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It has the can off a ZH2. :shock:
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Skub wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:30 pm It has the can off a ZH2. :shock:
It's errrm substantial isn't it!
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More than a tip of the hat to Rins and Mir's 2020 bikes,which look sweet to my old eyes. 8-)
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Apart from that can, it's a good looking thing.

Won't be slow either?
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Do I need to reply ?
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Skub wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:30 pm It has the can off a QE2. :shock:
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Yorick wrote: Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:24 pm Do I need to reply ?
Does it say "i like it..."

or

"I've ordered one"
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Has Yorick really been riding Gixxer's since 1920 :thumbup:
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Supermofo wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:46 am Has Yorick really been riding Gixxer's since 1920 :thumbup:
I'd be interested to know what his last bike was before that... since i've known him i think he's ridden gsxr1000s.
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How do they manage to make it look so old and fat ?, great bikes though apart from mates one that caught fire on track :)
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Couchy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:04 am How do they manage to make it look so old and fat ?, great bikes though apart from mates one that caught fire on track :)
LOL 1 bike out of a squgillion made.
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I'm not the only person that looked at that and thought it was a photoshop parody with that enormous can then!
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lostboy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:23 am I'm not the only person that looked at that and thought it was a photoshop parody with that enormous can then!

Is it actually a smallish, compact, bike? Hence the can looking so out of scale.
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weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:48 am
Supermofo wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:46 am Has Yorick really been riding Gixxer's since 1920 :thumbup:
I'd be interested to know what his last bike was before that... since i've known him i think he's ridden gsxr1000s.
When I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVS

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Horse wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:40 am
lostboy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:23 am I'm not the only person that looked at that and thought it was a photoshop parody with that enormous can then!

Is it actually a smallish, compact, bike? Hence the can looking so out of scale.
Park a GSXR1100 next to a GSXR1000 and you'll see how small the 1000s really are.
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Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:18 am
weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:48 am
Supermofo wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:46 am Has Yorick really been riding Gixxer's since 1920 :thumbup:
I'd be interested to know what his last bike was before that... since i've known him i think he's ridden gsxr1000s.
When I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVS

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1994 RF900
1997 ZX6R (lasted 3 days)
1997 ZX9R

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Didn’t you, the ZX9, and tractor trailer have a bit of an incident - or was that someone else from the VD days?
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lostboy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:23 am I'm not the only person that looked at that and thought it was a photoshop parody with that enormous can then!
When i looked,for a split second I thought it was a pannier! :lol:
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Nidge wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:57 pm
Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:18 am
weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 7:48 am

I'd be interested to know what his last bike was before that... since i've known him i think he's ridden gsxr1000s.
When I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVS

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1994 RF900
1997 ZX6R (lasted 3 days)
1997 ZX9R

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Didn’t you, the ZX9, and tractor trailer have a bit of an incident - or was that someone else from the VD days?
Well remembered. Coming down the A1 from Mallory and tractor and trailer reversed out of farm at dusk. Just after Weedon.
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Bigjawa wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:48 am Park a GSXR1100 next to a GSXR1000 and you'll see how small the 1000s really are.
Almost anything looks small next to a GSXR1100, the world's fastest barge
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