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    2019 FIREBLADE SP2

    Nov 09, 2020 6 minutes

    etting back on the SP2 was a bit like dating the girl next door after getting out of a short-term adrenaline-fuelled relationship with a super-hot, bipolar nymph you met online. Sure, she might not spontaneously suck the soul out of you, but at the same time she isn’t going to throw random objects at your head for seemingly no reason. That said, it doesn’t mean you can’t have unadulterated fun on the old ’Blade. In fact having jumped off the new screamer and turned the TC off on the SP2, one of the first things I could have quite easily done on the older model was loop it. The midrange and bottom end on this bike is leagues ahead of the new ones, and in a second gear ‘roll-on’ test from 30mph on a piece of private road, the old ’Blade showed the new one a clean pair of heels by a considerable margin. In fact, we had

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