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posted July 17, 2007 02:02 PM
 Edited By: Wheelie on 17 Jul 2007 15:53
Gentleman's Agreement?
whats the purpose of Suzuki, Kawasaki, others limiting their speeds to 186mph on the big bikes?
www.porsche.com/usa/models/911/911-turbo/featuresandspecs/
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posted July 17, 2007 02:05 PM
I guess that's the speed they figured you won't get hurt at if you wreck. 186mph is MUCH safer than 210mph. LOL....it's all stupid.
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Hawkman
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posted July 17, 2007 02:12 PM
300kph equals 186mph. I think that's why it's there. Nice even number in KPH.
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posted July 17, 2007 02:29 PM
The purpose of it is to pacify governments who threatened to step in to stop the speed wars for street motorcycles. It's actually a good thing. It's easy to defeat for those who want to and it keeps the bureaucrats from coming up with some crazy ass ban or limits as you know they would.
This is also the reason for the little baby steps in performance between manufactures from year to year. It's just enough improvement to top the other guy. The can just point to the limiter if big brother get nosey. At least for now.
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Wheelie
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posted July 17, 2007 02:51 PM
look at the top "track" speed here, guess Porsche doesnt want to alarm Big Brother with a 200mph street car. wee
http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/911/911-turbo/featuresandspecs/
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posted July 17, 2007 03:04 PM
You got it.
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posted July 17, 2007 03:04 PM
If one looks back in history you will see Suzuki facked it up way back when the 1st Hayabusa came out and they ran silly those Autobahn adds in Europe that pissed off the public and the government. The 300 km limit has been in effect since to pacify them.
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Ninja_Knight
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posted July 17, 2007 03:49 PM
Well, thank goodness for the simplicity of the restrictions.
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posted July 17, 2007 04:25 PM
maybe they should put limiters on those expensive cars....
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics/
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posted July 17, 2007 08:09 PM
Fact is that you can buy a bike that does 300KMS/hr for 10K, so there are a lot more of those around and many riders who hit those speeds quite often, whereas there are only a handful of (older and more responsible) people buying that GT2, so you likely won't see them hitting 329KMS/hr and that's why we have this gentleman's agreement. I'm one of those 300 KM/HR bikers.
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posted July 17, 2007 10:24 PM
quote:
I guess that's the speed they figured you won't get hurt at if you wreck. 186mph is MUCH safer than 210mph. LOL....it's all stupid.
This is why it's all retarded, plain and simple. 186mph is no safer than 200+ 
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posted July 18, 2007 05:22 AM
Forgetting the political arguments for a moment, there is an economical one too.
The agreement prevented a price war. The manufacturer's didn't find they were having to build ever more powerful and sophisticated machines, which they would probably end up selling for little profit, simply to remain top-of-the-heap. With the agreement in place honour and bank balance were satisfied.
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posted July 18, 2007 07:18 AM
In holland they just tested five bike's on their originall top speed in a magazine called moto73...
bmw k1200s 276 km/h
cbr1100xx blackbird 284 km/h
zzr 1400 abs 296 km/h
mv agusta f4 1000 r312 298 km/h
hayabusa 1300 r 295km/h
They where tested on the german autobhan..................
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posted July 18, 2007 07:37 AM
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posted July 18, 2007 08:18 AM
Wonder how they got the 14 to hit 296...and the Busa's not a 99...so how'd they get that up to 295? Speedo correction box?
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dutchzx14
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posted July 18, 2007 09:13 AM
Because at 295km/h the kawi hits the speed limiter.. could'nt believe the speed of that mv agusta.
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posted July 18, 2007 09:13 AM
FBA - the 14 @ 296kph and the Bus @ 295kph are still under the 300kph/186mph limiter...
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posted July 18, 2007 09:17 AM
Everybody thinks that they are limited at 300 km/h. thats not the case. 295 km/h is when the limiter kicks in, also with a new hayabusa.
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posted July 18, 2007 11:32 AM
First time I ever heard that. :/
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BobC
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posted July 19, 2007 01:26 AM
Anyone know if MV Augusta have put a speed limiter on the F4 1000 ?
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posted July 19, 2007 08:00 AM
they did'nt put a speed limiter on that bike bob.
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posted July 19, 2007 08:02 AM
MV AGUSTA F4 312..
the 312 stands for the top speed of the machine. in km/h of course.. they did'nt make it anyway on that top speed.
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