Repoman
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I have now had my GSA for a few weeks and done a couple of thousand KMs on it. It is an '03 twinspark model with 15,000 KM on the clock.
I may be getting paranoid - or experiencing some kind of post-purchase dissonance - but I'm not sure if it isn't occasionally a bit sluggish or reluctant to accelerate in certain circumstances.
This is very hard to describe - but a general catch-all might be that it is something like turbo-lag, or a slight lacking in crispness.
At first I thought it was when the bike wasnt fully warmed up (less than 5 bars on the RID?) but I have now noticed it on longer runs. The engine does seem to have a sweeter spot at above 5,000 rpm and in third or fourth you often get the most go above 4,500 rpm. Sometimes however it does seem to baulk a little bit before it picks up.
For what its worth I did also spin it up to about 100mph (as fast as I dared gardai wise) and it seemd like 120mph would take forever, if at all. But then I was going up a mild gradient into the wind. Maybe I was expecting too much.
The bike has a Remus can but no Y piece. Would the latter make a big difference?
Maybe I am imagining this or maybe I have by now experienced all the nooks and crannies of the performance envelope and this is simply a characteristic of the engine and nothing to worry about.
I'm not wanting to thrash the pants off the thing all the time, just to feel that all is well.
Soothing words welcome.
I may be getting paranoid - or experiencing some kind of post-purchase dissonance - but I'm not sure if it isn't occasionally a bit sluggish or reluctant to accelerate in certain circumstances.
This is very hard to describe - but a general catch-all might be that it is something like turbo-lag, or a slight lacking in crispness.
At first I thought it was when the bike wasnt fully warmed up (less than 5 bars on the RID?) but I have now noticed it on longer runs. The engine does seem to have a sweeter spot at above 5,000 rpm and in third or fourth you often get the most go above 4,500 rpm. Sometimes however it does seem to baulk a little bit before it picks up.
For what its worth I did also spin it up to about 100mph (as fast as I dared gardai wise) and it seemd like 120mph would take forever, if at all. But then I was going up a mild gradient into the wind. Maybe I was expecting too much.
The bike has a Remus can but no Y piece. Would the latter make a big difference?
Maybe I am imagining this or maybe I have by now experienced all the nooks and crannies of the performance envelope and this is simply a characteristic of the engine and nothing to worry about.
I'm not wanting to thrash the pants off the thing all the time, just to feel that all is well.
Soothing words welcome.
