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I thought I'd already done a thread, but I can't see one.
Anyway, this looks very nice...

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It's only an ER6 in a posh frock 😁
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What's under the clothes
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I think the thread was in the old place.

I like it quite a lot. I already have an old 650 twin with clipons though :D

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I thought this might be about the tasty Paton 2 strokes :(
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Krazy Horse sell them. They look cracking in the flesh...and then you look under the faring and it kinda ruins it a bit as it is all ER6 under there.
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Supermofo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:09 pm Krazy Horse sell them. They look cracking in the flesh...and then you look under the faring and it kinda ruins it a bit as it is all ER6 under there.
Not a lot wrong with an er6 though for a general road bike
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And an ER6 is a higher performance engine than the bikes being emulated here too.
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weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:22 pm
Supermofo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:09 pm Krazy Horse sell them. They look cracking in the flesh...and then you look under the faring and it kinda ruins it a bit as it is all ER6 under there.
Not a lot wrong with an er6 though for a general road bike
No, but then ER6's aren't £18k for a 2014 with 3k miles on or £40k new for a special edition.

https://krazyhorse.co.uk/collections/cu ... classic-tt
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Now that the Aprilia 660 is out The ER6 is no longer the supertwin of choice is it?
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G.P wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:00 pm Now that the Aprilia 660 is out The ER6 is no longer the supertwin of choice is it?
That's very much open to debate for now. If I wanted reliable I'd be going SV650 or ER6
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G.P wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:00 pm Now that the Aprilia 660 is out The ER6 is no longer the supertwin of choice is it?
Surely too early to say isn't it. The Supertwins are all 100bhp+ so not a huge amount of stock ER/SV going on. The RS will be closer as standard to the BHP needed but I guess it's how much further you can go with it. Could well be the bike to have though?
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Well the Aprilia is 100bhp out of the box compared to 72bhp ish for the Kawasaki, so I'd be really surprised the Aprilia will be out-done by a more than decade old motor..
If I was Mr Paton, I'd be looking at the Aprilia Lump for my little exotic too...
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Yeah I'd agree with the exotic bit.
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weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:22 pm
Supermofo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:09 pm Krazy Horse sell them. They look cracking in the flesh...and then you look under the faring and it kinda ruins it a bit as it is all ER6 under there.
Not a lot wrong with an er6 though for a general road bike
Not a lot wrong with them as a basis for a TT racer either!
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Re: Paton

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To me it's special because of the frame, wheels, handling, weight and the looks - the bhp is probably only something that matters if you're on a start line, or really into Top Trumps.

The price for the full fat version is a bit of a killer though because for that money there is a lot of choice for a fancy road bike. The lower priced Paton doesn't look as good as the more exotic one and it's still big money, instead of paying £18k for the one linked to above I'd have an MV Dragster all day long.

But, as a poster bike for when you win the lottery the one in my opening post would probably find it's way into my garage.
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