mph out of a pimped out nifty fifty on the m50. Mad bastard I am.

Skill Magill

bm69 wrote: »

Worst statement Ive ever read on boards. You obviously wouldnt drive nails if you couldnt manage to look at your clocks during a spin.
I got 177mph out of a pimped out nifty fifty on the m50. Mad bastard I am.

White lining makes you not look at the clocks

endacl

Skill Magill wrote: »

White lining makes you not look at the clocks

White lining?!? It would give you an false sense of confidence, I suppose...

NotCominBack

bm69 wrote: »

Worst statement Ive ever read on boards. You obviously wouldnt drive nails if you couldnt manage to look at your clocks during a spin.
I got 177mph out of a pimped out nifty fifty on the m50. Mad bastard I am.

You obviously don't read through AH threads then

Max Headroom

Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothin to gain except killin' your brain...

:cool:

Doom

Lashing a Bike around Mondello, way more fun...touching 150mph on the straights.

You be dead soon if you drive like that on a public road., smallest mistake from another road user and it's all over.

CJhaughey

I must be old, I don't push it anymore. Maybe having kids makes you slow down?
I get as much fun watching my kids ride around in the field enjoying themselves these days.
Picked up a Trials bike to use around the house but still have a tourer and a thumper to have fun on when the weather improves.

Skill Magill

There's a bit of straight between dublin and bray, maybe just after, where when you fast the broken white lines, become solid,

corcaigh1

In my younger days got the magical 186mph on a gixer 1000 and zx10r. 2nd gear wheelies over 130mph. Older and wiser now tho!!

jimgoose

Indicated 170mph on the N4 at about 07:30 on a Sunday morning in 1996. YZF750SP with a 'flowed EXUP motor. Tunnel-vision is very real at that kind of speed, it's not so easy to read the clocks. I'm a bit older now, of course. :pac:

Skill Magill

I'v also gone over the happeny bridge on a ts 100

blade1

You know you're going fast when the cars you overtake look like they are travelling in the opposite direction..:eek:

Cienciano

130mph, never owned anything faster
To be honest, I purposely got the bike I have now cos the top speed isn't mental. Almost owned a zzr1400, the temptation to wind it on on when you get to an open stretch would be too much.

bladespin

Fast enough to get tunnel vision - on an open runway eek!

Tzardine

140mph on a naked bandit. Not a fun experience.

And about 160ish on a friend's blade.

Dexter Bip

Got an indicated 125mph going downhill on the bandit 600 on the M8 towards Mitchelstown. Wind started to pull the head upright which made it uncomfortable ( no fairing ). I remember watching Danny Keaney doing 175 ( or was it 186 corcaigh? ) in a land speed record attempt on the straight road in Cork back in 1979. Bet it would be easily surpassed today.

rolliepoley

White line becomes a blur at about 140-150 and so does everything around you

pablo128

Near enough flat out on a friends Firestorm a few years ago. Like lads have said, I wasn't looking at the clocks.

cantdecide

corcaigh1 wrote: »

2nd gear wheelies over 130mph. Older and wiser now tho!!

130 on the back wheel but in third these days. A sure sign of a gentleman motorcyclist. I tip my brandy glass to you sir.

Cienciano

Handy thing to has is a gps, they usually measure max speed. Just check it afterwards

cantdecide

175 (on the clock) on my busa ... on a private lane of course.

Into The Blue

35 for the first 200 miles before the restrictor could come out, then up to 45 on my old aerox.

Nodster

Last time I cracked the ton was in the late 90's on a GT550, no interest in a track day but happy putting about on these days.....though sometimes I've been kown to wind the Bonnie up to the mid 90's



dissident biker of 35+ years?

inchiuvatu

150mph + on my blackbird (thats when i stopped checking the clocks).. it's also the speed my brain say "your going fast enough" to my wrist.

i can only get about 120 when im two up .. the misses gets a bit shouty/punch after 100mph... and some credit to givi the boxes stay on well at that speed too.

blade1

inchiuvatu wrote: »

150mph + on my blackbird (thats when i stopped checking the clocks).. it's also the speed my brain say "your going fast enough" to my wrist.

i can only get about 120 when im two up .. the misses gets a bit shouty/punch after 100mph... and some credit to givi the boxes stay on well at that speed too.

GIVI boxes 100mph???
It says on mine not to go over 80mph:pac::pac:
I'm not saying what speed these 3 boxes went!
Let's just say the front got a bit flighty....oh!..on a closed road I might add!!!:pac:

lennymc

Iirc i hit the speed limiter on my k8 gsxr thousand when I had it. Regularly hit 150-160 plus when racing. Going through debtors at 140 (estimated) with your knee down on a litre bike with 30 other people is one of the scariest/craziest/most feeling alive things i've ever done.

Although the k8 was probably the fastest bike I have owned, the busa acceleration was just soooooo strong. I've never experienced anything like it, even on the race bikes with adjusted gearing. Not sure what the modern crop of bikes are like, but the pure grunt was phenomenal. (Mine was a 2005 iirc) It was like that scene in star wars where they make the jump to light speed, and everything outside the window just got longer and stretched out, before, BAM, you were gone in an instant. I think I want another busa.

goodlad

blade1 wrote: »

GIVI boxes 100mph???
It says on mine not to go over 80mph:pac::pac:
I'm not saying what speed these 3 boxes went!
Let's just say the front got a bit flighty....oh!..on a closed road I might add!!!:pac:

I want that bike!

blade1

goodlad wrote: »

I want that bike!

Ok!
How much will you give me for it?:pac:

batman_oh

lennymc wrote: »

Iirc i hit the speed limiter on my k8 gsxr thousand when I had it. Regularly hit 150-160 plus when racing. Going through debtors at 140 (estimated) with your knee down on a litre bike with 30 other people is one of the scariest/craziest/most feeling alive things i've ever done.

Although the k8 was probably the fastest bike I have owned, the busa acceleration was just soooooo strong. I've never experienced anything like it, even on the race bikes with adjusted gearing. Not sure what the modern crop of bikes are like, but the pure grunt was phenomenal. (Mine was a 2005 iirc) It was like that scene in star wars where they make the jump to light speed, and everything outside the window just got longer and stretched out, before, BAM, you were gone in an instant. I think I want another busa.

Think I recall me aul K6 winning a 6th gear roll on :pac:
I miss those Sunday breakfast spins!

goodlad

blade1 wrote: »

Ok!
How much will you give me for it?:pac:

I'm pretty sure its outside my price range.

blade1

goodlad wrote: »

I'm pretty sure its outside my price range.

You can always get rid of a couple of the kids!:pac:
Seriously though I wouldn't sell it anyway unless someone offered me crazy money.

twowheelsonly

Interestingly I read an article once that stated that the brain can process information up to 180mph. (Was disputed though with others saying anything from 140mph upwards)

This is the reason for the tunnel vision when you're travelling at speed. The brain can't process the information it's receiving fast enough to build a complete picture of what's around so it's blurred. Objects in the distance are identifiable as the brain has extra time to process the info whereas objects up close (hedges, white lines etc ) become blurred. It still takes a fraction though for the brain to acknowledge what it's seeing and process that info so say you see a car in the distance and there's a process of 'car - must slow down - brake' rather than an instantaneous reaction such as when you're reading words on this page!!

The brain can however be 'trained' to do speed up by repetition which is why the likes of F1 drivers have a faster reactions than the rest of us.
Experience counts for a lot and does increase your brain speed. A complete novice hopping on the OPs bike and hitting 175 would probably be dead just when the word 'car' registered on his brain..

Skill Magill

^^^
Ye man, I've got a few years under the belt, these days I tend to be more careful, (sometimes)

inchiuvatu

blade1 wrote: »

GIVI boxes 100mph???
It says on mine not to go over 80mph:pac::pac:

I cheated a little bit after I read the speed warning on them

lennymc

batman_oh wrote: »

Think I recall me aul K6 winning a 6th gear roll on :pac:
I miss those Sunday breakfast spins!

yeah - that was against the k8. I remember that :mad::mad:

BlackWizard

I dunno how fast I took my ZZR but it was fast enough to warrant being worried about taking my eyes off the road.

I brough my old diesel Passat up to 120mph and it felt quite stable.

Mr Sheen!

The autobhan's got a good ole lashing out of it by myself and a couple of other heads on here last summer. Was on a VFR1200 at the time with the full luggage and it was very stable. I would not say its the fastest I have ever gone but definitely the fastest over such a large distance. . . . One day we were just filling the bikes up and only slowing to stop for juice and then off again for another tank.

TheArtOfNoise

I got up to 75mph on my Vespa px200 on the way from Dublin to the Belfast Easter Egg Run a few years ago, t'was very cold for easter time though!

honda boi

Only got to 90mph on my deauville 650.
Didn't think the bike would handle it if I went anymore !!!!

Wonda-Boy

I have redlined my current steed on the motorway after an emergency with my newborn, TBH it was a total whur at the time and cant remember much of it. When I got home after a few hrs I checked the speedo which records the fastest you have went and it was north of 170!!! Granted it was on a motorway all the way from Portlaoise to Meath.......

Looking back it was ****in totally ridiculous but you dont think of that when you think of the worst to your own child!!!

Did do well over 100 two up with Leppla of here, was great craic.......(For me anyway :pac::pac::pac::pac:)

Any as Leppla said, the autobahn in Germany was giving a right going over too!

Cienciano

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

I have redlined my current steed on the motorway after an emergency with my newborn, TBH it was a total whur at the time and cant remember much of it. When I got home after a few hrs I checked the speedo which records the fastest you have went and it was north of 170!!! Granted it was on a motorway all the way from Portlaoise to Meath.......

Looking back it was ****in totally ridiculous but you dont think of that when you think of the worst to your own child!!!

Worst time to do it, you're not concentrating on the road at all. I remember driving home and back to the hospital about 2 hours my first was born, could have driven through a red and wouldn't have noticed!

aaakev

Topped out a gsxr 750 at 168mph a few years ago. Fastest I've gone on 4 wheels was 175mph in a jag xkr, now that was fun!

jimgoose

aaakev wrote: »

Topped out a gsxr 750 at 168mph a few years ago. Fastest I've gone on 4 wheels was 175mph in a jag xkr, now that was fun!

Supercharged V8. Oooooh yeah, Jaaag.

aaakev

jimgoose wrote: »

Supercharged V8. Oooooh yeah, Jaaag.

Yup that's the one!

corcaigh1

aaakev wrote: »

Yup that's the one!

Limited to 155.4Mph..???

aaakev

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Limited to 155.4Mph..???

Clearly not if we went faster.....