Yeah you're probably right. Both yfzs beat the outlaw badly. I am pretty disappointed in the performance of the outlaw, but I still really like the bike. It rides like a Cadillac and has reverse. I built both the blue yfz engine and the ktm engine. The head on the Ktm flows like a river. It was 30 cfm better with similar porting to the yfz head, on my brothers flow bench. It has a 12.5:1 compression piston, for a max effort pump gas setup. Everything else is pretty much the same as the yfz, big carb, good pipe and intake, blah blah. The only thing I can figure is the weight and the IRS really really handicap it.



 P.S. I have raced probably a close to a dozen zillas with the blue yfz, and I have only had one (other than my own) beat it.