anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[Eli69]

What's all that green stuff?

[trevor]

What's all that green stuff?

Lol....my son had to cut our grass yesterday....been a great "winter" here...riding lots.

[Grimly]

Wes Coast

I saw what you did, there.

[bobgroger]

Probably....although my K1300R with the factory quick shifter is very quick to 60mph.
The fastest I ever had my k1300r was 265kmph (165mph)...it had more but I was done lol
The K1300R has a factory 173hp
The Busa has 175hp
And my VFR1200F has 170hp
torque numbers are all basically the same at around 100

But the Busa has had some performance upgrades like full Yoshi exhaust and power commander....and she has two dyno sheets of 171hp and 165hp

Now all this said, I have not really had a chance to open the Busa up....and those days (nerve) may be behind me...lol

Either way the 1st gen Busa is supposed to be the fastest production motorcycle ever made.

From Cycle World Magazine....

"The Cycle World 1999 ?Haya?busa ran a 9.86-second, 146 mph ?quarter-mile—face-meltingly fast for the time and still among the best we’ve ever recorded. It also did 194 mph for the old CW Stalker radar gun, which we are going to bronze and hang on the wall in our office because no bike that gun has recorded before or since will ever go so fast. Yes, the ‘Busa remains the fastest production top speed we have ever recorded, and its over?riding competence in crushing air like this led to the 2000 “gentleman’s agreement” among manufacturers to voluntarily limit top speed to 300 kph, or 186 mph, so that governments wouldn’t intervene. A record attained, then preserved".

Stay away from new Corvettes. The ZR1-X ran 8.675@159 in street trim.... It is $180k more than a Busa though. Oh, top speed 233MPH.