That bike pictured above, compared to any modern day liter sport bike is, well, a snail. My last sport bike, an 02 GSXR 1000 put out somewhere in the neighborhood of 145 hp at the flywheel and only weighed 400 pounds or so. Pretty sure I read somewhere that the new Yamaha R1 makes close to 180 hp at 450 pounds.......probably close to double that Honda power at 2/3's, if that, of its weight......