I've been itching to race a motorcycle for a while, finally got my chance
today.  Here's the deal...

In my rear view mirror, I saw an aggressive performance-oriented bike
working its way up from behind in traffic.. There were two lanes/two rows
of cars, I was in front of a line of cars in the right lane, & I came to
a stop at a red light.  He had worked his way up & was a car back in the
left lane, I knew as soon as traffic got going that he would gun it to
get around the car in front of him..

Light went green, I pulled out briskly but didn't get on it, sure enough
the bike accelerated around the car in front of him and he came up next
to me pretty quickly, looking to pass by.. We had just entered a section
of road that was really long, really straight and really wide.. We both
punched the gas almost simultaneously as he was next to me, I was in 2nd
gear at around 4200+ rpm, right where my big power starts.. No turbo lag
happening here.. My driver's window was down so I could easily hear the
bike's engine over mine.

We were almost at a dead heat for most of the race.  I pulled a little on
him, probably put his front tire right around my rear tire, and towards
the top of his gear he'd pull up a little and get up next to my window,
and then he'd shift and not long after I'd put him back by the rear tire.
 We raced to the top of 3rd (for me) and then he got off it and revved
his engine a couple times when he did (signal for "enough"?).  He gave me
a big thumbs up & we parted at the next light where I needed to turn
left.

I don't know what type of bike it was, other than it was one of those
"superbike types".. It had 2 headlights, side by side, a wide/aggressive
body, really big ass tire on the rear (saw the latter part after the
race).. I think green & white 2-tone paint.  The engine sounded really
sweet when he got on it through the gears..

Anyone have any idea what kind of bike?  Anyways, only "won" by 3 feet,
but the race made my day, been looking to race a bike like that for a
long time but wasn't sure what the results would be.

Marc
95 GSX / 11.81 @ 118.67

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