I haven't met any 14's on the street and I'm always down for a little action.
Come on over to Bradenton Motorsports Park Bradenton, Florida and i'll be happy to show you ..I haven't met any 14's on the street and I'm always down for a little action.
Well you don't have a 1397 motor but you do have a 40 shot .. I can set you up with a Gen 2 zx14 in TX and see how you do .. The rider is good and he weighs in at 210 pounds .. He has a few less mods than you but he would be happy to run you ..
So true .. I know lots of guys with big motors and some with turbos that can't out run anyone .. The bike has the power but the rider has no skills .. I see it every week at the track .. I can tell you this , the ZX14R has and will lose to a slower bike with a skilled rider . Just part of life .. Just becarefull who you drop the hammer on .. If you see a 56 year old skinny guy in FL on a blue ZX14R be very carefull ..
So true .. I know lots of guys with big motors and some with turbos that can't out run anyone .. The bike has the power but the rider has no skills .. I see it every week at the track .. I can tell you this , the ZX14R has and will lose to a slower bike with a skilled rider . Just part of life .. Just becarefull who you drop the hammer on .. If you see a 56 year old skinny guy in FL on a blue ZX14R be very carefull ..
Great numbers for having 60 foot problems .. Your bike is making good power to MPH like that .. You get the clutch dailed in i can see some low 8.70s no problem ..I hear ya! I made a pass on my buddy's turbo Busa a few weeks ago. First time ever on one, and it was like "Hey, you should take my bike for a pass." as the track guy in the staging lane was waving him out. I really looked stupid, killed it twice before the burnout, rolled out of the burnout under power and found out you can't pull the clutch on a lockup when the rpm's are up. Killed it at the line trying to leave, looked down and saw I was in 6th gear .... yea, the owner had it in 6th gear messing with the air shifter and I just did a 180 mph burnout. He has trouble bogging on the leave because he's afraid of it so when I restaged I came out at 7500 rpm's and blew the tire away. I sat up and then decided to get back in it and went a high 9 at 164 mph without looking at the tach (too much pucker factor when I shifted into 2nd gear with 14 psi) and I'm pretty sure I shifted at least 8 times. So yea, whoever was next to me could have claimed to beat a 387 hp turbo Busa.
You know who the stock blue 14 with a paper plate belongs to.
Just so you don't think I'm an easy win, here are a couple timeslips from my last time out. This was after competition, just before the track closed for the day. N/A stock motor '08, 63-1/2", pump gas with over 1900 ft DA. I've been fighting the clutch the last year or so and this day was no exception. The run on the right was with the front tire on the ground and a bog, then I tried to leave harder and earned a big wheelie that I rode out the first two gears. I just put in new inner and outer clutch baskets and a new clutch this weekend so hopefully my 60's will get back to where they should be instead of these embarrassing numbers. I'm also going to switch to E-85 so if all works out well I should be able to knock off most of three tenths on a good run. Of course there is always someone faster.
Great numbers for having 60 foot problems .. Your bike is making good power to MPH like that .. You get the clutch dailed in i can see some low 8.70s no problem ..
You will like the E85 once you get it tunned .. I have seen anywhere from 7 to 9 HP by switching to E85 ..
I knew a click of guys that I use to ride with in MI and 3 of them had newer GenII's and a couple of them had 14's, I'm not that heroic of a rider, but I hung pretty tough with the 14's on my Gen I, but the Gen II's took the 14's pretty hands down. Not like it was a walk in the park, but pretty consistent on the plus side
lets get it done!
