what was your top speed on a motorcycle?

[worldpower]

Just wondering how fast you guys have tested your bikes

[AirMoore]

Well that would depend, speedo indicated MPH or actual MPH?

[jdreynss]

Ran from a cop one time...got to 167mph

[AirMoore]

I should also note... people should put down the model/year of their bike and any mods... also was that speedo indicated, actual: LEO confirmed, actual: GPS confirmed, actual: % off.

[Arashi666]

Not personally, but my Dad has afriend with a Busa, he apparantly (According to the Speedo) hit like 160 before pussing out

[RadarRick]

we don't do mph here in australia, so bare with me in kmh.
the quickest bikes i've had plus my race bikes was, first, my 1999 zx-9r. onboard this sweet, 136rwhp rocket with a tail wind helping, saw the speedo wind to 281-282kmh. put in with tire growth and speedo error, 260kmh is more the truth. that was great until i through it, and me, into an arm-co fence at 95kmh, ouch :cry:
before that, i owned a nice new, 140hp 1997 k1200rs bmw. this was a beautiful bike and surprisingly fast. one afternoon, with my 45kg wringing wet girl friend pillion, we lucked out on a clear dual carriage way. so i held it wot (wide open throttle) to see what the Bavarian autobahn monsters good for, 286kmh. add the error and stuff and i just peeped my zx-9r by a few k's.
then i got this 2000 yzf-r1. not a bad bike but 240kmp was all was game for on that temperamental sob on the road. so i stripped it and started racing it until i trashed it at a high speed right hander, spearing it into an out field, messy, but good bye yam, phew .
then came project gsxr-1000k2. i had 3 of these bikes for racing over 3 years. at the track on our longest strait, i could guess a respectable, and quite true, 260+kmh on the right conditions before banking it in to turn one. these bike where pretty standard, but pushed out a respectable, on average, 147 to 155rwhp with little trouble. how ever, for me, hitting the scales at just over 85kg, was not to be my advantage for racing. i was just to heavy, although i could muscle the gixxes on the tight tracks, i didn't do very well.
rr

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Shouldn't the tire growth (which should be negligible but...) cause the bike to run faster than the speedo?

[ATS666]

Shouldn't the tire growth (which should be negligible but...) cause the bike to run faster than the speedo?

Most bikes speedos read quite abit lower then actual. even with tire growth the speedo with be low