I hope you don't take it for a bitter argument, I'm just discussing here and I may be wrong, I'm no expert by no means. But I still tend to disagree somewhat, if I get this correct, the emission regulations are severely interfering with the power/displacement/cooling ratio. In order to produce less waste, you need to burn less fuel so you need to burn leaner, leading to higher combustion temperatures. So it makes sense some old bikes may feel more crisp, when you open the throttle, they just shoot some serious juices into the chamber and push a jet stream of junk out of the pipe.
I don't know what do you mean exactly by "it does not need to be a CARC Guzzi to have modern power output" because there is a quite common understanding of how much torque can be put on the regular shaft. When the jacking effect kicks in (and I believe it increases proportionally to the second power or even exponentially), the bike is not suitable for a street legal machine with ABS and traction control. BMW also used a similar solution, one way or another an anti-jacking system will be needed (sorry if the term is incorrect, English is not my first language).
But, all that aside, if you want a more powerful bike then you just want it, surely somehow and for some certain price it would be possible to cater for that appetite. The more important aspect however is that there are customers (me included) to whom it does not even occur in their wildest dreams that they should look up performance numbers for bikes like Guzzi V7/V9. All I know is that it's a 850cc bike which is stuuuupid powerful in relative terms, because even when I rode all those 350 to 500 cc RE bullets and scooters, power and speed was never an issue, traffic and safety was.
But yeah, people are different, I can't say I understand it, but I have came to terms with the (for me) weird phenomenon that most of the motorcycle guys speak of their street bikes as if they raced an invisible competitor to work every day
I don't know what do you mean exactly by "it does not need to be a CARC Guzzi to have modern power output" because there is a quite common understanding of how much torque can be put on the regular shaft. When the jacking effect kicks in (and I believe it increases proportionally to the second power or even exponentially), the bike is not suitable for a street legal machine with ABS and traction control. BMW also used a similar solution, one way or another an anti-jacking system will be needed (sorry if the term is incorrect, English is not my first language).
But, all that aside, if you want a more powerful bike then you just want it, surely somehow and for some certain price it would be possible to cater for that appetite. The more important aspect however is that there are customers (me included) to whom it does not even occur in their wildest dreams that they should look up performance numbers for bikes like Guzzi V7/V9. All I know is that it's a 850cc bike which is stuuuupid powerful in relative terms, because even when I rode all those 350 to 500 cc RE bullets and scooters, power and speed was never an issue, traffic and safety was.
But yeah, people are different, I can't say I understand it, but I have came to terms with the (for me) weird phenomenon that most of the motorcycle guys speak of their street bikes as if they raced an invisible competitor to work every day
