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is there anywhere in Adelaide i can "legally find out just how fast my zzr250 can go?

race track...

Take it out to Mallala! Although, by the sounds of things, it might be a little challenging....it has corners!!!

Depends on why you want to find out, if it's for legal reasons take it to a dyno, but it will give you a higher reading than you will get out on the road or track, due to there being no wind resistence on the dyno, if it's for personal curiosity, as others have said get out on a race track.

Or an airstrip, think Adelaide has an airport doesn't it? Note that it may well be a tad difficult to get your bike on to an airstrip but it's an option if you can swing it (and if Adelaide has an airport of course )

FIRST AND FORMOST ADELAIDE DOES HAVE AN AIRPORT

yeah the chance of me getting my bike on there legally aint high.
i wanna just go flat out dyno just wont do it for me.
and yeah wtf is mallalah a racetrack or something?

Nah, dont listen to all this jibber about race tracks, just find a fixed speed camera.

Speedo's are dodgey at high speed, those speed guns have to be calibrated to be within a certain accuracy. Pretty sure you can go down to your local road authorities and get the pic to frame for your wall later on.

If you go fast enough you'll even have a few old mates in blue turn up on your doorstep to let you know how fast you were going.

mate - it might be able to pull the ton....just

Mallala is a racetrack, yeh. So is Mac Park.

How about 200km north of Adelaide ?? Plenty of long straight stretches out there...

If you are truly fair-dinkum about top-speed runs - get out to Lake Gairdner when there are speed trials on. For a smallish sum, you can enter your 2fiddy, and get proper times runs and accurate top speed figures......although why anyone would bother on a commuter four-stroke twin is beyond me....

Good luck out there ! We want pictures of you lying on the tank in your smalls, just like Rollie Free !!!

i had a "friend" who maxed out his zzr250
down a hill with a tailwind tucked down as far as i.... he could go
6th gear on redline and it was doing 160km/h

not that im into that sort of thing

I had a "friend" who got the same maxed out result on a ZZR250... not much wind and a slight downhill...

I have a friend too.....just saying.....

GPX250 165, not tucked in with a cross wind and some interesting attempts to keep a straight line. Legally of course.

98ninja wrote:i had a "friend" who maxed out his zzr250
down a hill with a tailwind tucked down as far as i.... he could go
6th gear on redline and it was doing 160km/h

not that im into that sort of thing

Mel wrote:I had a "friend" who got the same maxed out result on a ZZR250... not much wind and a slight downhill...

awsome....0 to 160 ish kmh in 5.8 minutes.

5.8 minutes is a bit harsh. i hit 120 not 2 slowly and at that point i start running out of road hahaah or even worse there are cars. nah wouldnt go 2 that much effort of a lake hahahah and as for the camera naaaaah they go 2 many pics of me already

the gpz250 (86??) 170.. had it jetted and new muffler lower top speed but better off the line

so im happyer with her but its so hard to get up any speed on the go cart tracks