I was satisfied with the power of my GL1800 Gold Wing for a little while. Same story for the Hayabusa I just sold to make room for the FJR. Coming off the Gold Wing, I was very impressed with the power the first time I rode my Hayabusa. But, in just one year I had gotten used to it and had changed from a 40 tooth rear sprocket to a 43 tooth rear to get a little more wheelie performance. The only reason I did not put a 4-into-1 header on the thing, was that I couldn't decide whether to go that route or add a turbo. I was afraid the 4-into-1 header/power commander route would not be enough of a performance enhancement to be satisfying.
The real shock is when you go the other way, which is what I am afraid of with the FJR. I let one of my riding buddies ride my Busa one day while I rode his GL1800 Wing. That was the first time I had ridden a Wing in a year or so and could not believe that it seemed to have absolutely no power.
Your body adjusts to the g-forces. My dad owned a crop dusting service back around 1980. One of the pilots would always get motion sickness the first day that he would go back to work and then be okay for the rest of the season. One of the few times I got to ride with one of those guys, sharing the seat in the single cockpit AgCat with my head hanging half out the window, the pilot would fly down our airstrip and do a hammerhead turn on the end and go back the other way down the airstrip and do it all over again. After my ride was over, I asked him how he took that kind of pull on his body all day. He replied that he had gotten used to it and basically never felt the force, or at least did not pay any attention to it.
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