Rode my modded M900, a mates 944SS/SL, and my Hyper back to back when I had a precious hour break. Good therapy.
The 1100Evo was quite fierce down low compared to the more friendly power delivery of the 900/944 motors. The old motors had FCRs, slip ons, airbox mods and hi comp and/or big bore and both make good power for their vintage.
The Evo had a very strong bottom end and you could feel the urgency with which the EFI, lighter internals and greater capacity operated at low rpm. I can understand why people put throttle tamers on them. I like it the way it is.
All three are light bikes and the two old bikes have light flywheels, but the Evo must have a pretty light crank. You wouldn't want to lighten it's flywheel any more (unless you
wanted to
).
The Evo cams have a bit less duration on the inlet, but more on the exhaust than the 900V cams. The Evo cams have more lift similar to ie/ST2 cams.
The old bikes have Ignitech units too and I put a lot of time into tuning each one and their FCRs. They are quite smooth and controllable down low and have good response. The Evo has the DP full 2 into 1 exhaust, airbox mod and DP ECU. It could use a bit more tuning which I will get around to (chatted to Brad about this), but I have yet to make up my mind whether to go Rexxer or PCV. I'll decide after tweaking the bike and trying a few things like riding around with the Lambdas disconnected. We'll see if the ECU goes into a base map that's nicer or just goes mental. The dash light will be annoying..
I think the older bikes when tuned nicely are able to hold their own, but stock with the same mods being equal (jet kit open airbox and slip-ons) would be blown into the weeds.
A nice thing about the Hyper is that it's longer travel suspension and roomy ergos are nice for my old joints on our shitty back roads.
Evolution indeed.
