I saw a Cayenne Turbo SUV the other day...I thought from the rear it was a Volvo SUV till he stomped on it.
Amazing but strange.
Yep...the old H2s were a blast but squirrely as hell. High speed oscillating in curves was the norm.
I had a set of 3 into 3 old Denco expansion chambers I used to put on it....geez...you could hear it for miles around.
I "Cafe-ed" it as best you could back then with reverse clubmans and rear sets and mikunis and stacks etc. She was about an 11 second bike.....very very quick from the top of first going into second when that power band struck...big wheelies. We're talking spring shocks back then..lol...about the same handling as a Norton Commando but much quicker.
Two stroke streetbikes are cool. Looks like even 500GP is moving to four strokes though, and now MX 4 strokes are pretty common.
I had a CR450R back in 1981, I weighed about 120 wet and the thing would get to 60 in about 2.5 seconds if I could hang on and keep the front end down.
My first streetbike was an 81 GPz550, then I sold it for an 82 1000 Katana. Funky ride, also lighting fast when it came out, 11.29@122mph IIRC.
Now my 96 ZX9R sits in the garage a lot, kids sort of change your schedule.
I like the new GSXR, but its ugly -I hope Honda can find some horsepower with the promised CBR1000 next year because I think the big RR's are great looking rides.