Your bike at high speed?

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How does it feel?

Being a naked bike, I did notice the difference after having a fairing - i.e, get to 90ish and pushing my neck forward. 100 - 120ish, tuck down behind the fairing ;D

However, on Sunday, I went head to head with a ktm950 (because his ego gets on my nerves!) I ride with, managed to squeeze 140* but christ it scared me - and the car in the distant arrived pretty quick! The bike hated it, begins 'weaving' at about 130. The bloke who had it before me said he'd had 151 out of it but I find that hard to believe? On a 750 anyway ...








*all speeds indicated; I do not condone speeding; I very rarely do these speeds; I prefer filtering through town or Cotswold's finest

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Try doing 195! boy the world rushes up quick near the double ton!

Fun though ;D

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I have a z750 56 plate and I found the front less stable at higher speeds due to the screen I fitted. It's a puig touring screen from Germany.
When I bought it it was far too tall and would start to flap the bars at 110+, so I chopped it down by about 10cm and hit 150 on a private road without any flapping on the bars.
Then my next time on this private road I thought I would polish the bike and use some cockpit shine on the screen to make it super slippery ,to see what I could get flat out.
Big mistake, I had the nearest thing to a tank slapper at 120 I have ever experienced. Not quite lock to lock but very scary.
Only when the screen got splatted with flies did the problem go away. I think faired bikes don't suffer from this problem because the screen it fastened to the frame not directly to the bars.