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Still got my Hayabusa but since I got my 15RGS it doesnt get rode as much. Still love the speed and the rush it gives me but my RG is comfortable and more practical. I can just throw a leg over it and go. Its got storage in case I stop @ a store or it rains or gets cold I can grab a jacket. Music for when Im just cruising and relaxing. No earbuds or Bluetooth batteries dying out.
Every time I wanna ride my Busa I feel like Im preparing for war...... Gotta load up with all my gear plan a ride where I can avoid traffic and keep an eye out ahead for speed traps and in my rear view.
I thought buying a Bandit 1200s would slow me down a bit. It didnt. Hard not to twist the throttle to get that buzz. My buddy was bugging me to try a HD and always liked the look of them. Took a new limited out for a test run for a few hours and probably the first time i had a smile on my face just cruising around.Tunes playing Still got lots of power but completely different thrill and one more suited to not losing my licence. Absolutely love it.
Talk to me about the Bandit. Ive got my eye on a GSX 1250 FA. I love my Harley but I sure do get tired of wrestling with it in the twisties. Im too big (65, 36 inseam) for a full on sport bike. The GSX 1250 FA is not exactly the same bike as yours but close enough. Seems like a good compromise between a sport bike and a ST like a Concourse or FJR.
I rode sportbikes for 20-25 years and then switched to a rigid chopper and finally to Harley. I landed on a Street Glide a few years ago but wanted more performance and looked at a Stage 4 Road Glide, which was going to cost me 23k PLUS my paid for 2015 Street Glide...I told the guy I could go grab a hooligan bike for a third of that and keep my bike, to which he scoffed and said "But it wouldnt be a Harley"....well I showed up 9 days later on a Ducati Panigale 1199R..
Last edited by RedRider0151; Dec 21, 2018 at 06:42 AM.
I still have the urge to go fast around corners - I'm only 65, so I haven't outgrown my childhood yet.
This guy gets it. The sport touring bikes are a different breed than the Supersport bikes. I can get on board with the z1000 or Ninja 1000's. Upright(ish) position, standard bars and can still throw them into corners when needed. I've put 30,000 miles on a z1000 and traded it for my Vrod so the wife and I could ride. Took her a few months to warm up to the vrod and on her first trip out we rode 27 miles...to the Harley dealership to buy a King.
Never had a croth rocket but do have some rice in the garage
I have owned it 35 years
That's a 73 to 75 Kawasaki Z-1 and if those are LESTER wheels, it wont affect the value. (Looks like a LESTER in the back and a 77 or 78 KZ wheel out front.) It also looks to be sporting a set of later KZ carbs.
Have you priced a real Z-1 lately?
You might be shocked.
Theres some money there.
Last edited by ZEROPILOT; Dec 21, 2018 at 11:15 AM.
Started on dirt bikes, had a 1/4 mile flat track across the street in a farmers field (he let us do it), and a 1 1/2 mile motocross track in the woods at the end of the street. First street bike, H2 500cc Kawasaki, very much fun, wheelies, 1/8 mile drags, then to a Triumph Trident 750 that longed for England as it seemed to rain every time I rode it. Then an 850 Suzuki quickly followed by a GS1100E that I kept for 22 years. It grew to a 1240 with race cams, smoothbore carbs, a Yosh clutch, and a Kerker Comp pipe that was the subdivisions alarm clock when I left for work every morning getting gears going down the main street. That was followed by an SV1000N Suzuki, V-twin light weight great handling bike, and after much complaining from wife saying she couldn't perch on the pillion (we were in our mid - late 50's, I got my first Harley, a 2015 Street Glide, quickly followed by falling into the deal I got on the 2015 Ultra I now have.
The Kawasaki H1 was the 500cc. The H2 was a 74 hp 750. Both 2 stroke triples. That was one crazy bike! It's the bike that got me the name ZEROPILOT because I used to crash all of the biker bashes and meets on mine with unbaffled "stinger" expansion chambers.
I even raced one across the CABBAGE PATCH in Daytona.
Fun. Noisy and kind of unreliable. But now those bikes are fetching north of $25,000!
Not bad for $1,250 new.
Last edited by ZEROPILOT; Dec 21, 2018 at 11:13 AM.
I wouldn't say convert. More like a different tool for a different job. I sold my '13 Million Edition GSX-R1000 because sport bikes just aren't fun on the street after you've got some time in on the racetrack. And they're just not practical. But I still have my trackbike!
Both limited edition GSX-R. The blue one is an Anniversary 600, and the other is the Million Edition:
And this is what the 600 looks like now:
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Still got lots of power but completely different thrill and one more suited to not losing my licence. Absolutely love it.
