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Originally Posted by Dominik
I pressed "like" already before I even read the article.
In the 90s I had a 496 with a very flat torque curve and corresponding "low" hp.
My limitation were the tires.
No bike in the 90s could keep up from standstill to 160 mph. Not even a Duc 996 with power upgrade. A 900 cc Ninja with 160hp had NO chance. Well, it had no torque ;-)
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Lots has changed with modern bikes. A current liter class sport bike is good for about 80 lb peak torque. Looking at the graph you can see the MV4R makes that just off idle, and carries over 100 all the way to the rev limiter. BTW, it is a Katech developed pushrod V4 based largely on LS architecture. Long live the pushrod.