Anyone read this month's BIKE mag?
Amongst all the drooling over the new GSXR thou (please santa, I've been a good boy honest...) there was an interesting article about detuning an R6.
Unsurprisingly the journos found that the average user (and the three BIKE testers) preferred the detuned motor (running a cam profile copied from a 15yr old FZR) to the highly tuned top-end motor of the new R6.
I was amazed that this was news! How many riders regular exercise the 12-15000 rev range in their day-to-day riding. Trackdays - fine, bring out the fours and rev the nuts off them (and I'll still catch you in the bends), but for useable, grin inducing ridable power the v configuration is going to win most days!
Not sure about you lot but this is one of the reasons I am here. I bought the SV cos I love the torque of a vtwin (and could not afford the insurance on the SVthou) over the ring-the-nuts-of-it effort required to get the best out of an equivalent sized Jap four.
Coming off any roundabout I find that the clean power delivery of the v-twin is preferable over the gear-change riverdance impression needed to maintain the high-revs on a four.
Anyone else agree?