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Bill from Scotland

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Each time we take or return on a flight to Canada or to the USA I sit at take off thinking, how well would a fast bike compare with the aircraft. I know the plane accelerates very quickly to a take off speed of around 150 mph, I think up to that speed a fast bike would do well. What do you guys think, am I way off.
 
I cheated and looked at a youtube video. Bike car and a fighter the car lost bigtime. Bike did ok till the fighter landing gear left the ground.
 
I would expect the bike to be faster off the line because of its high thrust (acceleration) in the lower gears. Every gear change the bike would loose some thrust as the gear ratio is reduced. The jet plane would have a constant thrust (acceleration) reguardless of its speed. Eventually the plane will always pass the bike.

Distance= 1/2 Acceleration x (Time squared).
 
Ive got a 1000cc sportbike and even though it will run about 182 on the top end, it takes about a mile to do it. by that time the plane is long gooooone.......



wind resistance is a bikes worst enemy. mine weighs around 430 wet and has about 165 horsepower. with aerodynamics those numbers should be around 250mph or so
 
well the plane,provided its a privately owned plane,not a commercial airliner which will take 3 1/2 days just to get on the thing due to security, is faster,one reason is the plane does not have to follow a road it can make a direct line to the destination saving many miles, it also can maintain its airspeed for the entire trip until landing approach [ just try to take a corner or hard curve at 150 on a bike], the next thing is at that speed its far safer as there are very few stupid drivers to run into you as there would be on a bike, for some reason people just dont see a bike, one or the reasons i sold mine after the third time i almost got killed due to a car driver simply not paying attention
 
Bike would have much better acceleration right off the bat due to the hp/wt ratio (much better than a car). Needless to say, give an aircraft a little longer time and it would blow by the bike. Guess it depends on whether you're talking a sprint or marathon .
 
A Suzuki hyabusa would give it a run for its money, fastest crotch rocket ever made, or I it was as of a year or so ago
 
The power to weight ratio on a motorcycle is higher than an airliner at typical take off weights so I"d bet on the motorcycle. If my memory serves me correctly, at light weights, a 757 would take about 45 seconds to get to liftoff speed. I"m sure a hot motorcycle could probaby do it in under 10-15 seconds maybe even faster.
 
Not scheduled to fly for a couple of weeks thanks to vacation but I'll try to remember to time our 0-150 time on takeoff.
 
Not a bike in the world will touch an airplane launched off a US Navy cat. 0 to 165mph in 2 seconds!
 
The bike will far outdo the plane in that short of distance or to get to 150 mph. It simply accelerates so much faster. A man on foot can outrun a car in short distances. Once when I was in college we had a buddy that had a "corvair" car. He was mighty proud of that thing. We were sitting around listening to him brag about his corvair one afternoon when one of the guys said "I can outrun that thing on foot"! The race was on! Sadly, the corvair lost and our buddy was demoralized.
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:06 05/01/13) Each time we take or return on a flight to Canada or to the USA I sit at take off thinking, how well would a fast bike compare with the aircraft. I know the plane accelerates very quickly to a take off speed of around 150 mph, I think up to that speed a fast bike would do well. What do you guys think, am I way off.
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A really fast crotch rocket will "blow the doors off" a loaded 747/757/67/77/airbus from brake release/green light to 100 KTS./115 MPH. without breaking a sweat! probably to a higher speed as well. The bike would also beat every fighter to the same speed.
Jet aircraft are notorious for their lethargic acceleration from a standstill.
 
(quoted from post at 04:40:39 05/02/13) It"ll be a good test of my memory!
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Ended up flying this week after all so...for comparison.
Airbus A300, which is about like a 767, at 80% of our max takeoff weight took 26 seconds to go 0-150 MPH.
 
Thanks for the information, didnt think there would be any pilots on this site. All we need now is for someone to test the bike, I have a Buell Firefolt but we would get locked away in Scotland if were were to do these speeds. Not sure if the Buell could actually manage 150mph anyway but could be fun trying.
Bill
 
I posted the question on a Canadian Aviation Forum shortly after this one came out. AvCanada is a lot of Pilots and a whole bunch of Mechanics and other men and women who love aviation.

Here's a link to the discussion about aircraft and bikes. Unlike this forum, they sometimes get a bit testy if someone doesn't share their view.

I think it's a good read with a couple of video clips.

www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=88979

I hope you enjoy it

Sw
 
Here's what one fellow said

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nF2s6ZEKis

So about 20 seconds for a 200hp 1000lb Pitts. From full throttle up to the start of the roll is usually at 150mph give or take. See the video. So i imagine a fire breather 400hp of similar weight like a Edge or something should be considerably faster:) i know the extra has fantastic acceleration from a dead stop in fact it will pin you in your seat if you accelerate away from a stall!
 
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