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My co-worker friend recently sold his Hayabusa for a Yamaha Road Star Warrior (1600+ cc).
He used to ride a 1996 Honda Magna 750cc (V4 liquid cooled) before the Busa.
He bought the Yamaha Warrior because it had an air cooled v-twin pushrod engine. The pushrod look seemed interesting enough, so I researched it.
Well, the thing that gets me is that the Yamaha Warrior has less horse power than the Honda Magna, 88 hp (7500 rpm?) vs 80 hp at 4400 rpm. Their quarter-mile specs are nearly the same: 12 seconds. Both the Magna and Warrior are considered muscle cruisers, the latter being more monstrous, but the Warrior should be much faster, shouldn't it? But it isn't.
So, I had to ask him, "Why?". He points at the Pushrod engine and says, "It's Pushrod. It sounds good." When I asked him what a pushrod engine was, he wasn't sure.
When I asked him what the real point was between the Magna and Warrior other than a big looking engine, his expression was a little weird.
Ok, what's so inspiring about pushrod engines? He was so proud to tell me that it was used as a drag bike.
Please give me a dose of biker logic.
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He used to ride a 1996 Honda Magna 750cc (V4 liquid cooled) before the Busa.
He bought the Yamaha Warrior because it had an air cooled v-twin pushrod engine. The pushrod look seemed interesting enough, so I researched it.
Well, the thing that gets me is that the Yamaha Warrior has less horse power than the Honda Magna, 88 hp (7500 rpm?) vs 80 hp at 4400 rpm. Their quarter-mile specs are nearly the same: 12 seconds. Both the Magna and Warrior are considered muscle cruisers, the latter being more monstrous, but the Warrior should be much faster, shouldn't it? But it isn't.
So, I had to ask him, "Why?". He points at the Pushrod engine and says, "It's Pushrod. It sounds good." When I asked him what a pushrod engine was, he wasn't sure.
When I asked him what the real point was between the Magna and Warrior other than a big looking engine, his expression was a little weird.
Ok, what's so inspiring about pushrod engines? He was so proud to tell me that it was used as a drag bike.
Please give me a dose of biker logic.
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