Originally Posted by
sidecar bob
All the opinions on here are valid & come from people that are doing it or have done it.
In about '86 I was riding a Katana1100 on the road (still have it) & I was about yo buy an ex crashed GPZ500s to go racing on, I mentioned the impending purchase to Robbie Dean, he promptly talked me out of it & for the same price, sold me his retired race bike, the third GSXR1100 ever built, disassembled in boxes.
He watched me put it back together & then helped me hone my racecraft on it.
The kickback was that it was similar to, but better than the Katana, as a result, my road riding ended up in a class of its own, even recently, the motor reconditioned that worked at the bottom of the third ave hill back then asked me how it was possible to ride the Katana down the hill sideways, with the front wheel in the air.
The point I'm making is, that if this chum wants to get better on his road r1, & I think that's a major bonus of racing, then the expierence may not come from riding a bucket, he needs a big ole bucking bronco, not a child's bike.
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