[seruzawa]

(yawn) So the literbikes are all 0.001% better than last year(yawn). Just like last year... and the year before... and the year before. How excitingzzzzzzzzzz........



Y'all belly up and trade in yer '03s so you can have the latest and greatest.



PT Barnum was right.

 

[seruzawa]

The reason that the Honda gets the nod as the best, even though it is slower is more due to Honda's huge advertising budget that the mags depend on than any mysterious power to make a poorer performing bike "better" than the faster ones.

 

[seruzawa]

I was only being a little sarcastic.



If people like them then by all means buy them. After all, that's what makes the economy go. Plus it gluts the used bike market and allows cheapskates like me to get 5 year old GSXRs really really cheap.



And heck, the capabilities of these bikes passed me by a so long ago that I'd be perfectly happy with a '92 Hurricane.



I just like to chuckle about all the oooohing and ahhing that goes on in response to marketing ploys. The new bikes are barely better than last years. No reason to buy the CBR1000 when you can get an '03 CBR954 for 8500 clams including a smoking deal on interest rates.



Any of these literclass bikes will launch you right off the Angeles Crest into the atmosphere with the flick of a wrist. The functionality of these bikes is so close that differences are only noticeable by professional racers. Anyone else who makes such claims is fooling himself.

 

[seruzawa]

What lap times? Of stock bikes? Honda loses.



Are you comparing factory racebikes? They bear little relation to the ones you buy in the showroom.



Anyhow lap times are more dependant on rider than machine.



It's all moot anyhow. Any of the Big4's literclass offerings are quite sufficient for any or our purposes.



And if you think that Honda, the 1200 pound gorilla of motorcycledom, doesn't get it's @$$-kissed by 90% of motojournalists then you haven't been paying attention to how the promotional world works. Most of the bike mags are to Honda like MotorTrend is to Detroit. They never found a vehicle that they didn't love.



Look at how Honda has tried to damage MO recently. All because MO wouldn't kowtow to them.



Screw Honda.