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- First Name
- Alan
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- Edwards
Might help if we (American buyers) were a little more savvy about the casual relationship between engine displacement and bike performance. The manufacturers certainly have muddied the issue with a continual focus on displacement.
I'm willing to attribute it to lazy marketing. It's a lot easier to brag about how many cubic centimeters your engine displaces rather than attempt to have a simple "message" about of the interaction of suspension, gearing, engine configuration and horsepower to the wheel at a certain RPM.
Not even having ridden one I'm willing to bet that a Ninja 500, and probably a Ninja 250 for that matter, would beat the 750cc motor in my K-bike in 1/4 mile and top speed, even with it's higher displacement. I know that either of them could smoke the 600cc Honda VLX I started on.
We got big long roads out here....
We both loved Debbie's EX250 but it just wouldn't spool up quick enough for the kind of passes you need to make on American highways when touring. When we got behind a truck or slow convoy, she was stuck behind them.