Guys took one of these out to the salt and had it geared up, and it failed miserably.
None of these bikes have hit 192 in 6th, I doubt the dreamo meter on the dash has even read that high.
Mid 180's pegged has been about it. And that is the dreamo meter
Again, to overcome that you better be 140lbs and have your leathers duct taped so there are no creases or flapping leather for aero dynamics. The hump on your leathers back behind your helmet also is a air drag.
Its how the chick did 200 on a liter bike.
Most people think that a bike should be geared to reach the speed desired at redline, but that is not always true. On some bikes peak power is not at the redline. When shooting for a given speed at different top speed courses like Maxton or Texas, the riders use speed calculators (spreadsheets developed for each bike), then pick the gearing to hit that speed at a given rpm. On 1000s and bigger bikes it usually is near redline as it is for nitrous and turbos, but on 600s and 750s peak power is far short of the rev limiter.
A critical part of the 200 mph equation is getting the proper gearing. If a bike is geared "too low" the engine will hit the rev limiter before ever reaching the target speed. On the other hand, if it is geared "too tall" then it may not have enough power to pull all the way to peak power in top gear. In order for a bike to achieve its true top speed the gearing must be such that the combination of aerodynamic and mechanical drag forces are exactly equal to the bike's power at the rear wheel as seen on a dyno.
With stock gearing our 'Busa was into the redline but falling shy of the rev limiter during extended nitrous sprays, indicating that we had the correct gearing, but there was simply too much wind resistance and not enough power to push us that extra 500 rpm. Lower gearing would've pushed it into the limiter, but reduced the top speed.
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