Ghost Rider Turbo Motor Bike

[Ben Beckett]

must see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUJ0NEI1vs...h=ghost%20rider

f**k

ben

[Si-man]

Watched that the other day.

Is rather fast

[Jaffacakes]

My mate has a hayabusa, It fly's. He get's 200+ MPH on the A30.

[BrAd-Tpro]

Oh My goshers!! I am not really into all that fast motobike racing ect but that little clip was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[Si-man]

Look for ghostrider video 2

Even better and more insane

[manxrider]

Not the ghost rider though? looks American, which he's not. Still quick though.

[matt!]

yea seen this a while back,stiil makes my jaw drop everytime i see it though, the bike sound amazing

[manxrider]

The Ghost rider site, sro-ghostrider

[Up'n'away]

Oh My goshers!! I am not really into all that fast motobike racing ect but that little clip was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

Seconded, but... F*CK ME!?!

[Clarky]

I Watched this about 2 years ago old news.. the rider has some balls though

Edited September 3, 2006 by JASON CLARK

[mods]

I think he rides a GSXR 1000 now seen his previous bike at the NEC bikeshow, other footage is far more insane he is an unbelieveable rider.

[paul-m-]

pretty impressive. i have all four off the dvds, they are magic. cant mind which one it is but he does a 0-217mph sprint in a stupid time. the fourth one is good when he pretends to be a copper. lol

[manxrider]

Rumours are that he's also done 272mph not kmh but there is no evidence to back it up... On his busa btw.

[A!!]

I have seen most of these videos, but they still amaze me. The speeds he reaches while avoiding traffic is insane. The fastest i've ever been on a bike riding pillion was about 135mph early in the morning on the way to Cadwell park, and that was scary, but then you watch these videos

I was reading an interview on the ghost rider a fair while ago in a magazine, and he was talking about the thing that scares him most is injuring or hurting someone when he's filming these videos, which is pretty unbelievable when you watch them.

Here is one of him police baiting Ghost rider. Reminds me of the speed cameras being burnt down by the "gatso terrorists" as many people were wrongly fined for speeding because the cameras were too inaccurate. So now the Goverment are going to change the the way they use gatso cameras and might be using special mobile roadside ones instead (where they sit in a van or car by the side of the road), which they claim are more accurate, in other words gives them a better change of using them as a money making scheme.

Ye he does ride a Gsxr 1000 now, that bike is awesome can reach about 180mph standard. My dad has the K5 in yellow and black, lovely bike

[Dai the Socket]

Rumours are that he's also done 272mph not kmh but there is no evidence to back it up... On his busa btw.

That's bull shit. The tuning that went in to the Holeshot busa to get 230mph was tens of thousands of pounds, to get an extra 40mph is impossible.

Anyway, Ghost Rider's pretty cool. I read an MCN article about him, it won't be that long until he bins his bike though I reckon, even if he is an ex-racer.

[mods]

before the 200mph bylaw was brought in busa's used to ddo 202 roughly.. so pullin 30 mph from a standard angine and using turbo's spuer chargers wouldn't cost 10's of thousands i'd say 280 wsa realistic.

[A!!]

before the 200mph bylaw was brought in busa's used to ddo 202 roughly.. so pullin 30 mph from a standard angine and using turbo's spuer chargers wouldn't cost 10's of thousands i'd say 280 wsa realistic.

Ye they put a different ecu system in i think, which lowers the top speed to allow it to become legal, it can be removed though, but even so you will only gain several mph to your top speed.

But when you do get to speeds above 200, aerodynamics becomes a lot more important as i'm sure you understand. So a bike would have a higher top speed when run on a dyno than if it were put on the roads or tracks.

So when you get to a certain top speed of an engine, it is when the power output is being used to make up the losses to forces such as aerodynamic drag, friction created by tyres etc, so when you get to the certain point where the engines power is only being used to overcome these certain forces, so the bike will accelerate no more and will reach it's terminal velocity. This is why when you look at newer litre superbikes they have all tried various ways to make the bikes more efficient, like keeping the weight of the bike low by mounting the exhaust low down instead of under the seat for style, and creating fairings with aerodynamics in mind so the air flows over and off the bike and it's rider easily to reduce the opposing forces. Take a look at the Gsxr and you will see how it has been done.

If you look at any bikes used to set land speed records they will all have a very low centre of gravity and will be shaped like a bullet, and have a very high shine and smooth finish in order for it to become more aerodynamic. Not forgetting the work that goes into the engine and components to gain more power.

So for in order to try to get a Hayabusa to go that fast would be ridiculous, and it would end up looking like more of a land speed record bike with an enclosed fairing, and it would have to have masses of horsepower.