mordern litre bike debate...everyones opinions wanted!

[loosebruce]

I'm surprised LB hasn't repley to this yet

Yea sorry just got out of bed, let the flaming begin

[Motoracer]

OK, what is fast? How do you define "thrashing a bike"?

It's all a reletive term isn't it? You may think you are going fast and you maybe going quite fast. The noobie next to you will probably look at you as a hero who is almost as good as Rossi where as a succesfull road racer might put you to shame.. Even some of the top racers from NZ, get a hard time in Australia or over in Europe..

Going back to the dudes with the thous riding on the road... Well, lets just say that on a fine day their 120/70/17 profile front tire (Metzeler Racetec) gets worn right to the edge with strips rubber balling and curling up from abuse. Then while coming out of turns it would be quite common to see the rear wheel sliding out significantly and leaving black lines through the road.

I know if you compair that to racing speeds of the Superbike races, it's still no where near that. That's because for obvious reasons, you can only go so fast on the road. However speaking from my experience, it would be fair to say that, these guys do ride quick and their bikes are being thrashed quite hard on the road.

If you have doubts, that's cool. If you do want to see for yourself, contact me and I'll hook you up for a quick ride with the fast boys.

[loosebruce]

And another pooint to bring up - Redlining in the twisties - Think about this my K3 does 150kph in 1st gear and a shy over 200kph in 2nd gear, now if you can get it too red line in say a twisty road like Whangamata - Waihi you my fucken hero. Just cause it's not red lining doesn't mean i not on the edge or thrashing it.

[White trash]

1st ride I went on when I got to Orks and me trundling along behind l/Bruce, thinking "Yeah, we're doing alright!" Well fuck me if some demon on a CBR Thou didn't come carving through us and thoroughly root what had been a cosy Gixxer picnic.

If I thought we were going fast before then, we were going farkin balistic after that in the Blades wheel tracks.

Some people are quick, some try to be and some are just kidding themselves. Normally the quick guys are quick on whatever they ride, they just like the litre machines as they add a challenge.

[jimbo600]

No need for a 1000. I'll take any thou rider on the gixer 600.

[White trash]

No need for a 1000. I'll take any thou rider from behind over the gixer 600.

I bet you would!!!!!

[MSTRS:Me]

It's simple: normal well-adjusted people with LIVES ........:

......drive cages. Or stepthroughs.

[jimbo600]

I'm WT and I do cock!!!

Jeez what are you trying to say man.

[White trash]

Jeez what are you trying to say man. I used to think 600s were for homos! Then I bought one and just confirmed it to everyone else.

Ya don't say? Thought there was something funny about you goin' backwards. Seven Fiddy a bit much sonny?

[Bonez]

Neffer nead'd a litter bike und propaply neffer well. 37hp tis alll uny ridder neds.........

[Dafe]

I'm on a thou and I bet I'll get smoked by any other thou, any 600 and probably most 400's. I won't even take on a 250 actually, especially after seeing the way Velox took on the Rimutakas on Monday.

The reason I am on a thou has nothing to do with speed and nothing to do with penis extensions. I brought my thou because I love the sound of the V-Twin engine rumbling and when I want to ride at 130-140kph, it just purrs along. I can chuck my 120kg mate on the back and it still purrs.
Loads of torque, easy and pleasurable to ride.

Although it's a thou, it's not an inline 4, and was never meant to be.
Not all thous, are about speed.
Kind of makes this thread abit pointless unless you were of course talking inline 4 thous.

[Bonez]

Oops look like my other self posted. There's nothing wrong with litre bikes. Been looking at a couple of good s/h 1200s the last two days and thinking Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Still got room in the shed for a half dozen more cikles.

[WINJA]

Why do you need to buy a mordern litre bike?

WHY DOES A DOG LICK ITS BALLS?

[Coyote]

Is it just a penis extention??

No no no, your confused with cars

Don't know how they're supposed to extend it though, maybe its got something to do with making the exhaust pipe bigger...

[Two Smoker]

And to add to the debate as of late there's been no 600's in my mirrors through any section of road, there used to this orange 750cc but thats falling behind now too .

Im'a comin bboooooyyyyyy, Im'a comin...

Give me 3 weeks to get the bike on the road, 2 hard rides to get used to it, 1 ride to get throughly thrashed by you, then another ride to crash it trying to pass you on the outside, then anther 9 fucking months fixing it... sounds like a plan...

Personally, ive got a 600 because that is the stage i am upto... I can thrash the ZXR400 to its absolute limits, and am slowly increasing my limits to find the limits of a racetrack... SO the next step up is a 600...

I would get a GSXR1000 if i was upto that stage, but im not ready for it yet... For me owning a thou would be because i want to be a hooligan and pull some mean effortless wheelies...

Most of the guys i ride with that own thous thrash them to the limits as MR said, leaving black lines and balling up the edges of the tyres...