No I was trying to make more of a point that an NSR (or RGV or RS or whatever) shouldn't even be on a motorway - same as whale shouldn't be in a pool, it's not their natural environment!

What I am saying though is that Honda only ever produced the NSR in 40-45hp form, and then made it safe! Exactly what Suzuki and Aprilia did for their 60hp UK spec' models. It will run all day long like it, in the same way, as you say, an RGV or RS. The problem is no-one other than Honda knows what the "safe" 60hp setup would be, so it's all down to individual tweaking, and that's where the problem lies. Even then, no one is going to stick with Honda's setup. I agree, a 60hp NSR should be bullet if set up correctly.

I rode my '21 flat out up to and back from Thruxton BSB one year, 200 mile round trip up and down the A303 (coming back wasn't quite so flat out as it was wet, but it was still 15 minutes quicker than the Ducati 888 SP4 and 30 minutes quicker than the CBR600F3 that I went with!) and it was solid as a rock, but it's not healthy for a 250! Normally I just stick to fun rides on twisty A and B roads.

I'm regaining confidence in mine again now, after 2 failures in rapid succession (both probably avoidable - one certainly!) and I am now running a pretty "safe" setting. It's not making quite as much power as it could, but I reckon the crank will go before anything else now as it's already on about 30k. It's getting thrashed in top more and more often, and you'll soon hear about it when or if it goes bang!
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