Please understand that I would never part with my Savage...too emotionally attached to it. (On my morning ride day before yesterday, on a very nice long straight stretch of country road I had the needle buried past the 100 mark...the cheap tach bounces a bit above 6500 so don't know the exact rpm...but was sitting bolt upright doing it(
But if I had the $$ today, I would order one of the new Nortons.
Norton 952
961cc
80 hp
70 lb/ft torque
Brembo brakes...front and rear
Ohlins forks up front and shocks in the rear
4.5 gal tank (wouldn't that be nice)
And....all of that is just 415 lbs.
Price is somewhere around $17k
Man o man, what a ride that would be....fast....quick...stops...turns...take any bump in the road.....it is a bike to be riden.......AND it LOOKS like a motorcycle should look, not all covered over with plastic wallpaper.
www.nortonmotorcycles.com Is this not a beautiful machine?
I have a picture posted on the wall.......SOMEDAY.