New Metal Day! Yamaha YZF-R6

[TheMightyRunt]

Nice bike mate, looks like he really enjoys it.

 

[Esp Griffyn]

You're only choice is a turbocharged Hayabusa.

lol, I've had serious GAS for one ever since I got into motorbikes, but I don't think I'm fit to sit on one in a dealership, let alone ride it. One of the lecturers at my uni owns a black one and parks it on the street I have to walk down to go to my lab sessions, so I get to oogle it, but not too much, don't want to look like I'm getting ready to steal it.

I don't think anyone with less than 10 good seasons of riding under their belts really has any business with a Hayabusa. Far too powerful for most riders, but once you get your corner down and can restrain your throttle hand they arent supposed to be that scary. Maybes in a few years I could own one...

At the moment though, I would like a Fireblade or an R1, but tbh I'll probably end up getting a 1000cc sports tourer. A good mix of speed and cornering ability, combined with a more forgiving riding position so I could ride it all ay without destroying my spine. I'll be getting a new job next summer, so I probably won't have money to get a new bike until then, but I'd hate to get a stiff sportsbike and be in agony after 45 minutes of commuting. One of my friends who has a BMW 1200GS and a Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja (and an old Yamaha YZF 600cc that he lets me ride from time to time ) and he says that after an hour on the Ninja he is in agony. Its got a wide, flat seat (for a sportsbike anyway) and a low seat height, making for an aggressive riding position. A recipe for pain!

That said, another friend of mine has a Suzuki GSX-R 750K8 and he says he can ride that for hours without any discomfort, but then the GSX-R series are known to be some of the best bikes money can buy as far as the comfort / fun balance goes.

 

[TheMightyRunt]

They sell Turbo'd Busa's at dealers?

 

[Esp Griffyn]

They sell Turbo'd Busa's at dealers?

Nope, you'd have to fit an after-market turbo system, but even a stock Hayabusa has more power than anyone but the most experienced rider needs. I've never ridden one, but from what I gather from the owners I have talked to, is that people expect them to be wallowy in corners because they are so wide and fat, but accelerating and leaning really makes them dive into corners, so they can come out of a corner carrying far more speed than you would expect from from a bike of its dimensions. Obviously you have to factor in the stock settings, which deliver a rediculous 180 odd BHP.

The main problem people have with them is that if you cane it while riding them and accelerate very quickly in lower gears it shreds your back tyre in a way that riding a 1000cc in the same manner wouldnt. It also wears chains out very quickly. The new Yamaha V-Max is 178BHP and also kills tyres, but is 1679cc. Big engines, big BHPs going through one wheel just trashes tyres, no word yet on how the V-Max is on chains yet though. Riding bikes of that size in a gentle manner will obviously save your tyres and chains, but the wear will always be greater than 1000cc bikes, and if you ride them gently and never cane it until you reach the speed limit then you might aswell not buy a Hayabusa in the first place.

If I could afford a Hayabusa, had the skill to ride it and the money for chains and tyres, I would make full use of its 2.47second 0-60 speed, since the speed limit in England is 70mph (60 on single carriageways) I could pull up at a stop junction, join a dual carriage way and be at the speed limit in under 3 seconds. Absolutely ludicrous speed. The stock Hayabusa will do 200.2mph on flat land with an agressive, tucked in riding stance and enough long, flat road to get up to that speed, tbh I don't see why you'd need a turbo on something that fast. Tyres and chains would just go in the bin even quicker!

 

[TheMightyRunt]

Lol for nut cases mate.

Considered a Gixxar 750 or 1000? Im in Australia, but my boss grew up in Kent in England. Now rides a Bandit 1200S.

 

[matty2fatty]

, but then the GSX-R series are known to be some of the best bikes money can buy as far as the comfort / fun balance goes.

I miss my GSX-R 600 more than anything. This was my first summer without a bike in 4 years and it was horrible....stupid university...

 

[Esp Griffyn]

Lol for nut cases mate.

Considered a Gixxar 750 or 1000? Im in Australia, but my boss grew up in Kent in England. Now rides a Bandit 1200S.

I have been told the GSX-R1000 is about the best litre bike going, and my mate who has a GSX-R750 loves his as I mentioned in my last post. If I got one, I'd definitely go for the blue/silver paint, looks amazing. Like I say, it could be a year or more til I get my new bike, so I've got plenty of time to choose. If it gets to next June and the serious sport bikers are selling off their 09 Yamaha R1s then I might pick one of those up. As I've seen from the pics and vids, its a fat, wide and low bike, which is what I like, or I might end up on a sports tourer. Only time will tell!

 

[CentaurPorn]

4 years? This is my first summer in 10 without a Gsx-R
96 600, 99 750, and I just sold my 2003 750. Sad Trombone

There is always next year.
The pleasures of buying a house.

Nice bike for a yamaha

 

[Esp Griffyn]

I miss my GSX-R 600 more than anything. This was my first summer without a bike in 4 years and it was horrible....stupid university...

I feel your pain! I'm stuck in fucking uni atm, one more year left to go then I graduate, get a proper job, and get a decent bike, hopefully. I have had no money to get my own bike, as I did my CBT on borrowed gear. I will have to get my act together and get my own gear and do my direct access next summer so I can get something nice. I'm living on the bones of my arse atm, having to fork out £660 for a fucking student bus pass so I can go to uni!

I hate using the bus too, I'd take my car to uni (any excuse to drive, I love being on the road, car or bike!) but a parking pass for the city centre is £400 and there are no gauranteed spaces anyway, plus running costs of petrol through the bad traffic would make it prohibitavely expensive. Hopefully once I've graduated I can use my bike for commuting (again, a sports-tourer might be handy for those wet, cold winter mornings) and my fiance can use the car. I think though, that there won't be much room for choice and I'll have to keep a car and be insured on both a bike and a car. Some mornings are just too icey for bikes, unless you arent that bothered about sliding off the road, trashing your bike and/or dying in the process!