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10-27-2010, 07:37 PM | #1 |
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Funny thing is, I love surplus HP in a car (although I find that anything beyond 500 hp is essentially fucking worthless with only RWD), but I actually love small displacement bikes, and getting more out of less on two wheels. Smaller bikes react faster, and are actually more apt to bite you, and in many ways present more of a challenge to ride fast.
I'd probably love to flog the living shit out of that little thing. The fucking exhaust (and back fender, for that matter) would be in the fucking garbage an hour after it came home, though. Ick.
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10-27-2010, 09:47 PM | #2 | |
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10-27-2010, 09:48 PM | #3 | |
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I'd like to see the return of the 400 class. Those would be fun little bikes.
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10-27-2010, 09:51 PM | #4 |
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DEFINITELY. i used to know a guy in philly with a grey market vfr400. thing looked like a blast to ride
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10-28-2010, 04:14 PM | #5 | |
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That being said, I understand the 400s actually command a price *premium* over the 600SSs in Japan. |
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10-28-2010, 02:52 AM | #6 | |
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I usually equate likeliness of getting bit with throttle finesse necessary to keep the shiny side up, which gives the bigger bikes a higher degree of difficulty. |
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10-28-2010, 03:20 AM | #7 | |
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I used to crack up when even experienced racers of bigger bikes would get their fucking clocks cleaned. Trip can probably chime in here, because he races fiddys. It's kinda like what you get when you balance a broom on your hand...you can do that, right? Now try a pencil. No go. Too fast to follow. Shorter level moves away from center of balance far too fast. Same with smaller bikes. Far faster reacting. Same lever, only inverted. Shorter lever, faster reaction.
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10-28-2010, 08:41 AM | #8 |
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Cute little bikes but just doesn't do much for me. I can see new female riders being attracted to these.
Now the 400's as mentioned...humm...yep I could see me interested in that. As far as the comment about anything more than 500 hp in a rear wheel drive car(?)...sure...as long as that is at the wheels. That's where I'm at with my car and I'm fine with it. I'm not in to revving it up and dumping the clutch from the light anyways. |
10-28-2010, 09:51 AM | #9 | |
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Personally I find larger cars & bikes to be more difficult, simply because of the weight & size. Try driving a Dodge Challenger as fast as you would drive an Elise or Miata down a very tight mountain road. You wouldn't, because the Dodge is much bigger and heavier, therefore making it much harder to read the steering & tires to predict when it's going to break traction. Not to mention you can't even see the boundaries of the road, because of how big that car is. Insecurity forces even the best drivers to slow down. Last edited by Homeslice; 10-28-2010 at 09:53 AM.. |
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10-28-2010, 02:06 PM | #10 | |
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