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Originally Posted by Busy Little Shop 
I have a Colin Edwards quote and he sounds elated...
"I was at Yamaha so long I didn't know any different. I rode the RC45
at Suzuka in December. As I rode from pit lane I thought 'no wonder I
can't beat this...' It's super smooth, so much power and no big hit,
no jolt, just seething--the fastest thing I've ridden and totally
accommodating. You can carry corner speed or point and squirt--feels
like there are a number of ways to ride it"
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I always think back to Edwards' initial comments about the RC51. Slight and Edwards both thought it was a dud. It seemed slower until they looked at the lap times and compared several years of development of the Honda chosen powerplant v. the bastard child of marketing, sporting rules and HRC that was the RC51.