How fast is is your old GS?

[exdirtbiker]

Likewise. I stopped caring about being to go way up in the triple digits a long time ago. Now, all I want is to get to the speed limit...but I want to get there so fast I can barely keep the front down.

Ahhh... yes, and thats why my previous ride was a 2006 XR650R with street tags.
it topped out at uh... ummm....
but wheelies at will at 75 mph all day long.
on the parkway.. next to trooper..
hence my username.

[dorkburger]

It's actually a dragon. A Christmas present from my kids (wife lol).

Funny, for about 4 years I had a Big Bird ring on my cycle mirror stem that my son took from a birthday cupcake and gave me before a cycle trip. It recently broke

It's actually a dragon. A Christmas present from my kids (wife lol).

[dorkburger]

Likewise. I stopped caring about being to go way up in the triple digits a long time ago. Now, all I want is to get to the speed limit...but I want to get there so fast I can barely keep the front down.

Guardian angel eh? coolness.

[GSXR7ED]

^^^Whoa!

I did that once (that I remember) on my GSX-R750Y but sadly, I have no proof like you do.

My current Suzi has not come off the ground...still needs much work to do that but it's not my goal.

Nice pic, btw....are you painting your own designs on the fairings?


Ed

Not so interested in top speed any longer. I've had several bikes above 140, and the tweaked FZ1 I had some years back saw mid 150's many times, but now, I want acceleration, both from a stop and roll-on and good flexibility on the road.

Likewise. I stopped caring about being to go way up in the triple digits a long time ago. Now, all I want is to get to the speed limit...but I want to get there so fast I can barely keep the front down.

[GS1150Pilot]

Not so interested in top speed any longer. I've had several bikes above 140, and the tweaked FZ1 I had some years back saw mid 150's many times, but now, I want acceleration, both from a stop and roll-on and good flexibility on the road.

[exdirtbiker]

My 83(?) Ninja 900 ( Top Gun movie bike).. worked... did 140 mph with... umm.. someone on the back.
I sold it 12 hours later.
Scared the SHnitt outta me... not in a fun way. 10 years later, I still -cringe- when I think about it.

Pull my other leg and it plays jingle bells.

Hey, that's 118 in mph !

I remember being into speed back when I was 20 years old, 10 feet tall, and bulletproof

The biggest thing holding back these bikes is aerodynamics -

I discovered that my '81 GPz550, stock but for a KERKER pipe, with the mirrors off, and my then 20-year-old frame tucked down would pull 125 mph any day of the week, which was the same as my '83 KZ750L3, which had more HP -

The cycle mags managed to get 139 mph out of an '83 GS1100E in the half mile at sea-level, in 1983, but when I was checking out my Dynojet jetting it took a lot longer than that for mine to approach the redline, but it did it eventually, and I suspect that if there would have been a little headwind it wouldn't have gotten there at all.

I'm not into ultimate top-speed anymore, but I still think it'd be cool to borrow a ZX14R for an hour

[GSXR7ED]

my 83 850 does 190.

Pull my other leg and it plays jingle bells.

Too funny Trevor.

In England they say, "Pull the other one!"



Ed

[trevor]

my 83 850 does 190.

Pull my other leg and it plays jingle bells.

[ron bayless]

my 83 850 does 190.

[gustovh]

Have no clue, spedo stops at 85 but the white line was going by pretty darn fastl. 134 on my 919
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[Fjbj40]

I had my first GS1000c back in 85. One day I decided to see how fast it would go, it had dyna coils and a Wolff factory racing header(open pipe). I rolled off once it hit 240 kmh, going up hill! I was 160 lbs and 18 yrs stupid
I think that was the fastest I ever went on the ground.