One fast Harley TC

[nevtat1450]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (October 16, 2008) â€" Hiro Koiso, a highly-skilled service technician at Las Vegas Harley-Davidson shatters the Land Speed FIM World Record with a speed of 177.577* MPH at the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials at Bonneville Flats, Utah, September 2-7, 2008. If that’s not amazing enough, it was done for the first time ever on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle!

With his 2006 Harley-Davidson FXD custom built 131 cubic inch (2150cc) 174 rear wheel horsepower motorcycle, Hiro set out to challenge both the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) National Land Speed Record of 144.486 MPH in the 3000 MPG class and the FIM World Record in Division A, Class 13 of 149.263.MPG Neither class allows a fairing. Despite a displacement disadvantage in class and among purpose built race bikes, Hiro shattered both records with his street-ridden, pump gas motorcycle.

Breaking the FIM World Record by 28.314 MPH and the AMA National Record by 33.091 MPH, Hiro stated, "This motorcycle represents one man’s dream, my dream, passion and dedication to Harley-Davidson motorcycles."

[Faast Ed]

"...street-ridden, pump gas motorcycle....."

[se]

now thats movin...........

[Rydr2]

VROOOOOOOM.........
Way too fast for me.

[NightTrain67]

Hiro is pretty sharp.  I worked with him a lot when I lived in Vegas.  He was the only one I would let put my bike on the dyno at LVHD.  It also helps that he is about a buck thirty soaking wet.  Congrats to him....Sounds like a rocket.

[Admiral Akbar]

Whats amazing is that he did it with a Dyna chassis and lived to tell about it..  Max

[FLH124]

177 mph........Dyna chassis......that is amazing !!!!!!

[FLTRI]

Don't tell me we're going to find out the Dyna chassis isn't all that bad?

[ICANTD55]

Shoot ,,, Looks like its back to the Drawing board

Congrats to HIRO !!
He must have been real happy with that run especially after they pried his hands off the bars

[fuzznut5197]

177 mph........Dyna chassis......that is amazing !!!!!!

He probably had a dozen steering dampers attached to it 

[FLH124]

Just to keep it the bike tracking straight, I wonder if he had a stock neck rake or custom built angle on that bike?

[taz95dog]

i think he has the v-rod forks.

[Deye76]

Except for the FXR, the other rubber mounted offerings from the MoCo may have trouble in the curves, and are OK in a straight line. Thats been my experience, little as it may be.

[x52gnr]

Now that is AMAZING       

[taz95dog]

hope someone from lvhd or rrhd will post hiro's dyno sheet...taz...