I can tell you 1st hand that from anything more than 50mph the new LITER bike will be right beside you till 150mph or slightly ahead...period...
the gixxer will walk it right up to the speed restrictors... been there, done it, twice, not pretty for the busa as the lead was fairly substantial, not only does the gixxer get away better, it continues to pull on the busa all the way to the limiter...
I am not sure if a poorly broken in gixxer will fair as well with a properly broken in busa but if both are broken in properly the busa cant get there, and I am not sure why you would expect it to? the gixxer has a bit more pull with less rotating mass, less wind resistance, and has a hunnerd pounds less fat?[/quote]
I sure got flamed when I talked of seeing tis happen to me and my buddy on a 12r. Other than a dead start where the 1000s cant launch hard. they will tow a busa till the speeds get nasty. I still have my busa and am keeping it. sj[/quote]
stock busas and stock gixxers have the same top end speed, 186... the gixxer gets there quicker, no two ways about it, I ran a copper a few weeks ago across the I-90 floating bridge, we both hit in 3rd at around 70 indicated, I gave him the hit and he pulled about a half length untill the secondaries kicked in and I passed him like he had a 12, we ran through the gears and in about a miles legnth I put at least an eighth mile on him, the orange special I raced faired worse but I suspect pilot errors?
I also must say that my stock gixxer dynoed 154.5 at a dyno shootout recently and on that same dyno and same day piped 04 and 05 gixxers, R-1s, and tens were getting 144-148...
the only other bikes to come close to me were two 04 R-1s one with slip ons, stacks, and filter went 153 the other with full system, pc-3, box mod block off went 155, he was winner...
two other 05 gixxers with systems and pc-3s mapped got 144 and 145....
I guess there is a lot to be said about break in procedure?
BV wants to run and tape it, I'm always down... I dont do digs as stock gixxer clutches suck for launching so it will most likely be a roll, rolls eliminate much of the skill needed for digs anyways so we can get right down to power and aeroes....