RODH2 wrote:
Agree with that, just talking swing-arms generally.......

A friend/neighbor has a 4" over swing arm on his Hayabusa. It appears that he did it so he could slam the throttle wide open, bounce off the rev limiter, and not worry about going over backwards. We were riding together last year and I was leading. I took a sharp right curve on my Guzzi. He got to the curve, gave up and went straight into the woods. Luckily there was a footpath with an open gate for him to slow down on. It was quite a funny scene, since he didn't get hurt. To me, it seems like a huge waste of the excellent handling of the 'Busa. To him it's an improvement. Go figure.