Torque addict
Supercharged
Well, I didn't post this video to split hairs over tenths of seconds but I'm going to have to disagree with you on at least the 0 to 60 time. With my "lightening quick" trigger finger on my stop watch button I'm consistently getting a 3.0 second 0 to 60 time over and over again so not sure how you figure. I'm getting your time for 0 to 150 and maybe a tenth faster for the 62 to 105.
As for the other two figures I'll say I almost didn't post this video once I noticed how bad the combination of the optics of the camera and it's angle to the forward tilt of the speedo was skewing the reading just past 90 mph. You probably didn't see my comments on youtube about that. Just stare at it for a second and you'll see what I mean (plus I know my bike and what rpm in what gear different speeds are and that the needle was pointing at 150 before releasing throttle but it looks like 145 in the video). Past 90 mph the tip of the needle starts to progressively appear to read up to about 5 mph slower than actual speed. I'm not saying this to try and make the bike look faster (although it's nice that's the reality). My goal is accuracy. The fact that I mention that my speedo is GPS calibrated and not reading at least 5% fast like most bikes should confirm this. Guess I should also mention that I'm an industrial instrument technician by trade and have spent thousands of hours calibrating all kinds of different transmitters, gauges, meters and what have you. You can probably guess by reading this that I'm pretty meticulous with my cals.
With that said I'm getting about a 6.8 second 0 to 110 and about a 10 second 0 to 130. You can bet that the next time I do this the camera will be pointed straight down at the speedo to eliminate this problem and I'll also be using editing software that can display each frame in the editing process. When you know the frame rate and can count each frame you can look at the needle in each frame and get very precise times. This is why I didn't list any times in my captions. I went ahead and posted the video anyway because it's really the rate at which the needle climbs that shows how quick the bike is and what a blast it is to ride.
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