Yes you heard right. I know its dangerous to go fast on public roads but what is the fastest anyone has taken their 300? ON a closed course in Mexico of course.
My fastest bike is naked and when you get to about 90 mph it's really tough even if you tuck. That little fly screen on the Ninja 300 helps a lot though.
well 175kmh is 108mph so you should be able to break 100mph. 6th gear is very tall and actually redlines 2 or 3k earlier than the painted redline, so dont worry if you only get 4 or 5 more mph in that gear
I've hit 112 on the 91 in socal, but my weight is 135 lbs, which likely plays a huge factor. I've been impressed with the handling at these speeds if you are able to tuck. I'm only 5' 8" so my frame fits in there really well. If I don't tuck, I've noticed that 80 mph is my limit before the wind factor starts pulling my body backwards and it comes almost necessary to tuck. If you're tucked, you can easily mob around in the 85-90mph range, the aerodynamics of the bike are great.
your weight has nothing to do with top speed. It affects your acceleration but the main factor at those speeds is wind drag. Almost all the energy from the engine will be used to push air out of the way. It doesn't care how much you weigh
Not if the friction from the contact on the road stayed the same, and it produced the same amount of aerodynamic drag. Of course, if the extra weight affected the aerodynamics, or caused more stress on the tires causing more friction with the road surface, then yea.
Its the same idea as dropping a hollow bowling ball VS a solid one from the same height (really high up) and allow them to hit their terminal velocity (top speed). They will both hit the ground at the same time. Gravity is the same (same acceleration), and the drag is the same, so they accelerate and hit the ground at the same time. The important bit is the terminal velocity in this scenario, which is governed by the drag the object has. A motorcycle is very similar in this sense with the exception of the acceleration, which is limited by the torque of the engine and grip of the tires on the road surface.
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Note: Weight does affect a vehicles acceleration on the road. If you drag raced a friend, the lighter guy will hit a higher speed over a short race, and beat the heavy guy. Even if they were both enclosed in an identical bubble so they have the same aerodynamic drag. This is assuming neither rider was able to hit the actual bikes top speed.
Similarly, if you were both trying to find the bikes top speed, but the road has limited straight stretches between curves, one guy may be able to hit the real top speed on a straight before breaking, and the other heavier guy will not have hit the same speed. This could make the heavy guy think he is incapable of hitting the top speed of his lighter friend. In reality, he could have if the straightaway was longer. He had a lower rate of acceleration so he couldn't hit the actual top speed given that stretch of straight road.
Imagine I said I had two motorcycles that have the exact same wheel base, coefficient of friction with the road, aerodynamics, rider, and enough braking force to lock the the front tire at will for the duration of the required braking period to bring the bike to a sudden stop. If I said one bike weighed 300 pounds and the other one weighed 1000 pounds, which one will stop sooner if they both threshold braked from 100 Mph?
Answer: They will both stop in the same distance. Madness I tell you, but it is true.
Given: in this scenario, if they had the same break setup, the lighter bike could get away with less powerful brakes. If we put a stock Ninja 300 against one that was magically 600 pounds heavier, the heavy one would overwhelm its brakes when braking at high speeds, you wouldn't be able to lock the tire if you tried, and the braking distance would be much longer due to overheating. Possibly warping of calipers via too much heat.
This is why I prefer to race people going downhill...provided there's no stop sign at the bottom. Not really. I'm 155 lbs. dressed to ride. Exactly right. The big factor in top speed is wind resistence, which shows you the importance of tucking. Even speed skaters, skiers, and bicycle riders do this for the same reason.
Well if you weigh 280 lbs and I weigh 140 (which I do, chemo does that to you), i'm going to go faster than you at top speed. Know why? cause you have more mass and drag than me. ******* terminology: yer fat azz is bigger than me so you grab more air! LOL, don't think i'm serious or nuthin' just tryin' to tell ya how i'm thinkin' is all.
I'm suprised nobody has wrung out the little Ninja. Before I sold mine last week, I took it over to the Texas tollway where the legal speed limit is 85 mph, which translates to about 92 on most motorcycles. I found a rabbit...fast car in the passing lane to act as a cop magnet, followed him, and opened it up. At 150 lbs, mine went an indicated 113 mph. It handled fine and was at 12,000 rpms.
I've read magazine tests that stated the top speed they obtained was 104 mph. Not saying 104 is the hard limit, but 116 is a long way up from 104. I don't know, unless it's on a GPS I wouldn't accept any speed number as accurate.
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