rgvsean wrote:I am not looking for 80hp personally, this is for a race bike and is an effort to be beating those 400's ahem 480's again. How reliable does a race bike need to be? Surley winning is everything and should it blow up on the slow down lap who cares, if it's afordable?

It's only got to be the fastest bike for 12 laps at a time.

You guys have been resting on your laurels

Hardly. There's only Billy racing an NSR that I know of (in this country) and he's got ram air, so he is trying!

The rest of us aren't racing, so need a bike to last more than 12 laps.

The quick way to 80hp on an NSR is to drop the RS250 straight in. No farking about, and will last a lot more than 12 laps too. You just have to blip the throttle a bit at standstill and change pistons every couple of months.

Top speed is generally a measure of money, and if you have a fat wallet then good luck to ya.
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