R
R Brickston
Guest
"Mark Hickey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Frank Drackman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"R Brickston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:2Qlkg.12364$hN2.4746@trnddc05...
>>> >
>>> a race prepped 1973 Kawasaki 750... Wheelied that one once at 120+
>>
>>Don't know about the rest, or the 120 MPH part, but 1973 Kawasaki 750 Z2
>>would wheelie in any gear. It didn't turn for beans, but boy was it fast
>>in
>>a straight line.
>
> Funny thing is, the bike really wasn't THAT fast. Really.
>
> It just FELT fast because of the sudden onset of power you'd get when
> that big three-cylinder finally it its power band (which was pretty
> high up on the tach).
>
> To put the overall speed of that bike in perspective, remember that it
> would run a 11.9 or 12 second quarter mile, pretty similar to the
> four-stroke four-cylinder Kawasaki 900 of the same year.
>
> But my 1983 Honda Magna would run a 10.9 second quarter mile out of
> the box (in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, of
> course). A full second is night-and-day in terms of power, yet I'm
> virtually positive that I couldn't get the front wheel off the ground
> at 120+ mph.
>
> Some of the modern crotch rockets would make my old Magna (since
> replaced with a BMW sport touring bike) look like a slug, and I doubt
> they have to worry much about keeping the front wheel down at 120.
>
> That said, I WAS on the back of a Kawasaki 750 that did get the front
> wheel up at around 100mph, but that was due to me being on the back,
> and the fact that the rider hit fifth as we came off a country road
> bridge (essentially not so much doing a wheelie as delaying the
> touchdown of the front wheel). Fun ride. ;-)
>
> Mark Hickey
> Habanero Cycles
> http://www.habcycles.com
> Home of the $795 ti frame
But Baka is careful to claim that this bike had a few race modifications
before he picked it up.
news:[email protected]...
> "Frank Drackman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"R Brickston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:2Qlkg.12364$hN2.4746@trnddc05...
>>> >
>>> a race prepped 1973 Kawasaki 750... Wheelied that one once at 120+
>>
>>Don't know about the rest, or the 120 MPH part, but 1973 Kawasaki 750 Z2
>>would wheelie in any gear. It didn't turn for beans, but boy was it fast
>>in
>>a straight line.
>
> Funny thing is, the bike really wasn't THAT fast. Really.
>
> It just FELT fast because of the sudden onset of power you'd get when
> that big three-cylinder finally it its power band (which was pretty
> high up on the tach).
>
> To put the overall speed of that bike in perspective, remember that it
> would run a 11.9 or 12 second quarter mile, pretty similar to the
> four-stroke four-cylinder Kawasaki 900 of the same year.
>
> But my 1983 Honda Magna would run a 10.9 second quarter mile out of
> the box (in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, of
> course). A full second is night-and-day in terms of power, yet I'm
> virtually positive that I couldn't get the front wheel off the ground
> at 120+ mph.
>
> Some of the modern crotch rockets would make my old Magna (since
> replaced with a BMW sport touring bike) look like a slug, and I doubt
> they have to worry much about keeping the front wheel down at 120.
>
> That said, I WAS on the back of a Kawasaki 750 that did get the front
> wheel up at around 100mph, but that was due to me being on the back,
> and the fact that the rider hit fifth as we came off a country road
> bridge (essentially not so much doing a wheelie as delaying the
> touchdown of the front wheel). Fun ride. ;-)
>
> Mark Hickey
> Habanero Cycles
> http://www.habcycles.com
> Home of the $795 ti frame
But Baka is careful to claim that this bike had a few race modifications
before he picked it up.