I wonder how important horsepower really is on a bike, within reason. I ride a Triumph America, which is listed as getting 60 hp from the 865cc engine. With after market pipes supposedly getting me an additional 5 hp, most of the time I feel I have enough power on this 550 lb bike, except when riding two up. But sometimes I think I want more power and have thought about the 100 hp of the 1700cc Thunderbird. Then I read the glowing reviews of the new Honda nc700, which is getting outstanding reports from several of the motorcycle magazines, and it only gets 56 hp! Maybe I should be looking at the torque numbers instead of the horsepower numbers since I found it hard to believe that the writers at the magazines, who normally are complaining about bikes that are much, much faster than what I ride as insufficiently powerful, could be so taken with a 56 hp bike.