Im no longer sure I want a litre bike

sounds like his riding skills aint much better

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike
Honda ST1100 Pan European (comes this week)

 

If it's any comfort, I've now put the wibblypants Firestorm back into
road trim, and Nige's lunched Firestorm back together, and after a
couple of test rides I can confirm they are both gutless compared to
the 12R.

Proper, modern Litrebikes with FI do indeed rock the phat one.

Cheers,

Paul.

 

blah blah blah...

--
Gavin.

For the road: GSXR600K1
For the track: <gone>
Current project: Peugeot Speedfight 2
For everything else: Citroën Berlingo

MSN:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby
Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk

 

Gav, the more i read this, the more i am utterly flabberfuckingasted, any
car or bike is only as fast as you want it to be. Litre bikes are superb in
all forms these days, get on the bike & rag it's fucking heart out, or
potter around on it like an old lady. It's your choice, but in opinion,
unless you intend to race it in a certain class, buy the fatsest, best
handling son of a fuckstain you can afford.

Which, is what I intend on for fast road use, once the beemer reaches it's
second birthday & the warranty runs out

All modern bikes are good & litre bikes are all fucking great.

Stop sounding like a fucking woman & ride the cunting thing.

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike
Honda ST1100 Pan European (comes this week)

 

Heh. I think now in retrospect that I need to have more of a play on
one. Its a case of re-tuning the brain to not ride the thing like a 600,
which is what I originally did.

You wont know the road I took it down, but its not the best in the
world, and so I may have not got the best experience out of the bike.

I didnt realise that I was "sounding like a women".

I did say it was light, I said that it had amazing low down grunt, Im
also not the 1st person to take it out of the A setting, and put it to
"standard", I dont think it makes much odds to how it behaves at high
RPM, just smooths the bottom end out a little.

What I should have done in hindsight is posted **** all, and kept quiet.
As above, my opinion is only based on a couple miles of B road (that on
the 600 would be flat stick all the way).

--
Gavin.

For the road: GSXR600K1
For the track: <gone>
Current project: Peugeot Speedfight 2
For everything else: Citroën Berlingo

MSN:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby
Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk

 

I'm not the best rider in the world by any means, but every bike i have had
had had the living shit ripped out of it (unless i sold it on eBay folks
How else would you know how fast it would go, or how well it needs to stop
if you dont hammer it in every way?

The only way to get the most from any vehicle is to know the ultimate limits
of it's particular charactaristics in a given situation.

Buy one now you fucking great jessie. If you don't like it, sell it to me.

--


Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue
Suzuki GSX-R600 Racebike
Honda ST1100 Pan European (comes this week)

 

That'll be it. The one thing that really blew me away with the thou was
the throttle response. Tiny movement, huge result.

I was thinking about this a few days ago while riding home from work and
paid a bit more attention to what my right hand was doing. The smaller
movements have become instinctive (though the fact that it's not January
and the tyres have a bit of grip probably helps).

You simply can't ride it like a 600 (or 750, for that matter). If you
do, you're going to get hurt.

Before you know it you'll be wondering whether it's even powerful enough
at all!

 

Here's youre problem.

Go for a proper ride, on roads you know well (shouldn't be too
difficult), and just get used to it. You will - everyone does.

 

But the evidence would suggest otherwise ;-)

Paul.

 

But where's the fun in that.

It takes time to wring the neck properly of a litrebike. It took me a
while to step up to the Blackbird. Pinning that to the stop was scary
after the 600 i'd left.

Now they're all lardy tourers to me

Someone give me an R1, thanks.

Paul.

 

well, it's a real word. Not sure it's a good one.

 

Well personally, speaking as someone who has just gone from a 600
Bandit to a GSXR1000, I find the GSXR easier to ride and more
comfortable doing distance work on dual carriageways (thankfully, as
that is why I upgraded). Okay my GSXR is only a K2, so not the latest
power machine, but it is so damn easy to ride smoothly due to the low
down grunt. Admittedly I seem to be going everywhere at least 20mph
faster (normally without realising it) and it goes into warp when I
crank the throttle right open.
Perhaps the ratio on the GSXR throttle is more suited to high gear
roll-on riding than your R1, I have no idea. I would not go back to a
600 now though.

 

Gavsta wrote:
snip

Seconded.

When I had a shot of an R1 my opinion was that hyperspace happened at
half the revs of of the 600 and feels much more brutal.

A quick search of the web tends to confirm it, max torque on the
CBR600RR is 46 (lb-ft) at 12400 rpm, 70.8 at 7750 for the R1

Which is nice.

 

Yamahas always were gutless. My SOB has 85 ftlb

 

You just need to ask yourself a few questions :-

1) Are you comfortable with your sexuality
2) Are you comfortable with the size of your dick
3) Do you feel the need to assert your masculinity
4) Will you actually use all of the available performance

If you answer Yes to 1&2 and No to 3&4 then you can just save a load of
money by not buying a litre sportsbike.
If you will be doing a lot of long haul touring you might like to
consider a big lardy tourer.
If you will be doing a lot of city commuting you should consider
something lightweight and manoeverable.

OTOH, some people like to splash their cash on boys toys for no good
reason, fine if you can afford it.

 

So far I've resisted joining the "crn is a twat" orthodoxy, but this
post really tempts me.

 

1. Yes.
2. No. I don't like to make women scream and men jealous.
3. No.
4. Yes.

Perhaps I should get something light and manoeuvrable such as a Fireblade.

 

It amused me.

 

Well yes, but I suspect his tongue was only half in his cheek.

 

I suspect it was lolling down his chin covered in drool as he
concentrated on his typing.