OK, this means war!
Careful with wet weight, sometimes it's fluids included but not gasoline, sometimes it does include gasoline as well as other fluids. Depends on how honest the manufacturur is. BMW adds 30 with full tank.
I agree, but the vyrus' weight includes gasoline.
For horsepower some manufacturers give crankshaft power instead of rear wheel power. The drivetrain, be it chain, belt or shaft, always takes away a nice amount of power. Also, some manufacturers tend to exaggerate, some give lower numbers than the bike really has. Combine the two in worst and best case scenario and you get the idea ...
Do note that 211bhp is for a tuned Vyrus though, the standard bike has 183bhp.
Dunno about Bimota but BMW gives low value rear wheel power.
To compare with a Ducati panigale S:
- BMW claims 193bhp and 112Nm and delivers 200bhp and 113Nm with the HP4.
- Ducati claims 195bhp and 132Nm and delivers 186bhp and 127Nm with the Panigale.
I agree, but I have no way to know if vyrus is telling the truth or not..
And most importantly, how does the bike handle?
Not all reports are in favor of the Tesi's suspension (upon which the Vyrus's is based). I quote:
Well, I've read that exact article and the guy also says :
"OK, so how did Rodorigo and company succeed in reinventing the Tesi? "In fact, we started again with a clean sheet of paper,""
"Everything about the Vyrus seems refined, even delicate, and at first I struggled to reprogram my senses. But after a handful of laps gradually picking up speed, it suddenly clicked--and I remembered the mindset you must adopt to get the best out of a hub-center motorcycle: Hold the bars lightly and stay off the brakes until what seems suicidally late. The separation of steering from suspension is the biggest asset of such a front end. There's essentially no dive, and the suspension eats up bumps even when you're leaned over on the brakes. This bike is so confidence-inspiring and well balanced there seems no limit to how hard you can push it in corners. Well, there is one: Such treatment wears out the stock Pirelli Dragon Supercorsas very quickly. After around 50 laps, the front tire was well worn and the rear not much better"
"This is an exquisitely conceived, finely detailed and brilliantly executed motorcycle, a genuine work of modern art. "
"For many proponents of two-wheeled alternative thought, the issue of finding a better way to hang a bike's steering wheel has been a matter of debate ever since BMW gave us the first telescopic fork almost 70 years ago. Apart from the brave-but-ultimately unsuccessful 1993-'94 Yamaha GTS1000 with its James Parker-developed RADD front end, it's been a regrettable fact of commercial life that no major manufacturer--except, inevitably, BMW--has dared to be different. The perceived wisdom is that nothing works better than a conventional fork, and anyone trying to prove otherwise is foolish, deranged or stubborn.
The Vyrus 985 C3 4V is Ascanio Rodorigo's proof of the fallacy of this delusion. It not only looks good, it works.
-MC "
So, I'll get me a HP4 and I'll meet you with your Vyrus in Croix-en-Ternois for a duel!
If only I could....
Only one long straight and a hell of a lot of 90 and 180 degrees there, ideal to test suspension and handling. And it's about halfway inbetween us.