Topic: Fastest you've ridden your bike. MPH and RPM. Year and model of bike.

[BobbyR]

100+ on the Taconic Parkway in NY. Just cruising at 70 when I got the urge. Not very dramatic. The next week I need to replace the speedo cable.

[LesterPiglet]

You broke it you rebel.   

[Bailgang]

Around 100 on my 77 cb750F following my youngest son and his cbr600 trying to make it to the Indy Moto GP on time earlier this past summer ........ with my wife on back with me. 

[dusterdude]

90ish on my ironhead many years ago on the street,went 112 on my cbr on the dragstrip


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[El Taco]

Interstate, I've done about 105mph, 6500-7500rpm, on a 78 GL1000. Back tire started bouncing around 90mph, so I didn't hold it long.

Speed rated tires to come this summer!

[PeWe]

210km/h. [130mph] Verified with other bikes all showed the same speed.
Several times back in the days, alone such as with passenger + plenty of luggage in Sweden and going south. 210km/h was the end station.  Good acceleration up to 200km/h then slowly up to 210.... I was disappointed of not reaching 220-230km/h. My engine was tuned and still is... now hotter cam and electronic ignition might make 220 [136mph] possible

No rpm's when I did not have a tachometer back then.. 17/48 sprockets =higher rpms. I tried that when I thought it lacked power in higher speed due to the said speed limit.

[vfourfreak]

Most fun : Indicated 125 mph , early morning past Carlsbad Caverns, 1983 CB1100F. Kept it at that speed for 20mins. he he. Deaf as a post after.

Scariest : Probably app 140 mph Yamaha TZ350H,  road race in Ireland.  22 Years old, had no clue except hold it wide open and brake late - and avoid trees, lamp posts, gates etc etc

Kev

[SteveD CB500F]

Do any of you guys get to watch the road racing from Northern Ireland?

Northwest 200:  200mph, three/four abreast, ordinary (main) roads with verges/lamp posts/white lines etc...

Cookstown 100:  190/200mph, three abreast, country lanes(!) with verges etc (no white lines as roads too narrow...

That's scary.

At the Iom TT they go at 10 second intervals
At the NW200 they go at 30 second intervals (but 10 bikes at a time)

[springer]

1976 cb550 105 mph

2007 suzuki gsx1300r with some mods 197 mph

[vfourfreak]

This is the real deal :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1QhSmNkL0


Kev

[750cafe]

This is the real deal :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1QhSmNkL0


Kev

He certainly makes it look EASY. The rest of the "racers" must have left their good game at home that day. 

Eric

[Terry in Australia]

230 KPH (143 MPH) on my Yamaha FJ1200. It wanted to go faster, but I chickened out..............

[Vicman]

162 on my V45 Sabre back in the 80s verified by stopwatch and mile marker.
I repeated it several times one summer...
Stupid 85mph speedos in the 80s.

[Terry in Australia]

162 on my V45 Sabre back in the 80s verified by stopwatch and mile marker.
I repeated it several times one summer...
Stupid 85mph speedos in the 80s.

That must have been down a mineshaft mate, the top speed for a V45 was a shade over 120, according to this:

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_vf750%20sabra%2082.htm

Actually, looking at it, a mineshaft would be a good place to put the V45? Cheers, Terry.

[matchstikman]

1976 750f1, 110mph, just over 7 grand, with my girl on back.  It was on a country road at sunset. How poetic.

[Vicman]

Terry,
Hot Rod mag and Cycle World both tested the bike but Hot Rod took it out to the the flats and pulled 165 out of it after the CW guys flogged it. I don't have the article any more but it was in print back then.
I only weighed 140 pound back then and not too much of it was in brains...The method of calculation was sound, the bike had an onboard stop clock located on the grip. Say what you want but I made lots of beer money off Ninja riders who would race 110 pulls back in the day.

[Retro Rocket]

Terry,
Hot Rod mag and Cycle World both tested the bike but Hot Rod took it out to the the flats and pulled 165 out of it after the CW guys flogged it. I don't have the article any more but it was in print back then.
I only weighed 140 pound back then and not too much of it was in brains...The method of calculation was sound, the bike had an onboard stop clock located on the grip. Say what you want but I made lots of beer money off Ninja riders who would race 110 pulls back in the day.

And after riding a hell of a lot of bikes including one of those sabres and all the 80's V4 Honda's, I find it extremely hard to believe that speed as well, that bike would have to have been geared up a fair bit and needed miles just to get close {and still wouldn't have done that speed in my opinion because its a shaft drive and the gearing can not be changed}, I also weighed 145-150 pounds back then {still only 155 now} . I've done 160+ on my 1988 GPX750 Ninja race bike with well over 100HP, and with full fairing and I can  garantee you that the sabre was gutless by comparison. My mates 140HP GSXR1100 was only slightly faster than my race prepped 750, and I mean fractionally, and considering the V45 only had 82HP and that was at the crank, I think your method of measuring  speed was wrong or you are mistaken, there's NO WAY a stock V45 Sabre could achieve that speed, even a worked one would have trouble achieving that, especially without a fairing...

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, I don't like bashing other members, but if a V45 will do 160 MPH, my motorised bicycle will do the ton!

[matchstikman]

My first bike was a 96' katana 600. The inadequate windshield had been painted over by the last owner so i had to peak over the top of it when i really needed to tuck in and at 130mph the air flow tried to rip me right off the bike.  She only had another 5 or 6mph left in her anyway.

[Vicman]

You win, I'll not tell the story again.

But I did ride the BRP this weekend and hi 45mph on my 82 KZ1000

[750cafe]

I owned an '84 V65 Sabre and it would indeed do a lot more than a mere V45. 
Fourth gear would do more than 145 and it had two more gears left including O.D. 

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/honda/honda_vf1100%20sabra.htm


Eric

[Terry in Australia]

I owned an '84 V65 Sabre and it would indeed do a lot more than a mere V45. 
Fourth gear would do more than 145 and it had two more gears left including O.D. 

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/honda/honda_vf1100%20sabra.htm
Eric

Ha ha, as much as I'm sure you're pumped at that review Eric, I just checked what they said about my GL1200 and they said it'll do 151 MPH? What a crock of crap! Cheers, Terry.

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_gl1200%2087%20inter.htm

[HondaMan]

I owned an '84 V65 Sabre and it would indeed do a lot more than a mere V45. 
Fourth gear would do more than 145 and it had two more gears left including O.D. 

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/honda/honda_vf1100%20sabra.htm
Eric

Ha ha, as much as I'm sure you're pumped at that review Eric, I just checked what they said about my GL1200 and they said it'll do 151 MPH? What a crock of crap! Cheers, Terry.

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_gl1200%2087%20inter.htm

Here in Colorado, the V65 became legend for the number of riders the Hiway Patrol scraped off the road with scattered pieces of them. For a while in the early 1990s you could buy one for less than $100 because folks were seemingly afraid of them. (They really don't handle very well, IMO).

I have one Hiway Patrol friend who is an "interceptor pilot", as they call him: he gets to drive the REALLY QUICK pursuit cars when they set up speed traps out here. He told me several stories about beat-up or dead V65 riders, back in the 1990s. A side-light: one of his all-time favorite pursuit cars was the 2002 Ford Mustang SVO car(S) they had until 2004: he told me about a Lamborghini that was radioed to be coming up on him (he was parked) at over 175 MPH about dusk one night on east I-76: when he got the call, he leaned back to lay his radar gun in the back seat just when the red streak passed by. He said he calmly started the Mustang and gave it 5 seconds to "oil up" before taking off, and had the 'Ghini pulled over in 2 minutes flat. He carries the video with him on his cell phone today. Cool stuff! His 'Stang filled with tire smoke during the takeoff because his window was open, and it showed in the camera, wisping past the lens. The speeder was just barely visible when the camera stopped bumping around from the takeoff, no other cars were around. The 'Stang went straight and true right up to the back of that screaming V-10 and then you could see the cop's lights flip on in the shiny paint of that Italian steed. The driver let off right away, obviously seriously surprised! I wish he'd give me a copy of it, but it's contraband.

[Terry in Australia]

Here in Colorado, the V65 became legend for the number of riders the Hiway Patrol scraped off the road with scattered pieces of them. For a while in the early 1990s you could buy one for less than $100 because folks were seemingly afraid of them. (They really don't handle very well, IMO).

Yep, I'd believe that Mark, I test rode a VF1000F (much better looking bike than a V65, but just as awful mechanically) back in the 1990's, and I took it straight back to the seller and said "no thanks", and he almost gave me the thing, he was so sick of it, he told me I was the 5th "tire kicker" that weekend.

He wasn't a bad bloke really, and I asked him why he was really selling it, and he said he'd just had the engine rebuilt, and he wanted to sell it before anything broke again............ If anyone's dumb enough to buy a VF1000F, let me know and I'll sell you the factory workshp manual, which is about 4 inches thick, which is a worry in itself............      

[bjatwood]

This last weekend, I went for a "ride" on the K3 with my son riding his ZX6r. When we were about to take off I told him to try and keep up...LOL
Well gents, if some body has a calculator for my 18/48 stock tire combo. I was pulling 7,700rpms in 5th gear and my speedo was jumping like a Mexican hat dance..LOL
So I had no idea what I was running. My son said his digital speedo was showing 122mph. That would be the fastest I have ever had my K3 running. And I will have to say the bike liked it. It was idling so smooth after this jaunt at 1,000 rpm's with a slight lump to the idle I had not heard before, and the heat the mill was producing I could feel on my shins thru my jeans.
I took my plugs out to have a look at them and they looked like very nice carmel color with no hint of black to them at all.