In your message dated: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:27:14 EST, The pithy ruminations from "Loss, Joe" on <Re: Advice on a purchase> were: => OK, if you want to get technical Kevin, I'll have to correct you...Torque is => Work (force x distance) and Power (force x distance divided by time), as in => HP, is the rate of doing work. => => But yep, the GTS will eat any 600 in top gear roll-ons, not to mention just => about anything shy of Hayabusas, ZX1200s and the open class Japanese => sportbikes even though they make more peak HP...
Right. But who really does top gear roll-ons regularly? Sure, they are fun, and it's nice to be able to do that 3-car double-yellow pass without down shifting. Frankly, I don't want more top-end speed (or HP or torque) from my GTS. When I said it was underpowered, I was thinking more in the "25~45 MPH, pulling hard out of a tight turn and accelerating onto a straight" sense. The GTS makes good power, and just keeps accelerating, but nowhere does it have that "yank the seat out from under you" feeling when you hit the throttle. The GTS. It's smooth. It's steady. It's deceptively fast. But it's not "quick". My old '77 KZ1000...now that was a bike where I was afraid to just whack open the throttle. The transition between building up speed and totally overwhelming the floppy excuse for a chassis was pretty slim. Mark => => Joe. => =>
