Here's an exerpt from 2WF.com where this review was taken.
"The 1.5-mile oval offered no real fun at 186 electronically limited mile-an-hour, the problem was you didn't know where you were on the tire. The only real indication of lean angle was when you couldn't grab an upshift (usually 5th to 6th) because you couldn't get your foot under the gearshift - weird stuff.
Weird stuff aside, the fun stuff started happening as soon I was up to speed though, in an attempt to "see where I was" in relation to the asphalt, I started to hang off road race style and soon found a knee puck. Next minute I'm dragging my knee on the banking at 150mph and feeling right at home due to the familiarity of that bum-crack seating position. I not sure what they make my Shift sliders out of, but I swear I could hear and smell sizzling bacon.
As soon as I passed this nugget on, my fellow silly bug.. err' Journalists did the same. There were stories of lurid buck-fifty front end pushes starting to infiltrate my group, but we're talking about a big bike doing silly corner speeds by very silly people. The Bridgestone BT014's behaved themselves perfectly too - however you should have seen the "Chicken Strip" on the right-hand side - big enough to feed a family of four."
"Exercise restraint and discipline, only responding to posts from legit customers and those with constructive positive intent, you will find that the handgrenades explode harmlessly. You have many satisfied customers who are happy to have the parts you've made. My suggestion to you is keep making good parts, keep getting more customers, take care of them and let them speak for you."
Yeah, but it has something that a GSX-R1000 will NEVER have.
Comfort and high speed stability.
I haven't even ridden this thing yet and I'm willing to bet that I would be more at ease on this at a buck fifty than I would on a Gixxer 1000. BTW, I owned an '03 Gixxer 1K before I got the Duc.
I used to do night highway runs all the time. And no bike was as stable as when I owned a Hayabusa back in 2001.
These big bikes rail through high speed sweepers like a liter bike can only dream of. Trust me.
The tester at motorcycledaily.com did a corrected 9.86 @ 146mph quarter mile, and by his own admission is no drag racer. That thing is a rocket to be sure.
That's it!!!!! I'm getting a ZX-14
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