I'd agree with that Paul, especially if you have some after market pipes on it
I had a 900ss years ago, the old one with 4o mm carbs abd the Conti exhausts - what a noise!
The best sounding motorcycle engine in my opinion was the original Laverda Jota, with the 180 degree crank. I can still remember the sound on one of those as it roared down to the Creg-ny-Baa at the Isle of Man TT Races on mad sunday in the early eighties. Perfect
You didn't miss much, couple of presenters and the rib driver throwin up in what looked like choppy but not difficult conditions, and 5 seconds of of video of the rib with a flat tube. The rib was the second boat the "owners" broke trying to do a ferry job for the presenters. Didn't look very professional.
Call me a sceptic but I wouldn’t put it past the ‘I’m JC look at me show’ to engineer the outcome And although I enjoy the show, it is just that, a show that has little to do with the serious car industry and much more to do with JC’s ego which is .................enormous, just to use one of their frequently used, warn out hyperbole Top Gear is escapism of the first order and as such is great but don’t confuse it with reality Des
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And although I enjoy the show, it is just that, a show that has little to do with the serious car industry and much more to do with JC’s ego which is .................enormous, just to use one of their frequently used, warn out hyperbole 
