What's so magical about the limitation number of 100?
100hp
100kph
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
Honda, and a lot of other people, consider it likely that the price of gas is about to go through the roof.
So the latest offerings from Honda, the NC700 series, make plus or minus fifty horses depending on the variant, but they do about 90mpg. (Children can do their own conversions, but that's about double the mileage of most current bikes.)
BMW is another maker that has been focused on reduced consumption in more recent models.
Reducing from my current 130HP odd to fifty seems a big drop, and is. Then again 50HP was good enough for a Manx Norton way-back-when so maybe...
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions; and a man is judged by his deeds and his actions, why say it's the thought that counts? -GrayWolf
This is what a standard one's like from the rider perspective,,,,, at one point you can see how 'quickly' it climbs to 3k revs/130kph
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9mlgRf7vc
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions; and a man is judged by his deeds and his actions, why say it's the thought that counts? -GrayWolf
Remember, the FJ and ZZR are very old bikes these days, the partial throttle power on the modern fullas is biblical compared to the older beasts, I would put my $$ on a 'Busa spanking an MT-01 in roll on tests.
I'd rather ride an MT though, it's disturbingly cool!
of course the busa would.. never tried to say otherwise lol....
the partial power of the current bikes IS good, you have variable valves, ignition mapping, injection etc...
the FJ and ZZR are 'old' however we have their moderm counterparts... FJR/Concours/ZX1400/Busa. the busa isnt a sprot bike in the same sense the ZZR or Blackbird were sprot bikes....... compare the Busa, ZX14 to modern sprot bikes....
theres your modern version of the shoot out that I posted an excerpt from.
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions; and a man is judged by his deeds and his actions, why say it's the thought that counts? -GrayWolf
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