NismoKid

You think those are faster than this? http://www.semprenoredline.com/videos/topend_wee1.wmv

phile

I wouldn't be able to go that fast.






The coefficient of drag would be a little too high given the large load of **** in my pants after the wheelie!

NismoKid

I couldn't agree with you more.

infidsg35

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Well Busa is a go straight bike. It is the fastest straight bike. But on the track it cant handle for **** compaired to the other bikes mentioned.

But I LOVE THE BUSA!!! It looks ooohhh sooooo goooood!!!

NismoKid

Can someone please answer this question for me...I've heard that the R7 is/one of the best handling bikes out there. That was in '99, but I'm sure there has to be something new and better (handling wise)-is there? Has anyone riden an R7 and can comment about it?

jng1226

Did you read the Roadracing World issue I mentioned? The Kawi is lighter and has more rwhp than the 2004 GSX-R 1000 and CBR1000RR (in stock trim). It also put down faster lap times around Willow Springs. I would say that's means faster

I've yet to experience it myself on my home track, but I would say on paper it looks to be definintely faster on a road course. I don't give a crap about straight line acceleration (although I'm sure it's faster there too). IMHO anybody can pull the trigger in a straight line. Braking, cornering and managine the performance envelope on a road course is where the action is at for me. It separates the men from the boys...

jng1226

I've never ridden an R7, but read much about them and reviews when they were tested by magazines. The skinny is supposed to be they have all the ingredients, but in stock form leave a little to be desired, at least power-wise. The R7 was sold to homologate Yamaha's World Superbike race platform in the late 90's, and the street version had a mildly tuned motor. The frame and chassis components were very well designed, but not nearly the same Ohlins Race Spec stuff that the factory Superbike was running (Yamaha owns Ohlins btw). The street version of the R7 was really meant to be the basis for the race teams and satisfied homologation regulations. There are factory kits and other stuff you can get to get big power out of the R7, but supposedly its another $10K to make it all it can be.

Performance motorcycles advance every year, and especially in the last 3 years the technology has trickled down from GP and World SBK to the point that the bikes you can get in the showroom are literally as fast and capable as the Superbikes and even GP bikes from 10 years ago. Former World Champion Kevin Schwantz has said several times that the latest stock GSX-R 1000's are faster than the Factory Superbikes that he used in the late 80's to win Daytona. The new AMA Superstock class uses basically showroom bikes with slicks, upgraded shocks/fork internals, full exhaust and engine mapping and the top riders are nearly matching the full Superbike times.

Answer: ANY of the 2004 Literbikes (and maybe some 600s) will leave a stock R7 for dead on a track (given the same rider skill).