A friend had a Kaw 500 triple that had to be the quickest if not the fastest bike I ever road.I grew up on 3 cylinder Kawasaki's
I had a CB750F cafe that I had upped with 1000cc kit (RC Engineering) which was quite quick itself at the time. We were out riding and he wanted to swap so we did. He told me something to this effect....
I know you ride that 1000 and you think this 500 is half the bike; but don't fool yourself and pay attention when you crank that throttle.
I remember saying sure thing or something to that effect as we were changing bikes.
I mean we had been riding side by side and I pretty much felt like I could have left him whenever I wanted...
So I get on his beast and I take off.
Didn’t take me long to snap that throttle.
I think I was still in second gear.
Dayyyuuuuummmm.
No cameras or video available back in the day or I'm pretty sure you would have seen me hanging out the back in the infamous superman pose.
The more I tried to pull myself up the harder I was pinning that throttle back.
Not sure how but I did manage to roll the throttle forward before I grenaded my buddy's engine.
He was laughing so hard and my grin said it all.
I couldn't wait to do it again.
Prepared for the result, I did. Fun machine.
Fun yet scary. Scary because the rocketship only had a single disc up front and a drum in the year.
Additional it seemed to get squirrelly as quickly as it would accelerate. Especially in comparison to my 750. Lots of fun that day.