What is the quickest e.t. old GS, street ridden and legal you know of?

[maicojoe]

Just kinda wondering what the quickest E.T. you guys know of, preferably with a real time slip, for a street legal and street ridden GS? No trailered bikes, no wheelie bars, no slicks, no slider clutch, just a regular hand clutch, just a bike either yourself or a buddy would ride to the track and back home. Need a target to shoot for......

[posplayr]

Ask Rapidray. But unless you plan on a 1400cc monster you won’t get there.

[GS1150Pilot]

I think there are some high 8 second bikes that are ridden on the street.

[red1100]

My 831100E with Yosh pipe and pods ran 10.40s at 135 at Woodburn dragstrip back in 1984. I’m not a motorcycle racer so getting off the line was challenging. Rode it down there and rode it home. Still riding it today.

[stetracer]

My 831100E with Yosh pipe and pods ran 10.40s at 135 at Woodburn dragstrip back in 1984. I’m not a motorcycle racer so getting off the line was challenging. Rode it down there and rode it home. Still riding it today.

Impressive very impressive!

[stetracer]

I think there are some high 8 second bikes that are ridden on the street.

Yep I have one!

[GregT]

There's not a lot of bike drag race action here - but back in the '90's I had a customer who was into bracket racing his street legal 1150ESE.
Big bored, ported, RS36's and a pipe. 8.8's at 138mph. Won a couple of NZ titles bracket racing.
The amazing thing from my point of view was that he used the stock rear wheel....

[stetracer]

There's not a lot of bike drag race action here - but back in the '90's I had a customer who was into bracket racing his street legal 1150ESE.
Big bored, ported, RS36's and a pipe. 8.8's at 138mph. Won a couple of NZ titles bracket racing.
The amazing thing from my point of view was that he used the stock rear wheel....

Even more impressive!

[GregT]

Even more impressive!

From memory he used Dunlop 591's - and a huge amount of self-control on the throttle.....

[Tom R]

I’m hardly an expert, but if your talking about a basically stock bike and amateur rider, 11 seconds seconds would seem pretty impressive to me.

[stetracer]

I’m hardly an expert, but if your talking about a basically stock bike and amateur rider, 11 seconds seconds would seem pretty impressive to me.

Yes the gs1100 11.30’s is what they run stock with a pipe and re jetting they run high 10’s.
The gs1150’s were high 10’s stock and mid 10’s with a pipe and rejetting.

[stetracer]

From memory he used Dunlop 591's - and a huge amount of self-control on the throttle.....

Ok now your pushing it. A 591 Dunlop will never push a bike into the 8’s.
You would have to be quite the rider just to get a 591 to push a bike into the 9’s

[stetracer]

My 84 GS1150 1198cc flat tops 29.5/25 Nicely ported head, .100 milled off the head, G9/G7 cams, 40mm RS Mukuni’s, Bottom end built to handle the extra hp. Also has No2 spraying about 80hp extra.
Best et on motor 9.72@146mph
best et on No2 8.98@158
this is on a modified 495lbs stock wheel base chassis lowered with air shifter with hand clutch. 60’ footers in the high 1.50’s to low 1.60’s
I rode this bike everywhere. All over Daytona Beach with the wifey on the back. Back and forth to work. A very dependable motor.

[Sandy]

Ok now your pushing it. A 591 Dunlop will never push a bike into the 8’s.
You would have to be quite the rider just to get a 591 to push a bike into the 9’s

I don't know squat about drag racing bikes but if they were a 591R (track compound) they had way, way, way more grip then the regular vanilla flavored ones. By the way, great times on some of these bikes ....Suzuki rules. LOL.

[GregT]

Ok now your pushing it. A 591 Dunlop will never push a bike into the 8’s.
You would have to be quite the rider just to get a 591 to push a bike into the 9’s

They were the production race compound version. My business partner - a tyre dealer - sponsored him.

He was indeed a very good rider. If he came back to me on a Monday and said " that last engine mod was worth .3sec and 4mph", I knew that was the average over probably 6 runs. As I said, he won several NZ bracket titles on the bike.
He's still got the bike. He contacted me a few years back about building it up into a McIntosh Bathurst replica frame. That would still have been street legal here - but would have used modern 17 in rubber. I think finances/family stopped that.