I know street racing is dangerous and frowned apon but most of us still do it at some point. I have only got into one street race with a car on the zx14, it was a 03-04 supercharged cobra, was not much of a challenge. Back in the days when I had my 05 gixxer 1k I raced a supercharged vett and also a turbo Supra, beat both pretty easy, I have seen cars at the track that could have beat me but I always get lined up with other bikes. Anyone been beat on the street by a car?

Never had my butt handed to me by a car. Not from a dead stop. Not from a 70 mph roll. Had a couple that didn't lose too much ground. One was a Ford GT and the other was an old Mustang that must have had some kind of boost. Actually cam across a pickup truck that was pretty fast one time.

That was back a couple years ago. Get a loud exhaust and suddenly there are no more challengers.

My friend has a modified EVO9 Mitsubishi. He thought it would've been a closer race. He was wrong. 8)

^^^AWESOME!!

That might actually be a good reason to avoid modding your bike. People will still think they might have a chance against a stock bike.

Funny I just posted about street racing yesterday and then on the way home last night guess what happens. I turn on this long wide 4 lane road and I am doing about 10 over speed limit and I see a new black yukon hauling ass in front of me, ever time I speed up a little he punches it and stays 100 yards ahead of me. So we come to a light and I notice a hennessy emblem on the rear and hear the whine of a supercharger, so I tell my buddy on his 10R next to me that I bet this guy takes off hauling ass when the light turns green, sure enough I am still talking and light changes and he burns rubber and launches like a rocket, so I take off hauling ass to catch him and pass him, that thing was really fast for an SUV, take off the Hennessy emblem and its the perfect sleeper. So anyways he pulled up to next light and rolls down his window and its a older buisness man in a suit, said he just picked it up from Hennessy and he was out breaking it in.

We have a good enough advantage that we can watch for them to take off and still pull ahead of them within the first 60 feet. I was amazed at the pull my truck opponent had up to ~60 mph however. I thought he would have been history immediately but he right there for a second.

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monster i hope he had the chip changed those things come factory with a 100mph fuel shut off chip thats what kills me when those gm trucks wanna a race knowing they are only good up to 100mph hell we go that fast in second gear lmao

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Never been beat by a car in a tsraight line or a good curvy road. You see the youtube vids of cars taking bikes and for some reason I just can't find one of those cars.

I do love the mustang guys and the tuner guys. They're fun to toy with up to 110 or 120 and then pull the trigger and walk off. My wife usually waves bye to them.

Anyone been beat on the street by a car?

No. Once we hook up, I follow till they choke. They cannot keep up the push from behind. They assume street racing is dangerous. No, Normal driving is dangerous. Racing is a lot safer. Guys lose concentration or they have some hot car they think they can handle, make quick think is they stink!

I'm too busy making line, than watch theirs is now someone is going to follow someone in too deep and who told you you could drive/ride? Make law for your ass that can't steer?

we have some cars around here that pick on bikes, they usually wanna run for money though. I can think of 5 off the top of my head that would get me from a dig or a roll(in street trim). I have seen many of these myself. I've seen a c5 vette with forged, stroked and blown ls walk a 08 gsxr1000 with full exhaust, head work, cams, nitrous.

we have some cars around here that pick on bikes, they usually wanna run for money though

They have so much dough put into those cars that they can't afford to not run for money. If anyone was that confident that they'd lay more than $50 down, I'd be very suspicious. ha the way I ride, I have a margin of error I play in but if it's win or lose for $$$$ that's too narrow for me. Big bucks are for the big boys. I just like to have fun.

BTW, remeber that dude Dogo from last summer??? He said he was passed on his ZX-10 by a couple Porches and he couldn't catch up again. I guess they can do it on the high end if they are serious but I have yet to come across a Porche driver that is willing to get close.

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Funny mention of the Porsche. Around these parts, I know of a 94' 911 that's pretty darn quick.

I've seen him at the track, and how quick is quick??? A 2wd car no less on street nitto tires, running 10.00 @ 150 mph. The car is set up to run LSR. He's gone 227 mph at the Texas flying mile. Yeah, I might beat him in the 1/4, but after that, I'm his lunch.

I got beat by a car once.

But it was on my Ninja 650.

There's some street racers that would eat my lunch, but they race 1/8 mile.. have big slicks and usually wheelie bars.

there are a couple of 1000+ rwhp supra's and one 2000+ rwhp supra around here that aren't that good at getting off the line, but, they like to do 80 punches and they are DAMN fast.

most of the really fast cars around here are BIG turbo LS series cars.

It was 1991, around October 1st. I had been riding my new ZX11 all summer. It was one of the very first production ZX11 bikes built in Nebraska. The heads had been hand ported at the factory. She had been modified by Dublin Kawasaki, and was probably as fast as my current ZX14, maybe faster.

That morning, I got out onto CA 280 up around Palo Alto, heading south, to take the exit down in San Jose that lead up into the mountains. Fresh Sunday morning air, sun just beginning to warm it. It was going to be a great morning hanging out at Alice's Restaurant up on the ridge road where everyone congregated.

I no sooner merged onto 280 than a brand new Ferrari F40 pulled up beside of me. I was doing about 70mph. I gave him the thumbs up, it was one of the newly released to America roadsters, and I heard it before I saw it.

He pointed down the road, and then pointed at me. I nodded. We both rolled on full throttle. I came up to top gear and walked away from him slowly. About the time the speedo needle was bouncing around the 200 mark, the F40 pulled up abreast of me and then edged ahead. He probably had 10-15 mph more in his top end, at least.

We both had to slow to 50 for 4 lanes of Church traffic stacked up a mile away as we flew over a rise in the highway and looked downhill to see a parking lot developing on the 280 as cars tried to all get over to the exits to go to the big churches in the middle of San Jose.

That Ferrari beat me on braking too. He fell off behind me rapidly, and had no problem reining that beast in. I however barely got slowed down enough to lane split having come into the traffic from behind doing well over 80 while it was moving at about 40mph.

Only car that ever ran with me and outbraked me. Of course, he paid a quarter million US$ for it too.

There's a lot of cars that can beat our bikes, supposing they put at least 600 horses in them. Some of the higher end cars beat us on top end, because of the limiter (even without it you probably can't hit 200 without some major mods).

The only car that ever tried to race me was a modded out Civic. This was on my 10r. Passed him doing about 80 and he tried to make a race out of it. I would let him catch up at about 120 and then walk away. Finally got tired of the game and opened it up to about 170. Didn't see him again.

I do have a friend who drives a diesel pickup. He now has a GSXR 1000 in his garage. Beat the guy in the quarter pickup vs bike racing for pinks. Says he runs 11:00 in the quarter, so the guy on the bike musta sucked pretty bad.

Your friend must have had a feeling the gixxer guy sucked too. Like I said, I'd never risk more than $50. If you race for pinks, you better be experienced. Too easy to come across a shark.

I once had a drag with a 6 litre v8 maloo ute.

I played with him in first while he while he went through first and second, then when he grabbed third, I shifted into second and nailed it.

*poof*..... he disappeared.

I love messing wif boy racers.......

OZ

Raced a C63 Merc from the lights one day. He was pretty fast in 1st gear but when the front wheel came down finally I beat him easy. He did drill my mate on his Blackbird though. I was pretty impressed with it. Have raced some Porche's on the freeway, but no contest (yet!) Some pretty fast cars in Cape Town, and some very fast ones in Johannesburg, which is where all of the money is in SA. The guy who developed the Unichip piggyback for computers has a Lambo with 1000kw and I think a ZX14 would get a hiding from that. Lucky for me he lives in Johannesburg!!!

Last week while coming home from a Bike nite, my Wife and I pulled up behind a SS Camaro at a red light. There was a "Pre" 20 guy driving with his Honey next to him. The Camaro sounded like it had "pipes" and maybe a little work under the hood. When the light turned green he boiled the tires heading to the next Red light. We pulled up on both sides of him (3 lanes). He had both windows down, so I yelled over to my wife (she was on her ZX-6R Monster) "Do you want him ?"
She yelled OK.
Well Mr. Mustang looked at her and Smiled......... FOOL !
When the light went green, the Ms lit the fuse under her ZX-6R and completly blew the guy away. He never saw anything but her tail light, and that was disappearing fast. When we got to the next light we again surrounded him. I yelled to him asking if he wanted to be really embarassed and try me on my ZX-14..
He just rolled his windows up. But since he had his T-Top off. I yelled at him, "How's it feel having your ass kicked by a lady ? "
Bet he really impressed his Girl.... NOT !

The bottom line is bikes have shitty aeros as compared to a sports car and if you run into a well modded sports car you are gonna get walked on the top end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9RHpwHrgY

I invite one to come play. I've got sprockets in my garage that will allow me to run 210+, and i have the power to do it.

Unfortunately, i've only had declines to my invitations.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/29/BA5J1E6LDB.DTL

What? Want to buy a police interceptor engine plant installed in a lighter chassis? I think some are for sale in a town year you if not now, then soon!

I'm moving there so I do not need to be stopped I cruise at idle 130 like RickeyG I wish!

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