Hog vs Kawasaki

Just came across some braggart boasting at Home Depot about how he out ran a Ninja at 136 MPH. They know I ride. I park at the contractor's door. I looked at him and asked what he has. He said it's a S&S 1300 Harley in a chopper frame and the race was on 74 in Anza.
That's at 5000ft. :pinch: He says he will race for $1000 a gear. I asked him if he knew it is a felony to go anything above 80 MPH. "What do you have?' I tell him, he says, "I don't know about Ninjas." "It's not a Ninja!" At this point I remembered that old saying, Never argue with a crazy person or a fool, if you do, people won't be able to tell the difference. I said "See ya' and walked away. :whistle:
Steve

Be careful steve. You could be opening a can of worms!

A good running S&S modded 1300 can make 100hp.

I've seen this one. :lol:
Steve

davido wrote: Be careful steve. You could be opening a can of worms!

I'm not saying they can't do it, there have and will always be strokers out there that can. The guy I was talking about seemed to me to be just a jerk trying to impress the people around him. He also was talking about making the home owner pay for left over material. He suggested I charge the client for 5 gallons of roofing cement and use the rest on another job. Ha ha. Jerk. I don't have time for a**holes like that.
Steve

a friend of mine who owns cycle-rama in pinellas park F L wes brown. he use to build kawi and suzuki drag bikes but got out of it and specialized in HARLEYS now.he still does my machine work for me (heads and cyclinders) but he can make real impressive horsepower with these motors. check him out.

so think twice about bashing HARLEYS they come a long way since the 70's

Ha HA great video Monkey, welcome to the clan.

How did I know the guy with the beard owned the Harley? funny guy, I'd have beers and a smoke with him any day.
Even funnier the prissy "180hp yamzuki" owner who though it was a snail and a tortoise race.

in reality give them a full 1/4 mile without courier vans getting in the way, plus a guy that can ride the sportbike properly and the Harley would get smoked imo.

That wasn't really 180 hp...was it a sports 600?

I remember a bike magazine in the 80's explaining the relationship between power and tourque. Two bikes were compared: a 1340 Harley and GPz550. Both making similar max power but in such a different way.

I asked him what he did in the 1/4 mile. He just talked over me. Kept talking about the guy not giving up. Nothing about what size it was or anything.
Some read from a book and some have practical knowledge. Talk is just that, talk. :whistle:
I have to go back to Depot again in the morning to take back that 5 gal. of cement. I thought it was cheaper but I only need two. It will cost $5 more a gal and I should have listened to myself. I can't expect my client to pay for materials that aren't going to be used. I admit he distracted me a bit. I didn't look to compare the prices. Oh well, it's a fun ride anyway through 1000 PLMS CYN.
I hope the guy is there. I'd like to see what he is so proud of. That is if he'll show it to me.
Steve

kawi810 wrote: a friend of mine who owns cycle-rama in pinellas park F L wes brown. he use to build kawi and suzuki drag bikes but got out of it and specialized in HARLEYS now.he still does my machine work for me (heads and cyclinders) but he can make real impressive horsepower with these motors. check him out.

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H.P. just above a stock 600 cc sport bike.
Still just a direct descendent of a washing machine motor.


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So what bike was this and when?
Steve