NB: Keeping the front wheel on the ground is hard work in 1 st and 2 nd if you’re gunning it. It's not going to outrun a litre sportbike on a motorway but it will keep up below 120 kmh or so. Matched to a total weight of 190 kg fuelled it makes for a very quick bike. The hp/torque figures are around 100 hp and 60 ft/lbs. Riding in A Mode (the sportiest of the three throttle modes) and keeping the revs in the 8-10,000 band is an absolute blast. You can be ambling along at 3000 rpm in 6 th gear and the torque is just waiting to be used. It’s a fantastic motor that pulls effortlessly almost from idle through to the red line. The highlight of the FZ09 is the engine: 847 cc crossplane crankshaft triple. I had some decel popping but not a great deal. Given the apparent difficulty of getting a good custom fuel map done here for a bike like the FZ09 I’ll go out on a limb and say that, for the difference it makes in performance, if doing all this again I’d just swap the exhaust and leave it at that. I also forked out for a PCV, a K&N filter, block off plates and various dyno tunes but, subjectively, the biggest performance difference felt like it came from the pipe change on its own. I ditched it for a Yoshi full system and it made an immediate difference, not to mention looking and sounding way better. ![]() The stock exhaust sounds okay but, thanks to the massive cat between the headers and the muffler, has an impact on performance. There are re-flashes available that can sort that but not AFAIK locally. The stock ECU is rev limited in 5 th and 6 th gears so top speed is apparently ‘only’ around 230 kmh. A factory re-flash pretty much sorts that out. The fly-by-wire throttle on the 2014 models was also criticized by some riders for being snatchy when rolling on, particularly lower in the rev band. I’ve had the seat remodeled locally and now it’s fine. The stock seat was, for me, too hard and has an uncomfortable slope on it that has you constantly sliding up against the tank. The stock FZ09 isn’t perfect, that’s for sure, particularly the suspension, but I’ve put in stiffer Ohlins fork springs (and heavier oil), and an Ohlins shock, and now, for me as an average rider 6’2” and 85 kgs, it’s sorted for road riding. ![]() It’s a year since I picked up my FZ09 and I’ve not enjoyed any bike I’ve owned as much as this – not even the Speed Triple that was my last bike in the UK.
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