-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 TW> Not some of the modified Hondas here in Califronia. They
 TW> can scream along at 120 PLUS!!!

 CA> It's a weight versus horsepower thing. These small cars are
 CA> rapidly reaching the 'Chevy Nova' stage of development where
 CA> the horsepower overwhelms the chassis and you have horrible
 CA> accidents and flipping end over end for no apparent reason.

My XS-1100  Yamaha had 120 ponies and weighed in at about 540!!!


 TW> And on the drag strips they are embarassing some of the
 TW> 60's Super Cars with their Huge Engines.

 CA> I saw a rice-burner beat up some Harley's long ago. It was an
 CA> experimental factory sponsored bike. Sounded like a toy till
 CA> the guy hit the throttle and he went out of sight on only his
 CA> back wheel. He was a pro - naturally.

 I could run faster than Harley's on my GS550CN Suzuki.
 Totally wiped them off the line and by greatly exceeding redline
 whip them on top end.
 Harley's can't exceed redline by much without going bye bye.
 There's the Beuller Harley that is competative however.. 
 I once joked to a friend I was going to add a blower to my
 1100 which would be stupid as it was tough to
 keep the front wheel on the road as it was. In fact I
 was planning on returning it to stock pipes to
 reduce noise, gain right hand cornering clearance and with
 the required carborator rejetting down gain fuel economy.

 CA> The 'elite' dragsters and funny cars were much like the average
 CA> housewife drives now in her rice-burner. They are fuel
 CA> injected, even having blowers and turbochargers. Sophisticated
 CA> distributors that I honestly don't even understand anymore with
 CA> computer chips micro-adjusting every change to develop maximum
 CA> horsepower from a glorified garden tractor sized motor. I seem
 CA> to recall one that has no spark plug wires and I have no idea
 CA> _how_ that works but I won't mourn the loss of those
 CA> troublesome prone to failure spark plug wires.

Last time I was in a bike shop the motors had shrunk in size
by a third while hoursepower had gone up by half.
 
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