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[HenryDorsetCase]

This is a Cafe Racer


The rest are just homages to that era.
I would like a new Thruxton but can't be bothered spending all that on a weekend toy.
From memory 650's had a about 40 HP and about 150 KG's, probably less of a power to weight ratio

is he nine feet tall or is that bike tiny?

[AllanB]

is he nine feet tall or is that bike tiny?

I suspect he's a sizable piece of meat, but the bike is also small compared to at lot now. It still annoys me that the new Bonnie looks like a fuller figured gal as the original looked very slim. I swear the new engine is so overbuilt the metal content could be cut by 25% and they would still last forever.

[F5 Dave]

Being light has to help. Only Meriden I've ridden was a 500. Was pretty cool in 50kph zone. Felt like it might of got a bit breathless beyond that. Would be cool to try something bigger than a Daytona thing.
But can't think an RZ350 wouldn't bake it and I love those.

[Voltaire]

I suspect he's a sizable piece of meat, but the bike is also small compared to at lot now. It still annoys me that the new Bonnie looks like a fuller figured gal as the original looked very slim. I swear the new engine is so overbuilt the metal content could be cut by 25% and they would still last forever.

That was before you could have your cake and eat it too.
1200cc of Triumph makes about 90 BHP at 200 kgs?

[AllanB]

That was before you could have your cake and eat it too.
1200cc of Triumph makes about 90 BHP at 200 kgs?

Specs say a T1200 is 224 kg DRY 79hp but look at that torque figure - that's nice.

http://www.triumphmotorcycles.co.nz/...onneville-t120

Thruxton R is 97 and 203 kg dry. And more torque.


Drop 20kg off one and shit it would fly.

[F5 Dave]

So what does torque mean? No really. An R6 has more Torque than a Harley.
Your move.

[GazzaH]

You're all torque, you are.

Torque is what leaves you behind when the bike takes off like a bat out of hell.
I'll be gone when the morning comes.
When the night is over, like a bat out of hell, I'll be gone, gone, gone.

Unless I let go.

[F5 Dave]

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver-black mountain bike


Classic Hitcher.

[AllanB]

So what does torque mean? No really. An R6 has more Torque than a Harley.
Your move.

On what spec sheet ? Google tells me a R6 has 42 ft-lbs and a Fat Boy 109.

One's a tractor ones a rev bitch.

[F5 Dave]

Measure the turning force at the rear wheel. Bikes have gears. Horsepower wins. Circa 100hp at the wheel. Don' let journalists try convince you there is some other energy measurement.

[husaberg]

Measure the turning force at the rear wheel. Bikes have gears. Horsepower wins. Circa 100hp at the wheel. Don' let journalists try convince you there is some other energy measurement.

No mater what the HP?Kw or foot pounds/Nm's are in the end it is air resistance that wins

[F5 Dave]

Not in space.

[Voltaire]

You don't need a lot of power to have fun. Less than 40 HP.

[F5 Dave]

About what my dirt bike has, and certainly a lot more than any of my racebike ever had.

But the first time I took my super grunty TT500 on the motorway I realised how gutless it was out of its natural environment.

[husaberg]

Not in space.

Unless you are talking electric maybe , But in regards to combustion motor as there is no oxygen in space, You would therefor need thrust in the vacuum.
Actually space might be the best place for Harleys. Where their Potato sound would be less objectionable and their excessive weight less noticeable