Who owns the fastest XS11?

[Pat Kelly]

Another reason my XS is fastest is because on my way home from Big Island Deuce I passed a line of cars that were afraid to pass 2 big rigs. After I got around the caravan I was cruising along listening to a CD (rock). Bike had all the touring goodies (fairing, hardbags, and trunk) along with all my gear and my fat butt. Almost ½ a ton on 2 wheels. I looked at the speedo and I was doing 110 MPH and had been for the last 10-15 miles.
Whatta bike we all have

[REFFI]

Fastest? No way!

Way back when my bike was fairly new. I had replaced the speedo at around 4K miles. I opened it up (nekkid) to my pucker factor limit on a straight stretch of twolane blacktop. I quit at 110 and haven't been back since (that was in 1981). I'll cruise now at 85 to 90 for miles, and I know the bike is just loafing, but man, the smooth is great.

Ralph

[Dennyz]

I had the pleasure of running my "F" at 100mph and holding it for nearly an hour (90 miles). There where a couple of places where I had to let off a bit to do some corners. I went on reserve at 85 miles and road into town on fumes. The motor was running so smooth I could not feel it idling. I was out in the bad lands of eastern Oregon, riding from Burns Junction to Burns (92 miles). I passed three cars like they were standing still.

I have had my XS up to a bit over 130, but I am sure my speedo is not very accurate up at that range and was more likely doing around 125 or so. This was before I installed my Sigma.

[Materi]

"The Breeze" will do 120 at 7700 RPM and that is pretty much it, but it does have a squarelley windscreen attached which adds a little drag and induces some "high speed instability". But Good Lord what a ride getting there. Since I haven't had the chance to ride with any of you cats (XSives) yet, I swear the bike never loses. Harleys, and big fat metric V-twins fall away red faced by the score. I'm not kidding... every one wants to race when they see me out.....I guess The Breeze is getting a rep around here in N.E. Wyoming. My brother in law has arranged a meeting with a V-65 from Gillette, so maybe my times coming...I think those things are pretty bad. I did dust a V-45 like he was in reverse, but the 65 has considerabley more ponies in the barn.

As far as the coolest....well I'm sure some of you cats have some pretty icy rides all right.....but listen to Lynard Skynards "They Call Me the Breeze", picture a foxtail flapping around at about 90 mph....now your getting an idea of what cool is Man I love this stuff.

[Shuriken]

Looks 120-129 is most common.

[John]

If you truly like owning your XS, then don't run that V 65 for "pinks". You'll be walking home.

[Materi]

The guy with the V65 couldn't make it. He blew it up, probably that "cam thing", though I'm not sure. I really wasn't looking forward to racing that thing, and in any event, though I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, I certainly wouldn't have raced for "pinks"

Keith

[brock]

speed and milage

speaking of speed, what kinda milage are you guys getting? i took a long road trip this weekend, never took it above 75 (well maybe occasionally) and was amazed to see that i was only getting about 32-35 mpg. is that normal? my virago gets 55-60.

[John]

Your milage is quite average for these bikes. I can get about 34 at 45-50 mph, and 30 at 70-75 mph.

[jetmechmarty]

While climbing a long hill last weekend, I observed 7500 RPM in 4th gear. How fast was I travelling on my XS1100SG or '80 Special? I have an 85 MPH speedometer.

As a side note, I backed off to the speed limit before I crested the hill. On the other side sat a Georgia Highway Patrol car complete with officer! Somebody "up there" is looking out for me!

[pgg]

My 'hotted up' XS11 can do 15 kilometres per litre cruising at 100 - 110 k.p.h. Mainly because the throttle is barely open at that speed in 5th. The fastest I've done is 214 k.p.h. 200 k.p.h. is always available but it takes good conditions to do 210 k.p.h. With all the gear on I'm way over 200lbs. Aerodynamics are the big killer of top speed on an XS1100. Same with all heavy naked bikes. Wind forces increase out of all proportion for every m.p.h. gained. You need light weight, big horsepower and slippery aerodynamics to start pushing the 150 m.p.h. barrier.

[beechfront]

i hit a new top speed a couple weeks ago.

125 registered on the xs1100 speedometer - but 121.3 mph registered on the digital (which is accurate within 2/10 mph at 70mph).

it was still accelerating too but where i was at it wasn't the smartest thing to be doing in the first place so i backed down.


guessing from the speed i was still gaining - i think i could have hit 130 as registered on the XS speedo.

i did have a decent tailwind which helped.

[Shuriken]

What are you using for a digital speedometer?

Ben

[xExcessive 1120]

Several Results

My original (or first) '79 XS1100F did 137 ridding two up with my crazy old girl friend who used to start to giggle every time the bike broke a hundred, and it was still pulling when what passed for discretion back then rolled the throttle back. I always ran Dunlop K-391 KS Sport Elites had Konis on the back, heavy duty springs in the front with 20wt fork oil and a C.C. products fork brace which I still have and run on the sidecar rig. That bike was ultimately stolen and wrecked (a black day) 26 years later I find an identical '79 XS1100F on eBay and snag it. It has 6300mi (had) on it and after going over it I took a ride on a perfect day and hit a good stretch and rolled on in fifth and hit 95 so fast! The bike wasn't even trying, but some three years of lay off due to unfortunate result of spinal arthritis and the discretion time gives, rolled off but this one FLYS! My other '79 XS1100F has 26,000mi, is full dress and three years ago before a big flare up with the arthritis (again) I felt well enough to hit 110 and it definately had more! The eBay one has a kitted carb, releived airbox, a four into two (forget which one) and I have to agree in general that stock jetting seems to be very good if not spot on. That Ist '79F (wrecked) used to cruise: at 125-127 was a sweet-spot, but if I cracked it WOT at that speed it would jump. This with no fairing or windshield of any kind, except I did have a set of short bars on it that set me forward more over the front end. One day I was out blasting around and came up on a Yamaha 650 Turbo that I had seen around town and he looked in his rear-views, down shifted and WAAA...my old '79 had 40k on it by then and all I did was go WOT in fifth and blew by him like his coils were wet! That bike was a real runner, but this "new" '79 is a runner too. One of these days I'll take her over the top and report back. Now back to my carburetor project, Christopher. "The Gimp"

[beechfront]

the speedometer i use is a Cateye Astrale 8.

designed for a bicycle. works great on a motorcycle though - i think on the box it said it is supposed to be good up to 185 mph.

some other guys on here use sigma speedometers - i think somebody said they go to about 125.