Bricks were shat: Honda CBR1100RR vs. Suzuki Hayabusa
Posted by: Christopher in Hayabusa, Honda CBR1100RR, Aw hell no, Zoom zoom, Excuse me wtf r u doing?, Bricks were shat, Holy shitBack in the day, 18 years ago or so, I had a 1988 Suzuki GSXR-1100. Custom exhaust, big-bore pistons, oh how I miss that thing. Sure, it nearly killed me once but it was such a blast to ride. Well the bike didn’t nearly kill me, *I* nearly killed myself while riding — fell asleep on it and nearly ran into the back of an 18-wheeler on the way back home after visiting Beth, my ex-fiancee. I got married shortly thereafter and the bike went away. I guess for that reason I equate bikes with youth and freedom and irresponsibility and awesomeness. My biking days are over as I’m too old and slow to trust myself on something that powerful anymore. Which is why I’m living vicariously through my boss.
He has somehow managed to talk his wife into letting him buy a bike. He’s looking at a 2008 Honda CBR1000RR. Top speed around 185mph.
Here’s what 0-185 looks like on a CBR– watch the digital display hit 299kph (185mph) at the 0:44 mark.
Holy shit that’s fast. I must have been out of my mind to ride something even remotely that fast when I was younger.
Then I started thinking. Well, if the CBR looks fast, what about the Hayabusa? From my limited research, it seems that the Busa is the current reigning baddest-ass bike around at the moment. So I dug up this video– 0-220mph on a Busa. Notice he doesn’t get on it until about 50mph, and when he does, the front wheel comes off the ground and doesn’t drop down til around 140.
As best I can tell, that’s 50-100pmh in about 3 seconds, and 50-220mph in about 20 seconds.
o.O
And then I saw this one. Evidently the guy above was dogging it or something, b/c this bike seems a ton faster, going from 80-170mph in about 4 seconds.
wtf. How can something move that fast?