for sale: zx-7r

[knee_scraper]

0272519503 or PM me. Check General Forum for details

[limbimtimwim]

I've seen this bike. I can say it looks totally and utterly brilliant.

[MrMelon]

How come you're selling it? It looks freakin nice.

[knee_scraper]

Hey. Yeah it is a nice bike. I love it. I'm selling it because i'm upsetting my family by having it. Anyway, long story. I've only owned it for 2 months.. Problem is, my younger brother is lucky to be alive after he just crashed his FZR 250 out at makara 2 weeks ago. My parents can't take anymore. i'm only 21, I can't help myself with a bike like this. I was out at some back roads in carterton the other day, at 230kmh its just getting started. I have to sell it.

[boomer]

It's a white JSG in sooo many ways

[aff-man]

shit that's a good price......

pity about the sale but someone will snap it up soon

[Karma]

One of us should buy this to give Gremlin the learn... anyone got 7k spare?

[Colapop]

Yeah, hang on I'll just check my bank - Oh wait that's right I'm BROKE!!!:crybaby:

[madboy]

Fair call. I joke that if I'd started riding at 18 not 28 I woulda been dead, but it's not really a joke. I know my attitude on a bike with some balls back then woulda ended in tears, probably the tears of my family not me.

So you downsizing or getting outta the game altogether?

[knee_scraper]

I don't know what to do madboy. I was thinking of downsizing because it would make a significant difference right? An sv400 is not as dangerous. If Someone had a smaller bike I would consider swapping it. I just want something that is going to force me not to enjoy it, just something that will serve the purpose for getting me 3km to work.

[Colapop]

If that's the case either get a scooter or a GN250. It'll pay in the long run to get something that you can properly learn on and not get too wild on. If you didn't want to ride then you wouldn't have got a bike and your lisence in the first place. Your family is concerned and it's an even more sensitive issue coz your brother just had a bin. In saying that, you can get hurt crossing the street....

[MrMelon]

Self control's an important thing you've eventually got to learn.. maybe now's the time? You can ride any bike fast, but you can also ride any bike sensibly if you choose.

Or you could keep it for weekend fun and get a street magic to get to uni/work on and save crapload in gas and tyres in the process. You still get your bike fix during the week, but it'll be a bit safer at 50k/hr :D

[madboy]

My mother is a nurse. Back in the 70s she was, at one point, a charge nurse in A&E at Greenlane Hospital in Auckland. You can understand why it took me until 28 to buy a bike. But ironically, I've had more serious injuries on my mountain bike or even road [push] bike as a teenager than I've ever had in cars or on bikes. I'm fortunate to have never had a serious m/cycle accident, but I've binned a few cars pretty well. Ever rolled an MX-5 with the top down?

Life is a risk. Crossing the road, even DIY work around the house. People die on farms, and get squashed by cars when changing the oil, or going for a swim at the beach. But then it's your family, you know them and so it's not for me to advise you how to handle them.

If it were me, I'd buy a bike that didn't look so fast. Let's face it - that bike looks fast standing still. The fact that a good rider on a GN250 could give you [no offence] the learn on that thing up the takas would be lost on your family. Get a naked SV650 or something. Sell it to them as a "cruiser" style bike.

Don't buy a scooter - you'll just be asking for the :finger: from real bikers :bleh:

[knee_scraper]

In a sense I do have self control. I've been driving for 6 years and riding for 1 year and i've never had an accident. It's not just my family begging me to sell it. No one buys such a thing to practice extreme self control, agreed? I quietly indulge in the fact that I have to me what feels like a monster and its hard for me to explain the happiness and thrills i get, i just love it. Horrible things do happen. All its going to take is a small rock or a bit of oil to catch me out at speed, or something out of the ordinary to happen. I'm selling it for my family. Personally at the age i'm in I can accept all those things. When I was sitting beside my brother while he was lying on the road after his accident a mother of a few children stopped to give me blankets and give whatever support she could. She asked John (my younger brother) "are you going to get another bike again"? He took a few seconds to answer and said, "I don't know how this happened, I wasn't even cornering and the front wheel just went from underneath me, I don't want another one". She said "Don't be silly, conquer it, you should buy another bike and keep riding, my sons have been thru it all". I thought wow, thats so true. So I dont know... I woudn't mind getting a smaller bike that will provide good experience for me. Actually I wouldnt mind binning it one day, just to know what it feels like.

wonna try my zx7 madboy? lol, you might like the small upgrade? :msn-wink:

[Karma]

You'd be sweet on something around the ZX4R range then... not many of them around, but still plenty of bang for your buck

[unrealone]

You could have my ZXR250 for a price ;) *ahem*

[gamgee]

I don't know what to do madboy. I was thinking of downsizing because it would make a significant difference right? An sv400 is not as dangerous. If Someone had a smaller bike I would consider swapping it. I just want something that is going to force me not to enjoy it, just something that will serve the purpose for getting me 3km to work.
swaps eh...
how about a we swap my ninja for your ninja :eek:

[750Y]

what a beauty mate! you look like a tallish guy, you may not be comfortable on a small bike. like madboy says, it really is about you & your family, and that is the single most important thing in life bar NOTHING. hope you can resolve it. i wish i could buy it, she's a great fave of mine, but i'm tight at the mo, plus i'm outa practice i'd probly fall off. best luck man..

[Ixion]

Scooter? Seriously, it would get you 3km to work, and maybe your Mum would not be frightened by it? Then after a bit she will get accustomed to the idea of your riding, opening the way for a proper bike again (and by then you could have your full licence).

sigh. I'd buy it, but the Lady High Treasurer would not consent.

[Gremlin]

jeez I wish you were selling this back in mid jan when I was looking everywhere for some to choose from...

That looks in damn good nick, newer, less k's, some performance mods, and the only piece of bloody purple is bobbins.

lovely bike... if only I were shopping, you wouldn't have it any more...

out of interest, are you running a 180 or 190 on the rear??

[N4CR]

Could swap with you but really, you can get killed on one of these 250's just as quick playing 'ghost rider' in traffic or hitting a wall at 180+ :|

I'm 19 but shit... I do some fuckin stupid stuff sometimes and it's a wonder I'm still here when I look back to it.

Change your attitude not your bike. I know your family is upset but just try taking them on the back or something so they can understand you. The smartest thing (and the only smart thing heheh) SixPackBack has said is 'a throttle works both ways'. Remember that and think about your family next time you give it a yank.

[R6_kid]

get out and do some 'advanced riding courses', read lots of riding books, do something/anything to make yourself and your parents feel better about you riding.

Luckily for me my parents are behind me when it come to riding, my mum has every trust that i will come home in one piece, and aslong as she doesnt hear about the speeds i get up to she likes to hear about the rides i go on, who was there etc etc.

At some stage you are going to get back on a bike, its not something you can just give away, its a bug, and once you've got it, you have it for life.

[knee_scraper]

I have got the bug. No doubt it'll bite me again when things have changed.

Whoever buys this bike can expect some serious gorking. Whenever I ride thru town people gork and if I happen to stop and walk into reading cinema for lunch, its rare for someone not to come up to me and say some comment about the bike. It'll be missed.

Um, 180's on the back Gremlin.

[madboy]

Sorry fella, I don't want to pay 29kgs for 4hp. And 3 years older, and over twice the mileage. And those rooted forks seals from those wheelies you pull while cuttin up the traffic, and the fact that it's a bright green Kwaka that's guaranteed to be a marked bike anywhere near the takas...

[knee_scraper]

haha... well said :bleh:

[Merwood]

wicked bike, dont buy a scooter, if i was in your situation i wouldnt downgrade past 400cc's. go on some riding training like gareth suggested and get your familys confidence up again, then when its time upgrade :scooter:. All the best for the future man.

[Southmotian]

Have you still got the bike?