Interesting thought. With Scoot, you can't open the throttle all the way in the first two gears for long (ohh-ayy, up she rises, ohh-ayy, up she rises, what can do with the dunken sailor...).
I can get to about quarter open in said gears with babelicious pillion on the bitch pad.
On the track, it's different, WFO through the gears down the straights.
Here's an interesting thought for you, Viff. I rode a SuperDuke (with the honest intention of buying it), but the throttle control was nigh on impossible to modulate. V-twin shunt plus a hair trigger made it horrid.
So, here's the thought - I prefer a bike with excellent and progressive throttle response over just about anything else. Am I the only one (Obi Wan). My logic is that throttle control is one of the single most important variables when you're leaned over on the limit (on the track), or riding around in the wet (diesel slick) Auckland roads...
It’s diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; it’s life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.
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