No hate for super sports from me, I just know I’m not their target market.
But I have such a hard time getting excited over the annual release of supersports. Every year it is an evolution of a faster, lighter, more powerful machine. I mean, it would be really cool if we had this sort of rapid development in cars (as opposed to a new generation every half decade). But just like the horsepower race between all the super cars, ultimately none of this will matter to me. Even if I owned one of these bikes, I’d never be able to touch its limits. I bet if I took a track school, went on five track days a year, I’d still never push the limits of a carb’d supersport. These machines are just so incredibly competant already -it is hard to get excited by them for me.
What I want to see are more game changing bikes. The Piaggio MP3, the Versys, the new Ninja 250R, heck even the GSX-F 650. The bikes that change people’s perceptions of motorcycling, or what you can do on a motorcycle – and for how much money, or WHO can do what on a motorcycle . Those are the really amazing bikes to me.
Of course, I’m guilty of “sexy new bike lust” too… just not from the track-day bikes.
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“The two seconds between ‘Oh S**!’ and the crash isn’t a lot of practice time.”
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