The Man With Only One Bike

Well yes you do with 197bhp available via your right hand. In the
latest bike there are "pictures" of a "blingmobile" esk GTR1400 and a
Z1400. I'm sure we have a number of candidates for both bikes on this
group.

 

I want 197bhp (or 200+ for that matter) but I want it in a sportsbike
package that's going to wave its front wheel at the sky every time it
even sniffs a bump in the road. I know I'm not alone in wanting this.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4621404789

Picked up this afternoon.

 

Did you ever have a go on the Drifter?

 

Which way round is it? It would need to fit on the front of the LHS fork.

 

Chill. I bought a beige Kawasaki too, remember?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Heh.

No.

This is daft. I'm sure I don't really want a ZZR1400. I'm probably going
to have to go and sit on one thobut.

Paul's comment about a new GTR1400 is fascinating, but I bet it's going
to be an arm and a leg when and if it appears.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Ooh. Ooh.

Possibly.

 

O.K.. About 8 p.m., then.

 

You do realise that a sportsbike will be substantially more competent
but significantly less satisfying? Or was that sportsbike talk seller's
bluff?

 

You should have.

Cruel, cruel.

And just another big fast tourer. No matter how good it is, law of
diminishing returns...

 

Righto. Will you have time for a bit of nosh?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Gyp

You're OK, I think he's bought a VFR750.

I don't know if he takes the same sized slippers as Statto though.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Yes, please.

 

No, I'm buying Statto's VFR.

 

platypus said...

It's a right side behind forks style, so will fit in front of the forks
on the left of your bike.

 

The sale includes copies of CDs containing the Honda BoT [1] and a
Haynes BoL, one of which I believe has a section covering footwear
overhaul and replacement of leather elbow patches.

[1] Book of Truths

 

Excellent. Can you bring it to the BOSM?

 

I look forward to getting my leather elbow sliders down.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

<thinks of inverted Drifter>

Oh not *again*.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000