Thanks for replies!

The conversation was about the seat of the pants feel and "giving up your right arm" for a ride on the RS after someone posted a picture of the older one with ProArm. My reply was that I can loan him a Gamma if he wants cheap thrill and I was quickly shut down with 120 hp claims. Bear in mind that most of us weigh close to what the dry weight of the RS is, that does kill acceleration of a smaller bike. A 100 kilo American on the 100 kilo race bike calculates to 0.346 hp/kg, might not get ahead of the 150 kilo RG with same 100 kilo rider (0.392hp/kg).


I asked the guy who tunes RG's and was told that on a good day my particular bike might read close to 100 on the dyno, it has Crawford pipes and LG filters, not much else, I only had it few years and have not gone nuts with mods yet. I have to admit when it gets on the pipe it feels like 200hp! Had few much faster bikes but none felt as awesome as the Gamma. One problem with is is handling so I got an NSR, RG stays either way.