David Jeffries TT -- Steve Parry BMW R45, 01 Kawasaki ZX12-R, 07 K1200GT SE 95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50, 07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort www.gwynfryn.co.uk
Followed by 08 TT review -- Steve Parry BMW R45, 01 Kawasaki ZX12-R, 07 K1200GT SE 95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50, 07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort www.gwynfryn.co.uk
I've regularly sat on the same R1 and R6 that he won on too - they're in my old boss's collection. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Technically it's not an R1 - it's an R1 engine in a modified R7 chassis. DJ still casts a long shadow at this company. Oh, and they paid me to go to the TT.
Yeah, I knew that. Bastard, they never took me. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Talking of R7s, there's a mint one in Flitwick M/cycles for sale. I think it has less than 1000 miles on the clock and is in standard road trim, £15K to anyone who fancies it. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Am I right in thinking that that's a hell of a lot of money for what is, in truth, a spectacularly underpowered but very nice rare and exotic machine? IIRC they needed the race kit (only another £7k?, from Yamaha, and only if you could prove you were going to race it) to release the horses properly.
This one has the race kit fitted to release the horses, or so I'm told. Anyone could buy the race kit direct from their Yamaha dealer. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
I'd like all 3 of the bikes they're advertising, espacially the all white one. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
I'd still pay £15K for one if I had that sort of cash to spunk on toys. Same goes for an RC30. Very nice bikes, Flitwick M/cs have a couple of R7/1s lying around that they've raced. I've got one of those now, but it's not quite in the same vein. Where they stuck lights on a race bike and stuck it on the road, I took the lights off a quick but lardy sports-tourer and stuck it on track. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
Sticky plates? When was the oil last changed? -- Steve Parry BMW R45, 01 Kawasaki ZX12-R, 07 K1200GT SE 95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50, 07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort www.gwynfryn.co.uk
I changed it last year, the bike had done about 50 miles since then before Bear took it to the IoM I reckon the clutch could need a strip down to see what the problem is. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
To a certain extent my ZX12R is like that as SWMBO let me have it for 2k and from what I've seen of similar age/mileage they vary between 3 to 3.5k Took it out yesterday and it's a scary buzz how the back slides out when heavily leaned over if you're cack handed with the throttle -- Steve Parry BMW R45, 01 Kawasaki ZX12-R, 07 K1200GT SE 95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50, 07 VW Passat SE Estate for comfort www.gwynfryn.co.uk
I'm not sure I understand having a bike "you don't mind crashing". I mean, as mentioned in a thread elsewhere, they're all just bits of metal and plastic that can be replaced and it's *me* I'm mainly worried about breaking in a crash.
Tell us something we don't know! Newish I can do; niceish however...well, *I* like my bike.[1] If it went down the road, however, I'd just claim and get it repaired or get another one. [1] Even if darsy did call it a "slab sided 80s throw-back" or some such.
Ah, right then. I misunderstood your use of "standard road trim", and misremembered some other stuff. I can't imagine that there are many out there that haven't had the race kit mods done then, apart from one or two bought as keepers perhaps and therefore not used.
Ah, sorry, by standard road trim I meant it wasn't a race bike, still has the full rear mudguard fitted etc. I don't know of any that haven't had the race kit fitted or been tuned in some way, and I know of about 10 of them in road going trim. -- Lozzo the velologist Suzuki SV650S K5 Honda CBR600 FW trackbike Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka Suzuki GSXR750 L Suzuki TS50X Suzuki TS50X
