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Old 12-02-13, 21:24
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Originally Posted by SimonRoma View Post
The fun you can have with 50 horses is perhaps MORE than the fun you can have with 150 as you have a chance of mastering the 50, no chance of mastering the 150 hahahahaha.
This comment is spot-on. I have gone to the ~47 bhp of the XTR from a bike with nearly three times the power. I'm having far more fun on the XTR. The 'performance package' of the XT lets me use what's there and have fun doing it. With the other bike, I rarely used all the power, and most of the time I was riding about and telling myself the bike was capable of so much more. I almost felt guilty for wasting it. I've come to the conclusion that big horsepower and big top speeds are not what my riding is about.
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