100 bhp is all I need debate - again

[scumdog]

Guess if you are fond of pies you might need all 100, I'm happy with 55ish, and can't see me ever using more than 80.

65 raw grunty horsepower at the rear wheel of my raunchy 1450cc H-D.

'Adequate' is the word I would use...


100hp would be wasted on me

(But then again, my 650cc 'zuki has 85hp...)

[ducatilover]

65 raw grunty horsepower at the rear wheel of my raunchy 1450cc H-D.

'Adequate' is the word I would use...


100hp would be wasted on me

(But then again, my 650cc 'zuki has 85hp...)

I haven't come across a situation where I've "had" to use the 100hp or so my little thing makes...but, I like having it there.

[Big Dave]

Any more and his tassels would blow off.

[scumdog]

Any more and his tassels would blow off.

And unlike me the tassles don't smell when they blow off...

[tigertim20]

lol woah!

someone who finds an s1000rr boring should obviously be racing a sidecar.

what a lunatic

lol I didnt say it wasnt fast as fuck - it was, and light, and flickable, and small, but it still managed to be boring.
fucking germans!

[Fast Eddie]

lol I didnt say it wasnt fast as fuck - it was, and light, and flickable, and small, but it still managed to be boring.
fucking germans!

I'm told you turn traction control and wheelie control off and use a twist of the right wrist haha

[tigertim20]

I'm told you turn traction control and wheelie control off and use a twist of the right wrist haha

it was off.
had a wee moment with me, a quiet street, and a paddy wagon.
turns out rick did the exact same thing earlier that morning

[BMWST?]

it was off.
had a wee moment with me, a quiet street, and a paddy wagon.
turns out rick did the exact same thing earlier that morning

slightly ot,but what are you comaring the rr to when you say too refined??

[FJRider]

All the information I have found on my FJ1200 ... tells me I will have about 125 HP at 9500 rpm (I assume at the crank) ... and as 100 km/hr it's at 4000 rpm, I still have a bit to play with. The torque on tap even at those revs ... is still good. The actual HP being devoped at speed limit revs ... in top gear ... may not be seen as very impressive to some though. But I ride like a nana anyway.

[mossy1200]

Mt 88hp wasnt quite enough to pass a Ducati on the rimutakas today.

[James Deuce]

Mt 88hp wasnt quite enough to pass a Ducati on the rimutakas today.

It's not the horsepower that's the issue.

[tigertim20]

slightly ot,but what are you comaring the rr to when you say too refined??

dunno if refined is the right word. basically it just wasnt as fun as the brand new crossplane I rode back to back. crossplane just seemed more fun.
If I was looking for a track bike, id go the beemer, it would be easier to go faster
for the road Id get the yamaha, Id have more fun, more of the time. it just felt like it had more character. it was bigger, heavier, felt heavier in the corners, and required more rider input to do the same thing, to me it felt more like I had achieved the result when riding the yam, in the beemer though, I felt more like a passenger, the bike just made it a bit too easy.

just my opinion, and I have no doubt there are plenty out there that disagree with me.

[mossy1200]

It's not the horsepower that's the issue.

Im not biting today sorry.

[ducatilover]

All the information I have found on my FJ1200 ... tells me I will have about 125 HP at 9500 rpm (I assume at the crank) ... and as 100 km/hr it's at 4000 rpm, I still have a bit to play with. The torque on tap even at those revs ... is still good. The actual HP being devoped at speed limit revs ... in top gear ... may not be seen as very impressive to some though. But I ride like a nana anyway.

My dad had an FJ12 with a 4-1 etc and that pulled well. Wasn't brain bending, but a bloody torque loaded lump nonetheless.

[James Deuce]

I've watched a husband and wife team make Ducati riders cry on the Rimutakas on their ex-Army KLX250s. Supposed to be 20-something-hp, but after decades of being tortured, more like 12hp. With shocks installed upside down.

I think you guys are a bunch of spoiled cry-babies. It's not about the hp, all you need is a bike.