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- From: bigdog!jon (Jon Wright)
- Subject: Re: CBR900RR vs. GTS1000A
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.020006.991@pages.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:00:06 GMT
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- Jorg Klinger writes
-
- > The Yamaha apparently doesn't handle better than a conventional bike.
- > The ELF certainly had a shot and lots of development.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Unfortunately the ELF was not a good example, as there were other theories
- being tested out as well on the bike, complicating the evolutionary process. A
- case of too many variables at the same time, under race conditions.
-
- > An often reoccuring topic on rec.moto is the comfort level of one
- > bike versus another. Yamaha should have given us a version of the Morpho
- > (fully adjustable ergonomics) instead of the GTS. The GTS, the answer to
- > a question nobody asked.
-
- The Morpho would've been nice, too, but the quest for a flex-free front end and
- superior anti-dive have been questions asked for decades. James Parker and
- Bimota didn't just decide to make a trick front end for kicks, although it
- seems Sbarro has.
-
- > I'm not saying that the GTS front end won't develop into something
- > better, it's just that I haven't heard a lot of complaints about
- > conventional front ends. ^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Not true. Racers who've run the Bimota Tesi remark that once they'd gotten
- used to it, the braking without the associated dive allowed them to dive
- tighter and exit cleaner without the added forces acting on the front tire.
- Lack of front fork flex was also commented on, providing reassurance to the
- rider that what he could now do was indeed within his grasp (the mental
- battle).
-
- Don't forget, an added benefit is to "centralize" the mass lower than
- conventional bikes (although not necessarily longitudinally).
-