I don't remember ever reading a stock busa hit 196mph (please provide link).
Also, the 300km 186 mph restriction was agreed upon by the big 4 (Japanese).
Don't ever remember reading where anybody else, including BMW ever agreed.
Hence I think the BMW is now the king of speed.
But yet again at the risk of flogging a seriously flogged and dead horse (by me)
we wouldn't/shouldn't be having YET ANOTHER ONE OF THESE DISCUSSIONS
HAD ZUK GIVEN THE GEN II A REAL UPDATE.
We are up 340cc and still get beat (or even close) proves my point.
We already had the liters and the 14 on our butt or ahead and after a decade
Zuk used the same case (TO SAVE BUCKS), raised the compression and just
made the stroke longer...hence +7 hp....yea...not.
Shoulda been 1400 to 1500cc, 200rwhp...dump the stupid "A,B,C" mode and
install traction control...and this thread would never exist.
PADEROLIS; said:if Suzuki allows the hayabusa to become one among a group they've lot a the plot a little
Huh?!!???
Jinks I think your right but maybe were reading too much into it. Bottom line is that bmw has just come out with a fantastic bike. The bikes always get more horsepower as the years go by and there doing it without upping the cc's. Funny thing is I think they just retired the old saying... "theres no replacement for displacement"....
191 at the wheel and 112 ft lb.
If Suzuki really invested the same high tech into the busa as they do into the 1000, the busa would be the definate king of the hill. But........being bigger isn't ALL better. A 1000cc motor will wind up higher than a 1340cc motor, and make extra peak hp that the bigger engine can't. The bigger engine can still make more power, and has a BIG advantage in torque.....but 1000's will always have the edge in higher rpm's and the extra peak ponies that comes with them, which will keep them closer to our big bikes then we'd like
But saying all that......they're really IS no replacement for displacement when done right
If Suzuki really invested the same high tech into the busa as they do into the 1000, the busa would be the definate king of the hill. But........being bigger isn't ALL better. A 1000cc motor will wind up higher than a 1340cc motor, and make extra peak hp that the bigger engine can't. The bigger engine can still make more power, and has a BIG advantage in torque.....but 1000's will always have the edge in higher rpm's and the extra peak ponies that comes with them, which will keep them closer to our big bikes then we'd like
But saying all that......they're really IS no replacement for displacement when done right
Thank god ya flip-flopped that diatribe at the end cause following that train of thought?..for a moment there?...ya had me fear'in 600's and worse yet?..
the 250 ninjas.