Why is it called horsepower ?? i dont get it and never have. You take 1 horse...... it has 1 horse power but can pull a tractor along right ? So why does a 125cc bike have say 15hp but could'nt pull the skin off a rice pudding ? Why is it called

the point of loads of HP if the bike doesn't handle right in the first place. Also HP levels now a days have reached a level where most mere mortals can't handle all of the HP a stock bike gives them anyway. Depends what you mean by horsepower...A 120 kg 30

There is a thread banging on about horsepower and scaring people etc.So how many supermoto riders have owned 100BHP plus bikes but decided to go for the less is more option? Ex blade owner here, Hoss power is pretty irrelevant, HP determines how

I was looking on a drag racing site and they said the formula for working out corrected hp is RPM x Torque divided by 5250.So whats corrected horsepower??? think this is how dynos cal the horsepower?think they only measure torque and then calc

't matter! I have a superb time riding with mates, my aprilia rs250 with it's 60 odd bhp is more than enough BIG ZOOK wroteSO ya need horsepower???No. Howie what you done to your Gixer , didnt do a Chris Walker,like the last trackday did you Gord18

at Star by any chance? Had 391hp and 412 ft lbs in a car......... standard CRF 450's are about 45/47 hp in reality...but horsepower don't mean shit if ya can't ride wot ya got anyways!!! 4.5 ponies So.............. Well the WR has 52bhp last winter so

Wahts the horsepower on a Gsxr 750 k4. Been offered a chaep one locally, im having second thoughts about buying a K5 1000 About 125 on a proper SAE corrected dyno. get the 1000i rode a K4 750 when they first came out, its like a 600......got

and here she is, all 33 inches of hershe is a miniature Shetland and is dead cool Not fair, i want one! sulk sulk! Apriliain wroteshe is a miniature Shetland and is dead coolYou were robbed. Looks like 1/2 a horsepower. Awww she is gorgeous

Measured in horsepower (could just as well be measure in human power)You can either do light job very quickly and over and over againor you can do very heavy job slowly. Both take the same power.For the bike Torque is the force, RPM is how often it turns round in unit

, possibly with the fuselage swimming in hydraulic oil and aviation fuel doesn't even bear thinking about . . . . Sat in the cockpit with the four 1400 horse-power merlins revving away and the whole aircraft chomping at the bit, straining against the brakes