New bike ZX10R

[boomer]

NAUGHTY NAUGHTY!!

1. At the rise of the hand by Policeman, stop rapidly.
Do not pass him by or otherwise disrespect him.

2. When a passenger of the foot, hooves in sight, tootel the horn
trumpet melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your passage,
tootel him with vigor and express by word of mouth, warning Hi, Hi.

3. Beware of the wandering horse that he shall not take
fright as you pass him. Do not explode the exhaust box at him.
Go soothingly by.

4. Give big space to the festive dog that makes sport
in roadway. Avoid entanglement of dog with wheel spokes.

5. Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the
skid demon! Press the brake foot as you roll around
the corners, and save the collapse and tie up.

i hate it when people explode there exhaust box at me.

Nice KF

[kitsune]

Its wherever u make it , lolz couldnt help it was in third wanted to actually get up to forth for a change w/o going over my manufacture imposed rev limit, kicked it up to forth = bam 140 at 4500 revs. And a smile for africa, in my defence tho i was doing faster on my 250 however that was almost red lining it on my gpx.

[discotex]

Red baron , i have seen some guys post negitive things about them but they do good by me, traded my gpx250 got 4k on it

Holy shit! You got $4k as a trade on a GPX? Maybe I will get $5k for my ZXR after all.

[kitsune]

Good luck wit that, hope u get the price you want. Even i was surprised by the price i got was expecting something in the 3k range due to the 08 250 ninja just around the corner, very nice 250 as well that one. Not that i ever had a complaint about my gpx it was a very good bike to learn the basics of riding sport bikes on. I also brought my gpx @ red baron , so im assuming part of the price was due to that and the fact i was getting a 20,000$ bike off them at the same time . Happy riding dude.

[discotex]

Good luck wit that, hope u get the price you want. Even i was surprised by the price i got was expecting something in the 3k range due to the 08 250 ninja just around the corner, very nice 250 as well that one. Not that i ever had a complaint about my gpx it was a very good bike to learn the basics of riding sport bikes on. I also brought my gpx @ red baron , so im assuming part of the price was due to that and the fact i was getting a 20,000$ bike off them at the same time . Happy riding dude.

Hahah yeah offering to walk away with a $20k bike is always going to help. My budget is $11-12k (maybe more if the deal is right) so will be interesting to see how keen the dealers are to shift the '07 stock before the '08 lands.

[kitsune]

ya i was lucky wit my LE , since its coming to end of year i got it for same price as the stock zx10r , (maybe 500$ diff maybe?) And the gears i got was good, i say to anyone looking to do a big step like i did 250-1000, don't skimp on armor.
for your 10-12 k u shud be able to pick up a nice gsx or ninja second hand for that, my mate got a 750 gsxr wit titanium exhaust for about that.

[RC1]

is it the one in your profile?? looks like this one ??

[kitsune]

Yup thats the one man , nice work on the after markets to Although i do like the pipes going under the seat like thay do on the stock model. no real reason cept i like to make anyone following the bike in traffice to suck my 91 exhust lolz

[discotex]

for your 10-12 k u shud be able to pick up a nice gsx or ninja second hand for that, my mate got a 750 gsxr wit titanium exhaust for about that.

Yeah I'm not far off a new one either. $13995 is the RRP for a k7 GSX-R600 so a good trade might bring it into range. The SV thou is RRP $12500 I think so that's a possible too.

With the prices of '07 models dropped it's funny to see people asking more for '05 versions of the same bike

I'm just looking forward to shopping around and testing some bikes!

[kitsune]

Those are very respectable, Anyone who's interested me and my mate wit the 750 are looking at doing a nana run down to the lake round November / end of November, Be good to get my zx out on the main. Anyone notice the number of small dicked boy racers that try and go the biger bikes? i still let them pass as i dont want to risk damaging my motor, only taken it up to 6grand and that was briefly the other day when i did 140, not done that again , kept ti to round 80k or so. As i said before bro don't skimp on armor , i was just jacket + helm for the 250 , but i got full kit for the 1000.

[discotex]

As i said before bro don't skimp on armor , i was just jacket + helm for the 250 , but i got full kit for the 1000.

I already do "all of the gear most of the time/most of the gear all the time" as even a 250 can kill quite easily. I ride every day in Auckland traffic as well as out and about for longer rides on the weekend so have plenty of opportunity to injure myself with those 40hp.

Open road or bad weather and I'm in in full helmet, jacket, gloves, pants, boots.

Commuting in the dry I lose the pants and wear kevlar jeans for convenience but I never feel as safe (and take it easier as a result).

Just need to add some leathers for track day fun now.

[kitsune]

Nice to hear it, i have that argument with a lot of newbie bikers personally i learn t from dirties at low speed that falling off hurt, so always strapped up for the road bikes. 1 of my mates took falling off and getting some road rash to learn but did. The other note i will make is get a shoei helemet ,they are really good man.

[Unit:Me]

Didnt post these pics up earlier as I didnt want to steel your thunder on your own thread, but thought I should share in the end.
How many kms you done now? Dont be afraid to give it some and work that motor a bit, you could end up with a sluggish bike if you are too tame with it.
Enjoy the pics

[MVnut]

Yeah, wot he said up and down the box, up and down the revs, up and down hills. You're obviously not used to this sort of power so don't be a dork and go too fast, but run it in correctly, the bike deserves it

[kitsune]

Respect 2 the max nice bike Ya i am giving the bike a bit of gas now im getting used to her, i back it off a bit when i feel the nose start to lift, heard its bad for the zx's to power stand, Been slack 2day, crap weather wit no where to go so just washed + detailed the bike. Soon as i crack the 800 k mark its show time, my mate has a mitsie 3ltr , wants to run support for us if we do a long distance jaunt, (his gf wont let him get a bike).