Topic: Ever pinned out your speedo?

[kghost]

As speed Doubles.....Drag quadruples......

Courtesy of the East coast Timing association......

Current production 500 CC one mile records......

 P/P-500/2 Snart Racing Kathy Henry May-04 97.126
 P/P-500/4 Gio's Racing S. Mullins Oct-00 121.457
 P/P-500/R Darth Rotor Scott Guthrie Jun-99 113.065
 P/PP-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie May-98 114.943
 P/PS-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara May-98 113.498
 P/PS-500/R Darth Rotor Scott Guthrie Jun-99 112.92

Current production 650 CC one mile Records......

 P/P-650/2 Snart Racing Mark Wolniak Oct-04 104.358
 P/P-650/4 Adams Performance C. Ellis Oct-99 173.477
 P/P-650/R Darth Rotor Scott Guthrie Jun-99 112.500
 P/PP-650/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie May-98 114.650
 P/PS-650/4 Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara Oct-98 111.248
 P/PS-650/R Darth Rotor Scott Guthrie Jun-99 107.784

Modified Non-pushrod 500 CC One mile Records.....

 M/G-500/2 OFOS Racing T.J. Cannon Apr-05 95.861
 M/G-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-96 131.195
 M/G-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 112.782
 M/F-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-96 127.841
 M/F-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 112.782
 M/BG-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-96 124.654
 M/BG-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 111.248
 M/BF-500/4 Williams Racing C. Williams Apr-95 134.128
 M/BF-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 111.111
5007 M/VG-500/4 Bright Star Racing David Anderson May-06 60.198
 MPS/G-500/2 R D Racing R. Danneman May-97 142.180
 MPS/G-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie May-02 132.961
 MPS/G-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 110.159
873 MPS/F-500/2 Snart Racing Thomas Cronan Apr-05 130.119
 MPS/F-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-96 131.195
 MPS/F-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 108.565
 MPS/BG-500/4 Gio's Racing S. Mullins Mar-02 127.841
 MPS/BG-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 109.756
 MPS/BF-500/4 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie May-02 132.782
 MPS/BF-500/R Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Jun-99 108.173

Modified Non-Pushrod 650 CC one mile records.........

 M/G-650/2 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Apr-95 163.636
2182 M/G-650/4 Forstall & Deluca Mark DeLuca Oct-05 157.345
 M/G-650/R Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara Jun-99 106.509
 M/F-650/2 Scott Guthrie Racing Scott Guthrie Apr-95 160.142
2182 M/F-650/4 Forstall & Deluca Mark DeLuca May-05 154.064
 M/F-650/R Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara Jun-99 106.383
6-B M/BG-650/2 OFOS Racing T.J. Cannon Oct-05 90.296
9241 M/BG-650/4 Superstreet bike Magazine Don Smith May-04 150.132
 M/BG-650/R Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara Jun-99 105.882
5-B M/BF-650/2 OFOS Racing Jim Cannon May-06 89.121
 M/BF-650/4 Gio's Racing S. Mullins Jun-99 156.522
169 MPS/G-650/2 Plan B Racing Tom Schaefer May-06 148.453
9241 MPS/G-650/4 Super StreetBike Magazine Thomas Cronan Jun-04 168.092
873 MPS/F-650/2 Snart Racing Thomas Cronan May-05 129.490
 MPS/F-650/4 Team Kawasaki C. Ellis Jun-00 177.515
9241 MPS/BG-650/4 Super StreetBike Magazine Thomas Cronan Jun-04 166.051
9241 MPS/BF-650/4 Super StreetBike Magazine Don Smith Jun-04 165.898
 MPS/BF-650/R Scott Guthrie Racing C. McNamara Apr-00 129.683

[dgfischer]

Now that I’ve thought about it, my bike is real fast also. You see, my bike travels at the speed of light. At the speed of light, time stands still and theoretically when traveling faster than the speed of light, I (and my bike) can travel back in time. I can prove it also.
     After I finish posting this, I’ll take my bike out for a ride and when I come back I’ll edit my previous post to include the actual speed of light. I would edit this post, but I’ll be traveling faster than the speed of light and I (and my bike) will travel back in time and this post won’t be here when I return. You will find the proof in the post time of this post and the edit time of my earlier post in this thread.

[6pkrunner]

But once at the speed of light you are now transformed from mass into energy - what are the chances of when you slow from the speed of light, you return as the very same person/thing that you were upon reaching the speed of light? Maybe one can re-enter this universe and dimension as an empty beer car, or maybe the bicycle seat of Pamela Anderson?

And no speculation about Kid Rock borrowing her bike - okay?

[burmashave]

I measure speed by the doppler shift of light.  I know I'm going fast when the dopple has fully shifted.

[6pkrunner]

I missed a shift of light going into second once. Thought the rods were going to wind up on the road.  However a local Doppleganger helped me freshen up the lower end so I could carry on shiftily.

[burmashave]

Ha, ha, ha.  I dare say you are the first, kind sir, to use the word Doppelganger in this forum.

[medic09]

glad to see we have such an ENLIGHTENED crew...

[mrbreeze]

I used to have a little 2 stroker when I was a kid. One time ,I think I was approaching the speed of light. The needle on my speedo pegged and I was just topping out in 2nd. After I hit 3rd,it went all the way around and started over!! I still had 2 more gears but I was goin so fast it was just a blur. Once I topped out in 5th, I saw God! It was so freaky...I couldn't believe. When I got back home,my speedo was melted! I went down and had the bike dynoed immediately.You wouldn't believe what that sucker was putting out (I don't either!).

[medic09]

things are often a blur in my rear-view mirrors, so I must be going awfully fast away from them, eh? 

[dgfischer]

Once I topped out in 5th, I saw God!

No,That wasnt God, That was me flying by you in 4th gear. You see I had a little 2 stroke when I was a kid also, but mine was bored out.
 

[mrbreeze]

Did your speedo peg out and then come around and start all over? Mine did! I was going over 160 MPH.I lost the dyno results though.....Damn!!!

[Klark Kent]

with hp comes bs... or is that hs? and i do not mean hurma shave...
-KK

[mrbreeze]

Oh,I'm sorry....just thought this was the BS post(and I don't mean BurmaShave either!)

[anubiscycle]

It seems with the childish BS that is happening on this forum, we will all need to have a team of scientist to verify anything said here. Even if we did some dick would have to contest it.

Just one,,, someone here show where I have given you #$%* about a claim of any of your equipment. If you can't then piss off.

Some people are just #$%* and they are making up for something. Some have to knock someone else down to validate themselves. If you have such a big weiner (dick waver), go find a cow. I am sure she will like you 

I call this the video gamer mentality. They can tell us everything about war but have never been in a situation where people are trying to kill you. Never will because the couch is sew to thier ass.

If you were not on the f^ckin bike at the time how can you contest anything? But with the above posts I contest the intellectual presence in this forum.

[Terry in Australia]

There's definately some BS happening here Tom................... 

[ofreen]

It seems with the childish BS that is happening on this forum, we will all need to have a team of scientist to verify anything said here. Even if we did some dick would have to contest it.
If you were not on the f^ckin bike at the time how can you contest anything? But with the above posts I contest the intellectual presence in this forum.

No need to get on your high horse and insult people.  You claimed you went 155+ mph on your CB500.  There is a lot of experience here, and that experience tells them that is unlikely.  You are unwilling to back it up.  Therefore, you have received what looks like to me as some pretty gentle ribbing.  There are other places that, if you made that claim, they'd rip you a new one.

[anubiscycle]

It seems with the childish BS that is happening on this forum, we will all need to have a team of scientist to verify anything said here. Even if we did some dick would have to contest it.
If you were not on the f^ckin bike at the time how can you contest anything? But with the above posts I contest the intellectual presence in this forum.

No need to get on your high horse and insult people.  You claimed you went 155+ mph on your CB500.  There is a lot of experience here, and that experience tells them that is unlikely.  You are unwilling to back it up.  Therefore, you have received what looks like to me as some pretty gentle ribbing.  There are other places that, if you made that claim, they'd rip you a new one.

And huh how the #$%* is it supposed to be proven? If I did video, some stupid #$%* would say it was altered. If I showed a radar gun shot in real time that too would be claimed as false. If I had a speeding ticket with the numbers on it, it would be claimed altered.

Again this forum can stuff it.

I will take the stance that if someone says thier bike is running, they are problably full #$%* with the rare exception of a few here.

[ofreen]

And huh how the #$%* is it supposed to be proven?

If your CB500 is truly capable of 155+, that is a remarkable thing, not even considering it was with a rider of your size.  So naturally people would be curious about it.  You dodged the question about dyno results and you didn't answer the question about gearing.  Rather than being defensive and insulting, why not trying to enlighten us with some data?  I know I haven't seen it all, so tell me what you've got.  I am interested.

[anubiscycle]

And huh how the #$%* is it supposed to be proven?

If your CB500 is truly capable of 155+, that is a remarkable thing, not even considering it was with a rider of your size.  So naturally people would be curious about it.  You dodged the question about dyno results and you didn't answer the question about gearing.  Rather than being defensive and insulting, why not trying to enlighten us with some data?  I know I haven't seen it all, so tell me what you've got.  I am interested.

I dodged nothing. I have posted the results many times. I have even given them out in IM's after the fact. I can not help you did not see it.

This tops out at 11,000-about 11,500 RPM (momentarily - would not hold it there too long). Not sure I would wind it much harder than that. When I ride it normally I keep it resonable at about 8-9K. It was balanced before we ever messed with it. I do not remember what the frick the front and rear sprockets are and I'm not rolling on the ground or taking it apart to tell you. Not unless you are willing to disassemble the top end of your bike and tell me what the ring gaps are. 

[Jeff]

Tom,
I hope you're not pissed at me for being the first to question you. I think everyone here is just having a little bit of fun... nothing harmful is meant by the ribbing, as ofreen also stated.

May I suggest taking a step back and looking at this as, instead of being the one who posted, imagine being someone who is just reading a claim of someone taking a CB550 up to those high speeds. I think if you do this, you may realize that we have valid reasoning to doubt the mph claim you make.

Look at it this way... remember a while back the MN idiot who was clocked by an aerial cop of doing 205mph on his RC51? How many people actually believed that? Only the people who don't know jack about bikes. Hell, Miguel Duhamel could only hit 190 or so on his FACTORY RC51 at Brainerd, the track with the longest straight on any race course in the US. I'm sorry if it upsets you, but to me, but 155-165 on a 30 year old, air-cooled 550, race prepped even, just sounds a bit, ummm, optimistic. Hell, then consider whether or not the tires could stand up to those speeds, because I don't know of many z-rated tires that would fit a 550, stock sizes anyway.

I, and I'm sure others here, would love to be proven wrong, not with claims, but with fact. A speedometer unfortunately is not fact.

Again, I'm sorry if I upset you. We're just a group of interested people who are having a bit of fun.

Jeff

[Jeff]

Oh, and one other thought... if Home Wrecker really will do 155 - 165mph, you need to get that bike out to Bonneville and see what she'll really do, because that is some serious speed.

Jeff

[anubiscycle]

I am just saying it pinned out the speedo.....................

DAMN... I do not know if it was accurate. But I can tell you I was not crawling.

If I can get a radar gun we will put hard numbers to this thought.

[Jeff]

Saying it pinned the speedo is definitely believable. And I'm sure it definitely wasn't crawling. It's just when you made the 155-165 claim that the questions started.

Jeff

[anubiscycle]

Well that's what the speedo said 

But really all bull#$%* aside, I really want to get some hard numbers on how fast - or SLOW she really is. This just can not be done with someone chasing me (aside from a squad car) on the roads around here for very long.

[Jeff]

Where'd you get the 150 speedo? Both my 77 and my 74 parts bike come with 120.

It'd be hella cool to go out to Bonneville during speed week. That's definitely one place to see what she's got without having Barney Fife on your case.

Jeff