Buddy @ work has a Ducatti 999 whatever motorcycle, and he has been bugging me for a year to race him. After work I was headed home when he passed me up. He went about 50' in front of me then slowed down to let me catch up. I heard him down shift and nail it, so I did the same. I hung with him for well over the 120 mark before I decided to lift. Neither one of us gained or lost any ground, I was really suprized because I thought the Ducatti is a 9 second bike. When we got to a stop sign, he pulled over enough to the left that we could talk. I asked if he wanted to go from a stop. He agreed, so we headed out further into the sticks. I was using my 275 towing tires on stock 17's and figured I would just light them up @ 70psi of air. We both launched at the same time and I got about a truck length on him. I heard him shift into 2nd or 3rd as he got to my door and passed me by about 5-7mph. He got about 30-40' in front of me and I heard another shift (4th?), from that point on neither one of us gained or lost any ground. He said the last time he looked at the speedo was 140mph+, and it was before we lifted. We were both VERY suprized that my truck could hang with his "Race Bike". We are both sure that if we kept going, he would have eventually pulled on me, because his bike would go over the 170mph mark. The truck was extreamly smooth at that speed, and stable enough that I stayed on it for that long (another suprize).
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