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Its hard to wrap your head around the huge amount of power you have riding a modern liter bike. The grunt and pull that you can access by merely rolling your right wrist down, is unmatched by any performance car in the world. Put in perspective, a new GSXR1000 goes zero to a hundred and back to zero before a Porsche 911 can go zero to 100. Rolling on the throttle at freeway speed, say 75mph, in second or even third gear will loft the front end with no trouble, anytime, anywhere (closed course only of course!)
I have a motorbike, that as much as I love to ride it, I hate it… A first year Hayabusa, my sport touring bike; you can pretty much tell that our tours involve a lot more sport and less tour. This bike turns me into a menace, as I find it virtually impossible not to top 100 mph within the first few mile of any ride I take it on. Socially responsible? No, but still, a necessary evil on this tool of Cerberus.
Going back to our GSXR1000 – This cutting edge superbike for the street sports 170ish hp and weighs in at about 430lbs full of fuel. This equates to 2.53 lbs per hp. A modern supercar, the Porsche 911 Turbo weighs 3495lbs and makes 480hp, bringing the car to offer up 7.28 lbs per hp. Not really much of a question about who is going to perform the best. I always like to add in the added cost factor, at $126,200 the Porsche costs nearly ten times more than the GSXR, and yet fails in nearly every category to keep up competitively.
Returning to the power of things… There really isn’t a lot in the whole world that can compare with the squished into the back of your brain feeling you get rolling the throttle open on the new GSXR at 7000 rpm. I’ve often struggled to explain this feeling to someone who doesn’t ride. The solution I’ve come up with is that it’s about TWICE as fast in acceleration as a jet airliner on takeoff. TWICE.
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