[taxed2death]

The best of these cheesy stories came out in the late 80's when Jap Sportbikes hit the market. Specifically the GSXR 1100. The "news stories" belched out by ABCNBCCBS at the time were hysterically funny to watch.

"Crotch Rockets...bla, bla, bla... "Rice Burners"....bla, bla, bla... So funny to stop and think about it now. The networks were even trying to push the silly angle that Japan was "getting back at us" for WW11. I miss those days of utter nonsense in reporting anything about motorcycles. Having said that, how kewl is it to be able to go out and buy a state of the art motorcycle that weighs under 380 pounds and has 160+ rear wheel horsepower? Fun, Fun, Fun!

Nothing makes the old ticker pump faster than going from zero to 150 and back to zero in under 25 seconds. :)

[tx_eggman]

Nothing makes the old ticker pump faster than going from zero to 150 and back to zero in under 25 seconds

Nothing makes it stop faster than going from 80 to 0 in an instant ... like the Darwin candidate in this article did.

[advertising guy]

yell it from the handlebars brother...ditto all that as I've owned 24 bikes so far......oh and not one was a Harley. Why I notice is the new bike- go fast attitude of the article's intention. New is bad and NEW is too fast
so it says but I am reminded and agree of a piece in MOTORCYCLIST by the great Mitch Boehm back in the day when the Honda CBR 6oo was in her 2nd generation. Mitch reminded that while test riding the bike and marveling her
power to speed he said " hell an old Honda Hurricane is
still more bike than 98% of all riders can handle."

It ain't the power of the bullet,it's the brains of the shooter.

[RedStateRocker]

I had one of those GSXR 1100's. There really was a problem in that only a very few professionals had ANY experience on anything that fast. A friend of mine who borrowed mine nearly died from fright- and he'd been riding almost longer than I'd been alive at the time; sort of like going to a 50 cal machine gun from a .38 cal revolver.
I ride a Harley now and just putt along; Darwin missed (so far). I had a co-worker who got cited (and did time) for 125 in a 30 zone; but then he *liked* to hang out in the paint booth.......