Oh look - a gay beauty contest

[Drew]

I'm quite liking the coppery coloured jobby.

Yip, that's fucken awesome.

[Swoop]

Incorrect. You can't get a phone-book thick accessory cataloge like HD produce (or Triumph for that matter).

Maybe they should start to rev it up in this manner with a HRC cataloge full of exotic goodness. They have had 'kits' in the past for select rides but not the mainstream bikes.

Just so long as it's performance enhancing parts for the bike and not arse-less trousers, g-string underwear and leather vests...

[HenryDorsetCase]

Incorrect. You can't get a phone-book thick accessory cataloge like HD produce (or Triumph for that matter).

Maybe they should start to rev it up in this manner with a HRC cataloge full of exotic goodness. They have had 'kits' in the past for select rides but not the mainstream bikes.

I've just been reading a "road" test of the RC 213V-S and the US spec model has ~101 hp. and they will not be importing the "closed circuit use" only race kit. The JDM one is 68 hp they say. Eurospec is something like 159hp.

Which is fuck all for something that costs so much. The race kit is $12k US. on top of what you have paid.

[AllanB]

I've just been reading a "road" test of the RC 213V-S and the US spec model has ~101 hp. and they will not be importing the "closed circuit use" only race kit. The JDM one is 68 hp they say. Eurospec is something like 159hp.

Which is fuck all for something that costs so much. The race kit is $12k US. on top of what you have paid.

Reading the same. Mental and I don't understand it. Honda claim it is not about hp it is about the ultimate handling package. So one would presume the ultimate handling package could cope with more hp than your average Sport bike off the shop floor ......

They need to bring a bit of raw back into a few of their bikes

[HenryDorsetCase]

I dont get the RC213V-S. Its not really MotoGP because it doesnt have the power or the electronics or the pneumatic valves or the little men following me around and fettling it. And $185kUSD. Their other iconic models (RC30, RC45, RC51) were expensive but not ten fireblades equivalent expensive. Maybe two or three?

We need an economist to tell us how many Mars bars or something.

Whatever.. I will never see one or own one.