I'm Gettin A Bike!!

[Chuckracer]

WoooHooo!! I'm getting a new bike!
About friggen time, too. I'm looking long and hard at the CBR1000RR, and it's very cool, but I'm still drawn to the RC51. I've ridden them and dig them. I like twins, so I think it's gonna be the RC! [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]
Oh yeah! Track Days at Louden...twisty roads galore in the Adirondack mountains (my back yard)...this is gonna be a kick-ass summer!! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Firebird V]

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Cool. I like the look of the RC51 better. Road trip! I am looking at another trail bike. I think I am going to pull the trigger on the Yamaha TT250... Ahhh. But winter is here for a long time so... Good deals on '04's are around now so... Well... Good luck with your new purchase!

[Shawn Lutz]

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Cool, congratulations, sounds like a blast.

What happened to the sled Chuck?

[Chuckracer]

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Too much money for too little use. We have bare ground up here right now! I'm talking NO snow at all!
Me thinks global warming is showing its cards.

[Greg Crowe]

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Forget the CBR1000, it's an overweight pig that hasn't a clue what class it's supposed to be competing in. If you're leaning that direction, go with the YZF-R1 or the new 05 GSXR1000.

I'm a Yamaha guy with 2 YZF-R1's, a 98 I bought when they first came out and the new redesigned 04.... both incredible bikes! Hell, I just bought one of those mini pocket-bike crotch rockets that looks exactly like a YZF-R1.... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Chuckracer]

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LOL! In the bike world, just like with guitars, owners of a specific brand think what they own is the best and everything else sucks!

All the new liter bikes put out around 150 horsepower at the rear wheel and weigh about 450 lbs with a full tank of gas, so none of them would qualify as an overweight pig.

Remember, I'm coming from an expert level roadracing background and have lots of good friends who are expert and pro level racers who've ridden everything. One friend owns his own racetrack and gets to ride everything cause the magazines often test bikes there. Most of these friends routinely LAP these magazine test riders, so I don't put much stock in what they say.

I ask my friends, and according to them there ain't a hound in the bunch and the Honda gets the nod from most of them for it's amazing chassis. Like I said, they all make around 150 bhp, so motor-wise they are equal. It's the rider that makes the difference.

I could care less about drag racing and quarter mile times, and Greg, if it were possible I'd meet you any time on any twisty road or race track and show you just how much of an "overweight pig" the CBR1000RR really is...I'll bet you registrations you can't keep up!*


*the above is meant in good spirit!

[Greg Crowe]

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Well, OK....... it's not an overweight pig but compared to other newer 1K bikes.... it's about 30 lbs heavier with a correspondingly longer wheelbase.

[Chuckracer]

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Well, while I don't have the hard numbers, I think the Honda may be 20 lbs heavier, and the wheelbase is almost the same.
It dosen't matter. All these bikes have close enough to the same specs that it's down to the rider, and that's what I love about bikes!

I'm just a Honda guy... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[VinceV]

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Do any of the Japanese companies make a bad bike? Some are more extreme(seating, rake, foot pegs) than others, but hell put a good rider on a 600, and he'll smoke average liter bike riders all day. They are all so close it's the rider who makes a difference.

[Greg Crowe]

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You're a Honda guy, I'm a Yamaha guy. I actually think the Honda would make a better streetbike with the longer wheelbase and engine making more low end power than the peakier R1 or Gixxer1K. I don't know of any magazine anywhere in the world that thought the Honda was a better track bike.

I wouldn't own a Kawasaki anything if you gave it to me for free! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Chuckracer]

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That's exactly right, Greg. I am going for a streetbike after all, and that's why I am drawn to the Honda. I may do a trackday or two somewhere down the line, but in reality all these bikes are WAY overkill for the street and my roadracing days are behind me. I'm still strongly considering an RC51, too.

BTW, my friend who owns the racetrack has a new R1...he loves it, but he knows me well and knows what I like. He recommended the Honda.

I actually crashed his old R1. He uses a street shift pattern and I'm used to a race pattern. I back-shifted it coming out of a fast sweeper and high sided it! He was impressed, I'm sure...

The Kawi ZX10R is very cool, I just don't like Kawasaki engineering.

[skidd]

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...twisty roads galore in the Adirondack mountains (my back yard)...this is gonna be a kick-ass summer!! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

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Mine as well! watch out for the deer, that would not be pretty! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Be safe.

[Guest]

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That ain't no bike man. Whatup Chuck??? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]

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Pat

[Chuckracer]

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Sorry, you're right.
This is a high performance, state of the art motorcycle.

My bad! [img]/images/graemlins/poke.gif[/img]

[Firebird V]

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... zzzzzzzzzzing!