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The other night I was out taking a cruise in my car and saw a pack of street bike's up ahead so I said to myself what the hell let me go have some fun with these guy's. So I am next to a blue and white Yamaha that has no badge's on it at all, I am hoping it is an R6 because I was thinking this is going to be a real quick race if it is a R1!! So we are cruising at like 60 - 65 next to each other I drop to 3rd gear he drop's gear's and we both nail it. I have him by at least a car through 3rd I shift to fourth he comes up to my back tire I get back into it in fourth and pull a little more but than he start's to slowly come up. I look at rpm's and I am about done with 4th gear it was about 7,000 so I shut it down and he does the same. He would have passed me eventually but that is usually the outcome anyway, I was just happy to hold him off that long. So we pull off to the side of the road into the WAWA and he is like dam man I can't believe that car, so where is the NOS (LOL) I said no nitrous just bigger turbo and a couple of other thing's. I said what is that an R6? He said no (Very disappointed) It's an R1!!! I said you just made my night!! He said I had 2 more gear's left and was going to pass you though. I said hey man I am only on 19psi and pump gas and I held you off through 3rd and 4th it is a waste for me to race in 5th, and if I had Race gas and 28psi in the car tonight you would have needed those 2 gear's to even pull up on me then. Anyway I was dam happy with the result of the race with my car on pump gas that modded R1 should have pulled by me with ease as soon as I shifted to 4th. Gotta love these little 2 liter's :).... Later

Ed
 
hey good run man, must be fun to play with street bikes...I put the fear of god into a guy on a buel one night but he eventualy blew by me LOL hew was amazed how hard my car pulled from frist through 2nd. AWSOME RUN THOUGH! to bad there wasnt a video to go with this one, to show the supra guys they arent teh only ones who can spank bikes hehe
 
Yeah, what year was that R1. The new ones are doing the quarter in 10 flat and trapping 142. Your car sounds fast and good kill, but you also said that the R1 was modded...the guy probably couldn't ride it to its full potential. It also goes from 60-80 in about 2 seconds which means that he would have buried you from a 60 roll. No I am not flaming, but an R1 is a tough bike to contend with no matter what speed you start at:D

P.S., nice sig...but technology really cannot replace something like that...the traction part is dead on though. Us V8 guys need to find a way to relocate our engines to the trunk or get some AWD;)
 
there are too many things that could have changed the outcome of this race.

the R1 might have been not in the best running condition. Also, they might trap really high and run 10's. But thats with a pro driver. Most riders will run a mid 10 and trap in the mid to upper 130's.

If the dude was big, he would have weighed it down and also not been able to tuck properly. Adding I think it is an extra 1/3 to the bikes drag coef.

his car is a pretty good machine, probly trapping in the high 120's. Since the r1 was catching, but slowly. Its sounds believeable.
 
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Don't know what year R1 it was. The guy knew how to ride his bike and was maybe 165lb. The guy was cool with me, he was impressed of how long it was taking him to actually pull by me and was impressed of how good my car ran from a roll. If I had raced him from a dead stop he probably would have blew by me in the middle of 3rd. The bike looked in very well condition and looked to be running right to me. I am not saying I smoked an R1 I am saying that I held one off in 3rd and 4th and then he would have smoked me. All I know is that is what happened, You make your own opinion's. Later

Ed
 
No No...I DO believe you:D I apologize if I came off bad...if you are trapping in the 120+ MPH range, then of course I believe you. I just thought that with that 60-80 passing time being 2 seconds that he would have been the one to get the jump...I was just speculating, if I am calling B.S., I will never beat around the bush:cool:
 
you should probably go to ed's website and see what he and his car are all about....

no he doesn't have 20" chrome wheels. no he doesn't have neon lights under his car.... no he doesn't clear tail lights....

his car is no joke, it would easily hold off a bike for a couple of gears.... read and understand his post before flaming....

why do v8 guys always think we don't know what the hell we're talking about??

-d
 
If he has a car that runs in the low 11's and traps in the 120's then this story is very legit. I have a 03 Ducati 748, with pipes and sprockets and I raced my buddy's stock 03 R1 from a stop and I was shocked that we were almost even till around 100, after that it was all over for me, I thought an anchor fell of the back of my bike. Those R1's 1+2 gears are pretty tall but once they get in there powerband, ooohhh weeee, just nasty. Anyways, his story makes complete sense, since my bike run's about the same speed as his car, and I had the same outcome.
Thanks for sharing your story, keep them coming!!!

Scott
 
I just looked up one of my recent DSMLink logs where I was timing my 60-90 mph in third gear.

For 60-80, I am 2.6 s, and that's only at 17psi with an L2R, and still on the stock sidemount intercooler! So, with his car and his setup, I'm sure he could hold off the bike as he explained.
 
ijustwant12s said:


why do v8 guys always think we don't know what the hell we're talking about??

-d

because this specific poster did not know the times the dsm in question could pull. Plus i'm sure he has delt with alot of rice saying they've beaten R1's.


a side note
many many v8 owners do not understand until they see these cars in person.
 
In the defense of that V-8 owner which has been around a bit and is actually a very very cool guy, he AGREE's with the story. He was saying that if he was to be calling BS he wouldnt say other stuff about it, he would come right out and say... " THAT IS BS!"

either way, nice work on holding that sucker off!
 
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