why not??

BMW S 1000 RR takes on supercar in this Sunday’s episode of Top Gear on BBC2


A BMW S 1000 RR, the double championship-winning supersports bike, features in a high-octane superbike vs supercar race on this week’s episode of the hugely popular BBC Top Gear show. Anyone wanting to know the result will have to tune into the show on BBC2 on Sunday 23 January at 8pm! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I don't expect a level playing field (if Clarkson is allowed to influence the result there certainly won't be one) but hopefully we'll get a pleasant surprise... if they have some ex-F1 driver in the car, why not have the equivalent on the bike. Can you imagine Jeremy McWilliams taking **** from Clarkson? He'd probably punch him, call him a c*nt and walk off - now that would be worth seeing! 8-)

I believe Captain Slow will be driving it, there may (no pun intended) be hope yet ;D

Lol, I was watching biggest baddest bikes on turbo the other day and saw a fireblade thrash a 911GT3 over a quarter mile by 2.5 seconds. That's a lifetime in drag terns!

Another fix! Oh well. Good telly I suppose.
Stu

good telly.... i turned it off within 5 mins, overated drivel, and set up stunts, it used to have affordable cars, not anymore .... crap!!


rant over lol :-X :-X :-X :-X

I dunno, JC has just been trying to get a dog to eat a Skoda Yeti! Don't ask me why; I haven't figured it out yet! :D

Great fun, proper petrolhead larking about nonsense ;D

There was no way any bike was ever going to beat that 4 wheeled machine. I refrain from calling it a car - it was extremely light frame, housing the equivalent of 3 bikes engines (over 500bhp), had 4 wheels so double the ground contact. I could go on. But that's not really a test - how many of us will ever own uprated ariel atoms? Even if you had the money to buy a supercar, it would be more likely to be something you could drive day to day. At best a Pagani Zonda, more likely a ferrari/koernegzeg etc. And none of those would have beaten the BMW... The only show to have shown real car vs bike tests on mainstream tele was 5th Gear, and then the bikes usually kicked ass...

Ste Brogan was chating about the episode and when he signed up it was supposed to be on the race bike - until they turned up and saw the spec and made it a standard road bike to give the car a chance! It would have been interesting to actually see what lap times were done, or 2 runs track and road versions as the track version is still cheaper than the Atom. It did show the standard of thier high speed driving when they got Tiff to run the lap