RE: [ST] Road & Track: 0 to 100mph to 0

["Heyer, Matthew A." <mheyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

It would be interesting to see the chart for the ZX9r, as I would guess that
it was wicked quick to 100 (faster than the cars), and I would wonder if it
was much slower to 0 from 100 to the cars.  For example: if it got to 100mph
2 seconds faster than the Enzo, but after the braking it only ended up
beating the Enzo by a fraction of a second.  Just a thought that crossed my
mind.

Matt Heyer
'01 BRG Sprint ST


- -----Original Message-----
From: Rich Weyand [mailto:rfwlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:21 AM
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ST] Road & Track: 0 to 100mph to 0


At 11:18 PM 2/11/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Road & Track did a piece in '95 pitting several exotic cars against a 
>Kawasaki ZX9R which really sparked my interest since I owned one before 
>I realised the sun rises in the East, from right over Hinckley. At the 
>time the ZX9R was a 535lb bike with about 115hp at the back wheel, 
>which ran in the low to mid 10's in the right hands (not mine). Great 
>brakes for its day, but not as good as the STs and not nearly as good 
>as my Speed 4 (due to lack of weight), or any of the current crop of 
>sub-400lb litre bikes from Japan.

They redid this test last year with new cars, but re-used the ZX9R results
from 1994.  The Kawi was 11.5, with only the Ferrari Enzo coming in real
close at 11.7.  The Viper came in at 13.9, with a lot of exotics in the
13.5-15 category.  The MB E55 came in at 15.

But you have to be really good to get those numbers on a bike!  Any asshole
can throw a brick at the gas pedal and make 0-100-0 in 15 with an E55.

Here's the R&T re-do:

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=663&page_num
ber=11

Rich Weyand
1999 Sprint ST "NOT RED"


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