Are 300cc sport bikes faster than your average car? As an example, Honda civic and Toyota Corolla vs ninja 300 and yamaha r3
I've heard that small displacement sport bikes are faster than your average car, and was wondering if it was true.
By faster I mean faster acceleration, highway passing, and cornering.
Greater acceleration. It's Change of Rate Of velocity, so it isn't: "faster acceleration.". Top Speed Is faster. Ref: College physics!
Look up power to weight: : My Honda blows away most cagers. 63 hp on 440 # + 153 lb rider, that's .1 hp/lb. About half of a Corvette--say 500 hp/3-000 lbs, that's .188 hp/lb.
Airplanes shoot for 1 hp/ lb of engine weight. So, 230 hp would be a 230 lb engine, or less.
When the traffic signal goes green, 95% of cars are slower than my damn little Vespa 150.
My 150 can only do 65 mph, top, and in light traffic I stay in the two right lanes. In heavy traffic, the cages drop below 50 mph and I'm passing them, in whatever lane is open.
A 300 is rather quicker than my Vespa, and my Vespa does just fine.
Cornering -- any bike can do circles around a cage. However in a curve, a decent car can blow off any motorcycle. A cage with four flat tires has a *LOT* more traction than a motorcycle.
Yes, motorcycles CAN typically accelerate faster than cars. It's that little thing known as power to weight ratio.
They will be faster on acceleration than most cars but probably not a Honda Civic Type R.
Certainly faster than Mr Joe Average drives in a 0-60 shootout.
They accelerate better but final top speed is way bellow
It doesn't matter in reality.
Plenty of websites for actual research.
The key to your question is the phrase "faster" and if by faster you mean 0-60 times yes they are faster than most but if by faster you mean "top speed" then the 300 is slower than most cars out there as they have a horrible top end so it doesn't have a good top end speed the cars can go faster. See the motorcycle below it has both fast 0-60 in 3 seconds and a very high top end faster than most cars out there even corvettes and porsche. To get both fast off the line speeds and top end speeds up there you want an r6 or r1 or Hayabusa
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