So I was on my way home from my friend's house. My normal cruise is 80mph. So I'm doing 80mph and I look in my left view mirror and think, "Sportbike!". As it gets closer, I'm thinking, "Older sportbike!" by the headlight config. I slow down to 65mph and he gets right next to me and gives me the "what's up?" motion with his head. I do the same, with my windows down and my music blaring. At first I thought it was some kind of a cruiser bike (later to find out it was a 1993 GSX 1100). We kind of stayed by each other and with my in 6th gear, I hit and he stayed right next to me up to 110mph then I shut down.
Afterwards he gave me another "what's up?" We went again up to 120mph with pretty much the same result. Then I dropped it down to 3rd, and I saw him downshift as well. Then I took off. I would say I got the jump, but I held him through 3rd (106mph), almost to the end of 4th (142mph) and he was many cars back. He caught back up and gave me the thumbs up and then lifted his visor, and I muted my music and we exchanged "good run"s and I asked him was that a 500 or 600. Took a while for him to actually understand me at 50mph. But when he said 1100, I thought he said 700. But then we pulled over about a mile later. Shook his hand, exchanged numbers and all that. He actually said a VR-4 was the car he had been looking for for a long time, and my run pretty much sold him on that fact.
After that, we did a real run (note this is all on the highway, forgot to mention) when we merged to another interstate. After the onramp merger, there is about a four mile straight where cops never sit. I went from 2nd at 40mph, held even the whole time, topped 2nd at 71mph, up to 3rd still holding even, 3rd tops at 105mph, as soon I shift to 4th I start pulling slightly, then suddenly I pull like crazy like he hit the brakes. Although we made two runs the same way with the same outcome.
Man have 1000s come a LONG way to today. My car isn't fast and I was running stock boost because I'm too lazy to replace the Manual Boost Controller. But still held off an old 1100. Not too shabby I guess. I'll have to let him know how a newer 1000 runs when I get my R1 this week.
Afterwards he gave me another "what's up?" We went again up to 120mph with pretty much the same result. Then I dropped it down to 3rd, and I saw him downshift as well. Then I took off. I would say I got the jump, but I held him through 3rd (106mph), almost to the end of 4th (142mph) and he was many cars back. He caught back up and gave me the thumbs up and then lifted his visor, and I muted my music and we exchanged "good run"s and I asked him was that a 500 or 600. Took a while for him to actually understand me at 50mph. But when he said 1100, I thought he said 700. But then we pulled over about a mile later. Shook his hand, exchanged numbers and all that. He actually said a VR-4 was the car he had been looking for for a long time, and my run pretty much sold him on that fact.
After that, we did a real run (note this is all on the highway, forgot to mention) when we merged to another interstate. After the onramp merger, there is about a four mile straight where cops never sit. I went from 2nd at 40mph, held even the whole time, topped 2nd at 71mph, up to 3rd still holding even, 3rd tops at 105mph, as soon I shift to 4th I start pulling slightly, then suddenly I pull like crazy like he hit the brakes. Although we made two runs the same way with the same outcome.
Man have 1000s come a LONG way to today. My car isn't fast and I was running stock boost because I'm too lazy to replace the Manual Boost Controller. But still held off an old 1100. Not too shabby I guess. I'll have to let him know how a newer 1000 runs when I get my R1 this week.
