Brill bike, but I'm biased. This one if you wan't something very different from a GSX R1000. Power delivery and balance are very different than the R1, Blade and GSXR. Not much fun though if you're doing commuting. OTOH, my Gixer Thou is a pretty good all rounder. -- Alan http://www.ads-training.co.uk "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" GSX-R1000 , Triumph Thunderbird, ZXR750L2 Racer(gone), GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://sportsbike.org (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus"
You won't believe the enjoyment that moment of intentional misunderstanding gave me. Silly really. How do people survive in the provinces, without the essentials of modern life?
I dunno what the story is sales-wise on the big Zed. The magazines love it, and often use phrases that suggest it has sold well. TOG was always sceptical, tho. I wonder what sales it has really made, and how they compare with the rest of the market. I certainly haven't seen that many on the road. TOG?
Why was it no good for commuting then ? I like it too I still can't help myself absolutely caning it *all* the time Picking up this conversation I have to admit I like the sound of the new 750, if there was one thing I'd change on my bike it would be the brakes [1]. The new one they look to have addressed the brakes. I have to admit that come Feb I may be looking at a new one myself !! [1] The best part of £500 on them and they are still a bit scary!
It's a struggle, you know. I don't know how I put up with it.[1] [1] On the plus side, not watching Palace games is proving to be a bonus this season.
It's good fun though. -- Alan http://www.ads-training.co.uk "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" GSX-R1000 , Triumph Thunderbird, ZXR750L2 Racer(gone), GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://sportsbike.org (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus"
not at all. But unless I do get paid a bonus, I'll be having to sell the 'blade and probably be "proper bike-less" for a while. sure, I'd like a *go* on one, I just don't think I'd want to own one. they do. It's just the 'blade is the first race-rep fully-faired bike I've owned, and I'm sort of after a return to 1/2 or 1/4-fairingness - all that plastic to break is a worry!
Feeling a little down today are we? You should try one, just for the hell of it. Litre bikes rock. But there again everything is too tall for me, it's just a matter of degree of tootallness. I have never wanted to change my GSXR1000. Bear's old bike was relaly nice. My old ZXR750 is really nice and you've ridden that. Not bad but a but too flash for me. -- Alan http://www.ads-training.co.uk "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" GSX-R1000 , Triumph Thunderbird, ZXR750L2 Racer(gone), GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://sportsbike.org (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus" -- Alan http://www.ads-training.co.uk "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" GSX-R1000 , Triumph Thunderbird, ZXR750L2 Racer(gone), GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://sportsbike.org (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus"
Tyre cost. I was going through a back tyre every two months which meant I was spending 900 quid a year on rear tyres alone. The new bike will be used to commute a couple of days a week but not as much as the old one. That's why you bought it Seriously? What on earth have you had done to them? Seal kits and rebuild wasn't that much surely?
that's a bummer. You do seem to have this "buy a bike, wait two months, oh *shit* the taxman/whoever is after me, sell bike" thing going on at the moment. Indeed.
In a good way, in that I haven't been fired or anything. In a bad way, in that we're probably moving to an office near Heathrow. Oh, and all the design work and coordination with suppliers up here in town will have to be torn up and re-done. Which puts me squarely on the critical path for the entire project. Still, I get an easy bike commute to work along some well-surfaced curvy dual carriageways.
K' that figures. I'm still on the front it had when I bought it and the rear I had done a couple of days later. They are both in need of changing though, as is the chain. Still that's for after Christmas, I've got a car from work at the moment and it's tooooooo cold for biking When I get the chain and stuff done the Micron is going back on it as well, 'just because' Nah it wasn't really £500 for the brakes, the service, MOT and some other stuff (fixing the electrics) came to just under £500. Bit of a shock to be honest but I had budgeted for it. The brakes are miles better to be honest but there are still times when I think "hmm not stopping very fast here" and have to grab harder than I care to.
You *like* re-work, right? aren't they filled with crazed unlicenced Acton minicabs, though? Certainly the A4 is...
I sorted the taxman out, by borrowing money of a relative. I need to pay that person back at some point, though.
I'm going to have to learn to like it. I don't actually mind the location, as such - I'm spending £100 a month on my Oyster card, and a fucking fortune on crayfish, rocket, ciabatta and cassoulet at lunchtime. It takes me an hour each way to get to work, whereas at the new place it'll take about 15 minutes by bike. We're dealing with facilities houses, though, who as well as giving us our office space and access to equipment, they provide expertise, consultancy, equipment procurement and leasing, repair and management services, etc. So, naturally, all the work done so far assumed the existence of these services at the place we were planning to move to. Now it's to be (potentially) a different venue, all the services, incumbent kit, yaddah yaddah, are different. So, pretty much every bit of documentation I've done post-requirements (and possibly the requirements themselves) have to be revisited. It's a really good job there are no weapons in the office today, otherwise I fear someone would "get theirs". Oh, no, it's all dead posh on the A316, dontcha know ...
I feel like that a lot of the time. Though apparently, I'm a "corporate whore" now, and ought to learn to like it.
