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I was wondering how this compared to motorcycles, and didn't realize that today's production motorcycles are not significantly faster than modern hypercars, the

I was wondering how this compared to motorcycles, and didn't realize that today's production motorcycles are not significantly faster than modern hypercars, the fastest motocycle clocking in at 2.2 seconds [1] Ignoring the million dollar sports cars, other cars such as Porsche 911 turbo s from 2020 is 2.1s.[2]. I know, Tesla and Lucid, etc are also crazy fast, but I believe their quoted 0-60 times are all with a roll-out. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_motorcycles_by_acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_mot... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_cars_by_acceleration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

tstrimple 3y ago
Cars designed for high speed will have a significant advantage over a motorcycle through capturing down forces to dramatically increase the amount of friction between the tires and the surface before losing grip and spinning out. Motorcycles can own the power to weight ratio category, but they can't use all that power because at that point the wheels just spin. I found it super interesting when I learned that one of the biggest advances in maze solving races is that someone ended up putting a fan in their little "mouse" to push down so the wheels could get more traction. https://hackaday.com/2008/11/26/vacuum-micromouse/ https://hackaday.com/2008/11/26/vacuum-micromouse/ More details on maze racing from Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw
bluedino 3y ago
MotoGP bike vs Rimac Nevera https://youtu.be/_3868Dnogrk?si=o4rkjjOcdHIBSbMt https://youtu.be/_3868Dnogrk?si=o4rkjjOcdHIBSbMt