Sir gee, I am sure it will, coz me being 86 relatively close to you :)...
actually yar major difference is produced due to 17' and iridium and ignition improvement other were cosmetic improvements..,
You have to try it to really see it happening (as we did the experiment), untill I tested it along CG I was also having same point of view as yours, (what I orignally thought was that there will be no change in performance because we are increaseing the tyre width but that got compensated with RIM being Aluminum) ...
still I never said it beats CG but I said it reached the bench mark quick responsiveness just like CG. as i consider CG to be the bench mark accelerator in Pakistani commuters.