That transmission problem was probably in the shifting mechanism, not necessarily in the gears themselves, but in the shifting drum (s). It is very rare and almost undetectable to the naked eye, but a worn peak on a shifting groove will not allow the bike to be shifted to the next gear. Such a problem cost me a win at the 1893 WERA National Finals in the 550 modified class on a Yamaha Seca 550. It was still incredible that they were able to compensate losing 2 gears and still by gearing the machine and upping the boost, achieve 394 MPH in that last run. They didn't mention it, but combined with the 371 MPH pass, that would average out to a 382 MPH record it my math is correct. Good video, and I'm not a Bonneville or even a drag racing fan, but I love almost all types of motorcycle racing and certainly respect these "Kings of Speed on 2 Wheels" whether 11 miles or 1,000' in a straight line.
I did 331 km. per hr. (confirmed by GPS satellite speedo. ) on my 2000 Honda Blackbird (street legal; licensed). Very minor "improvements" on ign.; intake and exhaust. I was 64 yrs. old at the time. The faster I went the more "stable" the bike felt. Not "scary" at all. I would do it again at 72 if my knees weren't fu**ed LOL
Yeah I know what you mean, once you get past about 160 mph everything seems to get smoother. I suppose that's where the millions spent on the aerodynamics earns it's money.
I had a Hayabusa B-King for a few years. I decided to see how fast it would go. Got on the interstate, and slowed down until there was a completely clear road ahead. Dropped the hammer, WFO, and saw 185 in fifth gear, going UPHILL. Decided not to even bother with sixth gear. That thing WUZ a beast.
You stopped pushing right where it ends. The bike can but wont break the gentlemen agreement. Unless... I have a carbed ninja that do 215 and you can feel god at that speed. Also the chain, even tight enough will machine the front sproket housing. I think they say the chain weight several tons at that rpm (13500)
It's amazing just how far ahead you have to be watching out for any traffic or anything moving in front of you, probably mile or more. Fastest I've been on a bike is around 165 back in the 1980's.
Wow, 394MPH. That’s incredible. Congratulations to Rocky, and the rest of the Team. Great Documentary on the Land Motorcycle Speed World Record. I really enjoyed this. I do go 75 Mph sometimes, but I’m 62 on a R1200GS. That’s fast enough for me.👍😁 but when I was 18 I had a Z1 900 and took it up to 110Mph just to do it once. Scared the shit out of me and never did it again.
well, when I was 14 we drove a 64 Malibu towards Tombstone at 140mph. Had my dads vette up to 135mph in 1967. Only had one bike that would go over 110, had it, a Yama 700, up to 140 with my 9 yr old son onboard. Had my dad's vette, after I bought it, up to 170 on N2O. Now we have a Tesla dual motor... not sure if honey is gunna let me open it up. But 60 does come up in 4 sec.
The fastest I ever rode was on a 1985 Ninja 900 at 155 mph. I presently have a 2001 BMW K1200RS. It's supposed to go over 165 mph but I have never tried it. I'm much older now and have more sense.
I have done top speed on my Thunderace, and R1 dozens of times. 170mph ish. I did 146mph, the top speed of my first big bike a GSX750F on the way home from the shop in Aylesbury to South London where I bought it, scratched both footpegs through Tooting too, never looked back. Aren't motorbikes fantastic. Those speeds on salt flats though seem suicidal to me
Yeah, I was on the back of a Z1 900 many years back when the rider put his head down at top speed without warning. They are scary speeds on 2 wheels. Loved the Z900 though but preferred the Triumph and Harley motors for different reasons
Glorious times when Burt Munroe won fastest Indian of the world with his commuter bike ..... Still nice to see how the nutjobs obviously aren't done with speed'n aerodynamics in Bonneville yet! Thanks for filming and sharing.
At 18:27 it is inferred that it is "the holy grail" of motorcycle racing. As a rider of 50 years, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of riders would tell you the Isle of Man TT is the holy grail and probably couldn't tell you when the last time the record at Bonneville was broken, by whom, and what speed was attained. Bonneville results are of interest to a very very small percentage of the motorcycling world. Don't get me wrong because there is a degree of interest in it but there is something that we see and feel when a rider goes blastin by at close to 200 mph and then negotiate a turn with with his head 2 feet away from a dry rock wall. We like to see a few turns along with a few hills and valleys, throw in some dogs n cars n trees n rocks n sh*t to keep it interesting. That's what makes biking a challenge to us. Going fast in a straight line not so much...........except for drag racing which has more appeal to street riders than Bonneville will ever have mainly because you can see the whole shootin match without a set of binoculars...............and they blowed up good, real good. And always remember the good Doctor John Hinds, March 21, 1980 - July 4, 2015, one of the best that ever lived.
I am a ridder of 50 years to and I think the Isle of Man TT is "the holy grail" for ridders and the world record for top speed is more of "the holy grail" of engineering, not to say that it doesn't take a super ridder for both.
Great job on this documentary... being a San Jose native and dealing with kenny puccio over the years I'm glad that he will be able to go down in history as part of a great endeavor thank you....
Yes my 2000 Harley Davidson ultra classic does 100-110 no problem. I've been up to 180 on a 750 super sport modified for top end speed. I'm also 66 and the last time I went 110 was November 2022 I had the 750 super sport when I was in the Army in Ft.Hood Texas. I rode fro Corpus Christi to Houston in ONE HOUR AND 25 MINUTES!! YOU CALCULATE MY SPEED!!
This is an excellent documentary! Incorporating Rocky into the story makes us hungry for the science needed to travel half the speed of sound on a motorcycle.
I used to own an unrestricted early version of the Kawasaki ZX12R top speed 225 mph, it was built in 2000 to beat the Suzuki Hyabusa GSX1300, which also did close to 220mph, it arrived in 1999. Sorry had to pick you up on your openning statement. The fastest motorbike have been flying past 200mph for over 20 years. What a blast your film is though, great result
Amazing effort: perseverance, team work, willingness to take risks... the list of things that you have to be to get it all happening is incredible. Technically you might call this a motorcycle, but it bears very little relation to what a motorcycle actually is, which makes it a little hard to relate to. Still... hard to imagine going that fast with two screaming Hayabusa motors behind you, giving it everything they have. Suzuki know how to make engines that you can just keep on adding the layers of stuff to, so that they just keep on delivering. So kudos to the people a Hamamatsu, too!
Suzuki have always made real good, often over engineered engines since the first GS in 1977. Electrical systems though.............. In fact, until around 2007 you could still buy parts to convert the1979¬83, 2 valve or 4 valve Suzuki GS/GSX 1100 motor to a two valve 1750cc or larger to compete with the 'Harley Davidson' full billet 2 .5 liter motors (nothing HD on or in them except the HD sticker) At least the Suzuki used stock cases and most of the transmission.
I have been 110 mph. on a motorcycle and I look back and say to myself that was the stupidest thing I have ever done. The conditions were far from ideal and one small rock could have ended me. It was a 1968 Honda 450 on a frontage road for I-35 just north of Austin, Texas at night and the pavement was not what you could call smooth. Thinking about it scares me now 40 years later.
Funny, we got an easy, smooth straight road here in NY through some fields that makes for an easy 180mph rip mid day when all are at work. 110 makes me chuckle, even my civic does that.
I did the same thing when I first got my Mazda Miata and on my way to Las Vegas. It was in the middle of the night and there were no other cars around. I really wanted to go to the redline which is 140mph so on a straightaway I opened it up. The car was so smooth it just seemed that the faster I went the smoother it got and it just along. As I looked at the speedometer at 130mph I thought geez what am I doing? A small rock or a little bump on the could just sent the car skidding all over the place. That was the last time I ever went over 100. 😁
66 years of age and I go much much faster than a measly 3 gear mid range revs @ 100 mph. Fast is the other side of 160. Hell I did 100 mph on a 305 Super Hawk two up on a fire road at the tender age of 14.
3:13 Something to ponder, that we don't necessarily think about as he brings up; When you're going 350mph you're basically facing a 350mph wind. Stick your hand out the window at 80mph, No, on second thought have a friend demonstrate that for you. :)
Congratulations! So Rocky rides a Guzzi? Great" Pity you could not mention Don Vesco or Burt Munro in your intro... Bonneville + 2 wheels = Vesco. Balls + 2 wheels = Burt Munro! PS: I'm old enough to remember Donald Campbell breaking John Cobb's record and exceeding 400 mph on four wheels - and he had a turbine from a jet aircraft!
We were pretty excited about going over a hundred down the streets of LA with a Triumph Bonneville. 400? I can imagine a lot of speed, but not that much. Fun to watch others try though. Got rained out at Bonneville two years ago. Must go again. It’s not the fastest stretch in the world, but it’s the most fun.
Die Mike is een echte vader voor die jongens. Hoe kan een oude man zo een waardeloos voorbeeld geven met dingen van nul en geen waarde. Een waardeloze vader.
..........reminds me of a gentleman from Invercargill, New Zealand........the world's fastest KIWI, on a 1920 Indian Scout, broke 201mph.....he returned to Bonneville several times and he was in his sixties.........loved the speed....... I read about that in Popular Mechanic fifty-five years ago or so........
Yes, I read the story back in '67, with all the pictures and there was something in Hot Rod Mag about it too....."up on Two Wheels," If I recall....he also had a heart condition........his runs were better.........no high tech crap, just old fashioned machined parts by him.............much more authentic, exciting than this "overpriced" nonsense............
Honda CBX 6cyl back about 1982-83.. with my wife on the back, I hammered it.. front wheel touched back down as we passed 100.. I saw 140.. and my wife was becoming unstable.. I don't know what it would have done.. probably not too much more.. but that thing was incredible..
If they are going to pair bikes with rocket engines or even electric powered engines and pit it against production bikes it’s not fair . Riding bikes on the road has a feel and gives you a solid thrill and nothing else can give you the same feel.
There are "many" classes for bikes (and cars) so production vehicles aren't running for the same records as the modified vehicles. Classes start with Engine Displacement and Engine Configuration IE 2-stroke, 4-stroke, V Twin, NA, Turbo, Nitrous all have class/rules/records of they're own. Then it gets into body style, from Naked to Streamline (like this bike). Now lets add different Fuels into the mix = MANY different classes/records... A friend of mine has set several LSR records on bikes in multiple classes just by doing things like running Naked first (no fairings), then he would bolt just the nose on for another class/record, THEN he add the sides the fairings to set a 3rd record in a 3rd class. Next after that he simply changed Fuels (from pump gas to race gas) and set 2 or 3 more records all at one even...
Always make room for innovation .... don’t let the Trans take over the wimmins sport, similarly run innovative vehicles in their own categories . Maintain Sportsmanship!!! At all Costs !
I went 179 on a honda blackbird on the salt and 197 on a turbo suzuki. What many people dont get is the salt is like riding on marbles. The bike does not track a line, its always loose and ya have to learn to ignore it....about the time youcstart trying to make corrections is the beginning of a problem you cant fix...The zuk was a double handful. 80lb slab of lead with 1/2 in of foam for seat trying to keep the rear tire from spinning...open the throttle super slow, watch the tach and catch it before the tire starts to spin and when it does you half to learn how much, a little to much and the rear tire locks up...I seemed to figure it all out quicker than most, i rode year round in salt lake city...ice, hard pack snow, even fresh snow...even at night...its fun once you get the hang of it...should had had a camera...the look on peoples faces as i rode by was always good for a laugh.
@@dl1129 Winter ridding was never an issue for me. A roll of insulated armature wire wrapped around the grip, doesn't matter what diameter as long as each side was 6.5 ohmns....they made enough heat you had to have gloves on to use them. Cold hands on a m/c is not safe or fun...hot hands the cold becomes tolerable... Somebody else who kept their bike in the house in winter? People kept telling me i was the only dummy..lol...had a gs 1000 with a stage 2 yosh kit...leave it outside at night and if it got into the 30's it was a pig to get started...old house 30'' wide door. K&N drad bars with an inch cut of both sides and bar end mirrors...used to stand it on the side stand to turn it around......Its not the bike that kills....nuthin but a simple mistake is all that it takes....im 65 and only made 2 that hurt.....simple stuff...i trusted somebody to not turn left in front of me and i upshifted when i should have down shifted its all good, i learned the lesson....and ya, i have heard about posting up vids of not legal driving....i have one that shows how i tune without a dyno..Camera mounted on gas cap so spedo and tach and view through the windshield show..1100 rpm idle in 1st..about 1 mph...and pin it..no clutch..i do it that way because its super consistent, and its easy on tires and clutch....when i started stock b-bird ran to 70 in 3.1 seconds...make a change, do it again...bunch of carb mods....+5* timing and a half thick head gasket is worth 2.65 seconds...with stock exhaust..bought $1700 worth of Ti yep it was quicker and made a lot more noise..exact same top speed means it made the same hp..
@@blackbirdxx928 I've kept my bikes inside for a long time now. I had people tell me for years I'd never be able to make a hoist work for putting them upstairs. Huh, what would they know. Around here anything left out in a shed is likely to get stolen, plus the weather ruins them even in a good shed. I pulled 265kmh on my old Laverda triple once heading to the track to do a days race marshaling, still had a thousand revs left to go on the tach and was still pulling. People say that the Italian speedo's are inaccurate, but I calculated back from the revs and gearing later and it was about right. When the factory endurance raced them as a production bike they got a certified 285kmh out of them down Mulsanne straight. This was when a stock Suzuki or Kawasaki production racer was struggling to get over 245. I'm nearing 60, ridden since I was 4yo, been an instructor, and city courier amongst other things (no LSR there, but it's a rush). Never hurt myself, but done enough stupid things that I wonder how. I used to work as a Moto Scout for professional cycling races, where the police run a rolling envelope around the race, where all road rules are suspended, and all you have to do is do your job safely, and if that requires you go A to B in as little time as possible, you do it. There was usually about 8 police solo riders working with us, and I rode my Benelli adventure bike because it was on wire wheels with road legal knobbies, so it could go anywhere I needed without worrying about slippery grass etc. It's an 1130cc triple with 145hp at the back wheel, and the cops could never work out how what looked like a dirt bike was actually a fair bit quicker than their bikes (cops here are mainly on BMW R1250's, so not actually slow), especially on what look like dirt tyres (they're not). I keep thinking about taking the Laverda to the salt, or finding one of the Guzzi Daytonas. There is a local guy here (Australia), who took one to the Aussie salt at Lake Gairdner (only other accredited salt for LSR in the world), and ran 185mph on a stock bike (1100 V twin, yes that's a fast V twin) but after years of living dangerously on bikes, and racing cars, a tree fell on me a few years ago giving me nerve damage in my right arm leaving it weak. I'm almost certain I'll never be able to twist a throttle to the stop if there's 3 Dell'Orto carbs hanging on the cable (Laverda), or maybe even if it's only 2 (Guzzi). Luckily that leaves me with modern fuel injected bikes that all have soft throttles.
@@andrewlongfield3102 Wow, a lifetime of experience and still alive to tell the stories and a crazy from Australia to boot..lol As for getting one upstairs...if you have the room get an off road bumper winch from wherever you can..i know thing are not cheap in your world...I can get a small 5000 deal from harbor freight for $70 with wireless remote...winch mounts on the wall, 2 pulleys will get you to a lift point...strap around the tripple clamps and one to the frame it the rear...yep, stashed bikes in a mezzanine before....you like salt flats? im from salt lake city utah...done some laps on the salt. Blackbird ran 179 mph in 5th (6spd) with a +1 countershaft sprocket.....and it ran 183 on the highway on the way there :) Bum deal about your right arm...have you thought about switching controls around? ...i can throttle with my left..a little practice i could clutch...link the brakes to the master for the rear..blackbird has linked brakes, they work fine...only variable is old guy learning new coordination...I learned how to ride suicide....clutch left foot, shift left hand when i was 58. You been down the Mulsanne straight? lucky sob..only place i have to run big numbers anymore is the highway on the way to parker az...3 miles of decent road except for the little hill right in the middle...never notice it in a car but with the throttle pinned on a bike plan on the front wheel coming up...and the occasional speed wobble when it comes down...you know how to fix those little problems right?
@@blackbirdxx928 I sorted the hoist out a couple of years back. A hydraulic ute crane on a raised base, so I can pivot it, with a plate welded to the boom end that holds a 240volt workshop winch that will lift 900kg. I'm never going to pick up a 400kg bike, let alone 900, so it's perfect. I had to build a very large floor plate to spread the load, and the balcony over the stair well flexes a bit, but it's ok, and for heavier bikes I stick a temporary building screw prop under it for support. I cut a section of railing out, so I only have to lift to floor height rather than over the railing, then fitted it with over centre adjustable catches, so I can fit the railing back once I have a bike either up, or down, depending on which direction it's going. Currently there is a 668 Laverda sport up here, and a Gilera 2 stroke. Perhaps the Gilera is a candidate for a 125 salt record as it's very slippery, and quick for it's power output, but I would need to find a pilot in the weight range of 45 to 50kg to make it competitive. I'm 107kg, no chance on a bike that small and light. There's also an ATK 605 (yes, an American bike), and a Montessa Cota up here, but the Cota is definitely not built for speed. Because I have a reasonably large bike collection, and they are mostly unusual or rare bikes, especially the Italians, I decided years ago that i didn't want to modify any of the bikes to let me ride them. That would be a huge job on so many, plus it would detract from their originality, and also I still couldn't test ride/ buy any new bikes. It was obviously better to recover enough use of my arm enough to ride, and I've been riding the dirt and trials bikes for a couple of years now though not at the same level obviously. I might find the salt easy, it's just going straight after all (joke), but I rode lots of fast desert stuff over the years, including hitting deep sand at 185kmh on the Benelli one trip. I find as long as you slump like a sack of potatoes, and don't fight the steering, the bikes keep going in a sort of straight line. They tend to find their own path through the variations in surface, and the self centering geometry of the front end seems to bring them back in line. On some of the early desert crossings I did, I got thrown off when I fought the bars. I found that relaxing and keeping the throttle pinned almost always works out well as it uses the bikes natural geometry to keep it stable. on the road I'm lucky in that I have family in the country, and there is a fairly unused quiet stretch of road on the way to their house that is dead straight and 27km long. I have tapped out a number of cars and bikes on that. It does have a gentle rise about halfway, so you can't actually see the whole length, but I usually roll out of the throttle coming over it, in case there is a car or something in the next 2 or 3km.
Can’t beat 179mph but I once went 168mph on a blackbird, not on the salt but on public roads. The guy in front of me was going a bit faster though (he turned out to an off duty policeman 😵)
Wow, 394 mph! 👍👏 Glad that tire did the trick and held together!🙏 Thats "Only" 2.92 Times Faster than the 135 mph I ran in 1983, on an empty freeway at 21 years old tucked down on the tank of a 1983 Kawasaki GPz 750!😱 "That'll do pig, That'll do"!😁 Mike in San Diego.🌞🎸🚀🖖
Fastest I ever road a bike was on my 1972 850 Norton @150 MPH. Then you could hear the valves,starting to float as the Norton never had camshaft centre bearing supports.
@@deltabluesdavidraye he may have meant 120, but I knew a guy who drove one across the prairies in Canada and he said he just gunned it through the boring flat parts, which is a LOT of it out there.
Check pics and videos from converted film, of course, and notice the spear shaped protrusion on nose of the aircraft. I read about it when i was a kid, I'm 68 now so you can do the math, and what i read was that as the jet powered aircraft approached 300mph they encountered that barrier of wind that was like a wall and required a, for those days, a massive amount of horsepower to overcome. So someone came up with the idea to use the spear lookin things to create it's own intrusion into the wall out in front of the jet's fuselage and the waves opened up a type of hole thru the wall ahead of the jet. You can find graphs and wind tunnel results from back then. Suggested it to John Force to try on his Funny Car and while he laughed but was for trying it since it's the tires that trip the lights, not the body, nobody humored him, or me. Seems like if it would possibly help anybody it would be salt flat racers. Probl cost less than $500 and what could it hurt. Another crazy idea is to install an ionizing device that thins the air ahead of the vehicle. Probably wudn't help as you're interrupting the air so quickly. In a closed space it will cause the dust to go to the floor. Know ya'll don't read comments but perhaps someone who knows you might mention the jet fighter fix. If it only made a mile or two mph difference i think that would be cool but if it helped in stabilizing the bike that would be amazing. I'm dyin ftom 5th cancer but wish i could see ya'll try it. If only in a wind tunnel. rick in Tennessee. Uh, don't have any suggestions to lower "pucker factor" of rider/driver. I'm pretty sure that causes some drag on any bike or vehicle. The machines can feel the tenseness. L8r.
Big Kountry hit 267 on his turbo hyabusa… he was spinning the tire at over 200 mph! Standard fairings no stream line like the world record bikes. Pretty damn fast
400 mph is 2 football fields a SEC0ND. Bonneville is 8 to 14 miles long on a good day. My question; What horse power will you have and how much of it is at the low end of your REVS to get to 400 mph?
@@raycarolewallace466 The difference between 394 and 400 could be the smallest change in the aerodynamics given that drag is proportional to the square of speed. Or, traction at any given hour could easily make 6 MPH. Many years ago I was able to measure 10% wheelspin at my top speed of 121 on 15 cu. in.
@@perrysims3320 They are spinning a LOT more than that now. The 1,000cc bike I helped tune had 80Lb of lead in his swingarm and his entire run(s) were still all about throttle control, trying to keep it from spinning "too much" (wasn't ever able to get/keep the throttle wide open on any of his runs)...
@@KCadbyRacing I don't doubt it. Almost all the 4-wheel streamliners are ground effect cars now. I was excited about the Carbonite Car. I thought the design was a good step. It is still to be proven. I don't think that their innovative design brought them down, but a nasty mechanical failure.
My mechanic, Dyno Steve, on Rich Rd held that record for a long time...256 mph as I recall. Unreal. I could barely hang on my lightning at 100+ miles an hour less😅
@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Really?? I'm still to see the Y2K 420RR go past 230mph... Factory claims 250mph/405kmh, but I have not seen anyone break the 230 barrier. H2R has gone past 405kmh. I don't have any doubt that the Y2K is capable of that and more, I guess it's a matter of finding the right pilot (titanium gonads required)... Cheers!!
@@aleveraj They have broken 235mph on their own test track/airstrip. The MTT is capable of that and more, its finding a place that can allow it to reach maximum velocity and stop that seems to be the problem.
I enjoyed the documentary. I was emotionally involved and that's a sign of a good movie.
Hell of a driver. Knows his machine better than anybody else. Good stuff.
That's what made Valentino Rossi so good
That transmission problem was probably in the shifting mechanism, not necessarily in the gears themselves, but in the shifting drum (s). It is very rare and almost undetectable to the naked eye, but a worn peak on a shifting groove will not allow the bike to be shifted to the next gear. Such a problem cost me a win at the 1893 WERA National Finals in the 550 modified class on a Yamaha Seca 550. It was still incredible that they were able to compensate losing 2 gears and still by gearing the machine and upping the boost, achieve 394 MPH in that last run. They didn't mention it, but combined with the 371 MPH pass, that would average out to a 382 MPH record it my math is correct. Good video, and I'm not a Bonneville or even a drag racing fan, but I love almost all types of motorcycle racing and certainly respect these "Kings of Speed on 2 Wheels" whether 11 miles or 1,000' in a straight line.
I did 331 km. per hr. (confirmed by GPS satellite speedo. ) on my 2000 Honda Blackbird (street legal; licensed). Very minor "improvements" on ign.; intake and exhaust. I was 64 yrs. old at the time. The faster I went the more "stable" the bike felt. Not "scary" at all. I would do it again at 72 if my knees weren't fu**ed LOL
Bert Munro, a 68 year old Kiwi, did a run of 320km/hr on a 1920 Indian scout he had modified, on the salt flats in 1967.
@@mirandahotspring4019 His story was made into a movie with Anthony Hopkins playing Bert. The movie is called "The World's Fastest Indian".
@@JungleDjinn Yes, I know. I also misspelt his name, he preferred Burt.
Yeah I know what you mean, once you get past about 160 mph everything seems to get smoother. I suppose that's where the millions spent on the aerodynamics earns it's money.
@@ax1066a-ghd2 ... good for you; hope all goes well; I had one replaced and now I have a Fiero with a V8 in it to play with😄
I had a Hayabusa B-King for a few years. I decided to see how fast it would go. Got on the interstate, and slowed down until there was a completely clear road ahead. Dropped the hammer, WFO, and saw 185 in fifth gear, going UPHILL. Decided not to even bother with sixth gear. That thing WUZ a beast.
You stopped pushing right where it ends. The bike can but wont break the gentlemen agreement. Unless... I have a carbed ninja that do 215 and you can feel god at that speed. Also the chain, even tight enough will machine the front sproket housing. I think they say the chain weight several tons at that rpm (13500)
It's amazing just how far ahead you have to be watching out for any traffic or anything moving in front of you, probably mile or more.
Fastest I've been on a bike is around 165 back in the 1980's.
@@1crazypj I went 135 on a GPz 1100
I know that’s slow compared to these days, but it was fast for me
@@PInk77W1 My sister was telling her friend she wouldn't go fast with her son on back of her GPZ600. He told his mum the truth though , 135 LOL
@@1crazypj yikes
The record breakers make it look easy, but you see it takes so so so much work.. Great job
Wow, 394MPH. That’s incredible. Congratulations to Rocky, and the rest of the Team. Great Documentary on the Land Motorcycle Speed World Record. I really enjoyed this. I do go 75 Mph sometimes, but I’m 62 on a R1200GS. That’s fast enough for me.👍😁 but when I was 18 I had a Z1 900 and took it up to 110Mph just to do it once. Scared the shit out of me and never did it again.
well, when I was 14 we drove a 64 Malibu towards Tombstone at 140mph. Had my dads vette up to 135mph in 1967. Only had one bike that would go over 110, had it, a Yama 700, up to 140 with my 9 yr old son onboard. Had my dad's vette, after I bought it, up to 170 on N2O. Now we have a Tesla dual motor... not sure if honey is gunna let me open it up. But 60 does come up in 4 sec.
Sounds like you shouldn't be riding motorcycles.
The fastest I ever rode was on a 1985 Ninja 900 at 155 mph. I presently have a 2001 BMW K1200RS. It's supposed to go over 165 mph but I have never tried it. I'm much older now and have more sense.
I have done top speed on my Thunderace, and R1 dozens of times. 170mph ish. I did 146mph, the top speed of my first big bike a GSX750F on the way home from the shop in Aylesbury to South London where I bought it, scratched both footpegs through Tooting too, never looked back. Aren't motorbikes fantastic. Those speeds on salt flats though seem suicidal to me
Yeah, I was on the back of a Z1 900 many years back when the rider put his head down at top speed without warning.
They are scary speeds on 2 wheels. Loved the Z900 though but preferred the Triumph and Harley motors for different reasons
When everything seems lost, the really tough hang in there and WIN!
Glorious times when Burt Munroe won fastest Indian of the world with his commuter bike ..... Still nice to see how the nutjobs obviously aren't done with speed'n aerodynamics in Bonneville yet! Thanks for filming and sharing.
Gives me goosebumps... would love to give it a shot... Congratulations on a monumental effort that succeeded!
At 18:27 it is inferred that it is "the holy grail" of motorcycle racing. As a rider of 50 years, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of riders would tell you the Isle of Man TT is the holy grail and probably couldn't tell you when the last time the record at Bonneville was broken, by whom, and what speed was attained. Bonneville results are of interest to a very very small percentage of the motorcycling world. Don't get me wrong because there is a degree of interest in it but there is something that we see and feel when a rider goes blastin by at close to 200 mph and then negotiate a turn with with his head 2 feet away from a dry rock wall. We like to see a few turns along with a few hills and valleys, throw in some dogs n cars n trees n rocks n sh*t to keep it interesting. That's what makes biking a challenge to us. Going fast in a straight line not so much...........except for drag racing which has more appeal to street riders than Bonneville will ever have mainly because you can see the whole shootin match without a set of binoculars...............and they blowed up good, real good.
And always remember the good Doctor John Hinds, March 21, 1980 - July 4, 2015, one of the best that ever lived.
I am a ridder of 50 years to and I think the Isle of Man TT is "the holy grail" for ridders and the world record for top speed is more of "the holy grail" of engineering, not to say that it doesn't take a super ridder for both.
Agreed.
Although it's technically called a rally, I think the Dakar rally is the holy grail of motorcycle racing
@@ToyotaKTM No. Isle of Man.
Agreed
Great job on this documentary... being a San Jose native and dealing with kenny puccio over the years I'm glad that he will be able to go down in history as part of a great endeavor thank you....
Yes my 2000 Harley Davidson ultra classic does 100-110 no problem. I've been up to 180 on a 750 super sport modified for top end speed. I'm also 66 and the last time I went 110 was November 2022 I had the 750 super sport when I was in the Army in Ft.Hood Texas. I rode fro Corpus Christi to Houston in ONE HOUR AND 25 MINUTES!! YOU CALCULATE MY SPEED!!
Idk man, that 750 barely has more power than I4 250's.
@@chrisbleurgh7425 That guy with the fastest Indian - Bert Munro from New Zealand was the man.!!!
I was genuinely smiling at the end, and to think Rocky had another two gears he could've used!
Why are we here?
To set a record!!
Because the transmission wouldn't shift they geared it taller so it couldn't/wouldn't have been able to pull the higher gears...
This is an excellent documentary! Incorporating Rocky into the story makes us hungry for the science needed to travel half the speed of sound on a motorcycle.
I love bonneville and this video only lacked the smell,sound,heat and eye strain of being there!! Great video😀
Holy Grail of motorcycle racing......that would be the Isle of Mann TT.
Wonderful documentary! Congrats to rocky and the whole crew.
That's awesome! Good for them. Seems like a really great crew and owner.
Loved how the producers added Harley sounds, 4 wheel competitors, spectators/ no spectators. But, I liked it!
So much like Burt Monroe's story of his Indian, congratulations.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire video. Good job, gentlemen!
I used to own an unrestricted early version of the Kawasaki ZX12R top speed 225 mph, it was built in 2000 to beat the Suzuki Hyabusa GSX1300, which also did close to 220mph, it arrived in 1999. Sorry had to pick you up on your openning statement. The fastest motorbike have been flying past 200mph for over 20 years. What a blast your film is though, great result
I've done 160mph on bikes....I'm lucky to be alive especially all the crazy riding at 110-130mph......I count my blessings
Rider was a total champion.
Beautiful sound at speed.
Could've done without the damn music.
what a great doco , great camera work , glued to tv GO ROCKY!
The boss should have listened to the rider earlier instead of assuming he didn't know how to shift a bike into high gear.
I could not agree more.
"The boss" needs to stop micromanaging the attempt. He has a great team and a great machine. Set them free.
Amazing effort: perseverance, team work, willingness to take risks... the list of things that you have to be to get it all happening is incredible.
Technically you might call this a motorcycle, but it bears very little relation to what a motorcycle actually is, which makes it a little hard to relate to.
Still... hard to imagine going that fast with two screaming Hayabusa motors behind you, giving it everything they have. Suzuki know how to make engines that you can just keep on adding the layers of stuff to, so that they just keep on delivering. So kudos to the people a Hamamatsu, too!
Suzuki have always made real good, often over engineered engines since the first GS in 1977.
Electrical systems though..............
In fact, until around 2007 you could still buy parts to convert the1979¬83, 2 valve or 4 valve Suzuki GS/GSX 1100 motor to a two valve 1750cc or larger to compete with the 'Harley Davidson' full billet 2 .5 liter motors (nothing HD on or in them except the HD sticker)
At least the Suzuki used stock cases and most of the transmission.
I have been 110 mph. on a motorcycle and I look back and say to myself that was the stupidest thing I have ever done. The conditions were far from ideal and one small rock could have ended me. It was a 1968 Honda 450 on a frontage road for I-35 just north of Austin, Texas at night and the pavement was not what you could call smooth. Thinking about it scares me now 40 years later.
Funny, we got an easy, smooth straight road here in NY through some fields that makes for an easy 180mph rip mid day when all are at work. 110 makes me chuckle, even my civic does that.
I did the same thing when I first got my Mazda Miata and on my way to Las Vegas. It was in the middle of the night and there were no other cars around. I really wanted to go to the redline which is 140mph so on a straightaway I opened it up. The car was so smooth it just seemed that the faster I went the smoother it got and it just along. As I looked at the speedometer at 130mph I thought geez what am I doing? A small rock or a little bump on the could just sent the car skidding all over the place. That was the last time I ever went over 100. 😁
66 years of age and I go much much faster than a measly 3 gear mid range revs @ 100 mph. Fast is the other side of 160. Hell I did 100 mph on a 305 Super Hawk two up on a fire road at the tender age of 14.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏿
Was clocked at 138 in Montana. My speedo wasn't working... Got a written warning.🖖🧔👍
3:13
Something to ponder, that we don't
necessarily think about as he brings
up; When you're going 350mph you're
basically facing a 350mph wind.
Stick your hand out the window at
80mph, No, on second thought have
a friend demonstrate that for you.
:)
Amazing way to go guys a long road hard work pays off big time!!! Yahoo!👍
This is the second time I watched this and it worth was well worth my time.
Amazing team effort well done
A bunch of gifted dedicated mechanics
Congratulations! So Rocky rides a Guzzi? Great"
Pity you could not mention Don Vesco or Burt Munro in your intro... Bonneville + 2 wheels = Vesco. Balls + 2 wheels = Burt Munro!
PS: I'm old enough to remember Donald Campbell breaking John Cobb's record and exceeding 400 mph on four wheels - and he had a turbine from a jet aircraft!
The Worlds fastest Indian
We were pretty excited about going over a hundred down the streets of LA with a Triumph Bonneville. 400? I can imagine a lot of speed, but not that much. Fun to watch others try though. Got rained out at Bonneville two years ago. Must go again. It’s not the fastest stretch in the world, but it’s the most fun.
Hello??? "A very long straight and FLAT stretch of land." 1:26 The earth is flat! Congratulations Rocky!
All the Riders & Drivers who attempt Land speed Records have got the guts but also need "Good luck" as well 👍
That guy with the fastest Indian - Bert Munro from New Zealand was the man.!!!
Just think what he could’ve done if he had fifth and sixth gear amazing
Die Mike is een echte vader voor die jongens. Hoe kan een oude man zo een waardeloos voorbeeld geven met dingen van nul en geen waarde. Een waardeloze vader.
Well done all involved. Great post.
Busa-Engines, great passion‼️👍👍👍💖
I knew they were gonna be busa engines as soon as I heard 1300cc lol
Interesting - this happened in 2010, and nobody has gone faster since.
Hold my beer, I’m just popping down to my shed...! 🧐😎😜
@@G58 hey I’ll hold the Beer, but can’t guarantee there will be any left when you get back. I might have to Raid the Fridge too.😁👍
@@joeybobbie1 😁🧐😎😜👀
Great achievement! I wa actually surprised you went to Utah with just 2 tyres. I thought you would have a pile of them with you.
..........reminds me of a gentleman from Invercargill, New Zealand........the world's fastest KIWI, on a 1920 Indian Scout, broke 201mph.....he returned to Bonneville several times and he was in his sixties.........loved the speed....... I read about that in Popular Mechanic fifty-five years ago or so........
Yes, I read the story back in '67, with all the pictures and there was something in Hot Rod Mag about it too....."up on Two Wheels," If I recall....he also had a heart condition........his runs were better.........no high tech crap, just old fashioned machined parts by him.............much more authentic, exciting than this "overpriced" nonsense............
Honda CBX 6cyl back about 1982-83.. with my wife on the back, I hammered it.. front wheel touched back down as we passed 100.. I saw 140.. and my wife was becoming unstable.. I don't know what it would have done.. probably not too much more.. but that thing was incredible..
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Congratulations, great job. Greetings from switzerland.
how could you not like this
Thanks for an excellent video!
It can only be DangerTV!
The Big Boss seems a tad head strong but great effort by the crew!
If they are going to pair bikes with rocket engines or even electric powered engines and pit it against production bikes it’s not fair . Riding bikes on the road has a feel and gives you a solid thrill and nothing else can give you the same feel.
When a 500 cc Kawasaki "Mach III" , gets you a timing slip of "152mph" @ Elkhart Lake, that was just short of the speed of light for me.LLLOOOLLL
There are "many" classes for bikes (and cars) so production vehicles aren't running for the same records as the modified vehicles.
Classes start with Engine Displacement and Engine Configuration IE 2-stroke, 4-stroke, V Twin, NA, Turbo, Nitrous all have class/rules/records of they're own.
Then it gets into body style, from Naked to Streamline (like this bike). Now lets add different Fuels into the mix = MANY different classes/records...
A friend of mine has set several LSR records on bikes in multiple classes just by doing things like running Naked first (no fairings), then he would bolt just the nose on for another class/record, THEN he add the sides the fairings to set a 3rd record in a 3rd class. Next after that he simply changed Fuels (from pump gas to race gas) and set 2 or 3 more records all at one even...
Always make room for innovation .... don’t let the Trans take over the wimmins sport, similarly run innovative vehicles in their own categories . Maintain Sportsmanship!!! At all Costs !
@@raycarolewallace466 I had one also with the front drum breaks @ 125. !!!
**400 MPH ON 2 WHEELS - THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF PEE COMING OUTTA ME RIGHT NOW!!!**
This is a excellent crew to have with you.
I went 179 on a honda blackbird on the salt and 197 on a turbo suzuki. What many people dont get is the salt is like riding on marbles. The bike does not track a line, its always loose and ya have to learn to ignore it....about the time youcstart trying to make corrections is the beginning of a problem you cant fix...The zuk was a double handful. 80lb slab of lead with 1/2 in of foam for seat trying to keep the rear tire from spinning...open the throttle super slow, watch the tach and catch it before the tire starts to spin and when it does you half to learn how much, a little to much and the rear tire locks up...I seemed to figure it all out quicker than most, i rode year round in salt lake city...ice, hard pack snow, even fresh snow...even at night...its fun once you get the hang of it...should had had a camera...the look on peoples faces as i rode by was always good for a laugh.
@@dl1129 Winter ridding was never an issue for me. A roll of insulated armature wire wrapped around the grip, doesn't matter what diameter as long as each side was 6.5 ohmns....they made enough heat you had to have gloves on to use them. Cold hands on a m/c is not safe or fun...hot hands the cold becomes tolerable... Somebody else who kept their bike in the house in winter? People kept telling me i was the only dummy..lol...had a gs 1000 with a stage 2 yosh kit...leave it outside at night and if it got into the 30's it was a pig to get started...old house 30'' wide door. K&N drad bars with an inch cut of both sides and bar end mirrors...used to stand it on the side stand to turn it around......Its not the bike that kills....nuthin but a simple mistake is all that it takes....im 65 and only made 2 that hurt.....simple stuff...i trusted somebody to not turn left in front of me and i upshifted when i should have down shifted its all good, i learned the lesson....and ya, i have heard about posting up vids of not legal driving....i have one that shows how i tune without a dyno..Camera mounted on gas cap so spedo and tach and view through the windshield show..1100 rpm idle in 1st..about 1 mph...and pin it..no clutch..i do it that way because its super consistent, and its easy on tires and clutch....when i started stock b-bird ran to 70 in 3.1 seconds...make a change, do it again...bunch of carb mods....+5* timing and a half thick head gasket is worth 2.65 seconds...with stock exhaust..bought $1700 worth of Ti yep it was quicker and made a lot more noise..exact same top speed means it made the same hp..
@@blackbirdxx928 I've kept my bikes inside for a long time now. I had people tell me for years I'd never be able to make a hoist work for putting them upstairs. Huh, what would they know. Around here anything left out in a shed is likely to get stolen, plus the weather ruins them even in a good shed. I pulled 265kmh on my old Laverda triple once heading to the track to do a days race marshaling, still had a thousand revs left to go on the tach and was still pulling. People say that the Italian speedo's are inaccurate, but I calculated back from the revs and gearing later and it was about right. When the factory endurance raced them as a production bike they got a certified 285kmh out of them down Mulsanne straight. This was when a stock Suzuki or Kawasaki production racer was struggling to get over 245. I'm nearing 60, ridden since I was 4yo, been an instructor, and city courier amongst other things (no LSR there, but it's a rush). Never hurt myself, but done enough stupid things that I wonder how. I used to work as a Moto Scout for professional cycling races, where the police run a rolling envelope around the race, where all road rules are suspended, and all you have to do is do your job safely, and if that requires you go A to B in as little time as possible, you do it. There was usually about 8 police solo riders working with us, and I rode my Benelli adventure bike because it was on wire wheels with road legal knobbies, so it could go anywhere I needed without worrying about slippery grass etc. It's an 1130cc triple with 145hp at the back wheel, and the cops could never work out how what looked like a dirt bike was actually a fair bit quicker than their bikes (cops here are mainly on BMW R1250's, so not actually slow), especially on what look like dirt tyres (they're not). I keep thinking about taking the Laverda to the salt, or finding one of the Guzzi Daytonas. There is a local guy here (Australia), who took one to the Aussie salt at Lake Gairdner (only other accredited salt for LSR in the world), and ran 185mph on a stock bike (1100 V twin, yes that's a fast V twin) but after years of living dangerously on bikes, and racing cars, a tree fell on me a few years ago giving me nerve damage in my right arm leaving it weak. I'm almost certain I'll never be able to twist a throttle to the stop if there's 3 Dell'Orto carbs hanging on the cable (Laverda), or maybe even if it's only 2 (Guzzi). Luckily that leaves me with modern fuel injected bikes that all have soft throttles.
@@andrewlongfield3102 Wow, a lifetime of experience and still alive to tell the stories and a crazy from Australia to boot..lol As for getting one upstairs...if you have the room get an off road bumper winch from wherever you can..i know thing are not cheap in your world...I can get a small 5000 deal from harbor freight for $70 with wireless remote...winch mounts on the wall, 2 pulleys will get you to a lift point...strap around the tripple clamps and one to the frame it the rear...yep, stashed bikes in a mezzanine before....you like salt flats? im from salt lake city utah...done some laps on the salt. Blackbird ran 179 mph in 5th (6spd) with a +1 countershaft sprocket.....and it ran 183 on the highway on the way there :) Bum deal about your right arm...have you thought about switching controls around? ...i can throttle with my left..a little practice i could clutch...link the brakes to the master for the rear..blackbird has linked brakes, they work fine...only variable is old guy learning new coordination...I learned how to ride suicide....clutch left foot, shift left hand when i was 58. You been down the Mulsanne straight? lucky sob..only place i have to run big numbers anymore is the highway on the way to parker az...3 miles of decent road except for the little hill right in the middle...never notice it in a car but with the throttle pinned on a bike plan on the front wheel coming up...and the occasional speed wobble when it comes down...you know how to fix those little problems right?
@@blackbirdxx928 I sorted the hoist out a couple of years back. A hydraulic ute crane on a raised base, so I can pivot it, with a plate welded to the boom end that holds a 240volt workshop winch that will lift 900kg. I'm never going to pick up a 400kg bike, let alone 900, so it's perfect. I had to build a very large floor plate to spread the load, and the balcony over the stair well flexes a bit, but it's ok, and for heavier bikes I stick a temporary building screw prop under it for support. I cut a section of railing out, so I only have to lift to floor height rather than over the railing, then fitted it with over centre adjustable catches, so I can fit the railing back once I have a bike either up, or down, depending on which direction it's going. Currently there is a 668 Laverda sport up here, and a Gilera 2 stroke. Perhaps the Gilera is a candidate for a 125 salt record as it's very slippery, and quick for it's power output, but I would need to find a pilot in the weight range of 45 to 50kg to make it competitive. I'm 107kg, no chance on a bike that small and light. There's also an ATK 605 (yes, an American bike), and a Montessa Cota up here, but the Cota is definitely not built for speed. Because I have a reasonably large bike collection, and they are mostly unusual or rare bikes, especially the Italians, I decided years ago that i didn't want to modify any of the bikes to let me ride them. That would be a huge job on so many, plus it would detract from their originality, and also I still couldn't test ride/ buy any new bikes. It was obviously better to recover enough use of my arm enough to ride, and I've been riding the dirt and trials bikes for a couple of years now though not at the same level obviously. I might find the salt easy, it's just going straight after all (joke), but I rode lots of fast desert stuff over the years, including hitting deep sand at 185kmh on the Benelli one trip. I find as long as you slump like a sack of potatoes, and don't fight the steering, the bikes keep going in a sort of straight line. They tend to find their own path through the variations in surface, and the self centering geometry of the front end seems to bring them back in line. On some of the early desert crossings I did, I got thrown off when I fought the bars. I found that relaxing and keeping the throttle pinned almost always works out well as it uses the bikes natural geometry to keep it stable. on the road I'm lucky in that I have family in the country, and there is a fairly unused quiet stretch of road on the way to their house that is dead straight and 27km long. I have tapped out a number of cars and bikes on that. It does have a gentle rise about halfway, so you can't actually see the whole length, but I usually roll out of the throttle coming over it, in case there is a car or something in the next 2 or 3km.
Can’t beat 179mph but I once went 168mph on a blackbird, not on the salt but on public roads. The guy in front of me was going a bit faster though (he turned out to an off duty policeman 😵)
Now rocky has the new record at 376 mph
The stuff of legends! Epic.
Think that would make a great street bike! Lol great job!!
Laying on my gas tank, I’ve been 100 mph on my Triumph Bonneville. It was flat out and scared me s*itless.
With the tire problem solved the parachute doors should have gone back on
Condragulations, that was epic.
Fantastic, just fantastic
good team work and the driver ...
From doubting Rocky, to Rocky driving AND engineering it also... How's that for a happy ending!!!!
I hope they have a speed week this year in 2021! been too long since the last running
th-cam.com/video/xVBVzPrRpw0/w-d-xo.html here you go!
Wow, 394 mph! 👍👏
Glad that tire did the trick and held together!🙏
Thats "Only" 2.92 Times Faster than the 135 mph I ran in 1983, on an empty freeway at 21 years old tucked down on the tank of a 1983 Kawasaki GPz 750!😱
"That'll do pig, That'll do"!😁
Mike in San Diego.🌞🎸🚀🖖
Love hes daily ride a guzzi , the most beautiful bike engine
Excellent 😎👍
computational fluid dynamics tells me that a crosswind will blow the bike over sideways
The understanding of the gyroscopic effect of two wheels spinning at those speeds in a vertical plane tells the rest of us that it won't.
Greetings from Denmark
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Well done.
48 minutes of painfully awkward moustaches and 2 minutes of Glory!
Fastest I ever road a bike was on my 1972 850 Norton @150 MPH. Then you could hear the valves,starting to float as the Norton never had camshaft centre bearing supports.
Center bearing can't stop valve float and a 850 Norton could not touch 150
Hmmmm..... that's not the only thing starting to float...
What a desirable bike back then. I couldn’t afford one but they were the real macho machine.
@@deltabluesdavidraye he may have meant 120, but I knew a guy who drove one across the prairies in Canada and he said he just gunned it through the boring flat parts, which is a LOT of it out there.
Maybe 120... My 73 was a Combat and cost$1695.
That looks pretty tricky !!
The release is so violent
Do know David Campos
Brakes are useless at these speeds that got my attention.
As Joe Amato said, you could break a record in a bathtub if you have enough power. He was the first to go 300 in the quarter mile.
Check pics and videos from converted film, of course, and notice the spear shaped protrusion on nose of the aircraft. I read about it when i was a kid, I'm 68 now so you can do the math, and what i read was that as the jet powered aircraft approached 300mph they encountered that barrier of wind that was like a wall and required a, for those days, a massive amount of horsepower to overcome. So someone came up with the idea to use the spear lookin things to create it's own intrusion into the wall out in front of the jet's fuselage and the waves opened up a type of hole thru the wall ahead of the jet. You can find graphs and wind tunnel results from back then. Suggested it to John Force to try on his Funny Car and while he laughed but was for trying it since it's the tires that trip the lights, not the body, nobody humored him, or me.
Seems like if it would possibly help anybody it would be salt flat racers. Probl cost less than $500 and what could it hurt. Another crazy idea is to install an ionizing device that thins the air ahead of the vehicle. Probably wudn't help as you're interrupting the air so quickly. In a closed space it will cause the dust to go to the floor.
Know ya'll don't read comments but perhaps someone who knows you might mention the jet fighter fix. If it only made a mile or two mph difference i think that would be cool but if it helped in stabilizing the bike that would be amazing. I'm dyin ftom 5th cancer but wish i could see ya'll try it. If only in a wind tunnel.
rick in Tennessee. Uh, don't have any suggestions to lower "pucker factor" of rider/driver. I'm pretty sure that causes some drag on any bike or vehicle. The machines can feel the tenseness. L8r.
"Dreams come true man, dreams come true!"
-Joey Buran
Love sound of bike
I would be looking at the alignment, adjust the rear right axle forward will steer you to the right
Big Kountry hit 267 on his turbo hyabusa… he was spinning the tire at over 200 mph! Standard fairings no stream line like the world record bikes. Pretty damn fast
Like the Moto Guzzi! A man of taste.
All we need is one more....famous last words
IOM for the Win IMO ! BUT ... Just imagine if they'd been able to get Ack ATTACK into high gear ?
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looking for a "qualified" individual willing to drive 400 mph+ in my homemade experimental motorcycle
400 mph is 2 football fields a SEC0ND. Bonneville is 8 to 14 miles long on a good day. My question; What horse power will you have and how much of it is at the low end of your REVS to get to 400 mph?
@@raycarolewallace466 The difference between 394 and 400 could be the smallest change in the aerodynamics given that drag is proportional to the square of speed. Or, traction at any given hour could easily make 6 MPH. Many years ago I was able to measure 10% wheelspin at my top speed of 121 on 15 cu. in.
@@perrysims3320 They are spinning a LOT more than that now. The 1,000cc bike I helped tune had 80Lb of lead in his swingarm and his entire run(s) were still all about throttle control, trying to keep it from spinning "too much" (wasn't ever able to get/keep the throttle wide open on any of his runs)...
@@KCadbyRacing I don't doubt it. Almost all the 4-wheel streamliners are ground effect cars now. I was excited about the Carbonite Car. I thought the design was a good step. It is still to be proven. I don't think that their innovative design brought them down, but a nasty mechanical failure.
Nice !
Whoever put the music on the engine noise needs to be sacked.
They change the engine out for a transmission problem because they are 1 intrgal unit.
Can you imagine being disappointed going 327 mile an hour?
Yup
If I had something faster, sure ! On my GSX1100 nope !
That's the way it goes , build it, break it, rebuild it, break it, rebuild it.....
The people twisting wrenches never really get tired of it,
My mechanic, Dyno Steve, on Rich Rd held that record for a long time...256 mph as I recall. Unreal. I could barely hang on my lightning at 100+ miles an hour less😅
Love the Moto Guzzi.
The teams next move...
"Yall think we could fit a viper motor in this thing"
Narrator: Fastest production bike, "almost" 200mph????
Kawasaki H2R: Here, Hold my gas (beer)...
Gsxr...hold our beers hahahaha
Do I have to wear a helmet and leathers or just go in an singlet and flip flops?
H2R?
**Laughs in MTT turbine bike**
@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 Really??
I'm still to see the Y2K 420RR go past 230mph... Factory claims 250mph/405kmh, but I have not seen anyone break the 230 barrier.
H2R has gone past 405kmh.
I don't have any doubt that the Y2K is capable of that and more, I guess it's a matter of finding the right pilot (titanium gonads required)...
Cheers!!
@@aleveraj They have broken 235mph on their own test track/airstrip.
The MTT is capable of that and more, its finding a place that can allow it to reach maximum velocity and stop that seems to be the problem.
what did they use for motors?
Swap out those dual Hayabusa engines for a pair of 1441cc ZX-14R engines with that 35lb of boost!