The ultimate bike?

I'm trying to think about a new (to me) bike but I just can't find the
right thing, so thought I'd ask at the font of all knowledge..

I want something to commute the 25 miles each way to work on, so good
fuel economy would be useful.. All the bikes I've had except the K1200
had carbs, I'm guessing more modern FI is better.

I don't want to have to take it to the dealer for expensive services,
I can do that myself, hydraulic tappets and FI would be an advantage
as you only tend to change consumables and greese things then.

I don't really want a chain to mess about with..

I want to be able to put 100k miles on it.

It's got to be cheap.

My heart is telling me I want a Buell XB9SX, but I cant see that is at
all practical. The bandit 600 I've got at the moment is well, er
great for the job but it's probably getting on a bit now and I'm sure
I can do better than 40mpg.

Is there some nice 750 shaft with fuel injection that can do starship
miles that's quite fun to ride?

Any good ideas?

 

Matt Horn wrote

Oh I dunno, homosexuality is rather common these days and many support
groups exist to make the transition easier for the waverers.

A working sig seperator could help.

 

WTF are you on about?

It says [dash][dash]space] from here in the original and in your quote
of the original and in your own sig seperator, unless the requirements
have changed since I last looked I can't see there is a problem,
besides which I thought the guideline is you need a seperator if the
signature exceeds 3 lines, which it doesn't unless you could the
seperater broken or otherwise.

 

I think it is broken as well. NT650/Hawk/BROS? 2nd hand BMW?

 

Matt Horn says...

Try hitting <return> after the two dashes.

 

No, it *doesn't* say [dash][dash][space][newline], Mozilla (and od) says it
looks like [dash][dash][newline], sorry:

0004100 65 2e 0a 0a 2d 2d 0a 4d 61 74 74 68 65 77 0a 47
e . \n \n - - \n M a t t h e w \n G

Steve gets it right, of course:

0002620 75 6c 64 20 68 65 6c 70 2e 0a 0a 2d 2d 20 0a 73
u l d h e l p . \n \n - - \n s

PS Neither of you spelled separator correctly...

 

Checked your answerphone recently
Give us a call y'c**t! ;-)

 

It worked perfectly from what I can see.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

This is Steve. The man whose grasp in reality makes mine look like
Action Mans Real Gripping Hands[TM].[1]

Phil.

[1] They say these new migraine drugs don't have side effects. I'm
beginning to wonder.

 

You think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiramate

You're fucked, Phil...