mordern litre bike debate...everyones opinions wanted!

[cowpoos]

Why do you need to buy a mordern litre bike?

Is it just a penis extention??

These bikes usually have 160-170kmph first gears...so if your going through most of the twisties in NZ are you going to be in 1st ?
After all that rush of aceleration we all enjoy is in the last 3000-3500rpm of the rev range...is it not?

are you going to be riding around on a bike that in real terms is going to be only as fast as your mates 600 through the twisties? I'm right arn't I ?

we don't ride on race tracks all that often do we?

So has all you 1k boys out there got any reason for owning a modern litre bike other than to make yourselves think your faster through the twisties because you have 150-170hp between your legs?

And come on people lets have a good debate/argument here...none of this sitting on the fence crap...I want to know what people think?

[thehollowmen]

Why do you need to buy a mordern litre bike?

are you going to be riding around on a bike that in real terms is going to be only as fast as your mates 600 through the twisties? I'm right arn't I ?

'Xactly That's why I got me a 650 which was 30 kg lighter.

And I'm never going to push it to the limits so.. *Shrugs*

[SPORK]

They look cool.

(There's my opinion)

[vifferman]

Mr poos:

Although my bike isn't a litre bike, it would've been if the salesman had convinced me to test-ride a Blackybird. I need it because my penis is only average, and I need it extended. And because I have to ride everywhere at 100mph, and a litre bike would do it more easierer than my mere 0.781 litre bike does, as it has only ~100hp.

[cowpoos]

I need it because my penis is only average, and I need it extended.

Ummm....that might be over-sharing....errr

You probally don't need a litre bike...errr....well.....ummm...I hear plastic surgens are really talented these days....errr

[bugjuice]

litre sports bikes aren't needed as much imho. My 6hundy is more than enough for me to get into trouble with on the road, and if you ride them right, you can give the litre boys a run for their money thru the twisties. It's only really the straights that they understandably get away. But physics get in the way at a certain point in corners, at which most modern 6hundies can achieve along with the thous.

litre tourers are different imo, tho. They are often more refined and better engines for touring and cruising. They can really kick up a stink, so they're far from slow, but it's not their main target punter.

Some people would have a thou over any 6, any day. Fairy muff. each to their own. but the 6hundies of today, would piss over most 750s, a fair few twins and a few thous of yester-year, and back then, they were the mutts nutts.. wonder whats gonna be around in 5 years time...

[Sparky Bills]

Its the fact that its there. Dont have to use it, but if you do choose to, The bike doesnt have to work half as hard as a 600.

No, the average rider cant use even 100hp (face facts! you cant!)
So I dont really think it matters now days, as the new 600's have more than 100 at the rear now easily!

I have thought about getting a late model 600, but I just love having endless power.
I cant use the power of the R1 to its potential, but am not slow on it through twisties, and love it to bits!

[curious george]

Complete overkill IMHO......

That said, I would love to own a TL1000, because they look and sound cool.
If they made a 650 or something, I'd have one by now.

People own them for all different reasons, like owning a 4x4 to drop the kids at school.

I honestly think looks play a big part. Upside forks look way better than right way round, radial calipers better than cantilevers etc... and all the best bits come on the top bikes = I'm gonna get that one.

[Sparky Bills]

wonder whats gonna be around in 5 years time...

Good god!! Hurts even thinking about it.

[bugjuice]

I honestly think looks play a big part. Upside forks look way better than right way round, radial calipers better than cantilevers etc... and all the best bits come on the top bikes = I'm gonna get that one.

most new 6s have half of this already..
the 05 636 is a little bro of the ZX10 with all that..

[zadok]

In my case it isn't a 'mordern' 1 litre bike, as the model has been around for 20 years or so. I wanted a tourer and I reckon you need that sort of capacity; especially when you are looking at carrying luggage and two up riding. In terms of performance (speed etc) a modern 600 would eat me for breakfast.
But I don't want to talk about my baby at the moment....

[DemonWolf]

Only got the TL1000 because a mate was selling it.. and it sounds fecking wickid..
and I thought it was time I got back into riding.... =)

I'm not a speedster, nor am I fast through the bendies (far from it!), I definately do not use all the hp the beast has.. nor would I...

Still getting to know the ol girl... being tender with her and all..

[MSTRS:Me]

Yet you have one.......go figure.

[Ixion]

You don't make it plain whether you mean all 1000cc bikes or just sprotsbikes.

For m'self OTHER FACTORS BEING EQUAL, I reckon there's no subsitute for cubes. I've never owned a litre bike, and I very much doubt I'd set out to own a litre sprotbike. But a litre+ plus touer or cruiser is another matter.

My logic here is that a big capacity bike can have the engine detuned. So that it's a nice torquey easy machine. And "great engines move slowly, and are not so soon put out of frame"

So the big 1000+ cc Vtwins make a lot of sense to me. But sprotbikes , I dont have the skills or the balls to push a 1000cc sprotbike anywhere near its limits on the public road. Some people do, good luck to them. Sometimes wonder what the percentage is though

And I did say other things being equal. Sometimes a smaller machine is actually faster as a tourer, because it's smoother , lighter, nimbler. I wonder what the real difference would be between a 1000 cc sprotbike and a 600 ditto, over a run of say 600km ?

[kerryg]

Is it just a penis extention??

erm...NO. I pretty only use mine for piddling out of these days anyway so it would be quite inconvenient.....although I suppose on those long trips you could runit down your trouser leg and there would be no need to make those toilet stops ..anyway I digress...in fact a litre bike is a penis SUBSTITUTE. An old fat ugly feeble near-impotent geezer with no hair and no girlfriend such as myself is empowered by one, made nearly superhuman..and BETTER LOOKING too, and the more powerful the bike the better....and I get to wear cool gear that makes me look much younger and more virile...at least until I take my helmet off .....

It's simple: normal well-adjusted people with LIVES don't need 170hp strapped between their thighs. I, and other unfortunates like me, on the other hand, do......