verslagen1 wrote on 06/30/12 at 23:02:07:ZAR wrote on 06/30/12 at 22:37:30:J C Stokes wrote on 06/30/12 at 22:27:57:116.8 mph? 122.something mph? Has my brian cell fallen out?
Ya beat me to it JC
. I was thinking the same thing...I mean...I've had mine to 90mph on the interstate when passing a line of trucks and had power to spare but those speeds???? Must just be the computer models numbers.
I'll tell you right now that ain't no average savage, that's a super savage.
The kind that Oldfeller built, the kind that Lancer has built.
Terrible truth time -- my bike won't break 100 unless it has a big long flat or down hill straight away. My air resistance "sail" is simply too big, I need more hp to quickly hit higher speeds than that. I would need 60+ hp to run up over 100 mph quickly, as I already have the RPM band to do 90 mph worth of it in 4th gear, finishing it in 5th gear.
Next terrible truth, my bike is fast on the Dragon simply because I have just a little more acceleration and I am willing to use it. I don't ride better than BigZuk or Lancer or MMRanch or even Dave, the new guy on the Dragon -- all of them keep cleaner lines and actually clear a turn quicker.
Truth be told, I love following behind Zuk so I can watch to see how he does it. He smokes his rear and front brakes he hits them so hard deep in the first part of a turn (his rotor is deep purple by the time he finishes a hard run). He has the experience and guts to do stuff like that. I make up the difference by greater accel in the straight added to some double line cheating when I have an insider with a sight line to see nobody is coming at me. Otherwise Zuk would run away from me. Zuk is the fastest man on the Dragon out of the lot of us guys.
Lancer's Rex is clearly the most powerful bike of the lot of us -- but he is prone to breakage so he never gets ridden long enough for Lancer to get fully up to speed on his current configuration. If Lancer ever got up to speed on a Rex (Rex is slightly different pieces every time you see him) all we would see is brake lights fading in the distance.