I need seat time. Plus I dropped it off today to have it diagnoused and see what sensor is bad. Get my air shifter fixed and then get that seat time. Again that's if I don't sell it soon here. I have a couple things going on and I could probably use the money rather then spend more money on something lol.
10.30's on a stock Vmax is awesome. I haven't seen a bone stock one run that fast yet at the track. I think the Gen 2 would be easier to run than the Turbo bike, as far as me getting on one and running a good time right off the bat.
I guess what I was referencing too is the same thing people say when they say how slow a litre bike is they raced on their Gen 1 Vmax. Just because a magazine says it will run 9.90's doens't mean that every single litre bike you see with any rider on it will run 9.90's.
Just as Ricky Gadson could take my Turbo bike and probably rip off a string of 8.70's on it and I hope on it and I am still running 9.70s... the same thing happens 90% of the time on the street.
A stock good running 600 sport bike with a strong skilled rider will kill just about anything on the street. The guy with the GSXR 1000 or Gen 2 Vmax, that doesn't know how to ride ( which is about 90% of them ) will get his ass handed to him by that 600.
I watched a stretched and slammed Busa run 11.50's all day last year. He was as fast as my Gen 1 Vmax.
I watched a Harley win the trophy class this weekend, he beat me. I bogged, missed 3rd and he outran me. He was consistent every run. I watched him. I was bummed!!! Stupid Harley.
The flat bottom line is, plenty of fast bikes out there. But there is no way an awesome rider on a stock ZX14 against another awesome rider on a stock Gen 2 Vmax, does the Gen 2 Vmax have any chance at doing anything better, whether a 1/4 mile, twisties, or god forbid passing a gas station! But that's what makes it fun, that a stock ZX14 can still lose against a stock Gen 2 Vmax if the Vmax rider rocks and the ZX14 rider sucks. Thats the name of the game. Or if your racing Vmax Mike, its the leave on the 2 count on a 3 count run! LOL.
I know Rick is giving me a hard time in good nature. Just like I gave him a hard time about him never passing me in at Thunder through the twisties on the big bad Gen 2 and I was on my stock Gen 1. I actually think Vmax Mike gave him a harder time than I did.
But I do know what I need to do. First things first is getting it running right because its 95% street bike 5% race bike. Right now it runs full throttle pretty good and anything less it doesn't run enough to ride it far from home. Get that square, get my air shifter fixed and a few other odds and ends and biggest of all if I keep it, get seat time.
It will run high 8's and still be a 95% street ridden bike. It will run 8's on a street tire as well, and it will run 8's and take me to Florida next spring break with my son riding beside me on his Ninja 500. That is my goal with this bike.
After it runs 8's, it might start to become addicting and I might have to try and run 7's..... thats how my addictions usually start.... then it might be 6's..... I've watched my buddy run 7.12 at 202 on his turbo Busa.... but it wasn't a street bike.
Todd
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