220MPH on a bike?

NitRoDrivEn · 08-29-2005, 08:34 PM

http://mantapower.viciousnest.net/vid/220mph.wmv

Looks real enough to me, but how can someone hang on at speeds like that? I mean, 220MPH winds (not including any gusts there could've been) hitting you head-first could easily knock you right off.

zozza8 · 08-29-2005, 08:46 PM

idk if that is mph but it was def. past 220...gotta love the hya

deadbolt_35 · 08-29-2005, 11:57 PM

i have my doubts...i mean, i know that bikes can be insanely fast with crazy power to weight ratios...but that thing went from 60-220 like 11 or 12 seconds!

Ridenour · 08-30-2005, 09:38 AM

Damn. That was rediculous. It was really hard to tell if her was actually doing 220. He might've had a miscalibrated speedometer. Stuff was going by fast enough that it was believable, but sometimes it looked a little too slow. If he wasn't going 220, I think he was going damn close though. He was deffinately going at least 200 mph at the end.

crrrazy · 08-30-2005, 02:40 PM

I Had Post This Befor

deadbolt_35 · 08-30-2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crrrazy

I Had Post This Befor

and what are your thoughts on it?

crrrazy · 08-31-2005, 01:25 AM

It's One Hell Of A Video

musculo · 08-31-2005, 08:18 PM

Busas are notorious for their speedo inaccuracy. A friend of mine had tested its top speed several times using GPS and the best he could do (the bike simply couldn't go any faster) was 188 mph (with light tailwind) while speedo was buried past 220mph. This is stock bike. But even if moded, once you reach that speed, it takes a lot to gain 30+ mph, a lot! Assuming you can hold on of course which is entirely different topic.
Nevertheless, this is very impressive, this guy is doing wheelie past 130 mph!

lamehonda · 08-31-2005, 11:53 PM

All I know is that was damn fast and that guy was ready to meet his maker.

Lamboholic · 09-01-2005, 09:20 AM

My vote is defenately not faster then 188MPH, but it sounds good.

Igovert500 · 09-02-2005, 10:06 AM

Impressive, no matter how inaccurate the speedo was.

2.2 Straight six · 09-04-2005, 07:19 PM

i've read on stock gearing and in totally stock form that can pass 200mph (performance bike magazine) but they lose in the handling stakes, beside these bikes often have over 1000bhp/ton in standard from an much of that power is totally accesible an little is lost through drivetrain like you get in cars. i doubt that a speed is so inaccurite to read 220+ an be doing a "real" 188, but thats just my opinion

OCUJer · 09-21-2005, 10:50 PM

No way is he doing 220mph. He's going quick but it ain't no 220. Watch the median access roads they go past way too slow for over 200 miles an hour. Also watch the cars on the other side, distance will appear to slow them down but they down right crawl by him. I figure 150+ range but not 220. Heck when the Busas first came out it took a pro-rider 3 passes down a specially prepared airplane runway to get his Busa above 200, no way this guy does it on an open road in less than 19 seconds. (He lays into the bike 14 seconds into the video and the speedo tops out at 33 or 34 seconds.) Plus holding a wheelie at 130 mph seems a bit far fetched to me, especially as high as that one was. In my never so humble opinion he has rigged the speedo to read faster than what he's actually doing.

CBFryman · 09-24-2005, 08:54 PM

NOT 220mph.... get in your car, get on any road, hit 100mph, watch the lines go by...
look at how slow the lines where going by in the vid when he was doing "100mph"
my geussing is he has a rear sprocket that the trick bikes use and never had the spedo recalibrated for the different gear ratio.
also, in the begining when he is creaaping over to the other bike at maybe 2-3mph the spedo looked like about 5mph.
also
yo ucan have the power to weight ratio but you have to have the traction to over come the friction caused by the wind...accelerating like he was at "180mph" + is not likely when you have the traction patch of a size 6 shoe....
there is a thing with high performance bikes called "tha hand of god" where you will reach a ver yfast speed, have the power and gearing to keep going but not the traction. hence the drag bikes that really do do 220mph have a rear tire the size of jr. Dragsters....

still a kool vid though

OCUJer · 09-26-2005, 12:34 AM

I just watched it again, and CBFryman is right. Watch the last 5 seconds of the video or so, when his speedo hits 100 look at the lines in the road. Now, I've never been 200mph, but I have been up to 100mph and those lines go by A LOT faster than that at 75 or 80 much less 100mph. This video is faked for sure.

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