considering a triumph street triple....

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Just was thinking about how you said the 1000 would be perfect if you could open it up a bit more, the 750s power would be more usable in the street I would think.


Honestly thinking about getting one of them once I'm riding for long enough, pointing more towards the 750 since the 1000 would be over double the power from my 650 and 45 pounds lighter. the price of these things is nothing but a great deal.


I think the 750 has a place, its probably a great step up from a 80s UJM bike, I would say it's a modern day UJM

Don't overlook the Kawasaki W800 if you like the retro look, you can get one of those for brand new for $6k if you're willing to jump on a bus to where the unsold 2020 and 2019 models are located.

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Don't overlook the Kawasaki W800 if you like the retro look, you can get one of those for brand new for $6k if you're willing to jump on a bus to where the unsold 2020 and 2019 models are located.

Its kinda low powered, but for 6k you cant beat a new fullsize bike. Its definently trying to run up with the triumph twins and by its looks I'd say it does it well, but how it rides is another thing and I'm not sure how it does. I wish they had put a detuned zx7 engine in it cant beat the 4 bangers.

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Its kinda low powered

You need to learn what torque is all about.

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You need to learn what torque is all about.

Rated at 47hp. No amount of torque can make up for that.

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Rated at 47hp. No amount of torque can make up for that.

Drag racers will tell you: Horsepower is for bragging rights, torque wins the race.

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Rated at 47hp. No amount of torque can make up for that

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You need to learn what torque is all about.

It has 44 lol

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I would say with motorcycles dragracing is more about the engine layout and the frame more than the torque and horsepower numbers, and well I'd say 90% of 4 stroke bikes on the strip are inline fours (from what I have seen) . Also suspension is a big factor but that probably goes more with cars than a bike.

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I would say with motorcycles dragracing is more about the engine layout and the frame more than the torque and horsepower numbers, and well I'd say 90% of 4 stroke bikes on the strip are inline fours (from what I have seen) . Also suspension is a big factor but that probably goes more with cars than a bike.

No. Drag racing is about horsepower, the ability to hook up the rear tire, and the rules... Prostock was running twins not to long ago because there was an advantage to do so within the rules.

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True, I guess alot of what you're going to build relies on how the rules are setup, I know at one point in some racing you could either make a 750cc inline four or a 1000cc twin, and that is the reason honda made the rc51. I think it's cool that you can have different configurations of engines with the same displacement and they'll be making all different numbers of power and having different types of powerbands, unfortunately I dont think electrical engines will be able to be diverse in such a way.

I think inline fours will always be the superior engine for motorcycles.