245kmph on the speedo on my cb900f hornet.In the middle lane of a three lane freeway with no other vehices early one morning. I backed off when I remembered my Ventura packrack was still on the back and only rated to 130kmph. Still had more in her but that was fast enough for me
gunhand,
Mar 10, 9:06am
They brought the wire wheel out to race against the CBR1100Rs of the day but Im sure there was no horsepower increase but just added fairings and other bits to help give an edge over the stock 1100 Katana. The 1000 is the one you want, rare as. Memorys are wonderfull things though LOL.
granada,
Mar 10, 9:09am
From memory the GPZ900 from the early eighties claimed top spot as worlds fastest production bike with a top speed of 240kph.
gunhand,
Mar 10, 9:13am
When I had my Katana still those things came out. One passed me like I sitting still LOL. But that was more to do with handling than straight out grunt but yes those 900s raised the game abit for sure. Ive got a book somewhere that lists all the top seeds of bikes from 1970still2010ish but we arnt in a top speed war.yet LOL.
oliver6,
Mar 10, 9:14am
A Katana 1000 ! I don't remember the fairings being different but I think they had different cams and mufflers. I rode the first concept model with a backlight speedo, which didn't operate. Fantastic at the time.
croco1,
Mar 10, 9:19am
170KMH on a Softail Heritage, a long straight road out the back of Featherston in the Wairarapa.
gunhand,
Mar 10, 9:22am
Yep there was a 1000cc katana in 81ish.They came out in 550, 650, 750, 1000 and 1100 during the eighties.Even a 250 version lol.The wire wheels tended to have a full body fairing that covered the motor. They were also availble as an after market item as well. Thats how I remeber it anyway. Maybe the fairings were jsut that, aftermarket but it sure looked good. Ill go look at my dealer release book and see whats in there.
trogedon,
Mar 10, 9:23am
Surely you need to move the decimal place a bit.
gunhand,
Mar 10, 9:27am
Theres no mention of the wire wheeled version but the stock 1100 katana as rated by suzuki lists a top speed between 232 and 237kph and 111hp at 8500rpm.
croco1,
Mar 10, 9:27am
lol, took a while to get up there, stock standard Harley and believe me, the speeds I've seen some Jap / Euro sports bike doing, you know it's well over the 200kmh mark, it's a bit of a race track out that way.
oliver6,
Mar 10, 9:31am
Maybe we didn't have the 1000 in NZ, I rode all of the others, I worked at a Suzuki dealership at the time. The 250 and 400 models were Japanese domestic models and were in production until recent years.
gunhand,
Mar 10, 9:37am
Thats a good point, I don't recall ever seeing one in the flesh or even for sale here. Its listed as 108hp and top speed of between 228 and 233kph. I think they did a limited run of Orig Katana 1100s in Japan not so long ago. They also had the coloured versions for a while as apposed to the straight silver. Yep, forgot the 400.
tgray,
Mar 10, 6:45pm
210kph on a 1978 Suzuki GS1000in 1982. Considered the first Japenese super bike by many.
planted4u,
Mar 10, 6:58pm
The wire wheel GSX 1100 and the wire wheel Katana had different pipes slide carbs, cams and came with two sets of wire wheels. They had a lot more horse power than the standard models I think from memory they were 120hp.
saxman99,
Mar 10, 7:56pm
I think I got to 40 or maybe even 50 kM/h once.
kazbanz,
Mar 10, 9:25pm
GSXR1000 k4! Turbo built by Blair Titmus in 2006 (mighta been 05) -back "straight" of buckekohe (pukekohe) 320km/h .This was before it was loaned to stroudy for that car VS bike race. (stroudy cooked/crashed it at Taupo) As a drag bike it was amazing but I did faster laps on a factory K4-the power came on in a purely evil way that had you nursing it through corners. I never did get to ride it with the turbo fettled
9ine,
Mar 10, 9:32pm
287kmh (digital speedo but still probably optimistic) on my stock Yamaha R1 at Pukekohe on a track day about 10 years ago. Modern bikes are so stable at speed that there's very little difference between 280 and 180 kmh.
mazzyz,
Mar 10, 11:02pm
230 apparently on the back of an fj1200 racing mate on gsxr1100, he made the corner(Old Putty Rd out back of Sydney), we didn't and came off at about 180, hopped up and walked away with some good bruising - VERY lucky that day.
kazbanz,
Mar 10, 11:08pm
UM --untill ya sit up after the crouch
virago72,
Mar 10, 11:27pm
86 FZ 250 Phazer, speedo went up to 180. Not sure on how accurate, but was reading 180 . Scary due to shape of headlight , wind would start to lift front. This was 1989ish, young and dumb!
wizid,
Mar 11, 12:34am
130 mph kawasaki 900.along the foxton straights.cost me 6 month loss of licence and $250 fine.
floscey,
Mar 11, 12:42am
240kmh2up on Suzuki bandit 1200
chutneyman,
Mar 11, 3:46am
Was once the passenger on an old Suzuki Katana. As I was holding on for dear life, I saw 228 or there abouts on speedo. This was between Taupo and Turangi with those awesum straits !
ladatrouble,
Mar 11, 4:51am
I'm not interested how fast I can go in a straight line - you can talk numbers, but 240, 270 who cares it's just fast.How fast I can go around a corner is what interests me - my bike goes around a corner as fast as the tyres will allow.
kazbanz,
Mar 11, 4:58am
wasn't the thou for an overseas market !-not based on the GS thou they were a factory sleeved dowen 1100 -from memory The body kit was aftermarket. I remember living in parnell when I had an XJ650. rolled into Vincens on beach road and they had a demo kat 1100. I was allowed to take it for a ride allong the water front-back in the days that the railway lines crossed quay! stOn the gas hit rail lines and a brand new kat 1100 goin sideways on the lines-me hangin on screaming profanities into my helmet
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