busa_boy_69
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Well Saturday was nice so I finally got to get out and get a good ride in. Me and my buddies one on an 04 CBR 1000RR and the other on a 03 Gixxer 1000. We went through some nice twistie roads, some highway time, and some nice country back road straight stretches. Well I dunno if anyone will remember but I put a post on here last year about doing a roll on with the same friend on the CBR and he was out pulling me slighty up until about 140mph because I am a bigger guy and he was a LOT smaller. Well Back when we did that my bike both only had bolt ons and slip ons for his. So performanace wise they were pretty much stock. Well over the winter I decided to get a little more umph so I put on an Akrapovic full race system and removed the PAIR valve. Now my buddie wasn't gonna have any of that so guess what exhaust his bike has now? Oh yeah Akrapovic Full race as well. lol. Now I am running the map straight from PC's website but last week he took his bike to Honda of Fairfield and had it customed tuned and set up. Now let me say this before I put the roll on results up........
Me - 6'2 300lbs even
Him- 5-10 190lbs
So here it is. We were going down a country back road with a nice straight stretch and VERY minimal traffic. He pulls up beside me and we are rolling along at about 40 mph. I am looking down and I see him kick down a gear and hear his rpms go up. So I am like hmmmm I better get ready. I drop down a gear and get my rpms set for the perfect launch and sure enough CRACK there he goes. I twist all the way back and start going through gears. Well we go from about 40 mph all the way up to 155mph and we were SIDE BY SIDE the whole way. Neither one of us gained so much as a foot! It was the most dead even race I have ever had. It was pretty wild to we were hitting those high speeds so close together that our handlebars were literally 6 inches apart the whole way (dumb I know but what a rush). So we got done and of course he is satisfied that he hung with me. He knows that a rider his size on my bike would hand it to him but the fact that he was able to hang right even with a Busa made him feel really good about his bike. I was actually happy to because before we put these exhausts on our bikes I would literally be BEHIND him up until about 140 mph and not this time.....from start to finish they were side by side.
Now we get back to the house and my buddy on the gixxer was like dude whats the matter I didn't see you gaining on Tracy at all?
I just looked at him and was like dude are you seriously asking me that? I am 300 freaking lbs dude and look at Tracy what do you THINK was gonna happen? I am actually surprised that he didn't gain on me at all this time. I offered to switch bikes and see what happened but I didn't really have any takers on that offer. haha. I have to say though that is one VERY mean CBR he is running now. That Akrapovic and map he has now made a BIG difference. The race was a blast though. We both had to back out of it at 155mph because way up the road I saw a car pull onto the road and I knew we were gonna need massive stopping distance but at 145mph I FINALLY was really beggining to pull up on him and would have passed him.
I know while we were doing that we passed two cars going the opposite direction and they had to have been like HOLY SH!T! All they got was a red and black Blurrrr. I just thought I would share the results of round 2 with you guys. Haha. The riding was awesome that day. Oh yeah and since this board likes pics.....Here are a couple pics of our bikes once we got back and a close up of the CBR race exhaust for anyone curious what it would look like. I had never seen one with this exhaust until he bought his.......ENJOY! Oh yeah and theres a pic of my bike at Hooters that day to last.
View attachment Busa_and_CBR1.jpg
Me - 6'2 300lbs even
Him- 5-10 190lbs
So here it is. We were going down a country back road with a nice straight stretch and VERY minimal traffic. He pulls up beside me and we are rolling along at about 40 mph. I am looking down and I see him kick down a gear and hear his rpms go up. So I am like hmmmm I better get ready. I drop down a gear and get my rpms set for the perfect launch and sure enough CRACK there he goes. I twist all the way back and start going through gears. Well we go from about 40 mph all the way up to 155mph and we were SIDE BY SIDE the whole way. Neither one of us gained so much as a foot! It was the most dead even race I have ever had. It was pretty wild to we were hitting those high speeds so close together that our handlebars were literally 6 inches apart the whole way (dumb I know but what a rush). So we got done and of course he is satisfied that he hung with me. He knows that a rider his size on my bike would hand it to him but the fact that he was able to hang right even with a Busa made him feel really good about his bike. I was actually happy to because before we put these exhausts on our bikes I would literally be BEHIND him up until about 140 mph and not this time.....from start to finish they were side by side.
Now we get back to the house and my buddy on the gixxer was like dude whats the matter I didn't see you gaining on Tracy at all?
I know while we were doing that we passed two cars going the opposite direction and they had to have been like HOLY SH!T! All they got was a red and black Blurrrr. I just thought I would share the results of round 2 with you guys. Haha. The riding was awesome that day. Oh yeah and since this board likes pics.....Here are a couple pics of our bikes once we got back and a close up of the CBR race exhaust for anyone curious what it would look like. I had never seen one with this exhaust until he bought his.......ENJOY! Oh yeah and theres a pic of my bike at Hooters that day to last.
View attachment Busa_and_CBR1.jpg
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