Personally I find the big deal to be the mean piston speed at 9000 RPM. It comes in around 28 meters a second. Not saying there is or isn't a reliability issue with that, but it's a very high piston speed for a bike many want/expect to last for years to come. At 7500 it's right around 25 m/s, still higher than any production bike, including the S1000RR.
Personally, I am not comfortable taking a daily driven bike and raising redline to a point where piston speeds exceed that of many drag cars. Especially when there is so much torque that can be had lower down.
Thing to remember is that drag racing is not the ultimate measure for many people, for myself and many it is only another data point, like a dyno.
Anyways, that is why I was asking about 200hp no later than 7000 rpm, for streetability and accessibility of torque at sane speeds.[/QUOTE NO problem reving to 9k rev limit weve reved some to 10k in the streamliner we have a 270HP street bike thats run 40 ,000 miles and no issues The Rocket engine design allows it rev safely with our camshaft packages and we havnt had a single problem FIRST of all you dont ride at constant top rpm do you? your not running a race track are you ? so like all road riders you cruise mostly and turn it up when you want to have some fun AND you say you dont drag race any other bikes you just put around the Island at low rpm SO then your not interested in max performance for your style of riding So keep on puttin and have fun