| Engine and performance Let's get refinement out of the way first. The Yamaha is, by miles, the more refined engine. The RTRFI is astonishingly throaty, but the Yamaha is quietly gruff as well. But it's in the vibration department that the Yamaha creams the TVS. But on the performance front, there is not contest. Yamaha always intended for the FZ to be a torquey street bike and it shows. Get to 7,500rpm and the game's up. There isn't much power left. Cruise the torque and the FZ is remarkably quick through traffic and will hold a nice 80kph cruise down the highway. You could sit for aeons on the throttle and get a much higher top speed in theory, but it's a waste of time. The TVS, though, aims for glory. The motor is as gung ho as a horny rooster in a fecund henhouse and it wastes no time letting you know this. From idle, the motor urges you to keep revving ever harder. And it rewards you with, first, loads of torque and then with a headrush of small cube horsepower. 15.5PS is a lot to ask from such a small motor, but the TVS is genuinely fast. Essentially, while comparable on price and displacement, these two motorcycles are night and day in feel. The Yamaha is competent, calm and classy. The TVS is urgent, powerful and sassy. Pick the character that you like more, and you'll be happy. Want numerical evidence? Check out the table. You will notice that the RTR is half-second quicker to 60, nearly 3.50 seconds quicker to 100, 0.9 seconds quicker over the quarter mile, 7kph quicker at the top. And, ridden steadily, It also returns nearly 13kpl more than the Yamaha.
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