Ducati Panigale on the Autobahn

motoent · 4 Jun 2020 at 11:21

Enjoy!

bloodiedathame · 4 Jun 2020 at 11:38

Straight roads... zzzz

tom_e · 4 Jun 2020 at 11:42

As much as I enjoy some twists and turns there is something deeply enjoyable about getting onto an empty motorway and just nailing it every now and again, as the points on my licence will attest to

Junglist · 4 Jun 2020 at 12:13

tom_e said:
As much as I enjoy some twists and turns there is something deeply enjoyable about getting onto an empty motorway and just nailing it every now and again, as the points on my licence will attest to

I'm surprised that after having a driving license for 10 years and a bike license for 4.. I've never had a point! *touch wood*

I was working at Western Approach for a while and it's near the old bridge to Wales. There was a nice 2 or 3 mile stretch of flat, often empty, motorway. My R6 on that road was very fun even hitting

MPH

tom_e · 4 Jun 2020 at 12:20

Junglist said:
I'm surprised that after having a driving license for 10 years and a bike license for 4.. I've never had a point! *touch wood*

I was working at Western Approach for a while and it's near the old bridge to Wales. There was a nice 2 or 3 mile stretch of flat, often empty, motorway. My R6 on that road was very fun even hitting MPH

I lasted 4 years riding my SV, within 6 weeks of switching to my Bird I got the points. Not surprising really considering how effortlessly it'll hit :eek:

MPH.

Junglist · 4 Jun 2020 at 12:23

tom_e said:
I lasted 4 years riding my SV, within 6 weeks of switching to my Bird I got the points. Not surprising really considering how effortlessly it'll hit MPH.

I can't even imagine the powerband on a bird! The first time I felt my powerband I had a new understanding of what speed was!

The floor looks oddly smooth at those speeds...

.one. · 4 Jun 2020 at 14:32

I have only lost my license once for speeding in over 30 years riding not bad as I have no car and use for everything.

Diddums · 4 Jun 2020 at 19:08

motoent said:
Enjoy!

What a crap video.

Scythe · 4 Jun 2020 at 22:16

arfoll said:
Honestly that's kind of slow.... I've done more on an s1000rr on the autobahn it's hardly worth bragging about just kinda dumb fun... Interestingly BMW stop registering speed after 299km/h and I wasnt running a GPS so have no idea what the actual speed was.

I think a lot do that due to the "Gentleman's Agreement" between the Japanese manufacturers. A lot of bikes were restricted to 300kmh (186mph), but one manufacturer simply stopped the clocks from exceeding 300kmh whilst the bike kept going, like with yours.

The_Abyss · 4 Jun 2020 at 23:25

tom_e said:
As much as I enjoy some twists and turns there is something deeply enjoyable about getting onto an empty motorway and just nailing it every now and again, as the points on my licence will attest to

There's something deeply satisfying about merging onto a motorway at pace, and then carrying on.*

* when safe
* within limits
* etc

Until on my bike (S1000XR) the front goes light at about 160 mph (it hasn't got much left at that point anyway) and begins to weave all over the place.

tom_e · 5 Jun 2020 at 07:23

The_Abyss said:
There's something deeply satisfying about merging onto a motorway at pace, and then carrying on.*

* when safe
* within limits
* etc

Until on my bike (S1000XR) the front goes light at about 160 mph (it hasn't got much left at that point anyway) and begins to weave all over the place.

Gives you that Top Gun flyby feeling

Junglist · 5 Jun 2020 at 08:49

I mean, being really honest with ourselves, isn't being able to hit triple digits very easily on a bike part of the fun? As said, it's not clever or safe but there is something about knowing you only have to twist your wrist that teeny tiny bit more and before you know it you're at

MPH

Diddums · 5 Jun 2020 at 10:20

The_Abyss said:
There's something deeply satisfying about merging onto a motorway at pace, and then carrying on.*

* when safe
* within limits
* etc

Until on my bike (S1000XR) the front goes light at about 160 mph (it hasn't got much left at that point anyway) and begins to weave all over the place.

This used to happen on my Piaggio NRG too, although it happened at 150mph. Luckily I was skilled enough to keep the front end down.

The_Abyss · 5 Jun 2020 at 11:40

1.24 filtering onto the autobahn, just before the weaving began. To be fair, it had panniers, top box and a big pillion dry bag!

Minibiker · 5 Jun 2020 at 11:45

Diddums said:
This used to happen on my Piaggio NRG too, although it happened at 150mph. Luckily I was skilled enough to keep the front end down.

Did you up the jets and carb kit on it? Must've been rapid

tom_e · 5 Jun 2020 at 13:06

Minibiker said:
Did you up the jets and carb kit on it? Must've been rapid

Did he strap it to a jet, that's what you mean isn't it?

Minibiker · 5 Jun 2020 at 13:07

tom_e said:
Did he strap it to a jet, that's what you mean isn't it?

Sorry yeah you know what I meant

Tefal · 23 Jun 2020 at 11:21

The_Abyss said:
There's something deeply satisfying about merging onto a motorway at pace, and then carrying on.*

* when safe
* within limits
* etc

Until on my bike (S1000XR) the front goes light at about 160 mph (it hasn't got much left at that point anyway) and begins to weave all over the place.

Is that because of the high suspension etc?

The h2sx stays rock solid right up to "gentleman's agreement" speeds but what I find is unless I'm in a leather onsie the wind starts ripping at mysleeves/arms too much at those speeds.

The wind protection for head and body is near perfect but arms seems to get it a bit at truley silly speeds