What does 100mph feel like on a motorbike?

It doesn’t really take too much room to get up to 100. There are plenty of stretches here in California leading down to San Jose or Santa Cruz were one can quite easily reach and maintain a high-speed.

Yup. Go and get a decent sportsbike.

You cagers have NO FUCKING IDEA how quick they are. I’ll be at 130 and beyond your vision before you’ve even reached the speed limit.

Mind you, almost no one who hasn’t driven them has any fucking idea how quick a genuine sportscar will go either - it amuses me when I take an overtake that probably looks suicidal to mr. wanker in his diesel mondeo and have ten seconds to spare before said oncoming in the opposite direction wanker flashing furiously at me passes :smiley:

I’ve never been over 87, but 80 on a Buell Blast is remarkably soothing.

I only ride on the back (due to being traumatized as a teen when my older brother tried to teach me to ride :eek:,) but the fastest I’ve been on a bike was +130 MPH. At that moment, I was grateful that I’d had a boring life, because it was fairly soothing as I watched it flash before me!

Actually, it might have been reasonably comfortable for me as a passenger except that we were trying to outrun a massive, sudden thunderstorm and were about 5 miles from anywhere to take shelter (between exits on an interstate.) Fortunately, I only ride with someone I trust implicitly, so when he said “Hold on, and don’t look at the speedometer,” it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. (Would have been better if I’d actually obeyed the second clause as well as the first.) Plus, I had better shelter than the driver, since I could just burrow into his back.

I don’t recall the make of the bike, except that it was a big Kawasaki touring bike. We were riding with a group that day, and left the Harleys and the rice rockets behind - but that may have been because those riders had more sense than Kenny! And as for why no one got pulled over? Virtually everyone in this group was a local police officer, including Kenny.

I ride a 2005 Suzuki V-Strom DL650 (it looks exactly like the one pictured in the Wiki-link there). It’s a smooth ride at any speed. Most of the time I cruise at 80mph on the highway, and it feels like doing 60 in a car. I’ve had it up to 100mph only once. Looking forward was fine - I was just zipping down the freeway at a good clip. Looking down was totally different. Pavement shouldn’t be blurry like that. So my advice is: “don’t look down.” Also, don’t ride your bike at 100mph past a highway patrol office. I didn’t get busted, but I did have to limit how long I was at 100mph because it just wasn’t safe to keep looking behind me every two seconds.

Oddly enough, yes, many friends of mine have a bi-annual motorcycle gathering in southern Utah. Lots of roads with good sight lines and little or no traffic. The purpose of the gathering is not specifically to hit triple-digit speeds, but some of us do from time to time. In '03 several friends and I left Bryce Canyon and headed north on UT22 and UT62 to Koosharem, spending minutes at a time with the throttle pinned in top gear. Bike was a BMW R1100RT, good for 120-130, with good wind protection and stability. Road had long straightaways with no crossroads and great sightlines. Biggest concern was the possibility of an unexpected police encounter, because even out there, that’s go-directly-to-jail speed.

Also spent some time on a track (Grattan, near Grand Rapids, MI). All worry about cops/traffic is gone there, putting your mind much more at ease. You can just about hit top speed on the straightaway there before you need to get on the brakes. 100+ feels just fine there.

When exceeding the speed limit, apart from worry about cops, passing traffic with a very large speed differential is unsettling; I feel an instinctive desire to slow down just a bit when passing folks, which probably ain’t a bad thing.

All in all, when there’s no traffic and I can see there’s no cops, 100 on the bike feels better than 100 in my car (an '03 Maxima).

I don’t know that I’ve ever been much over 85mph on my Concourse, but there wasn’t anything uncomfortable about it when I was doing it. In fact, I had my wife tell me once when she was following me just how fast I was going on a particular freeway transition road. I didn’t believe her – I didn’t feel like I was going anywhere near that quickly.

I tend to be a bit paranoid about other drivers, though, so I don’t like going at really high speeds unless the road is wide opens. Which pretty much never happens in LA.

On my first street bike, a Honda Rebel 250 anything over 80mph was just buffeting and scary.

On my current Ducati Monster S4R or Ducati 999, 100mph is just loafing along rather sedately.
Not too windy or bothersome. Same for my BMW K-1200R. Above 130 or so gets to be nerve-wracking because you’re worried about a car changing lanes up ahead. 150mph is 220 feet per second, and there’s little margin for error.

I only do fast blasts like that once every few months for a few seconds, and it reminds me that I shouldn’t.

Doing a buck on the highway is enough for me…