for sale: zx-7r

**knee_scraper** · 25th April 2006, 12:17

0272519503 or PM me. Check General Forum for details

**limbimtimwim** · 25th April 2006, 12:43

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

**MrMelon** · 25th April 2006, 12:44

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

**knee_scraper** · 25th April 2006, 12:59

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** · 25th April 2006, 13:01

It's a white JSG in sooo many ways

**aff-man** · 25th April 2006, 13:11

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

pity about the sale but someone will snap it up soon

**Karma** · 25th April 2006, 15:15

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

**Colapop** · 25th April 2006, 15:23

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

**madboy** · 25th April 2006, 15:26

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** · 25th April 2006, 16:13

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** · 25th April 2006, 16:20

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** · 25th April 2006, 16:29

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

**madboy** · 25th April 2006, 16:38

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

from real bikers

**knee_scraper** · 25th April 2006, 18:31

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?