trenace
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posted January 23, 2006 06:53 PM
 Edited By: trenace on 23 Jan 2006 18:57
So is Yamaha's rpm promise 
BTW, the latest Sport Rider trumpeted Yamaha's BS yet more this issue... and with a new twist. Before, you could say, Well, they meant 17,500 "rpm" for the redline, and18,000 "rpm" for the limiter but they didn't mean REAL rpm!
Not much of an excuse but you could say it I guess.
However Sport Rider, serving as Yamaha's mouthpiece, in their Engine Tech section says that the 2006 model has an increase of 2000 rpm more than the 2005.
So, the 2005 turned only 13,400 at the indicated redline, and 13,900 at the limiter?
I did not know that. Thought it had been faster.
Or is that another lie -- the actual improvement is 500 rpm or something?
Weirdly enough they even claim feet per second piston speeds too, that are not true. I guess those were "feet" per "second."
The other mags stopped carrying Yamaha's water on this one once they figured out this was bullshit (which they were very slow to do, it was obviously given the stroke of the bike and today's technology far past what could be true from the instant it was announced) but Sport Rider is still wearing the knee pads.
  
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