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Sid Squid · 22-07-05, 01:04 PM

Most powerful: Turbo nitrous 1360 Suzuki straightliner: 268 BHP without the gas, (350+ with?)

I'd like to tell you what a vicious rip snorting murderous b*stard of a motorcycle it is, but it isn't. Fairly linear power, ('kin loads of it mind), 'til the gas comes in but amazingly even then it's actually a nice pleasant forward surge, (a sizeable one!), mightily impressive but actually not worrying at all, although this may be different when used fully in anger, (it's not mine and I didn't want anything nasty happening to it, or, more importantly, me), the lengthened chassis makes it hopeless when you want to turn but then it wasn't built for that.

Scariest: Race prepped Maico 'crosser. Not that much power, but horrible and uncontrollable, bogged down or leapt off to the redline, which as it weighed nothing meant it either stalled or simultaneously span the back and reared up in the air like a nutter, I couldn't ride it, it was awful, (and very tall), but bloody fast in the right hands, which clearly aren't mine, all the same I'd like to try it again.

22-07-05, 01:04 PM	#44
Sid Squid No, I don't lend tools. Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Skunk Works, Nth London Posts: 8,680	Most powerful: Turbo nitrous 1360 Suzuki straightliner: 268 BHP without the gas, (350+ with?) I'd like to tell you what a vicious rip snorting murderous bstard of a motorcycle it is, but it isn't. Fairly linear power, ('kin loads of it mind), 'til the gas comes in but amazingly even then it's actually a nice pleasant forward surge, (a sizeable one!), mightily impressive but actually not worrying at all, although this may be different when used fully in anger, (it's not mine and I didn't want anything nasty happening to it, or, more importantly, me), the lengthened chassis makes it hopeless when you want to turn but then it wasn't built for that. Scariest: Race prepped Maico 'crosser. Not that* much power, but horrible and uncontrollable, bogged down or leapt off to the redline, which as it weighed nothing meant it either stalled or simultaneously span the back and reared up in the air like a nutter, I couldn't ride it, it was awful, (and very tall), but bloody fast in the right hands, which clearly aren't mine, all the same I'd like to try it again. __________________ If an SV650 has a flat tyre in the forest and no-one is there to blow it up, how long will it be 'til someone posts that the reg/rec is duff and the world will end unless a CBR unit is fitted? A little bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing. "a deathless anthem of nuclear-strength romantic angst"