What Is The 0-60 On K1 Gsxr? And How Do You Ride It Fast?!! - Page 2 - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

Easy Rider · 03-04-2008, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JmalB

I think a proper launch would involve a lot of very destructive clutch slip. Not something you should do often.

And it's a bike meant for a road course, not the drag strip.

Absolutely right on both counts.

Are you paying attention, Zaonoid ??
There's your answer, straight up.

Like a lot of other things, drag racing LOOKS easy......and it is, unless you want to be good at it......in which case it is NOT easy. It takes a bike built for it, lots of practice to polish the skills and some damage along the way, to both bike and body.

A street bike is not built for an efficient DRAG.

And YOU don't have the necessary skills to pull it off.
Dismisss that if you want but it IS TRUE.

Tab B. · 03-05-2008, 11:01 AM

Definately follow the advice of the folks here, urging you to take it off the street. It makes all kinds of common sense. As far as numbers, well, like many motorheads, I've got way too much trivial info cluttering up my head. Zero to 60 times have hovered around the sub 3 second range for a long time. Heck, even way back in 86 my stock GSXR750 was clocked at 2.8 seconds to 60mph in Cycle magazine. The simple reason they haven't dropped significantly is quite simple, wheelies. More power, more torque, lighter weight,,,,,, coupled with SHORTER wheel bases, is what has helped keep the 0-60 times where they are. Now, 0-100mph times, sun of a beach, THAT is another story. I'm pretty sure I have seen times in the 5 second range for some bikes. Those kind of times dovetail with the awesome 1/4 mile times they get now. Maybe somebody here can pull some current numbers from a magazine. That is down from the high 6 to low 7 second range I remember for bikes like my old gixxer in the early to mid 80s. At any rate, those numbers are totally meaningless if you don't know how to launch it. Get you butt to a real drag strip and find out for yourself.

palanon · 03-05-2008, 11:43 AM

LOL! I was waitin' for someone else to chime in ( guess who ). I've been incredibly lucky. I've been riding for over 25 years and have been lucky enough to have avoided a crash.

The last couple of years could have changed that. I found myself continually wicking it up, bit by bit. Then some sneaky S.O.B., in a very round about way, got me to "take it to the track". Now I could care less about aggressive street riding.

Be careful !! This sneaky B'tard won't just trick you into going to the track for track day/road racing, he'll sucker you into going to the track to get your drag race fix on.

This is stolen from another site. Keep in mind this is for a 22 year old bike without drag mods like extended swing arm, gear changes, air shifter, strapped front end, etc.

Nice old slabby. 86 GSXR750G, Cosworth 883 kit, .015 off head, Yosh Stg. 2 cams w/ spring kit, Extrude Hone porting, RS38s, Carrillo rods, Falicon lightened and balanced crank, Full Hindle exhaust,
Raceteched front end, Ohlins rear, Dymag 17s, 127hp @rw, 10.82 @130.7 in the 1/4 mile.

This shows you can get your grove on at the track no matter what type of racing you want to do. A $25 day at the drags is a heel of a lot cheaper than a ticket for street racing. This sneaky dude ( who shall remain nameless ) will probably trick me into going drag racing this year.

wookie · 03-05-2008, 12:57 PM

With the lightweight of motorcycles, simply eating a porterhouse steak at lunch/dinner will increase your 0-60 run by 1/10 of a second. Two glasses of beer will set you back another 1/4 second.

tricker · 03-05-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by wookie

With the lightweight of motorcycles, simply eating a porterhouse steak at lunch/dinner will increase your 0-60 run by 1/10 of a second. Two glasses of beer will set you back another 1/4 second.

will eating a burrito the size of my head decrease it by 1/10th of a second but the ensuing gas will increase it by 3/20th of a second?

palanon · 03-05-2008, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by wookie

With the lightweight of motorcycles, simply eating a porterhouse steak at lunch/dinner will increase your 0-60 run by 1/10 of a second. Two glasses of beer will set you back another 1/4 second.

Leave beer out of this...HEATHEN !!!!

wookie · 03-05-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by tricker

will eating a burrito the size of my head decrease it by 1/10th of a second but the ensuing gas will increase it by 3/20th of a second?

Only if you can somehow get that gas into the fuel injector.

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Originally Posted by palanon

Leave beer out of this...HEATHEN !!!!

That's the second time I've heard/seen that terminology applied to me....

tricker · 03-05-2008, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wookie

Only if you can somehow get that gas into the fuel injector.

do they have that on ebay?

jprisme · 03-05-2008, 10:46 PM

man i am young i have wondered the same thing. but next time you ride just think when your bout to take off what if someone runs the intersection. sure i have raced my friends with there cars and even there 600 bikes, but when you do it do it in a control enviroment, at least do it on a closed street. just have some of your friends block off a street for a second. make sure its not a popular street though please yea it sounds silly but that is better then running on the street. one small thing like a dog run out and well both of yall will be kissing asphault.

JmalB · 03-06-2008, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by wookie

That's the second time I've heard/seen that terminology applied to me....

Sounds like a trend

wookie · 03-06-2008, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by tricker

do they have that on ebay?

Yeah. It looks like a funnel with a rubber hose. Come to think of it, it looks like a beer bomb....

Quote:

Originally Posted by JmalB

Sounds like a trend

It's a unfortunate trend....

tricker · 03-06-2008, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wookie

Yeah. It looks like a funnel with a rubber hose. Come to think of it, it looks like a beer bomb....

do you mean beer bong?

themeatmanlandry · 03-06-2008, 12:27 PM

heh-heh . . . "beer bomb" . . . that'd be something, eh?

Frat kids'd make 'em in the dorms and set 'em off at parties. A big "KABLOOIE" and everyone's drunk.

[gears in landry's head start to churn <i have a couple of degrees in ChemE, ya' know>]

**intimid8er** · 03-06-2008, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by palanon

10.82 @130.7 in the 1/4 mile.

Don't they do this or better stock right out of the box now?

Sick......................

themeatmanlandry · 03-06-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by themeatmanlandry

0-60: somewhere around 3 seconds or less

quarter mile: 9.8 sec @ 148 mph

**intimid8er** · 03-06-2008, 01:14 PM

All on what? A 9K showroom bike?

I say this because this site got into a ruckus a couple of years ago because the V-Twin crowd got excited over the $30,000 Harley Factory Drag Bike any Joe could buy, and hit 9 secs with a pro rider aboard.

Then the I-4 guys showed up to the debate armed with some sort of factual evidence and stuff, to claim that $30K was an utterly preposterous amount to pay for that level of performance, when it could be easily had for $10k or less.

MikeHump · 03-06-2008, 05:54 PM

Yeah, my bike is a 9k, bone stock 600cc sport bike, and it is capable of doing a 10.8 sec 1/4 mile (not with me riding it, but with a pro riding it).

the 1000 cc beasts cost a bit more, a little closer to $11,000 or so, but they'll do sub-10 sec times if ridden properly.

Rickster · 03-07-2008, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeHump

Yeah, my bike is a 9k, bone stock 600cc sport bike, and it is capable of doing a 10.8 sec 1/4 mile (not with me riding it, but with a pro riding it).

the 1000 cc beasts cost a bit more, a little closer to $11,000 or so, but they'll do sub-10 sec times if ridden properly.

Yep, and they are street legal to boot,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the $30,000 V Rod's not.

If a motorcycles worth was only measured in how fast it gets from point "A" to point "B", than that would be the end of the story, but I think most of us will agree that there's more to it than that.

JmalB · 03-07-2008, 03:46 AM

All very true... but that overpriced V-rod can be taken to the track and run full out as is. The Sportbikes will need a couple of mods to be compliant. Still would be cheaper though.

Tab B. · 03-07-2008, 05:25 AM

You have to take a bunch of those times with a grain of salt. The magazine guys get LOTS of practice, and they usually publish a time that has been corrected to a standard that the NHRA uses, and it isn't unheard of for the manufacturers to give them a bike that is indeed stock, but is particularily healthy. I'm not sure on those details. To see what a bike is really about, you have to go to your local dragstrip to see what the real world has to say. Besides, judging a bike on that alone is just a little narrow minded, unless you are going to use it for just that. The times for the old gixxer aren't great. They are actually quite typical for that era of bike with those kinds of mods. Time stands still for no motorcycle.

03-05-2008, 11:43 AM	#23 (permalink)
palanon No Significant Other Joined: Apr 2006 Bike: 2003 Bandit 1200S Location: Newmarket, NH Posts: 2,308	LOL! I was waitin' for someone else to chime in ( guess who ). I've been incredibly lucky. I've been riding for over 25 years and have been lucky enough to have avoided a crash. The last couple of years could have changed that. I found myself continually wicking it up, bit by bit. Then some sneaky S.O.B., in a very round about way, got me to "take it to the track". Now I could care less about aggressive street riding. Be careful !! This sneaky B'tard won't just trick you into going to the track for track day/road racing, he'll sucker you into going to the track to get your drag race fix on. This is stolen from another site. Keep in mind this is for a 22 year old bike without drag mods like extended swing arm, gear changes, air shifter, strapped front end, etc. Nice old slabby. 86 GSXR750G, Cosworth 883 kit, .015 off head, Yosh Stg. 2 cams w/ spring kit, Extrude Hone porting, RS38s, Carrillo rods, Falicon lightened and balanced crank, Full Hindle exhaust, Raceteched front end, Ohlins rear, Dymag 17s, 127hp @rw, 10.82 @130.7 in the 1/4 mile. This shows you can get your grove on at the track no matter what type of racing you want to do. A $25 day at the drags is a heel of a lot cheaper than a ticket for street racing. This sneaky dude ( who shall remain nameless ) will probably trick me into going drag racing this year. __________________ " In the name of the Speedo, the Tach and the Holy Throttle, amen. "

03-05-2008, 12:57 PM	#24 (permalink)
wookie U.B's LoveChild Joined: Apr 2005 Bike: '05 SV650S; '05 GSX-R600;'04 749S Location: 20 Miles East of LA Posts: 1,202	With the lightweight of motorcycles, simply eating a porterhouse steak at lunch/dinner will increase your 0-60 run by 1/10 of a second. Two glasses of beer will set you back another 1/4 second. __________________ "Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pigs love it." "Don't argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." "The Universe is a contest between engineers making things idiot-proof and God making bigger idiots. So far, God is winning by a wide margin."

03-05-2008, 10:46 PM	#29 (permalink)
jprisme Ditch Magnet Joined: Dec 2007 Bike: gsxr 1000 2007 Location: los angeles Posts: 174	man i am young i have wondered the same thing. but next time you ride just think when your bout to take off what if someone runs the intersection. sure i have raced my friends with there cars and even there 600 bikes, but when you do it do it in a control enviroment, at least do it on a closed street. just have some of your friends block off a street for a second. make sure its not a popular street though please yea it sounds silly but that is better then running on the street. one small thing like a dog run out and well both of yall will be kissing asphault. __________________ i have mutiplus sclerosis and well i wanted to ride since i was young so i saved up my money and got good credit and bought me a hell of a bike. i never looked back since

03-06-2008, 01:14 PM	#36 (permalink)
intimid8er It's A Conspiracy Joined: May 2005 Bike: '06 XB12X Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer Posts: 9,568	All on what? A 9K showroom bike? I say this because this site got into a ruckus a couple of years ago because the V-Twin crowd got excited over the $30,000 Harley Factory Drag Bike any Joe could buy, and hit 9 secs with a pro rider aboard. Then the I-4 guys showed up to the debate armed with some sort of factual evidence and stuff, to claim that $30K was an utterly preposterous amount to pay for that level of performance, when it could be easily had for $10k or less. __________________ Song Pick of the Week 09/03 Buckcherry - Too Drunk To F..... (NSFW) <Insert nothing original in this space>

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03-05-2008, 11:01 AM	#22 (permalink)
Tab B. Third gear and cruising Joined: May 2007 Bike: 86 GSXR750G, 93 GSX1100G, 89 YSR50 Location: Kingston NH Posts: 473	Definately follow the advice of the folks here, urging you to take it off the street. It makes all kinds of common sense. As far as numbers, well, like many motorheads, I've got way too much trivial info cluttering up my head. Zero to 60 times have hovered around the sub 3 second range for a long time. Heck, even way back in 86 my stock GSXR750 was clocked at 2.8 seconds to 60mph in Cycle magazine. The simple reason they haven't dropped significantly is quite simple, wheelies. More power, more torque, lighter weight,,,,,, coupled with SHORTER wheel bases, is what has helped keep the 0-60 times where they are. Now, 0-100mph times, sun of a beach, THAT is another story. I'm pretty sure I have seen times in the 5 second range for some bikes. Those kind of times dovetail with the awesome 1/4 mile times they get now. Maybe somebody here can pull some current numbers from a magazine. That is down from the high 6 to low 7 second range I remember for bikes like my old gixxer in the early to mid 80s. At any rate, those numbers are totally meaningless if you don't know how to launch it. Get you butt to a real drag strip and find out for yourself.

03-06-2008, 12:27 PM	#33 (permalink)
themeatmanlandry Banned Joined: Dec 2003 Bike: 2002 Bandit 600S (Black); 2006 GSXR750 (Black) Location: Memphis Posts: 11,423	heh-heh . . . "beer bomb" . . . that'd be something, eh? Frat kids'd make 'em in the dorms and set 'em off at parties. A big "KABLOOIE" and everyone's drunk. [gears in landry's head start to churn <i have a couple of degrees in ChemE, ya' know>]

03-06-2008, 05:54 PM	#37 (permalink)
MikeHump Found second gear by accident Joined: Oct 2007 Bike: 2007 GSXR 600 Location: Tracy, CA Posts: 343	Yeah, my bike is a 9k, bone stock 600cc sport bike, and it is capable of doing a 10.8 sec 1/4 mile (not with me riding it, but with a pro riding it). the 1000 cc beasts cost a bit more, a little closer to $11,000 or so, but they'll do sub-10 sec times if ridden properly.

03-07-2008, 05:25 AM	#40 (permalink)
Tab B. Third gear and cruising Joined: May 2007 Bike: 86 GSXR750G, 93 GSX1100G, 89 YSR50 Location: Kingston NH Posts: 473	You have to take a bunch of those times with a grain of salt. The magazine guys get LOTS of practice, and they usually publish a time that has been corrected to a standard that the NHRA uses, and it isn't unheard of for the manufacturers to give them a bike that is indeed stock, but is particularily healthy. I'm not sure on those details. To see what a bike is really about, you have to go to your local dragstrip to see what the real world has to say. Besides, judging a bike on that alone is just a little narrow minded, unless you are going to use it for just that. The times for the old gixxer aren't great. They are actually quite typical for that era of bike with those kinds of mods. Time stands still for no motorcycle.

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