Busa's in the Twisties...

[V-Max 2 Busa]

I've seen this quote all over this forum. The close I get to thinking what it means is this...

Took me a brief moment to figure out what that top actually was.

[coreywiley]

I might get flamed for putting this up, but...this one's fun, too! And I can handle the flaming.

Man! that looks fun

[Tufbusa]

I think many of you fellas are confusing lean angle with speed? Just because the busa can get a decent lean angle for a fat chick has no bearing on speed. What makes a bike quick in the corners is braking and accelleration, not lean angle. You can drag the engine case on your busa all the way around the corner and still have a scrawny little 600 pass you like you are anchored to a rock.

I have spent a great deal of time with all these bikes doing one corner after another and it's simply a physical fact that the busa is no match for it's smaller brethern. Is the busa fun? Hell yeah! Is the busa slow? Hell no! Can the busa keep an R1, Gixxer1K or ZX10 in sight on a twisty road course? Not a snowballs chance in hell!

We all love our busas and we enjoy boasting on what a wonderful bike it is, and rightfully so. I happen to believe the busa (Especially the Gen II) is the best all around bike available. It does everything we ask of it pretty dang well. But let's face it, our mighty busa is not the agile athlete as the liter bikes are? She is a heavy duty power lifter who's gentle ways have mesmerized us for a decade.

This old argument of "Can the busa corner" will go on forever. The real answer is YES, she can corner, just not as well as the bikes that have been designed from the ground up to be the real "Corner Monsters"!

[kennym4]

I agree 100% !!

I don't care how fast a person on a Busa can get through the twisties (and some do it very fast), but an equal rider on a 600, or a 1000 will pretty much leave them.

[Bansh]

Agreed