As above private plate ending in YOB. He was doing a nice pace....quickshifted past him on the zed, looked to my left, he gave me quite a surprised look, dunno why as its all good fun ( I did smile as I went past! ) I need another hypermotard soon...
Makes about the same as an s1000r now...mind you this is all subjective as it depends how you take your dyno figures...
Done at CJS (anything I own will always go there as I trust Chris implicitly)....but ive done quite a lot of reading up on how power is made and where it makes it....
Case in point - my rsv4 factory by the book I believe is something like 180bhp....dyno runs have shown a constant 165 (not mine) just ones ive seen that have been dyno'd but apparently the "true" power of mine is more like 140bhp....as done by af1 who I would say are the benchmark for everything RSV4...but if you go to the site... True Rear Wheel Horsepower by their results it looks like pound for pound the gsxr's make the best power....generally.. Take my zed....some say....(sound like an intro for the stig) it makes 120bhp stock some say 140....my graph shows 136 with a full system and an air filter...something id say is right for a bike with a stock ecu which the o2 sensor is struggling to keep up and then after showing 144 once the ecu has been sorted out....allow 10% for drive train loss and your about 160 which is the quoted figure for the s1000r at the crank... Real world - once the above was done and now its got a qs on it - it is the fastest accelerating thing ive ever been on...although having said that ive just fitted the race ecu and qs to the rsv4 this weekend and just waiting to get it on to pads on Saturday to have the ecu reconfigured for mine...
Its a different kind of power, but yes, the gear box is really short. The zed IMO and the way it feels will hit 100 I think quicker than the rsv but the rsv once at that level will leave the zed. The gearbox on the zed feels exactly the same ratios as the god awful r6 I had a few years back...its strange the zed is pretty well at the bottom of the pecking order in the naked stakes at the moment I think its a bit better (as far as reviews are concerned as the gsx1000r) - its 10kg beefier than the s1000r ( I think its the porkiest of the lot) but ive reduced the weight greatly - hell, each silencer weighed in at roughly 5 kilos and the cast iron headers were round the 8 mark - the entire new system was about 7 kilos...plus all the other stuff that's come off puts It round the lightest now..coupled with the ecu work makes it a pretty formidable weapon..i was all set to buy the s1000r ( I had one lined up ) and then took my first test ride ever and didn't like it - money wasn't the issue - just one of those things I suppose... Amazing how threads deviate...hey - I saw a Multi...! saw him this morning I did!
