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<blockquote data-quote="stinky" data-source="post: 3307605" data-attributes="member: 91993">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&#039;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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stinky, post: 3307605, member: 91993"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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