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How fast until it feels "fast"??? Bike vs Car bonus question!

It feels fast above:

  • Anything feels fast when you crash.

    Votes: 12 21.8%

  • Above 50

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • Above 60

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • 70+

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • 80ish? More like 90ish?

    Votes: 11 20.0%

  • 100+

    Votes: 18 32.7%

  • Ludicrous speed!

    Votes: 7 12.7%

  • Cars feel faster than bikes at speed of ___________

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • Bikes feel faster than cars at speed of ___________

    Votes: 5 9.1%

  • No difference in feeling between cars and bikes as long as you're going fast

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • STFU Koi!!!!!

    Votes: 17 30.9%
  • Total voters
    55
40-50mph feels scary fast on a 30-40yr old moped designed to go 25-30mph :rofl

Anything above 60mph felt fast on my 150 :ride

Now when I'm going down the Interstate on my RT I wonder why everyone is so slow and what their problem is then I look down and I'm going 90! :wow
 
Until you've had some track experience on a fast bike and track experience in a fairly fast car it just isnt worthy of comparison. It's just about impossible to get a car up to a good fast pace on a winding road. Unless you just don't give a crap about other motorist and Five-O
JMO
It doesn't take much of a car to get a 2:00 lap at T-H over the by pass
 
A new bike tends to make me to go faster than usual. Especially right after the break-in period/maintenance has been done.
 
Depends on what I'm riding. And where I'm riding.
On an isolated desert highway in Nevada or Eastern Oregon, my Aprilia doesn't feel fast until I'm moving well over 120 mph.
In the same conditions, my 1965 BMW R69S feels like it's zooming right along at 85-90.
In the Eucalyptus grove on highway one just North of Dogtown (to use an example that's familiar to BARF'ers, and one of my all-time favorite little sections of road) the Aprilia feels fast at 50-55 and the R69S feels fast at 35-40.
 
Hazardous Waste said:
Until you've had some track experience on a fast bike and track experience in a fairly fast car it just isnt worthy of comparison. It's just about impossible to get a car up to a good fast pace on a winding road. Unless you just don't give a crap about other motorist and Five-O
JMO
It doesn't take much of a car to get a 2:00 lap at T-H over the by pass
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The track is a different world entirely.
I don't really get the same sensation of speed on a track as I do going fast (even though I go slower than on a track) on a public road.
That risk and danger thing just doesn't exist in the same way as on a track.
 
When I first started riding this April, it took me while to adjust to the different sensations experienced while riding. Just riding around the neighborhood seemed fast to me, but when I looked at my speedo I was only going about 35 mph.

I'm just now getting comfortable with freeway speeds. 70+ mph feels fast to me but find myself backing off once I feel or hear too much wind. I rarely hit 80 mph.

I'm having more fun on the bike at any speed.
 
Fast is relative to your surroundings. In a residential neighborhood where there are many things that are stationary and possible hazards, 40mph is fast and it feels fast. Now on hwy 5 in central CA at 2am, 80mph feels slow. There are many other factors as well.
 
jh2586 said:
Fast is relative to your surroundings.
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Sorta related anecdote.

Did a tandem sky dive once. And, in theory, we're falling "pretty fast".

But since I'm just up hanging in the sky, I didn't get hardly any sense of "going fast" at all. It wasn't fast. It was "windy", but not "fast".

It got "faster" when we started getting close to the ground but we had deployed by then.

Generally underwhelming experience for me over all.
 
Fast is relative. Id rather ride a slow bike fast/drive a slow car fast, than a fast bike/car slow.
 
With it all being relative, it more fun to go fast on a slow bike than slow on a fast bike.
 
Doing the ton on a naked bike feels pretty fast because it starts to feel like I need to hold on. It's probably good for my license, since it's a built in reminder to slow down on the street. I would assume that it wouldn't feel quite so fast if on a bike with fairing and windscreen, but don't have experience with those type of bikes.
Not much experience with cars either, but going in a straight line, its hard to feel fast. If going through twisty stuff, the lateral g forces are definitely a different sensation since you're not leaning. I suppose you'd get used to it if you were a sports car driver.
 
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the hyperbike of your choice....winding'er up from 120+.....shifting into top cog at ~175mph & watching the speedo wind past 180. Weeee.

Now do the above, dozens of times. Now THAT, felt fast....oh, & only done at my Top-Secret-High-Desert-Testing-Facility of course... :burnout
 
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