the_Dan said:
i wouldn't buy a stock harley but want to do up a custom bike on a harley platform. i can make anything run good. as far as yamaha, well my current bike is a 1986 yamaha maxim x. it is a 700cc maxim but the engine is a weird spin off of the fz 750 but with lower carburator mounting shorter stroke and shaft drive to the rear wheel. it makes 85 horsepower in stock trim and is rated to run the 1/4 mile in 11.8 seconds or so. not bad for a mere 700cc's on a bike nearly as old as i am. i know the r6 makes like 132hp at the crank but most sports bike riders cant get out of the hole to save there lives. when i used to go to the track the test and tune nights were flooded with kids on sport bikes and i never saw one of them run better than mid 12's. it is just too hard to put that much power down from a standing start on one of them things.
i am not too into the new yamaha cruisers though. too much plastic! and i hate the japaneese gas tank style with the seem on the bottom edge. id much rather get an fz or something.
The key word in there is "kids"......Most of them think cause they got a million horsepower they know how to drag....They haven't a clue about what reaction time is....Besides sport bikes weren't designed for drag racing, I like the corners.....The FZ's were good bike, but yammie needed to step away from air cooled if they wanted better performance...And finally figured it out with the FZR...And I'm sure all harleys arent bad, but there's always that fly in the ointment that brings you down...