I have a clinical need...

I managed a comedy trip into the woods at compton on a 750 Bonneville,
missing all the trees after failing to correctly negotiate a bend.
Amazingly I failed to fall off or injure myself in any way that time.

 

Will have to lose four stone then. Bugger.

 

BTDTGTTS, and so has SP...

 

The long run down to Veggie Daves and then back via Pixie central and
Huntingdon has made them even smaller. The left hand ones are bigger
than the right as there aren't that many left hand bends that I need
to really lean into. Roundabouts account for the right hand side I
guess.

For those who do 100 plus on the roads - do you have the little voice
going 'if there's a camera car you can kiss goodbye to your licence?'
echoing in your head? I don't want to be on tenterhooks for a couple
of weeks every time I get the needle to the end of the clock

 

No, I have a little voice saying: "you can enter that corner a lot faster
than you're going to".

 

I've got that one as well. And the one that goes 'lean and look, lean
and look' when I think that perhaps I may have gone in a little too
fast.

 

Lady Nina says...

No, only a little voice telling me to slow down for corners when I don't
need to.

 

They are. I had one that had been breathed on in all sorts of ways -
Maxton shocks, engine tweaks and a pearlised paintjob..

Straight line on good roads it was almost the fastest thing I have ever
ridden - but round corners or on rough roads it was a nightmare. Even
my Dutch friend on a Transalp was going faster than me!

I got rid of it about 9 months after I bought it - before it killed me.

Phil

 

Phil - I suspect Lozzo was talking about a ZX10R, whereas you are
talking about the original ZX10 (the ZX1100E, I believe).

Bloody Kawasaki - I wish they'd stop re-using model names (cf GPz1100,
z750, z1000, etc).

 

Ah. Oh. Errr..

Yes.

My one and only Kwak too! Although there is a rather nice Belgian beer
called Kwak that one drinks out of a glass shaped like a boot[1]. I
seem to remember getting severely wibbled on that one year at the
'end-of-the-bike-tour-for-another-year' evening.

Phil.

[1] Those crazy, zany Belgians eh?

 

And anyway, I had a ZX10 in 1989 and I thought it was a fine handling
machine! Mind you, it did need a firm hand, and to be shown who was
boss.

 

why was an 1100 called a ZX10 anyway?

 

Number of anticipated sales.

 

d'oh. My typo - it was the ZX1000E. But you knew that.

 

genuinely, I didn't.

 

Champ says...

I was.