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This retuning for torque business is just one of those things that always ticks me off.




Well Brian, with the risk of sounding like a "Glitch" again......evidently so!!!

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They take an engine that was, by all reports, great, and modify it to fix a problem that nobody complained about in the first place.





Look! This "Glitch here" knows exactly what you mean. AND, I know the perfect example to express this "tick off-ness" of yours.

Remember a few years back when Yamaha took the V-Max motor and put it in their Royal Star(both the cruiser and the touring model) but THEN de-tuned it sooooooooo friggin' badly that it had almost no guts to it at all????

Now THERE'S an example of what you speak, RIGHT?!

BUT...I've heard nothing even CLOSE to this same lament when it's come to the R3T!!! JUST a little grumblings about the IDEA that they've de-tuned the R3T's H/P, but NOT in MOST of the REAL WORLD conditions that the moto-journals AND the owners of them have mentioned about this issue.

And sooooooo....I'm saying that in the case of THIS particular motorcycle, I feel it's mostly an "EGO thing", more than it is a, once again, REAL WORLD APLICATION thing.

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Unless you're targeting a bike for newbies, I don't see the point.



And my feelings about THAT is that NO "Newbie" with a lick of sense should EVER purchase ANY motorcycle over about, say, 700cc in displacement, because...well...they're usually not experienced enough to be READY to handle a big ol' motorcycle over, say, 700ccs in displacement.

(and...this is your "Glitch" signing off for now, folks)

Last edited by Dwight; 09/06/2008 3:36 PM.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)