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many years, the Kawi's that Ricky has built. It's like
somebody that golfs that has a special club, that's
my special club.
From the seat of the pants, how do you com-
pare the two bikes? What's the strength of the
Kawasaki as compared to the Indian or whatever
else you've ridden?
The biggest thing is with Ricky building a Kawi
especially, he can tailor it to fit me. Just looking at
it and the first thing just sitting on it and riding it is
the physical size of the bike. Not that the Kawasaki
is teeny, but it's a smaller twin. I'm a smaller rider,
so it just makes sense. The Indian is a pretty big
bike. Besides me, everybody that does good on
them is pretty tall for flat track or a pretty bigger
guy. The first thing is the physical size, which kind
of leads to the power delivery, and the physical
weight of the bike lets you do different things
on the track. With the Kawi that was kind of the
advantage against the XR750 that I think will be a
little bit of an advantage against the Indian. It just
allows you to run a little bit different lines because
it decelerates and accelerates quicker than the
Indian. But that can also hurt you at certain tracks.
