B12s are really rather good......

UNDERSTATEMENT!!!!

That fucking engine!!

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Fr Jack said...

I've done about 280 miles on the B6 today, I am still giggling. I don't
do that when I get back from a ride on the Gixer.

 

I have the same experience with the ZRX, which is why I've still got it
4 years later.

 

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:12:01 +0100, ginge

Bit rare your bike isn't it! I've been looking on ebay and biketrader
for the last few weeks and seen nothing worth a second look.

 

From what I can tell the people who buy them keep them. You'll
sometimes see 1100's up for sale, but less so with the bikini faired
12's.

I'm glad I didn't buy a 1/2 faired one now as well, it's not at all the
same experience.

 

Oh bloody hell yes. It's not the world's fastest bike; it's not even
in the top 10 best handling. What it does is go from bimble to thrash
in less time than it takes to say "Bandit 12". Torque is cheap.

 

A faired B12 is on my "test ride" list for this year. They're not the
most expensive of bikes and the paintwork does appear to be a bit too
cheap but with the money one has saved by buying it can easily be
invested in a host of inexpensive 3rd party aftermarket components
like a decent set of anchors to throw off the back, different shocks
and the like. I suppose it's a popular budget litre-bike that one can
do as little or much to as one wishes.

Just my 2p's worth.

 

Although I still reckon buying the B12 was the best thing I ever did,
I still miss my old B6. There was just something right about it;
thrashing it to v. high revs was bloody great fun and didn't feel too
scary. Thrashing the B12 to v. high revs is also fun, but brings
about thoughts of incipient mortality...

 

I've tried two.

I personally found them to be a bit over-rated, and not my cup of tea at
all.

Try a Fazer 600 if you're after no frills fun - I bought one straight after
the last testride of a B12 I had, and bar the pants headlight, found it to
be much more what I want from a bike.

*nods*

 

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:53:31 +0100, ginge

It would seem so and I'm not sure I want to spend 5.5k on a new one.

 

Got to concur. After riding the GSX Thou and B12 back to back, i'm
afraid the GSXR has rather ruined me for all other steeds

But I have other plans re: work and an alternative change of bikes, so
the Gixxer is gonna have to wait a mite longer :/

P.

 

it's not even in the top 100 best handling bikes.

 

Indeed not. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, it's still fun to
ride. I have to state at this point I've never ridden a proper
sportsbike, so my viewpoint may be slightly skewed.

 

They are rather good fun. I added a side mount sprint damper to this B12
and life is a bit more stable now.

 

Yes indeed, my thinking exactly, though I may have chosen a more
extreme example.

 

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

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Traal.

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well, yes. It's also the reason I rode mine into a cornfield on the
first day I bought it, having got on it straight from riding an
SZR660.

I imagine so. Having owned several very good handling bikes, I
wouldn't be prepared to go back to a stock B12.

 

darsy said...

That's the trouble with you realtive newbies, you're not at all
comfortable trying to get foul handling pieces of shit round corners
fast.

I have a marvellous handling Gixer, it really is the best bike I have
ever owned. It simply goes round corners like it's on rails with no
hassles, but I get far more pleasure from fighting the Bandit's crap
suspension and flexy frame as I attack a set of twisties at nowhere near
the same speed. It really is a step back to when I was in my early 20s
and trying to keep up with mates on my old GS550.

 

You slightly misunderstand. I'd had a CG125, then the SZR for a couple
of years, when I bought the B12 - I really had very limited experience
of riding other bikes - I think I'd had a 30 minute ride on a mate's
VFR750 and a similar go on an R1100. I was riding a road I new
wellish, and on a sharp left hander, prepared to flick the bike on
it's side like I would have done on the SZR. Nothing happend on the
B12, and I went across the oncoming traffic and into the field. I kept
it upright, mind, and there was no damage to the bike, but the whole
thing was caused by my inexperience at the time. After owning the B12
for a while, I got used to it.

See, I actually do know where you're coming from, because I do enjoy
wrestling the R65LS around, particularly in the company of other
riders on more modern machinery - there's a particular sort of warm
glow you get from just about keeping up[1].

I even used to get a reasonable buzz riding my CD200 through London
traffic, as I was going as fast as anyone else. Of course, this all
turns to shit when you find you can't stop as fast as anyone else...

[1] I mean with some people, obviously I can't keep up with anyone
competently riding a modern sportsbike.