It’s...it’s.......it’s on a dyno, man. It’s on a dynamometer. There are straps holding the bike down.

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The Friday GIF party is starting early in this thread:

I’m tempted to buy it just for the anonymity and privacy it bestows. Everyone knows that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

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I had an sv650 and think it was possibly one of the best beginner bikes you could get, but they’re getting a bit long in the tooth now, and the gladius is ugly, so in the spirit of newer machines...

You've actually got it backward. It is the torque that is measured directly (torque = rotational inertia [known constant]* angular acceleration [measured]), and even if it were horsepower measured/torque calculated, an artificially high rpm reading would result in an artificially low torque number.

Did I just see a Jensen Interceptor?!