07-27-2016, 12:51 PM
I think one of the advantages of a liter in line 4 is not having to do a flamenco dance on the gear shifter when riding. This bike will cleanly pull from below 2,000 rpms to redline in most any gear including 6 th. Riding along at 55 in 6 th you come into a small town with a 35 mph limit and you just back off the throttle and roll through and on the other side of town just roll on the throttle up to 55 again with no need to shift.
Conversely you are getting on the entrance ramp of the freeway and juice it up in each gear as high as you want enjoying the rush of acceleration available in the higher regions of the rpms zone.
Or, you are in the twisties and use only a gear or two as you shoot between the curves and use engine braking to knock off the few mph that makes you comfortable entering a turn and using the prodigious torque peak at 5 K to pull you out of the curve like a locomotive on steroids.
It's all good.
Conversely you are getting on the entrance ramp of the freeway and juice it up in each gear as high as you want enjoying the rush of acceleration available in the higher regions of the rpms zone.
Or, you are in the twisties and use only a gear or two as you shoot between the curves and use engine braking to knock off the few mph that makes you comfortable entering a turn and using the prodigious torque peak at 5 K to pull you out of the curve like a locomotive on steroids.
It's all good.