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Then again, those seconds don't come easily!!! As you know, you really can't compare 8 and 9 second street bikes - they're in totally different leagues (unless it's 9.01 and 8.99 or something). You should feel really good about a mid-8 second bike - you had to make at least 100 Hp more than the ZX-12, and then figure out how to use it. Trevor Altman <tbone@blueridge.net> on 11/09/99 09:42:31 PM To: Lorcan Parnell <lorcan@mail.globalnet.co.uk> cc: turbobike@natvideo.com (bcc: Bob Shammas/EQA/Nsk-Corp) Fax to: Subject: Re: [turbobike] ZX-12 and -6R I hear that! My turbo GSXR is not even a full second quicker (with me on it) than the new ZX-12 and I could almost buy two new ZX's for the investment I've made. (Let alone the countless hours that I could have spent riding instead of cussing in the garage) Lorcan Parnell wrote: > The speeds are spot-on for those times in my experience (except Ricky's 1/8 > mile speed which is a tad high). That "stock" 600 is making as much power as > a genuinely stock 9R though! > Sometimes it makes me wonder if it's worth all the aggro, and expense, of > building a special when you can just buy a 12 or a Busa, slap some > wheelie-bars and a slick on it and run 8s, or just leave it alone and still > go 200mph and ride it around every day! > > Lorcan > > > > -Ricky Gadson went 9.52 @ 147 on his stock ZX-12! (1.64 @ 60', 128 mph > > > @ 1/8 mile) > > > Chris Williams made a lap on the 12 with a 1.74 @ 60' (a realistic > > > short time for us average riders) and went 9.7 @148. > > > > > > -Even more impressive than the ZX-12...Check this out! > > > Chip Ellis went 9.91 @ 138 on his ZX-6R "stock" 600 SS bike! (1.56 short > > > time) > > > (Previous runs included 10.02 @ 140 and 10.07 @ 140) > >