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It's been some time since I posted here. I'm not sure if this was the bike I had last time (1998 VTR1000F). If it is it will have changed somewhat, as I had a fairly high speed off on it about 12 months ago. The bike and myself were lucky as we both slid down the road a very long way. We were lucky enough not to hit any on coming traffic or roadside obstacles. I was fine thanks to my Dainese leathers, but the bike suffered a fair bit of cosmetic damage and some bending of support frames like the seat and fairing frames. One pipe was bent as was one clip-on. The rest was just your normal blinkers, mirrors, bar end, and levers type of damage. The body work was mostly repairable with fibreglass, but I did have to buy a new seat pod. The paint is two pack and the colour is something my son mixed. It is basically black with red, blue and some green pearl added. It's been back on the road for six months now. With some luck I'll avoid crashing it again for a little while.

The bike is basically stock. I have gone to some effort to set up the suspension though. Modifications at this stage are fairly simple. The cosmetic ones are just the blinkers, mirrors, paint, and a shortened rear fender. The mechanical ones are a spacer fitted to the rear shock to reduce the trail and speed up the steering, Hell brake lines fitted to the front and rear, cast iron racing discs fitted to the front, and CBR900RR/600RR brake callipers and master cylinder.

I still have a few more things I would like to do. I'm happy enough with the engine, but I would like to further improve the suspension. So some aftermarket valve bodies in the shock and forks will be the next stop. More than likely I will use Race Tech Gold Valves as I'm familiar with there products.





These are the brake mods I did over Christmas.
 
Very nice rebuild job Colin!
I'll bet it's a blast to ride. Here's hoping you can keep the shiny side up with all that work in her.
 
Falling off is good ukemi practise though It does get a little expensive, and I'm getting a little old, so I'll most likely try to reduce this method of training.
 
Yea I know what you mean at our age road rash is not nearly as cool as it was when you were 20.
 
Just found this thread. I have owned a few bikes
more recently a Honda Fireblade CBR900RRW
Honda GSXF 750, and my beasty i've always wanted
Suzuki GSXR1300 - Hayabusa
 
My wife wants a Busa...............for her FIRST BIKE!!!!!!!!

That is, until I showed her how much power those things have and she talked to some experience sport bike riders!! Now she says that maybe a C50 Boulevard would be a good first bike!
 
Yea the Hayabusa is some bike. A friend of my son in law has a tricked out one. He asked me if I wanted to give it a try and see what it would do. I thought about it but thought better about it and declined the invitation. I know I couldn’t resist rolling back on it to see what it would do and my days of ridding at 180 mph + on the street should be over.
I have stretched out my bike every now and then. I’ve had it in the 120 on the speedometer a couple of time but I try not to let that little devil on my shoulder talk me in to that anymore.
The C50 Boulevard is a nice starter bike.
 
The earlier ones are the full 220mph models, mines restricted to 186mph (like i gonna go that fast anyway ) not sure if it's a worldwide thing or just the UK ?

Wouldn't recommend a Busa for a first bike, but the GSXF was a good first bike for me.

Maybe she'll get one one day
 
The speedo might show 220mph but the bike could never do it

What always amazes me about them is how useable they are whilst having that mind bogling acceleration. Definitely a cool bike.

Mitch
 
Yep most speedometers are off. The fastest stock production bike is a BMW at 173.57 mph.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/BMW-motorcycles/bmw-bonneville-record.htm

There are so many different records depending on what you do and where you run. Here is a fast Hayabusa that you could put on the street but it’s not stock by a long shot.

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/suzuki/one-fast-busa-16429.html

Here is one for all us crazy types that think they want to get into Guinness world records.
Blind folded at 265 mph.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/travel_and_transport/bikes_and_motorbikes/blindfold_motorcycle_speed_record.aspx


Here is a bike for the “treehuggers” that will get you there.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/electric_motorc.php



And if you have the money, time and courage you could try to beat this.

http://www.gizmag.com/go/6550/
 
I also found this so it depends on whom you talk to concerning the fastest stock motorcycle.


http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/newsandupdates/122_0608_2007_mv_agusta_f41000r_bonneville/index.html
 
The early Busa's were good for a genuine 320kph. The Japanese manufacturers then got together and decided to speed limit all their bikes to under 300kph. The fastest current (at least I think it is still current) production bike is the MV Augusta F4R312. It is supposedly good for 312kph.
 
My Son is in the process of painting his bike at the moment. It still isn't finished, he has decided to add more blue, and some pearl in the clear.
 
It looks like it will come out very nice.
As far as fastest stock bikes go there are so many different classes in speed records I can’t keep up with them. The thing is because of the bad publicity I believe most manufactures don’t support or try and push stock bike land speed records.
 
This record has no class. The bike just has to be a completely standard production bike. The MV measured their speed at Bonneville Salt Flats, in the usually accepted manner. For me there is another more important fact. It is also the fastest ever production bike around Nürburgring race track. So not only does it just go fast, it handles and brakes well too.

Public reaction is certainly a factor, but all the bike manufacturers that market sports bikes imply there bikes are the best and fastest. They also do extensive high speed tests in the development of the bikes. They just don't like to be openly evaluated and compared. In the case of the Japanese manufacturers I think that public reaction was a large part of their decision to limit speed below 300kph. I also think there was a fair bit of collusion between them so as not to get stuck competing against each other in something as fruitless as top speed.
 
He is still working on it. The weather here hasn't been that good for painting, it's been fairly hot and very humid. I have three driers fitted to my compressor and lines, yet still get too much water coming out of the gun.
 
I found this and thought it might be fun for the bikers here. Now remember this is just for fun so don’t take it too serious as "biker” can mean different things to different people.

By the way I scored 43 spokes.
 
Well the warm weather has started and the ridding is again great. I took the wife on a ride Saturday then a brother and I went out Sunday. I’ll try and get some pictures on a ride and put up here.

I hope Dean in smiling down on us.
 
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