Geez it doesn't really seem to rev that hard Sammy, I'm surprised? 
It revs to 8,500 Terry, the same revs that Honda designed it to rev at as a road motor.
We could have made it rev higher, we could have built a race motor with more power.
What we wanted was a motor that could retake some of his strip records that had been lost to Z1s and the triple two strokes.
We didn't want a motor that we would be stripping down every 5 minutes, we wanted a trouble free few years of racing and that's what we have had and It's retaken his lost records.
As you know Terry, the more power you build into a motor, the more money you have to spend on building reliability in to it, Carrillo's etc.
We got what we wanted and the bike has done as it was asked with no fuss, that's all that Chris wanted.
If you want a screamer producing 110 plus HP no problem, if you want a 400+ blown nitro drag motor no problem (speak to you later Jay
) It's all about how fast you want to go and how long you want it to last. Now is there anything else you want to know while I am rambling?
Sam.
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Sorry Sammy, didn't mean to upset you mate, what I meant was that it doesn't seem to accellerate all that rapidly, I'm a big bloke too (although not as big as Chris) and my K1 with the home built 836CC engine that cost me under 2 grand to build, rockets away from the line, even with me on it.
I wasn't sure if the clip was of Chris riding the bike with the original stock engine without Mikes head etc, I remember you were racing the stocker for awhile, but of course a film clip doesn't always do justice to what's really happening either, it's a "you had to be there" kinda deal, I know.
I've gotta play with the needle positions on my 29mm CR's again the K1 seems to be running lean from around 7K to 10K RPM, but from 0-7K, it accelerates like a modern bike, very quickly indeed, compared to my stock K0. Cheers, Terry.
