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Old July 27th, 2012, 06:05 PM   #119
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Originally Posted by Jiggles View Post
Wrong
I'm going on experience of twins Vs I4s & hopping on any bike I can get a go of,
the twins have more grunt down low & will pull harder from the light & at lower RPMs, they have higher torque values too. The I4s are a bit quicker higher up but feel weaker at lower RPM.

Horsepower is proportional to torque at a given RPM, below 6.5k RPM on your graphs the ER6 has the advantage.

so for city riding torque has a bigger impact on acceleration. Are you going to wind the ZX6 to 14k RPM in town, or will you have the ER6 at 6k?
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