1/4 Mile w/5th gen

I'm a member of a car club (100mphclub.com) and their 1/4 mile track rental was today. On a whim, I hopped on the bike to see what'd happen.

'twas quite a rush taking off on the that tacky surface and trying to keep the front wheel down.

Anyway, ended up running an 11.8 @ 114. Not too shabby...I said before I ran that I'd be happy if I could get it into the 11's...and I am.

 

wow, impressive. Just to be curious, what was your reaction time? And was the bike faster than the cars?

 

ran 3 times, and got progressively quicker & faster...

1st pass
0.2351 - RT
2.1152 - 60'
5.2383 - 330'
7.8367 - 1/8th
94.16 - 1/8th mph
10.1448 - 1000 ft
105.53 - 1000 ft mph
12.1183 - 1/4 ET
111.55 - 1/4 MPH

2nd pass
0.1375 - RT
1.9889 - 60'
5.1156 - 330'
7.7194 - 1/8 ET
94.16 - 1/8 MPH
10.0338 - 1000ft
104.92 - 1000ft mph
12.0161 - 1/4 ET
112.78 - 1/4 MPH

3rd Pass
0.3329 - RT
1.9563 - 60'
5.0487 - 330'
7.6382 - 1/8 ET
94.62 - 1/8 MPH
9.9342 - 1000ft
105.83 - 1000ft mph
11.8984 - 1/4 ET
114.04 - 1/4 MPH

There were a couple of faster cars there, but they wouldn't let cars/bikes race each other.

At the end a guy on a Kawasaki 636 wanted to race, so I raced him. After the 1/8th I was winning by 3 seconds, so I let off and ran a 13.22 at 72mph. lol Felt bad for the guy. He ended up running a 14.88 at 106...with a horrible start, and a mis shift.

 

If that's a good time, makes me feel better about my time I just ran tonight. First time ever at the track, best run was a 12.03 on my 92 vfr. I will be back.

 

check your chain to see how much it stretched doing all those launches.

 

It's a brand new RK chain...has about 1000 miles on it, and I didn't really do any "launching" as you can tell by my 60' times. lol

 

I've only run the VFR on the 1/4 once. My best was 11.23 @ 121.7MPH.

VFR's were not made to drag race so I see no reason to do so again.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

Same here...I won't go back, just curious of what she'd do....and I know she'd go faster, but I had no desire to launch her really hard.

 

It is super fun to jackrabbit, I have always been curious about the actual numbers.
Thanks for showing us the Profeassional Driver on a Closed Course version.

 

Not to start a mines better than yours war but.....
did anybody else notice the 5th gen wasa faster than two 6th gens in those tests?

 

Goes against what mother Honda would have us believe.....

 

Pot Stirrer!!

 

LOL, can't help myself. Love the RWB 6th gens if that helps :hug:

 

Look at the 60-80 and the 80-100 times if you really want to be sad...

 

Interesting that the 60-80 is slower than the 80-100 on the '98 vfr.

 

...here we go...
we should have a pot stirring smilie