Re: [ST] Not trumpet related, but it was a good letter to the editor.

[david.funk@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I am surprised that your local shop only got 138 HP from the '05 GSXR 1000. I have seen several magizines test it in the low150 range, about the same as the Kawi 1000.
The manufactures crank HP numbers are always strange. Sometimes I think they figure that number without water pump, alternator, ... Much that same as the dry weight.

David W. Funk
'00 Sprint ST
Pleasanton, CA

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> Too bad at the local shop here, a fresh 05 liter GSXR only put out 138 at the 
> rear wheel. After 1200 miles of light break in, I think the testing they 
> performed was on the prototype, with a custom mapped computer, a decent looking 
> pipe, and some other accessories. Drive line losses are not over 10% on a bike! 
> they claimed 165 or 168 initially, but the one's you would buy at the dealer are 
> not even pushing the 148ish they should be. Don't get me wrong, they are fast as 
> hell, but I just hate how most OEM's over rate their good by so much, and use 
> special mods/builds to show dyno tunes. And this isn't the first one I've heard 
> of on this, nor just with Suzuki. From everything that's going on, seems more 
> like it's all the jap bikes, and then some. 
> 
> Thfwsf@xxxxxxx wrote:I was reading the letters to the editor in the recent 
> Motorcyclist rag. One 
> of them really got my attention. I'm going to copy it here. I thought it 
> was hilarious.... 
> 
> "So the new Gixxer has 178 horsepower and weighs just 366 pounds. Great, 
> wonderful, fantastic ...let "bring out your dead" ring throughout the land. 
> And why not? Natural selection has been having a hard time keeping up, and it 
> wouldn't hurt for a squid to be put on the endangered-species list. Like 
> everyone else I'm getting wood over the GSX-R, and being in my 50s, that's 
> saying something. But given the disparity between bike and rider competence, 
> Suzuki might want to add vultures to its accessory catalog." 
> 
> Brought back images of Monty Python, and vultures as accessories... priceless 
> 
> Tom 
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