Gibson99
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You had Montesas down there?The bikes look really interesting ..
I used to be into dirt bikes when younger ... DT175 / KLX250B2 / XR500RE x 2 / Montesa Capra 414 ...
The sound effects ? , I always thought the dirt bikes a little on the loud side , these electrics look very interesting . ( Expensive ? )
I can imagine. A 2-stroke single with that displacement is a beast. I remember the first time I tried riding a Honda CR500... I spent more time stalling the engine or trying to keep the front wheel on the ground than riding!Yeah , I had a Montesa Capra 414 ... That bike had some power ( Early 1980's I owned it ) ..
I simply could not keep the front wheel down when on full throttle , even leaning over the handle bars it kept lifting the front wheel off the ground . ( Engine might have been worked over - when I bought it they said it had a forged Marley (?) piston )
Yep . once you went over 250cc Two strokes became a lot of work ..
My friends all had 125cc bikes , they were a blast to ride .. You could throw them into corners , power slide , and just blast out the other side !
The 414 just scared everyone silly , no one wanted to ride it . It really was not that enjoyable .. I was bigger than everyone else ( stronger ) so could manage it , but there was none of that care free blasting about like on a 125 .
That's called 'growing up'. or...The nice thing about getting old is that you no longer feel like you have to out-do everyone else. As long as you're happy that's all that matters- a lesson the youngsters will learn someday too ...
Maybe that's the US-spec because here in Europe they came out with 152hp. Now BMW only makes an inline-6 1600 model, which has "only" 160hp but a massive 129 lb-ft of torque, but it needs all that oomph! because it weighs 736lb.My dad has a BMW k1200. Told me about an instance where he leaned forward and rolled into the throttle hard, in 4th gear (he was just merging onto the highway, not trying to go fast) because a car was about to sideswipe him. When he let off the throttle at about 100mph or so, he heard the front tire chirp - it had been off the ground during that sprint, but he hadn't noticed.
That bike has something like 130hp out of that 1.2L motor. My Miata had about 130hp out of a 1.8L. hmm...