The GR GT casually chilling in the background

The videos of that guy Ghost Rider on his 499hp turbo Hayabusa are still around. that guy is an incredible rider.

I had an '01 Busa.  First thing I did was install a delimiter (it simply tells the bike it's still in 5th, even though it's in 6th -- because the limiter will only measure wheel speed in 6th gear -- if the computer still thinks you're in 5th, well...).  After that, I had the box cut (that added about 6 or 7 hp), then I installed a high flow air filter (another 2 or 3 hp), then I removed the Yoshi slip on pipes, which are ugly as all hell, and installed a Ti-Force exhaust (another 7 or 8 hp).  Top speed... 208 mph (and I measured that with a satellite GPS).

My buddy tried to convince me to install a turbo on it, but... I mean... to what end?  My goal had been to get a bike to 200 mph, and I achieved that goal.  It was time to stop.  Anything beyond that was just begging for things to go horribly wrong at insane (unsurvivable) speed, on a bike that isn't at all nimble.  The Hayabusa is designed to do one thing... go fast in a relatively straight line.  I could make my GSXR 1000 practically dance through traffic.  The Busa however... is a 600 lb pig.

Sounds a lot like the 'gentleman's' agreement amongst Japanese car makers to keep the listed horse power of some of their car at, I think 276 hp, to get around Japanese regulations.

Can we get a video on the H2 Kawasaki?

The peregrine falcon happens to also be considered the fastest bird in the world, that uses its speed to litterally dive bomb and knock other birds out of the sky.

Hearing my childhood referred to as the late 1900s will never not throw me.

the Gen 3 Hayabusa is my absolute favorite motorcycle just in aesthetics alone. I nearly jumped out of my seat seeing this video in my recommendations. I love this channel.

Absolute banger of a video!! Definitely need more motorcycle videos thrown in the mix

Just like the gentleman's agreement between the German car makers in the 90s. They started to limiting their "normal" cars to 250km/h (155mph) after cars like the Lotus Omega (285km/h-177mph) got closer and closer to the 300km/h-186mph Supercar sphere.

Looks like kawasaki broke the gentlemans agreement with the h2/r

2:32 man say what you want. That thing is beautiful!

The s r seventy one blackbird still holds the record for the fastest airplane in the world

This is a very similar story to the bike that killed the muscle bike category; the Yamaha V-Max. I smell another episode!

I had a Blackbird for YEARS. I also raced 600 super sport. Occasionally I would take the Blackbird out on the track for shits and giggles. The other riders referred to me as Halley’s Comet because I would drag my pegs and pipes and sparks would fly. The track master said he should keep the recovery truck running for when I would eventually rag doll. I didn't. Hitting the track with the Blackbird was fun, but it couldn't beat the 600. FYI 1998 was the year the Blackbird got fuel injection. 1997 and earlier - nope.

Interesting but "no-shit", there are 2 (+ sub-categories) of sport bike bodies. Their is the Naked/Half-Naked and then their is Full Body.  Naked/Half-Naked kick up the nickers and show the goods. Full Body motorcycles are wrapped in panels. You might see a gear box extending beyond the panels, but that's kind of it. Keyboard warriors will always disagree. Terminology, correctness, and definition are irrelevant at this point. Whenever I hit the magic number of 120MPH on a full-body motorcycle, a bubble of silence would wrap around me. Obviously not total silence, but the bikes aerodynamics formed an air bubble. At those speeds, I was also "In the zone". I'm pretty sure that factored in.

There was a time when I would walk to the courthouse as I was certain I wouldn't  be going home anytime soon. I don't feel like jumping down that rabbit hole right now.

Some of the very 1st videos I watched on YouTube were these flying on the highway going extreme speeds.

“Faster than aircraft that set the land speed record.”  Classic.

I met a guy in Cape Coral, Fl. in 2006--7 who had a custom twin turbo Hayabusa I have no idea how he was able to ride that thing.

I'll never sell my Gen 1 Busa.  Most amazing bike I've ever ridden.  It's so smooth, stable, the power delivery is so linear it doesn't surprise you at all beside the effortlessness with which it goes so ungodly fast!  I love everything about it!

I had a 2006 GSX-R1000 years ago. I fitted a smaller front sprocket to make it easier to wheelie, and one day on the long straight heading towards Birdlings Flat in Canterbury I watched the speedo climb to 300 km/h before I slowly rolled off the throttle. It honestly felt like it still had more to give and would have shown 310 if I'd stayed in it. Looking back now, doing that in nothing but jeans and a T-shirt was unbelievably stupid. Amazing bike though. The K5/K6 GSX-R1000 really was something special.