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[Jim996]

[Manic636]

Bikes are an addiction . Full Stop

You either love as is then spend a fortune making it more lovely than anyone elses or

you think you could love it but just need to spend a fortune to realise said love...

Come to think if it sounds like women 

[simple]

Jim ,

gave you my " potted " history earlier . Seems we may be hewn from the same stone 

[GRNINJA]

I chose my first 2 bikes for my bank balance.... i.e cheap..... my next bike I bought cause I fell in love with.... she was a beaut... the ten I got mainly cause all my mates had 1000's bikes....

I wanted an 04/05 R1 but the ten came up and it looked so mean i had to have it.... I haven't looked back and I have spent so much on her now she stays.... whether I get a new bike or not she aint going no where.... 

[Andy J]

money versus my brain saying buy it you like it 

simple logic evertime for me 

[fossil]

Great post mate. BHP. You are the rider I wish I was - brave enough to got to the limit and find out what happens - I have odd moments but most of the time I find myself wishing I was braver.
Good point about the X factor bit - so true.
My addictive bikes - 1969 Kawasaki H1A 500 - *ucking stupid machine really but petrifying at the time. Sold it to stay alive. In fact gave up bikes for short while 'cause that thing was an impossible act to better back then. It burned me out for a while.

1987 Suzi GSXR 1100 slabside - with a...... 150 rear tire-  how stupid is that - it would spin the rear wheel and weave and lurch trying to put the power down but it felt great - sort of like 'safe' dangerous biking.   (Top motor though - no finesse - just runted out the horses and you tillered the thing in the general direction)

2004 Zx10R- perfect - what freaks me is just how fast how stable how sharp it is, which should make it boringly safe, but its exciting even stood still. Defo X factor.

All the rest were fillers in between!      

[GRNINJA]

+ bhp fossil 

[fossil]

Ta GR - that bike of yours looks different every time I look - it gets just a teeny weeny bit more luvley every time - cant you fast forward six months then I can have an orgasm?

[GRNINJA]

slowly but surely fella 

next the rearsets then the akra..... then come the engine mods 

[Jim996]

[1987 Suzi GSXR 1100 slabside - with a...... 150 rear tire-  how stupid is that - it would spin the rear wheel and weave and lurch trying to put the power down but it felt great - sort of like 'safe' dangerous biking.   (Top motor though - no finesse - just runted out the horses and you tillered the thing in the general direction)

GSXR1100.......RESPECT.......THAT WAS A MANS MOTORCYCLE.....before my biking time but I still hear about them in hushed tones......proper widowmaker.........

[MajicKwak]

ZZR 600 cos it was fast enough yet gentle enough.  I knew nothing about bikes then (not much more now either)


ZX636R cos I took one for a test ride and got a half decent price against the ZZR.

I also had a test ride on the 10R last year at the same time, but I knew my limitations and was sure that I would loose licence/life.  No particular order either.

Been riding for 20 months, lots of miles, 2 bikes, 2 helmets, 2 lots of kit.

My 636 also is a keeper, I just love it to bits.

[fridayman]

I have quite a vivid memory of sitting in the back of my ol man's car when I was a wee lad, and seeing a Katana come past. On that day my fate was sealed, I would be a biker. The first bike I went to test ride as soon as I turned 18 was a 1000cc Katana Striker, but my ol man was helping to pay and said no (he wanted me to pay back my studies before I killed myself). Two years later a friend of a friend was selling one and this time I had the dosh To me it was the most beautiful bike in the world, looking like it wanted to pick a fight even when it stood still.

Several bikes followed.

Then one day I was watching a Performance Bikes vid and suddenly Shaky comes flying past a Duc on a TL1000R. I think it was the twin upswept cans that initially did it for me. It was my first proper modern sportsbike, and taught me more about riding than all my other bikes put together. As much as I loved my TLR though, I was always trying to make it better. Trying to get it to turn quicker, hold a line better, make more power... I suppose that meant spending a lot of time understanding the bike... with trying to understand the suspension being a lot like trying to understand a woman.

I don't think I would have appreciated what an awesome bike the K5 was if I hadn't spent as much time trying to turn the TLR's into... well K5's as it turns out. I blagged a test ride on one when they had just came out, and bought mine the same day - the missus went with and only took one look at my face after the ride to realise I was going to buy it anyway. It handled better than anything that I had ridden upto then, and was by far the fastest thing in a straight line that I have ever ridden. When that stupid bint knocked me off  I jumped up and had checked out the damage before she had even got out of her car    

That accident turned out to be Fates way of getting me to let go of the K5, which I needed to do before I could get the 750K6. The K6 is the 1 step back that I needed to take to be able to go 2 steps forward. I wish everyone could flick a 750 through the tight chicane coming onto the start/finish straight at Silverstone, then experience pure bliss as the Racefit howls down the straight.