Ducati Monster Forum

as some are well aware im started looking for another bike taken alot for a ride and one thing i cannot work out is how bike companys have a claimed horse power sorry ill get with the times kw but when u ride them your weighting for the rush but nothing happens take one bike that i really wanted to like because it so comfy it was a triuph tiger 1050 supposed to be 115 hosres at crank and 102 nm of torque but in real world u have to keep the thing near red line to get any where o and it handled like one of those big spring things the kid ride in parks is it just me or am i too fussy chher all bazz

you're too used to the torque of a twin i'm afraid, that fat seamless power delivery of a ducati cannot be replicated in any other road bike, i rode a vtr1000 and it was gutless compared to my dirty old 900 monster i owned at the time, probably outrun it up top but that wasn't the point...

I had my brand new S4 monster in for it's first service and they gave me a honda hornet, not a bad bike, i was thrashing the nuts off the thing, i genuinely thought it was a 250, nope! it was a 600, i've not given anything else a sideways glance since

thats the problem they quote numbers but it dosent work in real world unless you want to ride around on the rev limiter it did open my eyes cheers

I had a mate with a new ZX6 who kept hassling me to race him because he thought it was going to crap on my monster.  I told him what the power and torque figures were on the monster compared to his cruddy little half litre, but he just wouldn't listen.  So I found a nice straight bit of road and believe me, now he understands.  LOL.  I beat him by so far that I suggested maybe I go home and get the cafe racer out to make it more even.

i used to love doing that on the passes the jap bikes would pass me then once i got on the twisties i would round them up they hated that and i didnt need to change gear just roll om brake hard dive in roll on the throttle ,in the real tight stuff the monster was the quickest bike iv ever owned  cheers bazz

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