Originally Posted by Del La Sol 1320

your flat out wrong, its as simple as that, no argueing about it

all you did was name two specific bikes, they made a few more than that over the history of motorcycling and the ZX10R is definetly restricted

as of 2001 no bikes in this country exceed 186 mph... i know for a fact, again you can't argue this, its simply fact, that the hayabusa and gsxr 1000 have electronic top speed limiters, so you can turbo nos whatever all day long and unless you remove that its not going faster than 186 because the engine is going to cut out no matter how much power was pushing the rear wheel at 185 mph, the GSXR 600 and 750 atleast have restrictions that retard the timing in 1st and 2nd gear to lower the torque output, not sure if theres a top speed limiter since they don't go 186mph in stock trim but one very while might still be there, the TL and SV1000's also have this, not sure about the SV650

heres a wikipedia excerpt about the ZX12R "Starting with 2001 models, speed limiters were included to reduce the ZX-12R's top speed to 300 km/h"

and the ZX14 "Top speed is restricted electronically to 300 kilometers per hour (187 mph) according to a gentlemen's agreement between Kawasaki and Suzuki.This limit has been in effect on both Kawasaki and Suzuki hyper sport motorcycles since 2001"

heres a clip from a review of the ZX10R "although the bike is electronically limited to 186mph in the interests of... what? Sanity?"

honda probably just hasn't bothered to restrict the 1000rr electronically because its the only bike in its class that can't go that fast