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[Smartbear]

Good article here. https://motorbikewriter.com/motorcycles ... tter-cars/

Written for bikers, so may be a little bias.

It is acceleration were a bike's power to weight kills a car and makes up for their relative slowness in cornering and braking.

I think this quote almost sums it up no matter whether you are on a bike or in a car.
"It will also depend on the skill and commitment of a rider versus a driver."
How much anybody is willing to push in a bend and hope the tyres hold.
Anybody who says bikes are slow in bends and hold up cars are not sitting behind a fast rider just the same as any bike sitting behind a car in bends are not sitting behind a fast driver.

We may have to agree to disagree on this one. Having been stuck behind commited riders on a number of occasions, through the Twisties. For the commited car driver, there is a kind of daft sense of achievment, when a bike you have pulled away from through a series of bends, enevatably wizzes past when you catch the everyday traffic. Usually get a mutual thumbs up, around these parts Which is nice.

Hmm, not sure about cars cornering faster than bikes-this is the lap record for a car (four wheel drive as well) around the Isle of Man road course
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new- ... lap-record
As opposed to the lap speeds for bikes around the same course
https://www.iomtt.com/tt-database/tt-re ... ap-records
Rob

[Doddsy]

These are epic in person