If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
That looks like a sensible bike, be interesting to read a detailed road test. Price could be relatively friendly too.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
I have one question on this - why the choice of a 10 year old Engine? why not retune the current GSX-R engine?
This makes me a little wary
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
A roadster/naked bike doesn't need huge horsepower, but it does need torque. In the real world 130 to 140kph cruise is about the maximum sustainable with no wind protection. (I'm talking about a trip, not a ride around the block.) It helps if the engine is well into usable torque at that speed. Some journalists then tend to complain that the bike has been "emasculated". If, however, somebody does give the journalists what they want, the same journalists will complain that the engine is too peaky, so fuck the journalists.
When the Hornet 919 came out it had a "detiuned" Fireblade engine from a few generations previously and it worked just fine.
The price should be reasonable because they'll have save a lot of tooling costs by using an existing engine. If that frame is from an earlier bike too they'll have saved a whole lot more. It could be a seriously good buy but it might be advisable to factor in a suspension upgrade.
Then again, the only Suzuki I have ever owned was my SJ50.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
so flipping ugly
Either way its useless to me - no pillion accomodation
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - not riding a TUONO then!
Oh .. I dunno .. it looks like a cross between a Bandit and a Gixxer - mostly Gixxer ...
That's what makes it appealing to some of us ... there's nowhere to put the wife/girlfriend/handbrake ...
And yes - If I was looking or another bike I'd be tempted ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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