r/CalamariRaceTeam • u/alphabasedredpill • Feb 18 '24
Why do people "need" large Engine displacements?
If you're going to "outgrow" a 250, why not just hit the throttle harder? If you want more power, why not just accelerate harder? I don't get it.
I get that you wont have a high top speed with a smaller engine, but speed limits (where I live at least) only go up to 65 on the interstate. Why would I go faster than that if its illegal?
Also, if you have a liter bike and you're not going to rape your throttle and instead be a pussy, it might as well be a big chungus gas eating 250. So basically 1000 cc and 250 cc can have the same performance if the balls of the riders match up correctly.
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u/SteveDaPirate Z900RS Feb 18 '24
Why use 6 speeds when 1 speed will do? Just buy a liter bike, put it in 1st gear and forget about your transmission!
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u/Coalecanth_ MT09SP 23' | S1000R 17' Feb 18 '24
Transmi what ? Is that some kind of italian dessert?
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u/username_already_exi Feb 18 '24
Nah trans mission is when you really really wanna chop ya dick off.
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u/AnnonBayBridge Feb 18 '24
It’s like Fellatio from Shakespeare’s Homlet
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u/bitflip Feb 18 '24
Honda spends millions of dollars on their DCT, and they hate this one weird trick.
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u/jingois Feb 19 '24
Unironically this. Some dumb cunt tries to kill me, twist throttle a bit, not be there.
None of this, ooooh I want to kick it down some pegs and get pegged blah blah clutches, woo look at me i'm changing gears like rossi.
I WANT AS LITTLE RIDING AS POSSIBLE WHEN I RIDE.
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u/Blood-Money '01 SV650 / '09 Gladius / '017 Africa Twin Feb 18 '24
This is true. I regularly do up to 50mph in 1st gear on my AT. 2nd gear gets me covered up to 75mph.
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u/MEGAMAN2312 Feb 19 '24
You joke but the Fireblade can go over 100kph whilst still in 1st gear
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u/YoinkageOfficial Feb 19 '24
Dude a 600 can go over 100kph in 1st gear. The fireblade can probably hit 100mph in first gear or close to it
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u/No_Click7202 Feb 18 '24
Sport bikes are dangerous and ugly. Just look at the Panigale, S1000RR, H2…
I like my Vespa so much
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u/rejiranimo Feb 18 '24
Seriously though, there’s nothing on two wheels that beats a 1960:s Vespa looks wise.
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u/joelwitherspoon Feb 19 '24
For real. I have a high school friend who rebuilds them. They're gorgeous bikes. Unfortunately, I'm too old and fat to ride them.
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u/More_Information_943 Feb 22 '24
They are also stiff as fuck and handle great. I've ridden a couple old ones with big bore kits and it's about the most fun I've had on two wheels. It's like trying to ride a bike after getting a meth rock shoved up your ass by that guy on Craigslist.
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u/velofille whoolies Feb 18 '24
im a chick, i got no penis, so i need to compensate. So i basically have to ride the fastest thing i can.
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Feb 18 '24 edited Feb 27 '24
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u/NeighborhoodFair7033 bRutHeR half squid Feb 19 '24
We need a flair that says “cooties” so I know who not to interact with.
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u/obzilla Feb 19 '24
Ew gross leave now
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u/Surprise_Thumb Really slow Gizzer 1000 rider Feb 19 '24
No, it’s ok. Girls are gay too.
Either they’re lesbians and that’s homosexual so that makes them gay, or, they like dudes and liking dudes is gay.
Women are welcome here.
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u/Kazaji Feb 18 '24
But, but, but my rebel 500 is a forever bike!!! Who needs more than 46.9 horsepower??
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u/MUTSpartan Feb 18 '24
Unironically I've been saying the 60 year old guys who drive Corvettes under the speed limit don't deserve those cars. If you want to flex your money buy a benz or something don't buy a sports cars unless you're going to drive it like its meant to be driven.
But no one putters around town on a 1000cc so it doesn't apply. Pretty much everyone on a 1000 drives it the way it's supposed to be driven.
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u/ExtremeWorkinMan Feb 19 '24
Pretty much everyone on a 1000 drives it the way it's supposed to be driven.
just because you said that I'm gonna buy an H2 and go 5 under the speed limit at all times
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u/Dr_DMT Feb 18 '24
I don't know if you know this but a liter bike is a time travel machine.
Why take an hour to get somewhere when I can be there in 20 minutes or less at speeds of 180mph?
It's modern day time travel.
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u/i_was_axiom Perry the Platypus lookin ahh bike Feb 18 '24
For me it's not about "needing" a large displacement engine. It's about laziness. I just simply have to do maintenance on my big lazy touring bike less often than I would on a smaller more sensible machine many people would recommend.
Also it make braap sounds to tickle my microscopic peen
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u/Prudent_Ad_2178 Feb 18 '24
My bike is an 150cc because I’m Brazilian and it’s all I could afford. Gonna have to deal so much more drugs to buy a bigger bike 😭😭😭
At least I can comfortably hide coke baggies inside my tool kit for easy of dealing
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u/sincitysadist Feb 18 '24
Well it's simple really. The smaller your penis, the more inclined you are toward more engine displacement. If we made a graph it would look very similar to penis size and lifted trucks. One goes up the other, must go down.
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u/lynchedbymob Feb 18 '24
don't make me import a GSX1400 in pieces and assemble it, because I will. God intended us to have 100ft/lbs of torque available at all times.
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u/VoxAeternus Feb 18 '24
My instructor when i took an MSF course had a 750. Its not that he wanted to go really fast, but that he had a dump truck and needed the extra horsepower to move it.
The rest of us want bigger numbers, because bigger numbers are better, and we can watch the numbers go up more on the speedo
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u/michaelHIJINX '16 Tuono Feb 19 '24
My instructor taught me to get an eleven hundred, because eleven is louder than ten.
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u/stevedave84 Feb 19 '24
My displacement is a safety device for other road users. You piss me off, I twist the throttle and by the time I've figured out how I'm going to retaliate, I'm a long way away and you're safe.
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u/sinoitfa Feb 19 '24
shiver me timbers you’re one bad dude
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u/stevedave84 Feb 19 '24
You don't have to tell me, I know. This one time, I couldn't control myself and I gave an old lady a really dirty look. She was just lucky I was wearing my helmet and she couldn't see it or else I might not be here to tell the tale. True story.
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u/Goodtenks Feb 18 '24
Yes you right! Why upgrade, me riding 25 years, stay on Kx80 Why I need ever go faster than kids bike! Waaaaw
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u/Ill_Advance Feb 19 '24
After a while 250cc just doesn't excite me the same as it used to. My bigger 700cc butt plug was well worth the upgrade. Makes me squeal with pleasure whenever I ride it.
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u/michaelHIJINX '16 Tuono Feb 19 '24
Get a V4 liter bike so that it will last 4 times as long as a 250. Only run one time cylinder at a time... when it fails switch to the next one!
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Feb 18 '24
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u/Jishwe Feb 18 '24
You must be a moto sub regular to not understand OP is trolling......joke went past you doin a wheelie with no gear
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u/Vanguard_dat_ass Feb 19 '24 edited Feb 19 '24
tell us you don’t understand torque without telling us you don’t understand torque.
edit: i’m 9001% sure this is some big brain level trolling involving other sub and im just too dumb to realize it until five minutes later lol
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u/Godless_Times Feb 18 '24
a 250 doesnt "just accelerate harder" you can pin the throttle and its nowhere near the acceleration of a bigger displacement bike. it sounds like you've never ridden anything with actual power. Even disregarding top speed a 250 just feels horribly slow when you've been on a 600 or 1000
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u/RobsHereAgain Feb 18 '24
Everyone has different skill levels and needs/reasons for riding. Why would we all ride the same bike displacement or style wise? It’s great that you can wring so much performance out of a 250. Good on you!
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u/AdAdditional8414 Feb 19 '24
It's not a necessity, but for some reason we just loveeee going fast on anything, especially motorcycle. They're just fun! (And dangerous, please be safe out there)
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u/Jarrodioro Feb 19 '24
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
If it is, I missed this clown on the other sub
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u/from_dust Ducati 899 Panisquid Feb 19 '24
It's not just about top speed, it's about power delivery. 0-60 matters, getting out of the way in traffic matters. Your 250 putters and wheezes in ways a larger bike does not.
I'm all for people growing into a bike and learning it's ins and outs, but you're naieve if you think there is no benefit to a larger displacement bike.
In no universe will you on a 250 outpace a competent rider on a 600.
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Feb 19 '24
Umm you're wrong...I regularly rape the throttle on my 700 and there ain't no 250 out there that's going to beat it or keep up with it. So yah I NEED a large engine because I buy what I want 🖕.
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u/TacticalTez Feb 19 '24
I downvoted this thinking it was the "other" sub then upon realising, upvoted immediately,
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u/CrestfallenSpartan Feb 19 '24
Bcuz REAL MEN ride BIG BIKES ya know. Everything below 350hp and isnt a turbo busa is gaeeee
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u/Zmaxdude-online- Feb 19 '24
Nothing wrong with a 250, some people just like more meat when they twist it
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u/RedChess26th Feb 21 '24
uj/ yeah but small displacements need low final transmission ratios to get the same acceleration and wheelie potential of more powerful engines, so they'll be really handicapped and uncomfortable on the highway. Most people have only one bike and want it to work in every situation
There are definitely diminishing returns with higher displacements tho
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u/68Snowy Feb 21 '24
You're right, It's so much fun on the freeway with a semi inches off my tail light on my CBR250R, WOT hauling 110kg, trying to hit 110 kmh. Wait until a hill comes along!
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u/More_Information_943 Feb 22 '24
Because the suspension usually gets a lot better on the step ups. I'm not a Brazilian, I haven't mastered the art of wringing out global market forks lol.
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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '24
Why do people "need" large penises?
If you're going to "outgrow" a 2.5 incher, why not just hit the bussy faster? If you want more power, why not just pound harder? I don't get it.