Topic: 175mph?!?!?!

[mick750F]

I had no idea these were so fast. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1978-SUZUKI-GS750-NICE-PAINT-CLEAN-RUNS-GREAT-NEW-TIRES_W0QQitemZ200203880748QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item200203880748

Mike

[kpier883]

That is funny!.  I had a friend with a 78 or 79 Suzuki like that and it was fast at the time.  With a vance and hines it was the best sounding thing i had ever heard.  Even better than a 327 with headers and a "nascar grind" cam. 

[Klark Kent]

I had no idea these were so fast. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1978-SUZUKI-GS750-NICE-PAINT-CLEAN-RUNS-GREAT-NEW-TIRES_W0QQitemZ200203880748QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item200203880748

Mike

thats cuz it was a secret
-KK

[DammitDan]

175 km/h is about 112 mph...

I guess that's about accurate for the 750, eh?  With a big fat guy riding it, eh?  Maybe since he lives so close to Canadia he just got his measurement systems mixed up, eh? 

[Uncle Ernie]

I got up to 90 yesterday, but not for long. 

I'm a sissy.

[JLeather]

He probably read 175 in some article from Canada or the UK and thought it was mph when it was really kph.  I'd say a bone-stock GS can definitely do 175 kph

[333]

It did say MPH.  Although the k and m are close to each other on the keyboard.  The only chance of 175 MPH is to drop it out of a plane.

The other thing that caught my eye was that "new Suzuki windshield" looks exactly like a National Cycle Deflector windshield.

[azuredesign]

Huh,

I borrowed one of these when I started riding again in the late '80's. It was amply fast, but I'd say 115 was probably about it.

[ekim98]

  The only chance of 175 MPH is to drop it out of a plane.

 I think 125 mph is as fast as gravity will make something fall, even from a plane! I'd say he was thinking kph and typed mph.

[Rocking-M]

Actually the 78 Honda 750F would beat it in the q-mile, or so they say, I never raced against one back then

I did race a 900 Kawa stop light to stop light with my 71K and stomped him. Maybe he was like Ernie though. 

[eldar]

The peregrine falcon is believed to reach a 220 mph dive speed.

[JLeather]

A skydiver terminal velocity is about 60 m/s (135 mph) and I'd say a Suzuki GS is more aerodynamic than a skydiver with a backback and stuff on.  Maybe you could get it to 150mph out of a plane, but I'm not covninced it'd do 175.

[Aaron J Williams]

You could tow it behind an F-16

[Klark Kent]

i dont know what the proper drag coefficient would be but heres a terminal velocity calculator courtesy of NASA.
-KK

[firecracker]

You could tow it behind an African Swallow.

Or was that a European Swallow?   

(sorry - I know, this belongs in the shameless thread)

 

[Aaron J Williams]

Ahh but African swallows are non-migratory so the couldn't tow it anyway.