Re: Hey Bass

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Holy crud.  This thing is a cow.  Thats a ton for a "scooter"  My first
> "real" motorcycle didn't weigh that much... Well, it didn't develop 50 HP
> either though.  LOL.

It's heavy for a scooter, but nothing like a big touring bike weighs.

> That gives it a fair power to weigh ratio though.  Actually not to far off a
> Stock Evo Harley.
>
> Anyway.  The specs seem to indicate that it could certainly have pulled away
> from a Bambi at a light who was busy posing on his butt jewelery.  LOL.  In
> reality it would probably have lost ground to any experienced rider who
> really wanted to race.  The biggest problem with the Burgman as a
> performance machine is the lack of a manual clutch.  No way to wind it up
> and slip the clutch.  Still at 50HP and 44 lbs of torque it should be able
> to get up and scoot.

There's no manual clutch but the DeM mode lets you punch up almost to red line, flip up and repeat.  It gets to speed pretty quickly
though I've never actually timed it.  If the other rider had revved it up and popped the clutch, I suspect we'd have been close for
a few seconds before he outran me.

No problem.  It's not a race.  It's a journey.