COLDSTONE1298
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True but it'll take a nice looooong strip of clean highway to see that 197mph. Just about any of today's sportbikes are gonna be way quicker up to 180mph. Theres fast and then theres quick and in the majority of street encounters (where you don't have a few miles of straight, clear of traffic highway in front of you) quick wins over fast.
Some may still naysay the article (because the zx-10 was a bit quicker then the 2008 busa) but cycle world had a little 0-180mph shootout between the 2008 model bikes and had a 750+rwhp Hennessey Turbo Ford GT into the mix. Car's top speed was 220mph. However quite a few bikes were considerably quicker then the car up to 180mph. Unless it was a roll on race that the bike waited up for to get side by side with the car along with no traffic ahead for the the bike to zip around, the Turbo'd car would get left behind just like any other car out there in the majority of on road encounters.
People saying "How do you know the ferrari was racing" need to realize what bike they're on. These things accelerate so hard that it's not even going to look like the car was trying even though the driver is putting the gas pedel through the floorboard.
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