03-10-2020, 07:21 AM
That’s kind of my point. Throwing out figures like 100 hp or 75 lb-ft as ideals doesn’t make sense unless you also know the weight of the motorcycle as well. In this case, reducing the weight of a 2014 CB1100 DLX by 58 pounds effectively has almost the same impact as raising the horsepower and torque to the values that were indicated as ideals.
To put it differently, if you tell Honda that you would like a motorcycle with the 100hp and 75lb-ft specifications that you desire you might think that all would be good. But if Honda responded to your request with not just one, but two motorcycles instead you would likely be even more excited. That is until you find out that they’ve used a Grom and a Gullwing as the platforms for the two bikes. Neither one of them is likely to perform in the manner you might have expected before realizing one is a flyweight and the other is a pig relatively speaking. The bottom line and the point that I am trying to make is that the weight involved has just as much impact as the other two characteristics mentioned and I would say even more as we haven’t even touched upon things like braking and handling.
To put it differently, if you tell Honda that you would like a motorcycle with the 100hp and 75lb-ft specifications that you desire you might think that all would be good. But if Honda responded to your request with not just one, but two motorcycles instead you would likely be even more excited. That is until you find out that they’ve used a Grom and a Gullwing as the platforms for the two bikes. Neither one of them is likely to perform in the manner you might have expected before realizing one is a flyweight and the other is a pig relatively speaking. The bottom line and the point that I am trying to make is that the weight involved has just as much impact as the other two characteristics mentioned and I would say even more as we haven’t even touched upon things like braking and handling.