Isn't France Brilliant!

Appears to occansionally do ok in the WSB with Mr Walker on board but
I think it's too new and hasn't got enough factory backing to be
serious competition for the GSXR yet.

 

All Hail Eris!

 

bits of it, maybe.

I was in Paris yesterday - shit as always.

Smelly fuckers.

 

Two answers spring to mind (on the road)...

Bike felt much more planted on the road. No F**king about modifing or
changing suspension etc...
Jap straight fours are boring boring boring and repetitive and the japs
never finish anything off...

and also

The honda 1000 was the worst. Definatly nowt below 7 grand. Saying that
the redline on the Aprilia (2004 model) is about 11,500 which to me
seems very high. Tend to find I short change the RSVR about 5 grand.

Only V twin at Lemans 24hrs was the Aprilia RSVR. Looked quite good and
you could not miss it for the sound...

No idea what I will get next but I have noticed in the race to get more
power the stroke is getting shorter the max revs are going up. Giving
less power down low... (more up top but less down low)

Or youn could say. If the same torque is obtained at twice the revs you
instantly have twice the horse power. Bit of a bastard for the low end
but the easiest way of increasing horse power...

I can't be arsed to work hard today. weather to nice...

 

I know what you mean. It didn't help yesterday that I'd had to leave
the house at 5:30 to catch the first Eurostar out. Back home at 10pm.

 

Aethelred wrote

but not a single solitary question.

Attributions and relevancy dear boy, lets have some eh?

You can however **** off and read the ukrm ffaq and the ukrm cbt and
take note of what it says about posting styles and stuff and post stuff
proper when you come back.

 

i>Bad form etc.

Is that the animal or human kind? Or was that ment to be
tranqalizers...

 

From Bear...

--

Bear.

Using Google groups. Had to manualy put above in to this reply. Unless
you know a way...

Most important thing about any bike bike that I forgot to mention...
Reliability

Whoops just had a bollocking from Auvache. Who's he? What have I done?

 

<makes note in book>

 

Aethelred wrote

That wasn't a bollocking that was a telling. You get the bollocking if
you won't be told.

The usual question that gets asked round here is Why is he?

Not read the ffaq.

 

Most French folk do the same, ime.

 

just pretty fucking tiring. Still, it's hopefully been
career-improving.

 

The 128bhp's for the Senna which is a 750, not a thou.

 

Champ says...

Gixer thous used to leave my ZX-9R behind no matter how hard I tried to
keep up, so I bought a Gixer Thou.

 

Bear says...

They're slower than 1991 CBR600s with carb problems, well the one
trying to chase me down on Sunday was. I think it was being ridden by a
talentless wanker though.

 

'Hog says...

It's a sports bike, it's meant to be thrashed. I'd be worried if you'd
said it never had been tbh.

 

When is it? I cba to look...

 

Was bored and had an hour to kill at lunch so I bought the latest Superbike
mag. They put the standard MV1000 against the Jap 1000s and, on their dyno
it was producing 163, compared to 159 for the ZX and GSXR, which could allow
for your theory on the Tamburini or Corse versions being correct.

That said their figures later on the artclie (0-60/100/180 times, braking
times & distances, top speeds etc) are all transposed/fucked up so they
could be lying in the dyno section too.

And they concluded that the MV was 5th out of 5 when they looked at it as an
overall package (in a not very scientific way as the numbers don't add up on
that one either...).

Dave

 

Never *ever* try to reproduce figures from memory!

R1 : 155.9bhp
GSXR: 158.1
ZX10: 155.9
CBR1000: 152.6
MVF4: 161.4

So my earlier post was close, but not quite right...