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The first 15 minutes I spent on the 899 I was convinced it was too slow and my 675 was significantly faster/better. Within 30 minutes I realised I was wrong!

i agree with what you are all saying but if i bought an 899 i would always ponder what the full phat 1299 is like

Engine noise plays a massive part in speed perception.

That's why I only use first gear

How did that work out for your bike?

Not that great to be frank!

duke63 wrote:I think that's true of a lot of V twins until you look at the actual speed you are travelling. They don't feel as frantic, which is what i like about them.

Exactly what I felt on the multi, thing felt like it was idling cranked over, up hill pulling 130-140 km!

Perkles wrote:i agree with what you are all saying but if i bought an 899 i would always ponder what the full phat 1299 is like

That's the dilemma. You can always make a 1299 feel like an 899 by putting it in the wet riding mode but you can't make a 899 go like a 1299. It depends on whether the buyer feels that is worth the extra £4k.
The 899 is still plenty fast enough to get you in trouble but the power never feels like it's much more than you really need or will ever use.

I put my zx10r into low power mode and its still like shit off a shovel !

The 899 is all you need the 1299 is all you want

Blade wrote:The 899 is all you need the 1299 is all you want

Get this man into marketing

Spot on that it.

Frankie was pulling away from me yesterday and all I could think was "fook, I need a faster bike". But the week before on a 65bhp machine I thought "this is enough power to have fun on".

i would like to try the 899 and then the 1299 straight after on the same roads.

It is still on the list of things to do.

Do you think you will do it this year Duke ?

Kwacky wrote:

Blade wrote:The 899 is all you need the 1299 is all you want

Get this man into marketing

Spot on that it.

Frankie was pulling away from me yesterday and all I could think was "fook, I need a faster bike". But the week before on a 65bhp machine I thought "this is enough power to have fun on".

Which bike were you on Kwacky ?

If it was the sx I'm very surprised as I would have thought it would be very similar to frankies bike.

Blade wrote:Do you think you will do it this year Duke ?

I might get to try them yes. Still undecided about where to go next.

Blade wrote:
If it was the sx I'm very surprised as I would have thought it would be very similar to frankies bike.

It was the SX. The BMW has 20bhp more and is about 45lbs lighter.

Kwacky wrote:

Blade wrote:
If it was the sx I'm very surprised as I would have thought it would be very similar to frankies bike.

It was the SX. The BMW has 20bhp more and is about 45lbs lighter.

I'm still surprised tbh. I thought the sx would be a torque monster with a stomping mid range and it's torque that accelerates a bike not bhp.

Kwacky wrote:
It was the SX. The BMW has 20bhp more and Frankie is about 45lbs lighter.

that what you get when your motto is 'brake for Cake'

that is also true

Blade, I think you're over-reading what I've posted.

It's all relative to what you are on and what's around you, after all is a bike not meant to make you smile, so even if it was a c90 and you were having fun it's done its job.

However go out on a ride out on a c90 and the rest of the slappers on their machines you would not be smiling so much, unless we were all on the same machine now that would be fun.

People underestimate the S 1000 R, as a detuned naked RR. This bike is not, it's a bike in its own right, with 160bhp all in the right places I.e. Plenty of torque. Not being funny but I was not even gunning it at the weekend, yes it was progressive in places, but the bike had a little more just waiting whenever I asked for it.

As I will say to anyone who will listen this bike for me right now is the best I have ridden for some time.
It has enough to launch the bike from 0 to 160, it has a very responsive engine that can be ridden balls out everywhere or you can be lazy in terms of conservative gear changing, you have a suspension system that can cope with most road conditions, from super smooth race tracks to the back roads around Lambourn (ride out joke) all from the flick of a switch and constant electronic wizardry of the various modes within the suspension. I also like the ride position, being more upright in terms of the bars is great, but if you want to get your head down and have a hoon you can.