Right, let's be serious here. Who see the bottom two in strictly, like they should have been. Er, not that I watch it of course. I was in the garage drinking oil but heard the wife going mad!
hehe at Dave drinking oil! wow thought all the superbikes were running the mm dashes.. learn something every day
I think these tests are which bike the riders liked best and not which one was the the next TT,BSB,WSB winner....or maybe I was watching the wrong video lol I like seeing tests like these as there is the MV which I am thinking hard about getting but a few videos all say about the crap fly by wire throttle that makes it near un-rideable so I think I will give it a miss now, I find some informative rather than a reference to bragging rights as to which one is faster.like said before things like the road you ride makes all the difference, I cant get round my usual bike haunts as fast on the blade as I did on the 848 simply because the blade isnt as nimble on the slow sharp corners but straight line speed after a ton the 848 has no chance but I wouldnt call it a crap bike because its slower and hasnt won a TT.
Just saw this thread. I think the thing here is what Phantom said. It is what the journo's like best. They have tested the blade for the last 5 years and gave it best bike for most of them. Now they are a little bored of it. If someone walked in here with those bunch of keys, who would pick the blade keys? Not me cos i'd go for a ride on something different, and I doubt most others would cos we have one already. If I was buying, would I buy a blade? Absolutely
Put bluntly in my humble opinion these type of articles about such hyper bikes are for the aforementioned all the gear no idea ponses with little iddy biddy balls. These bikes don't do that well in road racing in general why......not totally sure but would imagine the 'can they take the thrashing factor' ways in as high as the balls required to do the events factor, especially the TT. My 16 yr old push rod buell has overtaken all of them on Snowdonia twisties at some point so they cant be that good can they? Load of Pisch just get and enjoy what ever you have to ride be it a c90 or a Paniponsigali!