A little perspective, please.
Discussion
As per title, guys. Particularly those with the faster superbikes.
Lately, I have been blatting about on a ZX-9R. What a hoot! It’s an early 2000s model, and to my mind, is bloody quick.
I live in a rural location, so it’s on those roads, mostly, that it gets ridden.
Now, 1st gear … can’t be too brutal, or you get the clocks in the teeth!
2nd gear, will lift the front wheel at top end of the rev range, and get you, quickly, to the ton.
3rd – under power, wheelies over a slight rise in the road, as will fourth, with a little provocation.
Clearly, licence-losing speeds are so easily attained every time a leg is thrown over (ooh, err). ** I do know that the throttle works both ways, before anyone starts. **
Every time I take the bike out, I find myself giggling like a schoolgirl at the lunacy of it.
And, finally, to the point.
I can, hand-on-heart, state here and now, that I would be unable to exploit, fully, the capabilities of this bike. What it must be like with another 40 to 60 brake to call on, I can’t even begin to guess.
So, to those that have 180+ bhp bikes, what restraint do you have to show, and is the greater power a hindrance in “normal” road use?
Ta. (from an old “teenager”).
Lately, I have been blatting about on a ZX-9R. What a hoot! It’s an early 2000s model, and to my mind, is bloody quick.
I live in a rural location, so it’s on those roads, mostly, that it gets ridden.
Now, 1st gear … can’t be too brutal, or you get the clocks in the teeth!
2nd gear, will lift the front wheel at top end of the rev range, and get you, quickly, to the ton.
3rd – under power, wheelies over a slight rise in the road, as will fourth, with a little provocation.
Clearly, licence-losing speeds are so easily attained every time a leg is thrown over (ooh, err). ** I do know that the throttle works both ways, before anyone starts. **
Every time I take the bike out, I find myself giggling like a schoolgirl at the lunacy of it.
And, finally, to the point.
I can, hand-on-heart, state here and now, that I would be unable to exploit, fully, the capabilities of this bike. What it must be like with another 40 to 60 brake to call on, I can’t even begin to guess.
So, to those that have 180+ bhp bikes, what restraint do you have to show, and is the greater power a hindrance in “normal” road use?
Ta. (from an old “teenager”).
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