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What's the Difference?

  1. 04-26-03, 12:37 PM #1
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    What's the Difference?

    So I'm looking for a new bike right now, Is there any speed Difference between the different Color Bike's? I have heard this for awile now. How can there be a power Difference, same bike different color skin. I'm talking about the R6

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  2. 04-26-03, 01:32 PM #2
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    What's the Difference?

    silver is an empirically faster color.

    at least for SVs... i hear silver triumphs are slower, though.

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  3. 04-26-03, 01:40 PM #3
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    What's the Difference?

    Anything with red is fast . . . . Oh ya and Type R stickers make you more aerodynamic

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    What's the Difference?

    this one's pretty easy...

    red is the slowest color in the visible spectrum. since anything red is reflecting all of this longer wavelength radiation, it interferes with your foreward momentum to a greater degree than any of the "faster" colors.

    that's why brake lights are red... not only do they warn drivers behind you, but the red light they're shining is actually helping both you and the following vehicle to slow down.

    (I thought everybody knew that... )

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    What's the Difference?

    Adding a Kerker will make any color faster.

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    Smile yellow's faster then red

    Originally posted by need4speed
    Adding a Kerker will make any color faster.


    maybe thats why my insurance is more

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  7. 04-26-03, 10:44 PM #7
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    What's the Difference?

    Sounds like you need to upgrade to a R1
    It just so happens i have a 99 red, white, and black color combination for sale

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    What's the Difference?

    Originally posted by R7
    Sounds like you need to upgrade to a R1
    It just so happens i have a 99 red, white, and black color combination for sale
    oh... the slow one...




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  9. 04-28-03, 02:26 PM #9
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    What's the Difference?

    And flames add about 25% also.
    25% of what I don't know...

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  10. 04-28-03, 05:39 PM #10
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    What's the Difference?

    The most obvious reason that I have found for some motorcycle colors to be faster is if the power band is matched.
    Not Matched = Slower
    My Faster Copper SV1000S has the matched Copper power band and that makes all the difference in the world.

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