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Post by mekon on Dec 17, 2020 16:07:08 GMT
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Post by Droog on Dec 17, 2020 16:23:43 GMT
More shocking to me is the R6 is no longer available as a road bike.
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Post by mekon on Dec 17, 2020 17:59:40 GMT
It seems 650 twins at about 100hp are the thing.
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Post by Diego the toe clipper on Dec 17, 2020 21:54:38 GMT
It seems 650 twins at about 100hp are the thing. That Aprilia thing isn't getting very rave reviews though is it? Great handling, poor motor by most accounts. Might as well buy an SRX600. |
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Post by mekon on Dec 18, 2020 10:49:37 GMT
I was just thinking more going forward to the new '600' racing rules. Seems like the online 4 is dead so these are the new supersport.
The trouble with saying any road bike is shit is that they probably aren't really. It won't make a jot of difference to most apart from journos who diet on a massive range of bikes. I'd probably get on the Aprilia and think it was top bollocks. I remember getting of the cbr400 onto a 1p year old zx6r and thinking it was awesome.
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Post by Droog on Dec 18, 2020 17:34:57 GMT
I still think you could jump on a well looked after standard flagship 1000cc bike from 15 years ago and match a 2020 model equivalent in every aspect on the road or track if you are anything but a professional racer.
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Post by spentcase on Jan 5, 2021 18:23:04 GMT
Being totally candid, I should get a gash bike then at least I would have something to blame my slow riding on.
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Post by mekon on Jan 5, 2021 18:44:34 GMT
I still think you could jump on a well looked after standard flagship 1000cc bike from 15 years ago and match a 2020 model equivalent in every aspect on the road or track if you are anything but a professional racer. Right for 99% of people. The one thing the KTM did do is make me realise how much of my VFR speed was simply large amounts of thrust in a straight line. Perversely I still fancy a VFR800 with decent cans on after watching a few videos and them howling. Pity it's hard to drop 30kg off the fat cunt. You'd think it would be easy but no really without making it into a track bike. |
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