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Post by rodge on Dec 30, 2020 5:33:59 GMT
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Post by Big Blue on Dec 30, 2020 23:57:06 GMT
Cool. I sold my R1 to a Slovak living in the UK because mine was a 50 year anniversary model. I was completely unaware of that but he was over the moon.
As to GP 500s vs modern road bikes: the 500 would vanish in a straight line but by the second turn the modern bike would be riding round the outside of it, on braking and handling. In the ‘90s I took my 250cc 2-stroke on a track day and all the Ninja 1000s rode off. By the 4th corner I’d caught a few and I’m no Juãn Mir. The Suzukis have long been sweeter handling than most (hence the old square-4 RGs were used by privateer teams for so long and gangly Revvin’ Kevin could do things other riders could only dream of) and 2020 was such a year of inconsistency that all the Blue bikes had to do was keep crossing the finishing line.
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Post by rodge on Jan 7, 2021 4:40:07 GMT
The Suzukis have long been sweeter handling than most (hence the old square-4 RGs were used by privateer teams for so long and gangly Revvin’ Kevin could do things other riders could only dream of) and 2020 was such a year of inconsistency that all the Blue bikes had to do was keep crossing the finishing line. This Kevin Schwantz? I remember reading an interview with him circa 1990, where he was asked how he managed to go so fast, and his answer was that he goes straight as much as possible! |
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 7, 2021 9:34:20 GMT
Yeah that Kevin. I think he was taking the piss there - the Suzukis he rode were always way down on power compared to the Yamahas and especially the Hondas. When he was riding in the US on the GSXRs he had the best bike by miles and when he first arrived in GPs on 2 strokes he basically used to charge to the apex, flick it right over for as short a time as he could then pick it up and gun it - the Suzuki could do this much better than the others. That's probably more what he meant by going straight as much as possible.
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