Yamaha Vmax... is this just getting plain silly now?

[IonizingMe]

So everyone knows how much of a beast the yamaha Vmax is, and that's why we all know and love it. Just a quick youtube search shows some disgusting acceleration and a power:weight that astounds. I have, however, found this: a yank company that do big bore cylinder sleeves to take it from 1200CC and 145BHP to 1575CC and 218BHP http://www.pcwracing.net/page10.htm

I know, like most people here, I find this idea amazing, but you also have to consider; with bikes and bikers getting such a bad rep at the moment (especially here in the EU, check out Type Approval if you want to see how dickish the bureaucrats can be) it's stuff like this that is exactly an excuse pen-pushing types are looking for to impose further restrictions on our beloved bikes.
Am I alone here? Or does anyone else agree?

 

[sportyeight]

a yank company

I shall give benefit of doubt here and assume this a playful colloquialism rather than pejorative.

 

[DodgeRider26]

It always astounds me how some companies can get by with some of the worst websites, both in design and coding techniques, and yet if you visited their shop I bet they are always overbooked with work. Why can't people demand better websites from business they pay....

To reply to your post though, do you really expect anything different? Over here we have a lot more freedom. Right now in our country only sport bikes are seen as problems. That and Harleys because they are often too loud. The problem isn't that niche biker groups do things that offend the general public. The problem is that the general public has its head so far up its collective ass that it can't recognize that 98% of bikers are just like them.

 

[IonizingMe]

Dodge, I couldn't agree with you more if I tried. Bike magazine did a test fairly recently (in the last 6 months) between a GSXR in traditional Susie Blue and White and (I think) a black R1. They rode them down a road and asked a wide selection of people to judge how fast they were going. The first category was something like 70mph in second gear, then 70mph in 5th, then 20 in 1st blahblah, and for the R1 they did the same speeds and gears but in reverse. Nearly everyone guessed that the Gixxer was going faster than it was in all categories, and in the categories where they were doing a high speed for the gearing (e.g. 70mph in second, making it loud) they also guessed that they were running faster than they actually were. People find it hard to judge the speed of a bike because they're not used to the sound of an open exhaust or the look of them etc., and that gives most normal bikers a bad name.