Its official..speed limiters in 2001

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It is a precedent that Porsche and Ferrari refused to go along with the voluntary limits on European auto performance, and everybody seemed to have stayed happy. The tree-huggers still declared victory, even though those companies were still making cars with speed and power well in excess of the so-called restrictions.

Hopefully the two smallest Japanese manufacturers (who also are the main performance companies), Kawasaki and Suzuki, will do the same, perhaps promising to only make a couple of models, with low production volume, which significantly exceed the voluntary limits...I.E. like it is now. Essentially nothing would change, but everybody could declare victory. However, the tree-huggers will only settle for some form of compromise if there is some organized opposition to what they want. You have to weigh in in the political arena. In the US, that's the AMA.
 
I hear from a reliable source that kawasaki is pushing the limits because they can't build a bike faster than the busa. If you can't beat them, pass a law to make it illegal.
 
I fear the restriction is already here. No one can make the ZX-12R go faster than about 187mph (in U.S, twice, in France, in Holland) yet it has great aerodynamics and at least as much power as the Hayabusa. I think they've geared it down deliberately. And I wonder how fast a Y2K Busa goes. Anyone actually checked that yet?
 
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