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From: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: V-max handling request
Message-ID: <1993Apr16.165337.28565@megatek.com>
Sender: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
Reply-To: randy@megatek.com
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
References: <1993Apr15.222224.1@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg> <1qjtr9$llb@news.ysu.edu> <1993Apr15.232009.8534@Newbridge.COM>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 16:53:37 GMT
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In article <1993Apr15.232009.8534@Newbridge.COM> bradw@Newbridge.COM (Brad Warkentin) writes:
|Zero to very fast very quickly... lastest rumor is 115 hp at the rear wheel,
|handles like a dream in a straight line to 80-100, and then gets a tad upset
|according to a review in Cycle World... cornering, er well, you can't have 
|everything...

  Sure you can have everything, if by "everything" you mean fast straight line
performance AND handling - present day liter sport bikes have more horsepower
and have faster 0-60 and 1/4 mile times than the V-max...  Plus, they corner
just a bit better...

| Seriously, handling is probably as good as the big standards
|of the early 80's but not compareable to whats state of the art these days.

  Very true.

Randy Davis                            Email: randy@megatek.com
ZX-11 #00072 Pilot                            {uunet!ucsd}!megatek!randy
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       "But, this one goes to *eleven*..." - Nigel Tufnel, _Spinal Tap_

