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Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:11 pm
by ME 109
How do you think a stock 81airhead would fare up against this bike on the same section of road?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOitaB0lEcY
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:37 pm
by melville
Haven't you been stuck in 2nd gear on that road?
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:44 pm
by Garnet
melville wrote:Haven't you been stuck in 2nd gear on that road?
It was that or he hit a roo.
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:44 pm
by ME 109
melville wrote:Haven't you been stuck in 2nd gear on that road?
That was another road, but this road has plenty of second gear work too. Come to think of it, all my favorite mountain roads do.
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:47 pm
by Zombie Master
He's riding on the wrong side of the road. Something wrong with that guy
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:08 pm
by ME 109
Zombie Master wrote:He's riding on the wrong side of the road. Something wrong with that guy
Watch it in a big mirror, ZM so it appears normal.
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:29 pm
by ME 109
This guy did it 20 seconds (edit 12 seconds )quicker on a Hyabusa than me for the same section of road 4:21- 7:47
https://youtu.be/A4nHsaA8PPI
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:10 pm
by Zombie Master
ME 109 wrote:This guy did it 20 seconds (edit 12 seconds )quicker on a Hyabusa than me for the same section of road 4:21- 7:47
So the guy is slow. Not everyone can really handle a bike.
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:21 pm
by ME 109
Zombie Master wrote:ME 109 wrote:This guy did it 20 seconds (edit 12 seconds )quicker on a Hyabusa than me for the same section of road 4:21- 7:47
So the guy is slow. Not everyone can really handle a bike.
Can't really go 'fast' on these roads. That's why an airhead can keep up.
They can't all be slow riders?
Re: Airhead performance.
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 8:42 pm
by SteveD
It's a tight road that one, but there are enough short straights where a high bhp bike can blitz some time.
The guy on the 'busa is smooth. Accelerating up hill from 35kph corners is another area where he'd make time over an airhead. On that road going downhill, I find the brakes are a limitation.