LOL I think you misunderstand why I say it > the fact it's long winded is because I'm also a passionate enthusiast as you put it, and have many a time acknowledged my lack of well....knowledge in the car arena.
In many of my long winded posts I have also mentioned this so let me keep them shorter. Something like this suit you better ? :
+1 agree with above. Every single bike lining up in any stock category in any country in the world (shit I can't even keep this short lol) with simple mods, be it Fairyblades, Arrggh1s, Gixxers and the like will easily make the sort of power VESS mentions.
Aside from that, I did say the bike had the basic mods VESS referred to and 'much more' so as not to brag about MY 10K Ohlins suspension as you have but hey I really don't wanna go there. Who am I? Well I'm passionate about anything with wheels and an engine. Planes almost qualify but then if cars and bikes are expensive I shudder at the thought of going that route.
I guess my refernce to 'my fully sik cornering skillz' (did I really say that? Really now In all my posts???) I was just trying to give the impression of why a smaller bike, quite often on the road, is a better choice than the biggest baddest sports bike around would you not agree?
If I really wanted to brag, well really I'm a nobody. I have been a founding member of one of Aus's bigger stunt riding teams, hoping it might help me launch a racing career, which it didn't BTW so back to working hard to pay for everything so I hit up a few races here but trying to race bikes in Aus is extremely difficult. As you've eluded, you've also raced OS, The stoner Family (GO CASEY
didn't bother racing here instead pretty well skipping straight to Europe. Whilst being not quite double Casey's age, the same weight and about 1/10th the talent it doesn't equal the best equation....but seriously you wanna put these claims to me and then go onto say you've trained with the best, been there done that would spank the likes of you young whipper snapper.....come on....the way I look at it is this, if along the way I can help, learn, promote business's who've been extremely generous then I see now harm, but I am sorry I seem to have struck a chord and I'd like to dispell any myths here and now.
Look, I'm really not bragging. Just passionate. Ask a few of the LS1 members about our offline conversations about music. Where I lack knowledge, LS1 has helped so if there's something I feel I might have a bit of input on, in a thread, or assisting someone offline, well I apologse for going over the top with it.
Accepted?