How fast are motocycles from World Superbikes?

Max Neukirchner on Suzuki GSX-R1000 - the fastest racer of second stage WSBK 2009



Do you sometime estimated speed of aportbikes from World Superbikes? Having looked at statistics of yesterday's practice on track Losail International Circuit (Doha, Qatar), we see:

Racer	Motocycle	Max speed
Max Neukirchner	Suzuki GSX-R1000	314kmh
Max Biaggi	Aprilia RSV4	313kmh
Noriyuki Haga	Ducati 1098R F09	311kmh
Tommy Hill	Honda CBR1000RR	310kmh
Makoto Tamada	Kawasaki ZX-10R	310kmh
Ben Spies	YamahaYZF-R1	309kmh
Troy Corser	BMWS1000RR	300kmh

And don't forget that season has just begun....



Official calendar WSBK 2009:
· Round 1: Phillip Island, Australia, 1 march
· Round 2: Doha/Losail, Qatar, 14 march
· Round 3: Valencia, Spain, 5 april
· Round 4: Assen, Holland, 26 april
· Round 5: Monza, Italy, 10 may
· Round 6: Kyalami, South Africa, 17 may
· Round 7: Salt Lake City, USA, 31 may
· Round 8: Misano, San Marino, 21 june
· Round 9: Donington Park, Great Britain, 28 june
· Round 10: Brno, Czech Republic, 26 july
· Round 11: Nurburgring, Germany, 6 september
· Round 12: Imola, Italy, 27 september
· Round 13: Magny Cours, France, 4 october
· Round 14: Portimao, Portugal, 25 october

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Standbike V8 with engine from General Motors

Company Standbike (that suggests to go on scooters standing) with understanding concerns those who likes to be allocated from crowd. After all to be unique, sometimes it is not so enough to arrive on gathering on a Harley, after all such as you there can be already ten. Then can it is necessary to pay attention to creation Standbike - a motorcycle with 8 cylinders. This monster equipped with the engine of General Motors with working volume in 5 litres is already ready in the form of a prototype.

Judging by the information from official site Standbike, this bike developed for whole 8 years. All this time experts worked on somehow to master power of the 8-cylinder engine on two wheels. As a result, when quantity of wheels have in total increased to four, the motorcycle can drive. And for that this large object also turned it was necessary to apply hi-tech components with hydraulic and electronic elements.


Characteristics Standbike V8
* the Engine of General Motors in working volume in 5 litres
* Weight: 690kg
* Wheel base: 2615mm
* Length: 3210mm
* System of unilateral forward and back suspension brackets
* 16-inch wheel disks with tyres of dimension 205/45 (on two in front and behind)

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