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Wouldn't it be nice if you could say to your mechanical engineers," build me a bike that weighs 20 kgs less than our competirion and has 15 more horsepower" then you would have a much better bike! We know that it doesn't work that way and a bike is more than the sum of its parts.
@sonny you might find this article ineresting reading regarding peak numbers that people or manufacturers post. Understanding a Dyno Graph. Peak Numbers Aren’t the Whole Story…
I think that the 2500cc Rocket 3 will be an amazing beast with real world streetable killer power and handling that will put the present generation Rockets on the trailer but..........I could be wrong for a change.

P.S. Many years ago when I bought my first Hinckley Triumph, just for the heck of it, I overlaid the dyno charts of a 900 Sprint against a Yamaha YZF 750. Surprisingly the Sprint made more horsepower than the Yammy up to 8,000 rpm at which point the Sprint was running out of steam whilst the Yamaha's power was still heading to the stars. In a race the YZF would eat the sprint but in the real world of highway riding the Sprint was a fast easy to ride bike not requiring stirring the shifter constantly to make headway. Triumph has maintained that streetable type of power in every bike they build to date. They also know a bit about racing and the current MotoGP 2 race series uses Triumph 765cc three cylinder engines based on their Street Triple RS motor.
 
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oh that tail end. This reminds me of the old Reese's Peanut butter cup commercial.

Two riders pull up to a stop light. Hey! You got your Ducati Diavel in my Triumph Rocket! NO!! You got your Triumph Rocket in my Ducati Diavel!!

I'm sure the design team at Ducati pulled an Austin Powers....hey, oh, what...wait a tick??
 

My buddy and I referred to the Sprint as having an electric motor, the power was so linear, it just pulled at the same power from bottom to top.
 
Well,,,,,,,,