
Originally Posted by
bugjuice
do you ride a diesel then?
not many bikes have a sweet spot that low.. My bike doesn't wake up until at least 7 or 8, and will happily scream it's little lungs out to 16,500.
If you take a corner at 15k rpm, for one, you haven't got much exit speed comin, so you'd find yourself changing mid-corner, which isn't the best idea since sliced bread. Also, at the high revs, the engine braking and accelerating is very harsh, so by screaming into a corner, then backing off or gunning it, there's more chance of breaking the back loose, and that isn't always much fun. Normally, hacking thru corners (obviously depending on the road and corners etc), the revs sit around 7-12k on average, and obvisouly climb exiting the corners
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