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Homestar
When new around 135HP @ around 9,000 RPM. Around 110 at the back wheel. Not sure how many ponies mines lost but it still goes fine. It’s pretty heavy at 270Kg wet weight but even with my fat arse on it, it’s a pretty quick point to point tourer and can eat up the miles in a hurray and is pretty comfortable compared to a sports bike. Not what you’d call a fast bike by any stretch but ample grunt when you get the revs up and it always made me smile like a lunatic when I did this. 😇
6 speed box makes for lazy RPM at highway speeds but this does mean changing down several gears if you want to get it to party. 6th is actually a bit too tall at legal speeds here in Australia and sitting on 100 I generally wouldn’t even pull top. At around 140 to 160 it cruises beautifully in top (apparently) 😇
One of the reasons I stopped riding it was because most people don’t seem to have much of a sense of humour about such things any more, so will have to think long and hard before I get back on it.
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