HAYABUSA FLYBY 198MPH 

I’ve done these speeds. Trust me when you start slowing down and feel like you are coming to a stop. You are still going 100.

I've seen 167mph on the speedo of my CBR 929 and I was surprised how narrow the road gets at that speed...Thats been years ago now.

Damn. My neighbors and their dogs/kids enter the road from their driveways with wild abandon lol, no way I'd do that in my area with that many driveways, it would all end in tears 😢

After 50 years of riding all kinds of bikes ( five as a motorcycle cop) without a single accident the idea of 200 mph on a public road really scares me. I've investigated a number of fatal motorcycle accidents and it's usually because of speed, lack of training, equipment failure, blown tire, engine explosion, thrown chain or striking other vehicles. All of those conditions could have been easily avoided and a number of fine young men would have been alive today. Like Dirty Harry said: "A man has to know his limitations". Live to ride, ride to live. Stay cool my friends.

Remember, speed never killed anyone. It's suddenly becoming stationary that gets ya.

As a sportbike rider, he was definitely pushing 200mph.

when your girl says her parents arent home

I love how he knows his buddy is going to go by on a bike at 200 mph, so he parks his truck about 1" from the road😂

I had a 2007 Hayabusa , but I only took it to 181 MPH and that was only for maybe 10-15 seconds .Trust me , there's a big difference between 150 MPH and 181 MPH and it's not just the 30 miles per hour . Tunnel vision is real as hell too !

11 years later... he's currently on lap 4,926 around the equator.

11 years later, I wonder if he's still alive.

i love how the noise entirely changes when the bike goes past

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Years ago in a Sierra Cosworth, I was in the vicinity of Donington, after the superbike races, a biker beckoned me to see if I could keep up, I got up to 168, think it shocked him a bit, but then the speed that he left me, to way over 200, was frightening, got balls of steel, or just mental, some of these bikers. Respect

Riding that fast on a two-lane, undivided road with multiple access points and driveways is suicidal. I once rode my 2000 929 over the Fred Hartman bridge in Houston at 140 MPH, and it felt as stable as the chair I'm sitting in as I write this. But the only reason that wasn't suicidal is there was no way anything could have gotten in my way.

I got my R6 to 150mph. It was an adrenaline rush. The dashes on the highway looked like a solid line. Looking back I was really lucky and stupid for doing it on a public road.

Imagine that ticket

A bloody Jet on 2 wheels!

83 GS1100E about 140, 86 GSXR750 around 145. That was pretty fast and I loved every minute on those scooters. 60 years old now and I can say I am just as happy at 3 on my Kubota, lol

I am not a biker, but I used to work on the highways. That is a good, smooth road surface he is riding on. But don't take anything for granted, even at regular speeds. A bump or a pothole can really change your plans. What an amazing video, though. My hat is off to guys who can do that.

I worked with a guy who was doing a speed run on a road just like this. Some lady pulled out of her driveway. He rear ended her going like 160. Closed casket at the visitation. He was 19.

0:17 at 2.0speed

I hit a bird once, at about 95 mph on a power line access road during a desert race while on a CRF 450 X. Scared the crap out of me and I didn’t know what happened until reviewing the helmet cam footage. I can’t imagine hitting some sort of critter at that speed. The fastest I’ve been on a bike was 140 ish on my CBR 600. That had my full attention and I’ve been riding for 42 years. I guess I’ve gotten to risk-adverse for that kind of pass, at least on a public road.

For 6 years I owned a '99 Busa, slightly upgraded - TRE controller, sport air intake plus sport full exhaust system. Maybe two-three addional features, I can't quite remember now, but for certain nothing major as far as tuning. Its speedometer was the 340 km/h + dash (350) version. I don't know if its real speed and/or how much is the deviation compared to true speed, but I've reached the dash and kept the pointer there (350 km/h) numerous times, again and again. Never, ever someone passed me on the highway. Several motorcycles came close, also one or two cars, but actually no one was able to match and sustain my Busa' top speed.

To some people, speed kills, but to us sport bike riders, speed is life! I have gone 171 mph in the quarter mile on my street legal 2003 GSX-R1000, and at age 69, I set a track record of 8.50 seconds at 165 mph. Great fun for an old man!!

Holy God I couldn't imagine going that fast on a bike! So cool!

It's all fun and games until Bambi steps in your path. Or, the neighbors munchkin...

Sure covers a lot of ground quickly at that speed. Sounds great too.

Back in the 80's I took my friends V45 Magna for a ride and hit 130 in Overdrdrive. That was enough for me.

"When you own a motorcycle, it's not a matter of if you will crash, but a matter of when."

I cant believe they found a stretch of road that nice. 😂 Sweet fly by.

Had a friend in high school who bought a Kawasaki 750 2 stroke. Leaving the dealership he was pretty much doing the same thing on a 4 lane divide highway when a car pulled out of a side street. His body was a 100 yards up the road from the point of impact and the poor bike had only 6 miles on the odometer. Driver of the car was cleared after an investigation.

I guess this is the only legit fly by video. Its surely 198 mph

I know what he’s doing is ‘wrong’, but there’s just something so satisfying about watching high speed motorcycles… I hope he’s still safe, and speeding along somewhere!

Once I saw him pass and not let off the throttle, I thought about what kind of wildlife might run out in front of him. That would be detrimental

I've had my 650 Vstrom up to 100 mph, that was fast enough for me.

Dang I wish he was on a track with this incredible display. Cars and pets running into your path make for a not so pleasant evening 😔

As a motorcyclists, if you have the desire or need to ride that fast, please do it on a closed track and not endanger the lives innocent persons.

Id almost certainly never do that now, im 38. In my 20s i used to run my F4i pinned for miles, 169mph, looking back im gratefull nothing bad ever happened

You know he’s going fast when you can’t see him until 2 seconds before he passes

What a beauty. Hayabusa and ZX14 are some cool ass bikes ✊.. nothing I'd rather do more than be at triple digits, that's home.

Mad max . Oh the days of me on my Turbo 750 Kawasaki GPZ. Got old had kids and grandkids and it was enough. Dodged alot of close calls. Didn't need to be hit over the head with enough is enough.

Oh yes! Did a few of those on my Busa’s. Yes, I bought a new 2000 MY Blue and Silver after the first year out then after 18 yrs I bought another one owner mint 2005 Black and Grey . Love my Busa.

165 on a CBR1000RR before I had to let go. Didn't top her out but damn that adrenaline puts you in a different place. 200 has to be crazy 😶

189 on my GSXR and that was the scariest feeling, you're literally gliding above the road and feel every gust of wind

Nothing cuts thru the air like a Hayabusa

I saw a video of a motorcycle crash the other week. Dude lost control and went into oncoming traffic. The lower half of his body went flying high and far, and the upper half slammed into the ground. It was pretty messed up.

On a two-lane road with driveways that's absolutely brilliant. You will be stain on the roadway soon

The point where the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

I used to ride like this when i was younger and thought i was bulletproof! Now i get a shiver down my spine when i see young blokes riding like this, people doing u'turns over the ceest of a hill, firewood scattered over the road, animals, it's just a matter or time before your number comes up. Be safe and check the area well if your going to do high speed runs like this and you just might make it to be a grandfather.

One tire blowout and you are history.

It always amazes me how some people are just incapable of holding a phone still.

that was for sure 200 mph no doubt i did 175 one time on my bike and i thought that was fast like everything gets small idk but i can only imagine what the hell he felt doing 200 thats badass

getting a 'love riding, back off' ad right before this

Engines and gears are one thing, tires are another matter. That's putting a lot of faith in them.

When I see something like this, we can assume it starts with a black streak and is likely to end in a red streak, but somewhere in the middle, no doubt there's a brown streak.

Ghost rider for sure! You hear it coming. You hear it going. But you see nothing! Simply wow!!

When the weed man re ups and says he’s got some fire

Beautiful doppler effect!!!

If you slow it down and stop it right before it passes by you can see that the bike is really low to the ground due to downforce on the front fairing.

I was riding one of the first crotch rockets, ‘78 Kawasaki 1000 with a turbo charger in ‘81. It needed the old premium fuel (they called it Ethyl then) but you couldn’t get it in ‘81 so it would crap out at 135. It had 160 on the speedo.A friend bought it and put 100octane aviation fuel in it and got scared at150.

Almost as fast as Isle of Man TT

Brave Man....at those speeds, Power / Telegraph Poles look like a picket Fence.

As my father used to say “Go ahead, buddy. Hell ain’t half full.”

As vespa rider, he definitely wasn't going past 55mph

When I read "Hayabusa" in the title, I thought it was the SHINKANSEN Hayabusa, which is the fastest train in Japan and runs at 320 km/h (200 mph) on regular service between Tokyo and Sendai. And I thought the thumbnail was odd since it didn't look like Japan.

That would be one hell of a speeding ticket 😆

He's making absolutely sure he's the first one at the scene of the crash.

Couldn’t help but notice the Department of Defense sticker on your windshield. 🤣

Now that's flying 👍

My friend and I drove his 300Z on a 2 lane highway and we topped out at about 160. It was a life changing experience. The lines on the road looked like dots, we drove past a state trooper who never bothered to turn around and chase us. We went back home on the back roads and heard that road blocks were set up to catch us. It’s only been about 35 years since then, so I think we got lucky 🍀 and got away with it….. that time.😂

The freedom one feels must be so incredible.

Slowed it down Now I’m convinced the pilot of that rocket launcher on wheels is fake news lol wild sick stuff 🤙🏻

Absolutely NO time to react to anything at that speed smh

I put my 5.1 sys on full blast in surround mode, added a touch of reverb and cranked it. That was intense.

Did 130mph on a KZ900 in 1982. I can still feel rush...

Deer grazing on shoulder: "Oh look, a human hauling ass down the highway. I better leap out in front of him!"

natural selection at work!

The wreck would be spectacular to witness

The Hayabusa still pulls hard past 186mph

I used to do the same thing down country roads and when I look back I cringe. I stopped when I hit a crow flying across the road. I was doing just over 100mph, nothing like the guy in the video, and it hit my hand. I was trying my best to maintain control and it took everything I had to slow down and stop. That couple of seconds seemed like a lot longer. Broke two bones in my right hand, and I stopped chasing that thrill of doing something that you know full well if it goes sideways you will die. I got a second chance, and I didn't squander it. I'm glad my son never asked for a bike because I would have become a hypocrite and said no.

Once met a guy who claimed his Hayabusa would do 225 mph. He worked with a friend of mine. The cops showed up at the workplace and asked my buddy to I.D. the Hayhabusa man. The bike had hit a garbage truck. The largest body part was a foot still inside the rider’s boot. Positive I.D..

A deer ran out in front of him and I hear he's still Airborne to this day!😂

Probably one of the dumbest places to do a top speed test like that. Go to Texas Mile or something.

Thanks for showing what 198mph look like head on.

Ah, excuse me. I think the speed limit is around 40mph, maybe 45.

He made the pines sway at the top after flyby🌲🌲

Good illustration of the Doppler effect

158 is the fastest I've seen and I was scared shitless... always had the inkling that a deer was gonna pop out.

Perfect example of something you could die from that no one could feel sorry for you for...

Just imagine a Hog or a Deer hopping out of them woods and crossing the road in front of the motorcyclist...

My friend did this last year. I saw him the other day. He gained a bunch of weight. The ambulance dropped him off to see his family that lives in the same complex. They need 6 guys to get him up and down the stairs for doctors appointments. They make all kinds of noise too with the backup siren on the ambulance. We were talking and I learned that when you are completely paralyzed (for life) sans one arm, your body does not heat or cool itself anymore. Things you take for granted, like sweating. So when he runs a fever from sitting- for life, it is a very big deal. He spends his days and nights otherwise in a bed, in a sketchy section 8 apartment, all alone. His neighbors will steal his expensive chair to get cash for drugs. It's a bad scene. His new family has mostly left him. He was a young, good looking and funny guy. A good rider- but rode too fast. He had just landed a great new job too. Funny thing, he was about to sell his bike. One last, high speed ride on a sunny day. Docs say he will continue to decline and have more issues as he gets older. He takes all kinds of pain drugs. There is no hope for any recovery. I sold my bike. Yes, it was fun. I was more lucky than good for the 20 years I rode but I do not want to push my luck. You simply cannot control other drivers. No regrets. Stay safe out there. Don't be impressed with speed.

👀 I heard the sound but I didn't see no bike

When your mom said to be home at 10:30 but its 10:29

Imagine risking your life to film a fast ride and letting a Parkinson’s patient hold the camera

Great Doppler effect.

just about the time your neighbor 3 houses down decides to back out of his driveway while double checking his shopping list.

imagine throwing a spike strip in front of this guy 😂

the description for this video is everything i couldve hoped for

imagine the impact force created by that behemoth of a motorcycle if it hits something at 200mph