What bike should I get?

I've managed to wangle redundancy despite having another job lined up
for months and so I've got quite a bit of cash burning a hole in my
pocket.

I want to by a brand new sports bike. (Big trailies are just so last
year)

Which one should I get?

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Ballistic wrote

A black one.

 

If the "bit of cash" is big enough, an MV Tamburini.

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger (FOYRNB) '96 Tiger '79 Fantic 250

 

The latest clit bike, which appears to be a ZX10R.

 

Is that colour faster than blue though?

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Ash

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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

Interesting

 

As Krusty said - get something exotic.

 

Ballistic wrote

Everything is faster than Blue.

The only thing faster than black is red. Although I understand recent
re-interpretations of super string theory suggest that black may be not
as we believe but in fact faster than red but it is all about a
zillionth of a decimal point and uncertainty and stuff so all I can do
is choose to believe it or not. So I am staying with red until they can
explain it to me in ways I can understand.

 

How about a lightly-used Mille?

 

V good Mr. K.

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Ash

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enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

Nope. They're ridden (or not) by scared puffs.

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Ash

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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

I'd prefer something a little more mainstream as it needs to be
reliable enough to take a few Euro trips each year.

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Ash

UKRMFBC#8 BOTAFOT#82 BOTAFOF#41 HMC#5 FTB#0
Gone: ETV1000 Caponord
http://www.theredline.co.uk
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

R1? Supposed to be the best of the litre japs for doing miles one

 

Kawasaki ER-5 with CHARACTER. I can source you a used one.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, simonk belched forth and ejected the following:

Wot 'e said.

 

But yours is the in the sort of state that I would eventually inflict
on it so you've taken all the fun out of it.

I had an ER5 for a loan bike whilst the Capo was being serviced a
couple of years ago. The damn thing nearly killed me. I was going over
some solid white lines of raised paint when the spongy forks started to
pogo left and right and the bars flapped out of my hands. I reached the
point where I was resigned to bailing off the side and accepting the
pain when it miraculously sorted itself out.

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Ash

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Gone: ETV1000 Caponord
http://www.theredline.co.uk
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

Really? Supposed by whom? Certainly doesn't seem to have a good riding
position for us normal-height people, so I don't imagine it being as
good for me as the gixxer.

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**** off, blue is fastest innit. When something is going at billions of
m/s, it's the blue light that gets there first.

 

I would look at A BMW K1200S fast enough for most people with 167bhp and a
great tourer. eats up autobahns and fast Spanish Motorways.
Have a test ride and then tell me you didn't like it.

Peter

 

"the meeja"

Pretty sure that received opinion was that the R1 had had the sports-touring
wand waved over it

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/pdf/399/164111.pdf