Bike vs Car 4 (Honda CBR1000RR vs Honda... uh... Civic... Type R!)

[hahaha10001]

wtf 3k rpm?

in a race?

[britishbikes12]

PS My R6 will go places on rutted, sandy jeep trails where my car bogs down and/or high centers. I can't take my car to these peoples' houses because of the rough roads, but my bike easily hooks up and can take it. Even my Concours touring bike did better than my car. Sheesh you have no idea what bikes can do, do you troll.whitbyjet?

[britishbikes12]

I don't know why they even did this test. Stock civic vs literbike.

[Danielson761729]

Ha ha faster or not bikes are soooo much more fun.

[DezZzTinYpR0DuCTioNz]

@whitbyjet65 i think your badly wrong man every supersport/sport bike is faster on twisty roads than a car... youre only right if the rider is a monkey O.o

[MsNosaj]

@AveITALIA83 im not sure, he s wheeling all the time, cause its too easy for a bike like 1000rr to destroy a civic, comon dont say he can stay near the bike.

[cobravenom452]

If cropduster really thinks a commuter car can keep up with a halfway decent rider, then your reality is not correct. That year cbr does high 9's the civic 15's in the quarter mile, the only thing the civic has on the bike is the ability to drive the car every day whereas you'll put the bike away in the bad weather

[MiiiK3EY]

biker was taking the piss lol

[CropDuster33]

bull shit the civic can keep up with the bike.

[RequiemVortex]

@CropDuster33

Did you see their comparison of a Lambourghini to a Ducati? Motorbike won that. Also a Type R can manage 0-60 in 6.6 while a Ninja 250r can 0-60 in 5.5 secs :) As for a CB1000rr, 3.1s 0-60 time. It's also half the price while being twice as fast.

[bigkitten]

Bikes forever!!

[AddersZXR4]

lol 50mph advantage on that straight, insane

[britishbikes12]

@wilbecon Also tire size pertains optimum loading per square inch; cornering speed has more to do with rubber compound and weight distribution than with contact patch size. Too large a tire won't allow the rubber to follow small irregularities; it just slides over the tops of the aggregate in pavement. A Michelin test rider told me that, and I know for a fact that a TW200 corners poorly because its tires are too big for the knobs to dig into normal dirt.  He said the same is true on pavement.

[britishbikes12]

@wilbecon It has been proven on several telemetry readouts that cars and bikes have about the same midcorner speed and gforces. When the cars are corvettes with hoosier slicks, etc. That Civic won't even come close with stock rubber. If you would actually measure the contact area vs weight, you'd see that bikes have quite a large contact that gets larger as they lean over. Most car suspensions are made to minimize weight transfer to keep all four wheels in contact.

[bfmv580]

BIKES FTW But to be fair to the car, they picked a pretty slow car to race a very good bike. And at the end when he says 'I can make more smoke' he looked like a total prick!

[dimos47ki7]

to be fair, they compare wrong models...Type-R is equal to a 250cc bike...

cbr1000 is more comparable to a zonda, since both are on the top of each world...

[atireiopauao]

i prefer this honda cbr 1000rr (2006) than the new one (2010)...

[elliejayneO9x]

bikes faster in straight line, corners cars faster CARS FTW!!

[kirbienstien]

FWD ... racing...  FWD.....racing....

[rsvrider]

nice one JT

[Cavaleiro08]

Well, I think everyone notes the guy is not confortable driving that bike.

And for that race, a CBR600RR would do, no need to put a 1000 ;)

[redeiko0713]

Really? James Toseland can't ride a 1000RR to it's limits? Do you know who this man is?

[Cavaleiro08]

I didn't say he was not capable. I said that he only needs a 600RR and that he was not confortable with that one.

[sketchgroups]

the fastest one, is two wheels

[bigkitten]

It's the laws of physics...the car simply has more rubber on the road. Ergo: it's quicker in the corners. The bike in a straight line, will eat the car. Must admit, I take corners much faster in my car, than I do on my bike. If the grip ratio and C of G was the same, car v bike, then the car needn't even bother taking part in a comparison test. Physics, my friends, physics.

[timijai22]

right. theoretically, if you could get a car with the same kind of acceleration as the bike, the car would easily beat the bike no matter whether on the straights or around the corners. but for that, you'd probably need the bugatti engine for the honda.

[bigkitten]

Yes; probably about that ratio.

[mh1402]

@bigkitten simply more rubber on the road? Sorry bro it's much more complex than that, not to mention cars lean the wrong way in turns... Also this is a course built for cars, on a motorcycle course, or on the streets, bikes simply MURDER cars in the turns.

[Tomlikesmusic]

Bikes will always beat cars.

[whitbyjet65]

@Tomlikesmusic Apart from on muddy roads, wet roads, twisty roads, windy roads...infact bikes are only any good on sunny days in straight lines. Monkeys can drive in straight lines!

[britishbikes12]

@whitbyjet65 You must be a troll. A bike on a muddy, twisty-rutted whooped out- road is a rabbit in the briar patch. It is called motorcross.

[whitbyjet65]

@britishbikes12 Oh yes, and we see lots of motorcross bikes on the highway, don't we?

[britishbikes12]

@whitbyjet65 Dualsports are common, some of which come close to MX spec and are legal on the road. They handle very well on pavement and offroad. You are trying to argue about bikes and you barely know what one is, let alone what they can and can't do.

[rumcrack]

Ahah good shit

[Model192]

lol, civic R.