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ZX14 Kawasaki motorbike bursts into flames at 400km/h

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
8 years 11 months ago

This was a 2006 Kawasaki ZX14 running at a speed run event in Finland, when the oil return failed at almost 400km/h (247mph).

The rider was fine, and so was the SD card in the camera... the rest of the camera not so much, and I dare say the motorbike probably didn't look so great afterwards either.

(via Jalopnik)

YouTube description:

R.I.P Kawasaakeli 2006-2015.

8 Comments

Thats the best Gopro commercial Ive seen yet...

ant

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That didn't seem like 400km/h to me. More like 100 km/h

Jalopnik claimed http://hooniverse.com/2015/06/15/monday-video-kawasaki-catches-fire-at-247-mph/ as the original source, and it was their claim of 247mph... maybe it was really 247kph? They didn't post sources, and it didn't come from the original yt vid. Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia claims the bike has an electronically restricted top speed of 299km/h.

That didn't seem like 400km/h to me. More like 100 km/h

It is a runway. Those white stripes are quite long (compared to those you see on the street).

-scheherazade

That didn't seem like 400km/h to me. More like 100 km/h

AeroMechanical says...

247mph isn't too ridiculous (though still insane). Pretty much all sports bikes are electronically limited to 299km/h (186mph), which is sort of an unofficial industry agreed standard arrived at in the earlyto mid nineties when the marketing was dominated by top speeds and it was getting out of hand. It's not something that someone determined couldn't bypass relatively easily though (and probably doesn't apply at all to track bikes).

I think he hit 100kmh within about 4 seconds of setting off.

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