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Old 09-15-2005, 08:44 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by RAMMIUS
awesome looks :shock: and great engineering , the only fault it`s that the Agustas are way too biased race track bikes , thus on a normal road they have the tendency to be anything but user friendly

still awesome machine
Not always true. Their street bikes are "poser" mobiles..

My RC45 was a "hand made for racing but sold with headlights to comply with 1994 homologation rules" bike - that was track reday out of the box, just waiting for the $100,000 HRC factory kit to take it to WSB levls.

And guess what, apart from the tall (100mph) 1st gear, it was the BEST road bike I have ever ridden bar none - weight, balance, poise, hamdling, seat position etc

A correctly executed race bike can be a perfect road bike.

User friendly is why the RC45 was the single most winningest chassis/design in 750cc class racing - period. The bike was winning races and series from 1993 through 2001... all with the same homologated chassis from 1994 and 1995.

Ducati, Suzki, Yamaha, MV etc all redesigned and re-homologated their chassis every year - yet the RC45 was never rehomologated - until the they decided the handmade unobtanium RC45 was just too expensive to maintain and the RC51 arrived - because the FIM had decided to change the rules yet again to favour an Italian make.. Sound familiar...
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