(03-01-2015, 12:07 PM)Alfie Noakes Wrote: I don't recall Steve Hislop complaining about the genuine jewel of a factory RVF750 RC30 that Honda brought over for him, the thing was a missile but handled very well as do today's Superbikes, I can remember watching up on the Mountain and the way that RVF accelerated out of Bungalow up towards Brandywell was astounding compared to the other bikes. The Superbike's of today are fast but they handle, steer, track and change direction very well and the TT challenge for me has and always will be just how fast the rider can get himself and his machine around the course.

In the account I have, he is not complaining about the HRC prepped RC30, though he did swap the forks and shock for those from his own. He described it as a jet, and was arriving at sections so much faster that he had to recalibrate his riding. That's what lead him to make the comments about the big bikes being too much. An excursion onto the footpath in Kirk Michael and other tragic events that week probably contributed also.