which bike is better

[Firefight]

finally...i have an astounding 80 posts...yay

gosh, congrats, yes well done, if you reply to my reply, you will get another one.

F/F

[gav]

SBK World Superbike 2004 season.

No where was the Suzuki famed for much about nothing...

Yamaha had a few good crash scenes.

Honda gave an attempt to get amonst it all until a crash and breakdowns finished that

:confused2 Ducati was everywhere with different teams

So unless there is another World Superbike Championship, what are yer all on about?

You do realise that for 2004 most factories boycotted World Superbike after numerous rule changes and the introduction of Pirelli tyres? Hence no official factory Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki or Yamaha teams entered. Surely you must have noticed this???

Thats why I posted about the other Superbike championships where the other teams apart from Ducati were racing, like the British, AMA and NZ scene, not sure who won in Japan. Only Australia had the CBR1000RR winning......
However this year 2005 should be an awesome year for WSBK. Suzuki are back with Troy Corser and Yuki Kajayama (who has been racing in the UK) Yamaha are back with Nori Haga, Sebastian Gimbert and Norifumi Abe.
Honda look to have two Ten Kate bikes plus Frankie Chilli and looks like Ben Bostrom will be CBR mounted.

[inlinefour]

You do realise that for 2004 most factories boycotted World Superbike after numerous rule changes and the introduction of Pirelli tyres? Hence no official factory Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki or Yamaha teams entered. Surely you must have noticed this???

Thats why I posted about the other Superbike championships where the other teams apart from Ducati were racing, like the British, AMA and NZ scene, not sure who won in Japan. Only Australia had the CBR1000RR winning......
However this year 2005 should be an awesome year for WSBK. Suzuki are back with Troy Corser and Yuki Kajayama (who has been racing in the UK) Yamaha are back with Nori Haga, Sebastian Gimbert and Norifumi Abe.
Honda look to have two Ten Kate bikes plus Frankie Chilli and looks like Ben Bostrom will be CBR mounted.

Your quite right, it'll be an awesome year

[WINJA]

Your quite right, it'll be an awesome year

IM REALLY GOING TO ENJOY OUR NATIONAL SERIES , ITS GOOD TO SEE MORE THAN ONE BRAND OF BIKE ON THE PODIUM. IF YOU CAN YOU SHOULD ALL GO AND SUPPORT NZ'S BEST GOING FLAT OUT

[mini_hooks_]

gosh, congrats, yes well done, if you reply to my reply, you will get another one.

F/F

there you go i replyed to your reply so can you reply to my reply so i can reply to your reply to my reply so i can get more posts ......

[inlinefour]

IM REALLY GOING TO ENJOY OUR NATIONAL SERIES , ITS GOOD TO SEE MORE THAN ONE BRAND OF BIKE ON THE PODIUM. IF YOU CAN YOU SHOULD ALL GO AND SUPPORT NZ'S BEST GOING FLAT OUT

Your quite right there and depending on what shift I'm doing I'll be trying to be there

[mini_hooks_]

IM REALLY GOING TO ENJOY OUR NATIONAL SERIES , ITS GOOD TO SEE MORE THAN ONE BRAND OF BIKE ON THE PODIUM. IF YOU CAN YOU SHOULD ALL GO AND SUPPORT NZ'S BEST GOING FLAT OUT

stop shouting!!!!!

[mini_hooks_]

WELL YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS . AT YOUR AGE I HAD 2 JOBS AND HAD TO GET UP AND 4AM AND MILK THE COW, I THEN HAD TO WALK TO THE COAL MINES ON A GRAVEL ROAD WEARING NO SHOES IN WINTER STANDING IN COW DUNG TO KEEP MY FEET WARM, IT WAS UP HILL BOTH WAYS WITH A SACK OF COAL ON EACH SHOULDER THERE AND BACK. THEN I HAD TO GO TO MY SECOND JOB CLEANING MILK BOTTLES . I WOULD USUALLY GET TO BED AT 3.45 AM . KIDS TODAY SO LUCKY WITH ELECTRICITY AND THE INTERNET AND ALL SOOOOOOOOO LUCKY

mate...i have a job and i can afford to find my own way around life and still have time to play 54 holes of golf and still spend time on here, and thats a week so it just goes to show that when you were a kid you were not working hard enough to make time to do the things you desired...and really, i dont care what YOU think...

[inlinefour]

mate...i have a job and i can afford to find my own way around life and still have time to play 54 holes of golf and still spend time on here, and thats a week so it just goes to show that when you were a kid you were not working hard enough to make time to do the things you desired...and really, i dont care what YOU think...

Yep I spent 3 years doing the student thing and now that I've done the degree I can afford the whatever I want and whatever the misses says. She says that once we have paid our last debt off that I will be getting the Fireblade

[RiderInBlack]

OK here's my Fifty cent for what it is worth.

Having owned both a 1990 VFR750 (Verronica) and a 1990 CBR1000FL (Roxanne), the feed back from my pillions favour the CBR. Both bike were made mainly with Touring in mind. The VFR was better as an all-rounder. Better on the track, better commuting in heavy inner city traffic, but "Roxanne" rules went it comes to doing the distances and taking pillions.
Pure Race bikes like the Fireblade and the Gixxer were never made with pillions in mind so it is not fair the compare them on that.
Gixxer have had it their own way in Kiwi Racing for too long. This is probably because we could not afford to race anything else and the sponsership was not there. This season with see Gixxers really challanged in NZ as top riders will be competing on RI's, CBR1000RR, as well as the Gixxer's. The results are going to be interesting. I'm looking forward to The John Bitten Mem this year as it will see some truely SuperBike clashs. At the end of the day, when you are talking about racing, these bikes are all top bikes. The winner will be decided by who has the best rider with the best support team (as shown by Rossi), not which one of these brands the bike they are riding is.

PS: I am dissappoint the Honda has not put out a new version of my CBR1000FL as this bike is a good sports tourer and as such (in my oppion) is better suited for the masses. Racing is for the track, not the road.

[gav]

OK here's my Fifty cent for what it is worth.

Having owned both a 1990 VFR750 (Verronica) and a 1990 CBR1000FL (Roxanne), the feed back from my pillions favour the CBR. Both bike were made mainly with Touring in mind. The VFR was better as an all-rounder. Better on the track, better commuting in heavy inner city traffic, but "Roxanne" rules went it comes to doing the distances and taking pillions.
Pure Race bikes like the Fireblade and the Gixxer were never made with pillions in mind so it is not fair the compare them on that.
Gixxer have had it their own way in Kiwi Racing for too long. This is probably because we could not afford to race anything else and the sponsership was not there. This season with see Gixxers really challanged in NZ as top riders will be competing on RI's, CBR1000RR, as well as the Gixxer's. The results are going to be interesting. I'm looking forward to The John Bitten Mem this year as it will see some truely SuperBike clashs. At the end of the day, when you are talking about racing, these bikes are all top bikes. The winner will be decided by who has the best rider with the best support team (as shown by Rossi), not which one of these brands the bike they are riding is.

PS: I am dissappoint the Honda has not put out a new version of my CBR1000FL as this bike is a good sports tourer and as such (in my oppion) is better suited for the masses. Racing is for the track, not the road.

What about the Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird, surely this was the replacement for the CBR1000F?
Blue Wing Honda with Castrol sponsership have had a crack at the NZ Superbike title before as has Tony Rees racing a Yamaha for a number of years now? It hasnt been solely Suzuki racing, just Suzuki winning!!!

[inlinefour]

As I wont have a pilion then the Fireblade just gets better

[Sensei]

Honda where do you ride round in the Naki never seen ya. How about turning up for some of the Energy Honda Pie/pint ride's every 2nd Thursday 6pm . Or drop me aline & come for a blast ..
SENSEI

[gav]

The closest thing to racing at the moment is the Daytona tyre test sessions.
These are the final test results.

The final day of the Daytona tire test ended with Suzuki rider Ben Spies posting the fastest time of the test.

Superbike lap times:

1. Ben Spies, Suzuki, 1:39.701
2. Mat Mladin, Suzuki, 1:40.309
3. Neil Hodgson, Ducati, 1:40.711
4. Aaron Yates, Suzuki, 1:40.820
5. Miguel DuHamel, Honda, 1:41.206
6. Jake Zemke, Honda, 1:41.295
7. Eric Bostrom, Ducati, 1:42.003