e mare libertas
700km on a K6 GSX-R1000 over the weekend (with thanks to Dover).
I am enlightened.
I'm afraid that I am now firmly in the literbike lust camp. Why does anyone bother with a 600?
No, I mean, seriously.
Yes, I know all the usual reasons, but after losing my thou virginity, they seem pale and insubstantial beside the profoundly erotic experience of opening the throttle on 165bhp.
And it's so comfortable! And it handles so well! And... and... gnnghhh...
I'm going to buy one.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
on the wagon
yus!
buy one, today
Here for the arcade.
ZX10R for me it is
The instructions are simple...
There will be many here who are glad that you didn't ride a Harley or a Zundap - if riding one leads to understanding leads to desire to own....
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
A Life Behind Bars
i know the feeling!. im basiclly a touring bike type of rider, mate let me ride his beemer, now im ruined!
A universal dream of greatness is that
We push ourselves to the limit
Yet still be brilliant when the chips are down.
Sometimes , The struggle kills the dream.
One, two free, floor!
You're nearly there Dan.
You've experienced the raw grunt of the litre bikes, the pain and frustration of being thrown off a big bike, next come the OOOOO FUCK! moment... or 6.
Get it, take it to the track and grin like the Cheshire Cat for a month or more. I hear the racing bug's catching though so I hope you have deep pockets
$2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details
Large Falcon Collider
A bike thread!...I've heard tales of these!
"If life gives you a shit sandwich..." someone please complete this expression
Forum whore
Do you get motion sickness? Or was that from something else...?
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
e mare libertas
Yes, indeed.Originally Posted by ManDownUnder
I shall most probably stick with the sen fiddy for a few munfs. Finish rebuilding the head and tweaking it, get a nice paint job on the road fairings before passing it on.
I'm all about the track days, but I'm not sure that I'd have the time or inclination to race.
Heh. Wait until you see the personalised plate I've just had printed...
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
on the up
LOL.
That first ride on a properly fast bike really is an eye-opener isn't it?
Hooray for bike threads.
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.
e mare libertas
LOL! Yes, 1.5L of best Marlborough pinot noir on Saturday night did leave me a little jaded...
Amazing what 300kph on a closed private road does for a hangover, though.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Forum whore
Some people like to howl around the redline, pretending they're Rossi or Stoner, or whoever gives them the biggest hard on at the time. Do that on a 1000, treating the road like your personal track, and we've seen the result... you die. Having a 600 lets you do a few more coro loops before you become one with your bike
The track is their natural home... on there, I would somewhat agree with you.
Wherever you go, there you are
Yup they sure are alluring. I recently rode back from Coro on a K7 Gixxer thou. I did like it a lot and was left in awe of its power to weight ratio. However it also reminded me of the things that had jaded me fairly rapidly about my old Hayabusa. Once I had gotten over the whoopee of so much grunt and I found myself using all of it in fairly short time, that was it. Though the Busa with its bulk could tour OK.The thou really is rather specialized and mainly suited to relatively smooth tarmac and going fast on it. If that is all that anyone wants out of a bike, then it is perfect.
Interestingly enough and to the surprise to my Gixxer friend and others on sport bikes, my Italian traillie though not as sporty looking, both before and after my friend and I had swapped bikes was easier and quicker through the twisties. Which is where I believe the real measure of rider and manufacturer skills count.
If you love it, let it go. If it comes back to you, you've just high-sided!
مافي مشكلة
e mare libertas
Hmm. To be honest, what I enjoyed most was the effortless midrange power, and not having to go near the redline. Just being able to comfortably ooze along with one-third throttle at whatever speed seemed appropriate, with no perception that the bike was straining itself, was magic.
I make no pretensions to being a 'fast' rider. I enjoy corners best when zero arse-puckering is involved.
Maybe, in due course, I would grow bored and start riding outside safe limits, but I like to think I'm sensible enough, or at least imaginative enough when it comes to smashed bones and internal organs smeared across the highway, to know what those limits are.
I guess we all eventually find out whether that's the case.
Yessssssssss (tm)
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
Scotsman on a German
I'll keep my 53hp, 10 year old 6 hundy for the moment - it keeps me free from fines and means I've still got a licence to drive the littlies around when needed.
Glad you had fun though.
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