Thanks, what's your opinions of it up against your BUELL? I looked at the BUELL's, many of the "centralization" , that Buell is known for has been incorportaed into this bike. The Fuel tank and exhaust are in a lower than "normoal" position...
I don't really have an opinion of the 1000RR against the XB12... these are almost as far apart a bike as you can make
The CBR is a race replica, with race ergos, insane amounts of horse power, and an inline 4 engine... The Buell is a streetfighter, with "upright" ergos, a bit more than 100 horses "only", BUT has your CBR's peak torque (i.e. 84ft/lb) across the whole range (basically flat curve), with an old push-rod Harley V-Twin. So again, there really isn't much to compare between the 2 bikes.
Personally, I think that owning a 1000RR for the streets is ludicrous because let's face it, it's really not a street machine (can't use 75% of the power, can't flick it around in traffic, can't do touring, can't spend more than a couple hours on it without needing back surgery...etc), but I understand why one would want one anyway
It is a beautiful machine no doubt. The Buell on the other hand is about the exact opposite again, you can use almost ALL of its power/torque on the streets (and I do it on a regular basis hehe), you can spend the whole day on it without an issue, so you can tour with it, you can split lanes easily and flick it around in the city...
About your comments on weight centralization and lowering the CoG, that's indeed one of the forte of Buells in general (and even more true on the Scg model I have), and I had read something about Honda's redesign for the '08 CBRs stating that they focused on these 2 parameters as well, that it was the first liter bike that felt like a 600 (in terms of weight and handling), which is pretty awesome in itself...
In any case, as usual, I digressed... just enjoy it man! I wish I had that bike for the track :rockon:
