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The video doesn't really 'prove' anything, I mean look here...

http://www.radicalsportscars.com/media/fastfeud/index.php

We have a bike beating all manner of quick cars in a straight line and on track - the stock GSXR beats the Porsche GT3, Lambo and BMW M3 CSL. Only the track day oriented Radical SR3 does better, and it in turn is beaten by a race tuned bike...

In all honesty its swings and roundabouts between a supercar and bike - on a higher speed track like Thruxton things probably favour the car once it gets over 100mph, given the lack of aerodynamics of a bike. Somewhere twistier with lots of low speed turns with short straights between will see the bikers quicker acceleration pay dividends.

A BMW 328i blitzing bikes on the public road though, well to my mind its simple, the guys simply weren't trying or were crap riders, or were scared at being chased by a car (given who'd come off worse, bikers will rarely want to dice with cars) - a 328i is a good handling car but its simply not in the same league as the 911, being down on power and having a far less optimised chassis.

All IMHO of course

<blockquote data-quote="Will" data-source="post: 669189" data-attributes="member: 1602">The video doesn't really 'prove' anything, I mean look here...<a href="http://www.radicalsportscars.com/media/fastfeud/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.radicalsportscars.com/media/fastfeud/index.php</a>We have a bike beating all manner of quick cars in a straight line and on track - the stock GSXR beats the Porsche GT3, Lambo and BMW M3 CSL.&nbsp; Only the track day oriented Radical SR3 does better, and it in turn is beaten by a race tuned bike...In all honesty its swings and roundabouts between a supercar and bike - on a higher speed track like Thruxton things probably favour the car once it gets over 100mph, given the lack of aerodynamics of a bike.&nbsp; Somewhere twistier with lots of low speed turns with short straights between will see the bikers quicker acceleration pay dividends.A BMW 328i blitzing bikes on the public road though, well to my mind its simple, the guys simply weren't trying or were crap riders, or were scared at being chased by a car (given who'd come off worse, bikers will rarely want to dice with cars) - a 328i is a good handling car but its simply not in the same league as the 911, being down on power and having a far less optimised chassis. All IMHO of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Will, post: 669189, member: 1602"] The video doesn't really 'prove' anything, I mean look here... [URL]http://www.radicalsportscars.com/media/fastfeud/index.php[/URL] We have a bike beating all manner of quick cars in a straight line and on track - the stock GSXR beats the Porsche GT3, Lambo and BMW M3 CSL. Only the track day oriented Radical SR3 does better, and it in turn is beaten by a race tuned bike... In all honesty its swings and roundabouts between a supercar and bike - on a higher speed track like Thruxton things probably favour the car once it gets over 100mph, given the lack of aerodynamics of a bike. Somewhere twistier with lots of low speed turns with short straights between will see the bikers quicker acceleration pay dividends. A BMW 328i blitzing bikes on the public road though, well to my mind its simple, the guys simply weren't trying or were crap riders, or were scared at being chased by a car (given who'd come off worse, bikers will rarely want to dice with cars) - a 328i is a good handling car but its simply not in the same league as the 911, being down on power and having a far less optimised chassis. All IMHO of course :) [/QUOTE]

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