I've had my 05' R1 for about 3 months now, putting nearly 6k miles on it so far. One thing that's bothered me since day one on my bike, I couldn't help but think "this doesn't feel like 180hp worth of power". I notice this mostly when trying to do 2nd gear sit downs, I have to be going about 80-85 to get the thing off the ground. My friends all kept saying "It's your technique, let me ride it and I'll pop that bitch up".
Well, I had the chance to do just that, I swapped with a buddy of mine who rides an 05' GSXR-1000. Lets just say, he wasn't doing any 2nd gear sit downs that night. He did a couple nice stand ups, but he had to bounce it at about 70mph.
The GSXR has so much more torque than the R1, it just felt so much faster. A sit down will come up easy at 60-65mph on that bike. The power of the bike actually intimidated me through 1st and second gear. Getting on the highway, I'll usually put my R1 full throttle to the red through 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Not on the GSXR, I didn't even want to bring it past 10k (not being used to the bike, and it not being mine, I had to be careful).
Anyways,
180hp my ass! I'm going to re-gear +1/-1 and see if that helps.
Well, I had the chance to do just that, I swapped with a buddy of mine who rides an 05' GSXR-1000. Lets just say, he wasn't doing any 2nd gear sit downs that night. He did a couple nice stand ups, but he had to bounce it at about 70mph.
The GSXR has so much more torque than the R1, it just felt so much faster. A sit down will come up easy at 60-65mph on that bike. The power of the bike actually intimidated me through 1st and second gear. Getting on the highway, I'll usually put my R1 full throttle to the red through 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Not on the GSXR, I didn't even want to bring it past 10k (not being used to the bike, and it not being mine, I had to be careful).
Anyways,
180hp my ass! I'm going to re-gear +1/-1 and see if that helps.
