Are there any dyno charts that compare this quantitatively on a single bike? It's just that there are so many parameters between two separate bikes' *feel.*
Oh yes, on the controlled environment of Coaltrack Road Raceway, Dangerous used a time honored & proven power assessment tool. That was mostly roaring down the road and comparing the result against a calibration chart that read:
Yawn, meh, ok, alright, great, awesome, f?#k. Not very accurate, but improves with the retelling.
Ah, technically speaking, then: palliative resolution of cognitive dissonance.