Try shifting it down outta 6..
Hey everyone, I was just out breaking in my bike and so far have only gotten to around 7500 rpm as I stopped looking at the dash and grabbed some breaks at that point, to stay legal. I should mention that I am at 500 miles so far. I just didn't see any surge in power and I was curious if this thing has a top end hit and where is it? I sure hope there is more too this bike as I went away from liter bikes to get the "real" power and to have a comfortable seat for wifey. Just worried I will regret buying the bus as the friends call it. I am just too particular to run this thing to redline until at least 800 miles but I am getting anxious and hope there is more to this thing. So far it seems to have a little surge around 3500 to around 5000 and that is nice but I need more! Tell me the good word about this bike, please.lease:
I haven't got to ride a 2nd gen...but if its a first gen......I hate to tell you, but its not going to have a real "hit" to speak of like you expect. Busa's just pull hard all the way up...no hits. It probably won't feel as fast as the liters you're used to, even though it is. Honestly when I first got my gen1 I was abit dissapointed as well....it didn't give me the "holy sh*t" hit I expected either. And I took heat for saying that in 04...just like I'll prolly take it nowIt will pull abit harder and rev faster as it breaks in though....but its never going to feel frantic like a literbike. Thats just the nature of a big-bore longer stroke motor like the busa compared to a short-stroke high revving liter. Equal speeds, just different feels to the acceleration...and one has HELLA more torque than the other. A busa doesn't care what gear your in...its always going to pull hard
I do love the torque
So now on to pipes, this has been asked a million times on here but who makes the most power for pipe brands? And also, how much can I gain by just using a pcv to start and then adding a pipe later. Still up in the air about pipes but wondering if pc v would give me any power on its own on this bike. Others it does so I thought I would ask.
Well said TruThe Gen 2, like the Gen 1, doesn't have a "liter bike hit" like you're expecting. It pulls like a train from 4500 to 10k. It feels slower than it is. It will not walk, but run past most liter bikes.
Think of it this way. The liter bikes are like Jack-Russell Terriers. The Busa is more like a Grey Hound. The Jack might get the jump off the line, but the Grey Hound is going to pass it very shortly and leave it in the dust.
Welcome.
P.S. The new liter bikes are no joke. They are almost as fast as the Busa at the top speeds. The Busa will get to 150 first, but they may start reeling you in by 170.
The busa is so smooth, and pulls so deceptively hard everywhere....that I often times found myself wondering why I wasn't accelerating harder, as everybody else on all the different bikes I would run with would just start falling back The first few times I really ran it hard against some other bikes I actually asked the guys why they were holding up...they looked at me like I was crazy and said, that things hella fast, we just couldn't KEEP up Check out the speeds you get up to as you run through the gears over a measured distance...then try that on a few friends bikes. The busa will feel slower....but actually reach a higher speed than most of the other bikes, especially 150 and up. When you get up to mid and higher triple digits it becomes quite obvious suzuki designed these bikes to go REALLY fast.....they never seem to stop pulling. I've ridden other bikes that give more of a rush down low, but NOTHING has ever given me the freaky never-ending triple digit pull Do a pipe/bmc filter/pc/marble mod and one tooth down in front all at once. It'll turn your gentlemans express into a 60's style hot rod...you twist, it explodes.......you'll like it..............alot 
... Just worried I will regret buying the bus as the friends call it. I am just too particular to run this thing to redline until at least 800 miles but I am getting anxious and hope there is more to this thing. So far it seems to have a little surge around 3500 to around 5000 and that is nice but I need more! Tell me the good word about this bike, please.
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