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Old 07-26-2007, 05:05 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by klouseau
And at low speeds, power is linear and readily available. During my time with the FZ6, I did one of my impromptu and extremely unofficial roll-on tests. Letting the bike drift down to about 40 km/h in sixth gear, I cranked it, giving it wide-open throttle. While it didn't leap ahead, nor did it stumble or balk. Power came on cleanly and built up astonishingly fast.
I know this thread is a little old but...

I've been trying a few of these impromtu roll ons and I can say that he must be on some HD drugs. 40kph in 6th is about 2200rpm on my standard geared FZ and I think we can all safely say that its got nothin' down there. It painfully crawls to about 80kph before you would even call it accelerating.

Just thought it interesting nobody picked up on that.
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