I was reading on my flight back to california yesterday and I came accoss something interesting when reading an artical about the new for 2008 GSX 1300R. What I found was that when the prior to 1999. the CBR 1100XX black bird was the worlds fastest production motorcycle. I find it comforting that it took a 175 horsepower 1300 CC beast to knock the blackbird off the pedistal. I don't ride a black bird. I ride a 91 1000F, But for what its worth, those of you who ride blackbirds can draw comfort that when your ride was first introduced to the public it not only was a great all round motorcycle, that only honda could build but it was the fastest street legal production motorcycle in the world.

 

Kent Stotz proved that. he has the fastest honda in the world right now.. and he rides a blackbird but just recently went to the 1000RR

 

I had two of them, 2002 models, combined 32000 miles. The only thing bad that ever happened to either one was I lost a handlebar end screw one day. Never brought either to a shop for anything, never turned a sparkplug, nothing but air filter oil filters and tires. Had a Two Bros full system Ti-Can, the P.F.I. did its thing and required no additional tuning or power commander......

Performance!............
2007 1k hondas kawis and zukes would pull ahead slightly below 100 for a little while but never took long to run them down. Always ran side by side with stock busa's from any speed to the limiter in 6th, never had a zx12 keep up. This past year the new zx14's were the first stock bikes to pull away from me. I traded the XX on a new 07 st1300 a few months back and love it.....

 

I heard that in America, there's a lot of speed control?
Luckely, I live near the German border, so I can drive as fast as I want.

 

"speed control" that is an interesting way to put it.

yea, speed limits exist here in the US.

the speed control is all in your right wrist.

To twist or not to twist, thats the question.

 

I think he may be talking about the restrictions the US bikes have, Limiting them to 186.

 

I thought the kawi ninja zx-14 was the fastest production bike for a few years. Am I wrong?

 

The ZX14 didnt come out till last year.

 

Right you are... stupid me. It is now though isnt it?

 

HAHAH just imagine if you could get your hands on the tomahawk....186 mph is NOTHING compared to what you could do with a 500+rwhp v-10 1000lb rocket.....(im talking about the viper bike.....)

and i quote:
"The Dodge Tomahawk can reach 60 miles an hour in about 2.5 seconds, and has a theoretical top speed of nearly 400 mph."

http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html

i honestly dont think i have thesack to ride that thing....props to the test rider however...dude must have had a custom seat pan moulded to fit those bowling *****....

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