I remember riding a 550 Nighthawk, either an 84 or 85, and thinking, man this thing is a dud! Then I wound it out to the red line, okay, now we're talking! Still wasn't anything compared to the V65 I had at the time though.
Don’t know what a v65 is? An intercepter? Burned off stock tires put a set of Michelins on it and ground the steel nubs off the foot pugs. Like I said had a plastic body filler knife in my back pocket to scrape my pants out