Raced a new Harley V-rod

[Juiced4v]

Why would you race a bike in your foe-fiv-sixes?

[Lason]

Keeping it real!

It was stretched and had a bottle on the side, was so loud my ears started to ring and i was deaf for a few seconds. It was popping out of the exhaust for some reason..

Not that I could come with 5 miles of a stock hyubusa, but you can imagine the race now lol!

But I have smoked a ninja 250 in a single cab hemi!

Ahhhhhh to be young again.....

[Cobraman]

would've looked like this:


or this:

Hmm. maybe it wasn't a vrod. It a line of led's for a tailight, and was styled similarly. I'll search for a pic.

[Cobraman]

it was this one:

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/07/22/2009-harley-davidson-v-rod-muscle/

[Pokulski-Blatz]

it was this one:

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/20...-v-rod-muscle/

No way in hell you could have beat that if the rider had any clue on how to ride.

[jdgregory84]

I beat a Harley in my stock 5.0 with gears back in like 2003. Kinda the same story except when I hit 3rd I pulled pretty hard. It was a young guy riding and he might have shut it down, but he started it, so I counted it. Not really anything worth bragging about. I guess he couldn't handle the fo five six (and nothing else).

[BP]

I raced a bagged out Electra Glide on my Buell once, well I call it a race. He was doing 110-115 and I rolled up next to him in 3rd gear. Didn't really see the point in embarassing him though so I just paced him for a few miles. I had another 50 mph left and he was buzzing the rev limiter.

The next day though I had a newer R-1 pacing me at 90-95, eventually he stood it up and blasted off. No sense getting my ass kicked by a bike with 30 more hp.

A V-rod with a mediocre rider should be capable of 12.50s at 115+

[Cobraman]

Idk guys. He was definitely winding it out.

[VaderTT]

I only pulled 2-3 lengths on a vrod a couple years back in my rx7.
There's no way that you would have pulled on him at all if he was trying or knew how to ride.

[motoman]

The only thing I can't stand about those V-Rods is the ugly exhaust.

[TENGRAM]

it was this one:

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/20...-v-rod-muscle/

That is one ugly ass bike.

[91CoupeMike]

Given the v rods 1/4 mph speeds of 115+

Your 4th only allows you to pull to 120mph, he let out at some point in time, and got back in it or was short shifting. Sounds like you got sand bagged, if not who knows!

There was a time when a bike blew past me on 35 so I gave it all I could give it in 3rd and 4th and passed his ass, then he passed me back and the race was on.

That was In the 2.73 days, so mathematically 4th would last to 170, but I may have got 140-150 out of it that day. I got a thumbs up but we both knew he was faster.

[VaderTT]

drag coefficient, he hit the "wall" and thats why you hung with him @ higher speeds.

[89stangGT]

this thread makes me really wish I still had my Night Rod Special and a video camera to go with it....

oh well. wanna run the fz1? it's really slow.