[BorderlandBiker]

If you're able to check out the Buttonwillow Raceway in Buttonwillow California...check out the lab times posted in the office. I expected the Yamaha Road Warrior to have the fastest in the class BUT what I was not expecting was M90 times to be faster than the M109!!!!!! P.S. the V-Rod times weren't that great....The Buttonwillow track is similar to the Laguna Seca track in Monterey California in configuration...PEACE RIDE SAFE

 

[Zoom]

I could see that being true on a road track. The 90 has more cornering clearance and probably handles curves a lot better than a 109. My wife's C50T will almost keep up with me in the curves, as long as there's not many straights in between. But put them on a drag track and there would be no contest.

 

[BorderlandBiker]

I could see that being true on a road track. The 90 has more cornering clearance and probably handles curves a lot better than a 109. My wife's C50T will almost keep up with me in the curves, as long as there's not many straights in between. But put them on a drag track and there would be no contest.

I got the M109 because the price was right and it was reeeleeeee good to my ol' knees and will go faster than I'll ever want to go. The Yamaha Road Warrior (not made anymore) had basically an R-1 front end so I wasn't surprised at its track times......I've been on group rides through the backroads of the Santa Cruz Mountains with 'cruiser' esque bikes where the lead riders were often on smaller displacement/shorter wheelbase bikes...I've learned not to try to keep up with them especially through the tight switchbacks. PEACE RIDE SAFE...P.S. Sears Point (it has a different name now) just above San Francisco has a track with some decent straight stretches where the M109 would do better...Reg Pridmore held riding classes at the Buttonwillow, Laguna Seca and the Sears Point track years ago...but I don't know if he's still doing it???

 

[Joe RC51]

I got the M109 because the price was right and it was reeeleeeee good to my ol' knees and will go faster than I'll ever want to go. The Yamaha Road Warrior (not made anymore) had basically an R-1 front end so I wasn't surprised at its track times......I've been on group rides through the backroads of the Santa Cruz Mountains with 'cruiser' esque bikes where the lead riders were often on smaller displacement/shorter wheelbase bikes...I've learned not to try to keep up with them especially through the tight switchbacks. PEACE RIDE SAFE...P.S. Sears Point (it has a different name now) just above San Francisco has a track with some decent straight stretches where the M109 would do better...Reg Pridmore held riding classes at the Buttonwillow, Laguna Seca and the Sears Point track years ago...but I don't know if he's still doing it???

Sears Point is Sonoma Raceway. Reg pridmore is in his eighties now.