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So HighsideNZ has a 5th gen engine in 6th gen frame, with a 74mm bigbore & all of my mods for 140hp. I have a lightweight 5th gen circa 205Kg wet, with 120hp. I'd like to do more to it, but time & money always arrive independently ☹️ I never seem to have both at the same time. Happy modding 👍

challenge accepted! 🙂 150hp is needed to match the 1200 power to weight .... assuming a few pounds of weight loss, so yeah thats a tall order and sounds like supercharger territory, Im sure Ive seen 160hp dyno chart somewhere???? see, I had an aprilia rsv1000 and I spent a lot of time trying to make that thing comfortable. I decided to sell it and now I have a VFR (3 bikes later) For me at least, I like to modify things. best to start with a bike I really like to ride and mod it....it is MUCH more about the journey and having something unique. sure I can get a K1200 or something but there is a bunch of stuff I don't like about that bike that is insurmountable. I don't want JUST a fast bike. I want all the things the VFR has to offer and then I start modifying it to make it mine, make it special and enjoy the journey. Turn up on a R1 , the guys say "ok cool there is an R1, nice bike" . Turn up on a supercharged VF800 with trick and custom bits all over it and they say "damn, that thing is sick!!!". not that I care, its more about knowing that it is something I have created. But that's just me.

I still have a spare 6th gen engine that I would like to bigbore and do all those mods to add well some day. Unfortunately that project is about 4 or 5 projects back in the que...[emoji28] But I will do it one day since the odds of getting a supercharger kit are basically nil[emoji26] Sent from my moto z4 using Tapatalk

Can't disagree with you at all there. 😀

I’m waiting on the Futura V4. 😉

Don't believe everything you read. Fuel consumption of the VFR1200 is not the problem idiot journalists made it out to be. Not a problem at all.

Doesn't have to be anything like a pig. My eVo4's plenty nimble and fast enough. Just ask Mohawk. 😀