rnickymouse failure Mulholland fest

[LuciferMutt]

Well, that'll teach ya to pull the bags off before trying to ride on the docks...

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Originally Posted by khager

I see your point and do agree that cages have more lateral grip, and the penalty is not as high.

I am basically saying since the average cage is 6' wide and the average bike 2', the bike has 8' to play with in a 10' wide lane where as the cage has 4' and the bike can therefore use that space to straighten the corners a little, which is what the cage wants to do, but can't without coming out of his lane, so he has to stay pretty much on a fixed track.

So with that in mind I am saying the bike can carry more speed into and thru the corner. My opinion of course!

I read a 'shootout' in a moto journal years ago putting a then current sportbike up against, IIRC, a Corvette. The bike won the braking, acceleration (OK, physicists out there - it won just acceleration) but the 'vette had the corners.

I find it tough to believe that today's street legal automobiles would prevail over the hottest street legal bikes, though.

[slartidbartfast]

Originally Posted by slide

I read a 'shootout' in a moto journal years ago putting a then current sportbike up against, IIRC, a Corvette. The bike won the braking, acceleration (OK, physicists out there - it won just acceleration) but the 'vette had the corners.

I find it tough to believe that today's street legal automobiles would prevail over the hottest street legal bikes, though.

I remember the one (although I'm sure there have been several) FZR1000 against Corvette. I recall the details differently however. Bike out-accelerated, out-slalomed and possibly out-braked the car in a straight line. Car had a slight edge in continuous circling (G-force cornering) and theoretically had a higher top speed, although I think they indicated it would take the 'vette more than five miles to catch the bike if they took off together on a straight road. The thing I recall most however, was that, at the end of a weekend of testing, the car had gone through two sets of tires and brakes, the clutch was shot and it was sounding generally rough. The bike, however, was fine.

When you start talking about track vehicles, cars can pull higher G's in corners, which makes up for their wider track on most courses. Top Gear have done a couple of bike v's car shoot-outs with mixed results but usually favoring the car. Here's one:

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Yes, I intuited that which is why I specified street legal bikes vs street legal cars. We can also add that an $11k sportbike will outperform or match a quarter a million dollar Ferrari 599 in all or most categories aside from weather protection.

The sportbike will not demand a $5k service every 10.000 km either.

[Thinc2]

Originally Posted by slartidbartfast

I remember the one (although I'm sure there have been several) FZR1000 against Corvette. I recall the details differently however. Bike out-accelerated, out-slalomed and possibly out-braked the car in a straight line. Car had a slight edge in continuous circling (G-force cornering) and theoretically had a higher top speed, although I think they indicated it would take the 'vette more than five miles to catch the bike if they took off together on a straight road. The thing I recall most however, was that, at the end of a weekend of testing, the car had gone through two sets of tires and brakes, the clutch was shot and it was sounding generally rough. The bike, however, was fine.

When you start talking about track vehicles, cars can pull higher G's in corners, which makes up for their wider track on most courses. Top Gear have done a couple of bike v's car shoot-outs with mixed results but usually favoring the car. Here's one:

"I'm not going to ride the bike because I'm a heterosexual"

"and i don't like wearing rubber trousers..."



Classic Top Gear.

[crofrog]

Originally Posted by khager

I see your point and do agree that cages have more lateral grip, and the penalty is not as high.

I am basically saying since the average cage is 6' wide and the average bike 2', the bike has 8' to play with in a 10' wide lane where as the cage has 4' and the bike can therefore use that space to straighten the corners a little, which is what the cage wants to do, but can't without coming out of his lane, so he has to stay pretty much on a fixed track.

So with that in mind I am saying the bike can carry more speed into and thru the corner. My opinion of course!

The bike can take a better line for sure in the corners in the lane on the bike you can late apex and start opening the radius up and standing it up to drive down the next straight away. It also some corners that are slightly decreasing radius for a car might end up being constant radius for you. Not to mention if you've got a bit of road with a bunch of left right kinks you can end up just keeping the bike more or less straight through them just switching which side of your lane on your compared to the car moving the car around allot.

I think the car would have a faster corner speed most of the time though, by that I mean in the slowest part of the corner the car would be going faster then the bike at it's slowest part of the corner, just the ability for the bike to use it's acceleration could make it faster.

The other thing you need to think about when comparing bikes to race cars is aero grip. F1 cars can easily do 4 to 5 g's under braking and in the corners at speed. Bikes don't get any more grip as they go faster.

For comparison Ferrari set an unoffical lap record at Laguna Seca of 1:05.7, motogp bikes where lapping around 1:21.

The tires make a huge difference too most car tires are going to be hard pressed to do more than about .95g and all seasons aren't going to do more than .85 or so some of the really stick summer tires and obviously race tires will start pushing it over 1g. Bikes basically always have race tires on them when compared to normal car tires.

[slartidbartfast]

Originally Posted by Thinc2

"I'm not going to ride the bike because I'm a heterosexual"

"and i don't like wearing rubber trousers..."



Classic Top Gear.

Their latest S100RR v's top-of-the-line Aerial Atom race is not available on YouTube but had the car beating the bike by less than a second. The Atom also beat every other car ever raced on the Top Gear test track by more than a second, making the S100RR the second fastest street legal vehicle ever to lap the Top Gear track - faster than a $1,300,000+ Bugatti Veyron (or any other production car except an Atom)

[crofrog]

Originally Posted by slartidbartfast

Their latest S100RR v's top-of-the-line Aerial Atom race is not available on YouTube but had the car beating the bike by less than a second. The Atom also beat every other car ever raced on the Top Gear test track by more than a second, making the S100RR the second fastest street legal vehicle ever to lap the Top Gear track - faster than a $1,300,000+ Bugatti Veyron (or any other production car except an Atom)

Article about it
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...op-gear-track/

[GI_JO_NATHAN]

Originally Posted by Typhon

Ouch

That's awesome!

[TinyTrains]

Originally Posted by Typhon

Not Mulholland but this has to suck

French motorcycle publication Moto-Journal was doing a shoot when things went terribly wrong.

http://blog.motorcycle.com/2012/12/0...rt-pier-video/

[Mambo Dave]

Originally Posted by TinyTrains

French motorcycle publication Moto-Journal was doing a shoot when things went terribly wrong.

http://blog.motorcycle.com/2012/12/0...rt-pier-video/

Well then, considering the crazy stuff those guys do and film - I'm not quite sure 'wrong' is the way I'd describe it. They have one of the best online motorcycle shows I've seen even if I can't understand them.

[bwalsh]

Originally Posted by DOGSROOT

Wonder how the bike fared?

I gave it a 9.3 for the nice nose stand and the 180° pirouette...

Originally Posted by DOGSROOT

Yup.

"Le journaliste préféré des fans de Moto Journal a chuté dans le Port de Saint Martin pendant un tournage au guidon d'un FJR. Il s'en sort avec seulement un pouce luxé et quelques hématomes."

It says he hurt his thumb, and got a few bruises.

His ego probably suffered the most.

I was thinking it looked like some moto ad or a review.

He's lucky he didn't land on his back on the side of the boat. Could have turned out real bad.

[ride4fun562]

Rode the snake for the first time today, the fact that people always crash there is even funnier now that ive done it on knobbies without crashing.

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Originally Posted by ride4fun562

Rode the snake for the first time today, the fact that people always crash there is even funnier now that ive done it on knobbies without crashing.

Some of them exceeded 20 mph on the straight parts.

[Aussijussi]

Originally Posted by slartidbartfast

Their latest S100RR v's top-of-the-line Aerial Atom race is not available on YouTube but had the car beating the bike by less than a second. The Atom also beat every other car ever raced on the Top Gear test track by more than a second, making the S100RR the second fastest street legal vehicle ever to lap the Top Gear track - faster than a $1,300,000+ Bugatti Veyron (or any other production car except an Atom)

Something like the new Audi rs 6 quatro with 550 hp, while probably losing in acceleration and top speed, to a bike, it would be interesting to see how they'd go on a tight course.