'03 Best of the Best Feedback

Statistical analysis reveals that the easiest bike to ride of the bunch is clearly the Mile with a variance of 1.24 and a standard deviation of 1.11 (closer to 1.00 the better). The Ninja 600 appears to be the fastest bike on the track with the lowest overall time and two of the three riders posted their fastest times on the Kaw, but the Ninja reveals a std dev of 2.61 and a variance of 6.79. The Suzuki's results fall in between the two competitors with a SD and var of 1.65 and 2.73 respectively.



While you may be able to extrapolate that the Gixxer is easier to drive faster because of it's low times and better variance numbers than the Saki. One cannot simply manipulate the numbers in that manner unless one is willing to address the 106.1 second time by Burns on little Ninja. This result is clearly problematic when you consider that this time is the 2nd slowest overall time, and 5.2 seconds slower than the fastest time posted on the Kawasaki creating it's ugly variance results.



If you are not going to give equal time to calculation issues, then you MUST take the numbers at face value, and that's that!



So. The results tell use the Mile is probably the best bike since everyone found it easy to ride fast and was less than 2% slower than the Gixer or the Ninja. The Kawasaki is the fastest of the three with the fastest time and two of the three riders posted their best times aboard that machine. The Suzuki failed to be the easiest, or the fastest machine to ride.



Editorial: When I started reading the article I thought the Gixer would easily win. When the results were posted (and correctly analyzed) I was suprised, not that the Mile was easier to ride, but that the 600 would post the fastest times on a track with a couple long straights. I was not surprised that MO couldn't eat their own words and admit that the Gixer is not the all-conquering machine they claim it to be.

Re: Long Live the King?

If Mat's 750 was so slow why not race Suzuki's own TL1000R?!

Oh, because it isn't THAT easy to make a winning V2 and that (T)otally (L)ame 1000 (R)eject couldn't get out of it's own way.

Koblesucky could have built a new 750/800 if the old ZX wasn't fast enough to still beat everyone and the GSXR1000.

Everyone knows the V2s can't compete with IL4s you even admit it yourself so how did they "level" the playing field here?

Next year everyone will have 4s oh, the drama...