buell woes

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by smileyman

Your missing my point Lamps, I NEVER said V Twins would beat V4/5s of same cc or an I 4 of same cc. I said WHOMEVER Makes the config with THE MOST TORQUE WINS. Period. I4s have done it with the advent of electronic rider aids and riders like SPIES and TOSELAND X1 , ROSSI, LAWSON. x2. BUT not regulary against V 2s, V4s, And V5s. 20 years of run what you brung. I4s havent brought it.

Oh.....hmmm but V-Twins don't win in MotoGp either and that's what we were talking about to begin with...this is a Buell thread, right? I started out arguing against V-twins and you came in with more torque wins races and.... ah who cares? It was a fun argument anyway!

[smileyman]

I was just trying to say torque rules.
V Twins and V4s and V5s make gobs of quality torque. for 20 yrs GP/MotoGP was ruled by V4s and V5s, same 20 yrs WSBK has been dominated by twins.

I raced in a very competitive SV650 class and with all the identical twins we worked real hard to find an advantage. Turns out the mildly tuned engines with the good mid range would lap better
than the highly modded and cammed up peak HP engines. They were more tractible and easy to make gearing compromises for different tracks, turned lap times that put them squarely mid pack of the 600 middleweight classes. So then we experimented with our 600s and same thing. Torquey was better save with the high rpms of the 4 cy inline the difference wasnt as great lap time wise.