I'm getting tired of people quoting "kids" when this is also the belief of someone who has done a damn site more miles over a much greater length of time than you. And no i am not simply regurgitating what he is saying "33bhp is dangerous". no it isnt in it's own right. I know how to ride the bike using only about 15 of it's horses because i can't afford to run it over about 5k revs for the most part. for the other 5-10% f the time, the extra accelration of the more potent bike will make a phenominal difference.
Also, I don't think it's much of an achievement beating a useless rider on a gsxr1000. there is reason why this bike is most popular - money + born agains...
i think it's incredibly vain to suggest that you've mastered cornering especially almost as a result of having the bike restricted and undermines a lot fo the credit i gave you for simply being responsible in the eyes of the law.
Another thing is, that i have compared my corner speed using the bike full power, and not. My cornering was a lot better and this is quite logical: a bike with greater flexibility at higher revs affords much better control and allows you to fire out of the corner faster too. The extra power also helps to pick the bike up if you are really leant over.
So, if as you say "you are making the best of a bad job", then please don't contradict yourself by making it out as if actually your cornering skills have become comparably better, than they would ahve been if youd otherwise had 70bhp. The factors influencing good cornering skills are multi-faceted and power delivery has a lot to do with it.
This is also a reason why a capped power plateau across half the top of the rev range is also destroying your abiltiy to learn to feed in power at an acceptable rate. it's no good simply pinning the throttle and knowing it won't bring much harm on a large sweeping bend.
If i consider the personal point that my area has corners which are divided unfavourably for such low power corning skill refinement then my "truth" informs me very differently: the really tight bends where 33bhp would be adequate for racing round is unacceptable due to surface conditions and visiblity.Thus if you use the corners here which are safe enough to rehearse and hone fast cornering skills, the you're well over the national speed limit anyway...which as we all know is also illegal...
When all is said and done, most legal eagles will say that the "low power = more danger" argument is falatious, and a red herring failing miserably to disguise the fact that kids want to go faster and faster...
Those commenting on this issue from the point of view that "the law is gods word" are missing the point too. Not obeying it makes us criminals - not simply thoughtful and responsible individuals.
So id say the liability of akid is down to your temperament. If you hack it round a corner too fast on any bike, you're going to come to harm - or others are...Having ridden several bikes, some restricted, some not, id say i was always the more responsible rider on a full power machine -less inclined to thrash the machine and constantly push the cornering limits to compensate for straight lines. and two stroke 125 racers - faster at cornering than any big bike in the tighter twisties, but most people of 17 use them to do just what they were intended for: thrash and crash.
I'm willing to accept that a discussion of the merits of taking the law into one's own hands are of course likely to generate varying degrees of controversy!
