Will my R3T leave a HD V-Rod Muscle in the dust?

ThingKing said:

While not having the level of knowledge of our highly respected technical Gurus, I know 2 things from experience:

1- The Rocket wins in the parking lot already. I have parked next to V-Rods and 109's, and generally those guys became very shy and polite, one could tell they even felt uncomfortable to park next to a much bigger monster like the Rocket. None of them would have ever tried to race me.

2- I have a R3R not a R3T, and it has been tuned to 156 rwhp with relative ease. The engine has not even been opened for that. And I can leave a V-ROD in the dust pretty much anywhere, at any speed, without even shifting down.

In my town there was only one V-Rod that could have challenged me for a really interesting drag race, with open result. Unfortunately it was taken out by the police for using an unregistered supercharger...

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ThingKing said:

While not having the level of knowledge of our highly respected technical Gurus, I know 2 things from experience:

1- The Rocket wins in the parking lot already. I have parked next to V-Rods and 109's, and generally those guys became very shy and polite, one could tell they even felt uncomfortable to park next to a much bigger monster like the Rocket. None of them would have ever tried to race me.

2- I have a R3R not a R3T, and it has been tuned to 156 rwhp with relative ease. The engine has not even been opened for that. And I can leave a V-ROD in the dust pretty much anywhere, at any speed, without even shifting down.

In my town there was only one V-Rod that could have challenged me for a really interesting drag race, with open result. Unfortunately it was taken out by the police for using an unregistered supercharger...

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cusso ken said:

A bit of interesting info all stock bikes but some impressive numbers

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mr hunt said:

I hope they were all timed on the same track on the same day with the same atmospherics with the same rider...

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cusso ken said:

I doubt it, but I do know from my personal observation that on the road performance is a more relevant indicator of usable performance ,but I don't think independent test reports involve the mythical bullet shaped jockey sized testers of some motor cycle test reports or the 300lb bubba rider on another test ,I do know that from personal experience that the revered Kawasaki Z1 900 was no match on the road for the less popular Suzuki GS1000S that I had (mick Cooley replica) a few fractions of a second in 0-60 is no indicator of who wins a balls and all road race,
My riding buddies and I had our clocks cleaned on the Oxley highway last time we rode up there by a Kawasaki 1400 GTR rider and I thought they were a slug once again on great road performance a real sleeper

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1olbull said:

How's that V2k of yours doing?
I sold mine this past week end.
Miss it already, but love the extra room in the garage.

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ThingKing said:

It's got a National Cycle windshield, 12'' fat apes and V&H Powershots now. Sound is impressive, next week the ECU will be tuned on a dyno.
And since I have fitted different bags on the Rocket, the V2K is now wearing the Rocket's original bags (with pride)...

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cusso ken said:

I doubt it, but I do know from my personal observation that on the road performance is a more relevant indicator of usable performance ,but I don't think independent test reports involve the mythical bullet shaped jockey sized testers of some motor cycle test reports or the 300lb bubba rider on another test ,I do know that from personal experience that the revered Kawasaki Z1 900 was no match on the road for the less popular Suzuki GS1000S that I had (mick Cooley replica) a few fractions of a second in 0-60 is no indicator of who wins a balls and all road race,
My riding buddies and I had our clocks cleaned on the Oxley highway last time we rode up there by a Kawasaki 1400 GTR rider and I thought they were a slug once again on great road performance a real sleeper

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TRIIICK said:

Sounds like you've been thunder struck...!!

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