Bike consolidation

[Yorick]

My word this is pretty, I've always wanted a gsxr750...

Nice wheels. What are they?

Wheels

[dern]

Nice wheels. What are they?

Wheels

Oz apparently. That's a k4 with 27k on it for 4k.

[dern]

Oooo...



...and I've already got the cam shim kit for that engine so it's a practical purchase.

[Couchy]

Of late I've felt that bike buying is not always best driven by logic. The buy what you want, without overthinking it approach can work.

That ^

I was fortunate when I was younger that I didn't really know that much about bikes, so I bought the ones I wanted, not the ones that best suited the job. Now I spend so much time weighing up all the pros and cons that I put myself off buying everything before I've even been to look at them.

That’s pretty much where I am, I ask myself what am I going to use it for and I don’t normally have an answer so I don’t buy it

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Buy the 98 R1, you won't regret it, they're fun, but the 99 bike has a modified gearbox spring which apparently fixes the changing from 1st to 2nd gear problem that my 98 suffered from.

[KungFooBob]

I keep promising myself a V4 Tuono, you can pick them up for 6k these days.

[Asian Boss]

I've found not worrying too much what the bike is works for me, as per the above. What is important is it's near my home and the seller will deliver it. I think the last five bikes I've bought the seller has delivered for me. Only one was from a shop. Fuck all that going to collect it bollocks.

Whatever you buy you like for a bit, then you go off it a bit, sell it and buy something else. They're all keepers, until they're not, which is all of them.

[Bigyin]

I've had 4 Rocksters since then and done lots of different riding: commuting, long-distance, trackdays, off-roading: it's not brilliant at any of them, but it's more than good enough for most of those types of riding. It's not a good trackbike, the bars are too wide, and it definitely didn't suit Silverstone (it's not that quick), but it would be quite fun on smaller, tighter tracks I think, thanks to the wide bars giving the steering lots of leverage, and it's stability in corners. It's not a great off-roader either, but it's just as capable as any other 'big' offroader (eg the GS) which is going to struggle just as much when it gets very muddy if its on road-oriented tyres.

Come play this year at Pembrey, ideal for the Rockster

[Rockburner]

I've had 4 Rocksters since then and done lots of different riding: commuting, long-distance, trackdays, off-roading: it's not brilliant at any of them, but it's more than good enough for most of those types of riding. It's not a good trackbike, the bars are too wide, and it definitely didn't suit Silverstone (it's not that quick), but it would be quite fun on smaller, tighter tracks I think, thanks to the wide bars giving the steering lots of leverage, and it's stability in corners. It's not a great off-roader either, but it's just as capable as any other 'big' offroader (eg the GS) which is going to struggle just as much when it gets very muddy if its on road-oriented tyres.

Come play this year at Pembrey, ideal for the Rockster

I'll think about it.

[mangocrazy]

Oooo...



...and I've already got the cam shim kit for that engine so it's a practical purchase.

Now yer talkin'. If it came with an invisibilty cloak (so Mrs Mango wasn't aware of it), I'd have one in a heartbeat, ageing bones or not.

[dern]

I’m thinking that I’m only going to be able to ride something like that for a few more years.

[KungFooBob]

I always liked the noise of a Big Bang R1, what's the budget again?

[dern]

8k tops I think if I’m only going to chop in the 950 and not reduce the number of bikes. Anything more than that would take more diplomacy that I can be arsed with. It would have to be something really special for 10k, like maybe the r1.

[KungFooBob]

Might just get an MV F3 800, I think the F4 1000 is just out of budget.

[dern]

Like this one...

[Mr Moofo]

Soo what is the sketchy handling re the 950SM?

[dern]

Just feels a bit under steery and flappy on occasions. It’s ok though, I just don’t love the bike as I thought I would. I like it but don’t love it. I’m just looking for excuses to get something new

[Whysub]

Like this one...

I had an RC8 that, at the age of 60, I rode to Slovakia in the May, then to Serbia in the August. Great tourer, very comfortable riding position (multiway adjustable).

[Dodgy69]

Soo what is the sketchy handling re the 950SM?

My bars would start wobbling when you got moving on a bit. Never sorted it.

[Mr Moofo]

Soo what is the sketchy handling re the 950SM?

My bars would start wobbling when you got moving on a bit. Never sorted it.

How odd - I did many miles up and down alpine passes on mine. The defining thing about 950 was how good the handling was and how stable it was