And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
I subscribe to Performance Bikes and they do project bikes. They did a TL1000R over about a year. rebuilt the motor (moar power and a Nova gearbox) , complete front end swap (a BPF GSXR1000 front end complete), Ohlins or Nitron rear shock, and some fairly radical weight saving. I hate the big bulbous arse ends on these (and SRAD GSXR's too) and just putting a different tail on it shed 20kg (visually anyway). If I was doing it it would end up owing me $25k but it turned into what Suzuki could have built if they kept developing it.
I am sort of keen because i have got the SR400* out of my system and am currently thinking seriously about a VTR1000SP1 or 2.
*I like, but 500km is enough to make me certain I dont want to keep it. Gonna cost me some money but oh well....its been a good year.
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It would be interesting to see all right. The TLR has identical HP and torque, but it's 12kgs heavier. That would have to be a great shock, because the Sachs in the Aprilia is not a bad shock, and the Ohlins model is even better.
And I always thought the TL-s had 125HP and the TL-R had 135HP... must be that extra pork on the R that kills the poke.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
I always liked the tlr, I had an RSVR with full Harris system and twin cans but reckon the tl sounded better. A mate had the s and that thing was scary when pushed on challenging roads, very easy to completely loose it. Would still like to own the a tlr but that thing looks well weathered and to be fair, out of its time now,especially for that money
Once followed a chap on one who was pushing a TL on the Akaroa GP, was bloody scary watching the way it took a corner, was relatively easy to sit behind him on my GIXXER 600 thinking "Fuck I am glad I am not riding that bike" That said the rider could just have been shit.
I do have a hankering for a big twin, been debating a SV1000 for many moons as a 2 up bike for me and the Mrs to float about on.
Ha he was probably a good rider, my old mate was fucking smooth on anything and could leave me for dead most of the time.....not on the tl s though. I could chill behind him watching it squirm all over the road.
Can't beat a v twin in for me, good for all occasions. had jap zx7r r1 gixerk1 even a bandit but once I got on the aprilia rsv that was me sold. Always wanted a duc 916, rode my mates back in the day and it was so much smoother than the aprilia but I was a orangutan on the thing. Built for the little people unfortunately
I reckon both the riders mentioned must be fucken useless.
They get out of shape a bit on the track a bit after a couple laps, but nothing ya can't keep a handle on.
i brought a one of the first tl1000 in the country for brian bernard to race in a deal direct with suzuki nz, tony ress was given one and shelved it after the first meeting and went back to his gsr750, from memory we got some good suspension in from aussie and a power commander or similar too. dunno whether tony got that though.
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