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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
120 gee gees pushing 222 Kgs with a bendy frame and iffy brakes

or 200 gee gees pushing 202 Kgs with great frame and ace brakes
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:54 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
120 gee gees pushing 222 Kgs with a bendy frame and iffy brakes

or 200 gee gees pushing 202 Kgs with great frame and ace brakes
But the 1100 is bucket loads cooler, has proper kudos and random blokes down the pub won't question my sexuallity like they would if I rode a 1000.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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I've ridden a few GSXR1100s, the early ones are nice for 1987 (but an FZR1000 is better), the frame is a bit flexy and the brakes aren't upto the performance, but they handle reasonably normally in a throw it at the corner kind of way, the Slingshots are all awful, the engine is epic, it feels as powerful as an early R1 with power everywhere, no power band, just smooth power everywhere, but the frame that's wrapped round it really is not good, they didn't feel flexy to me, but the weight is too high, the steering head too steep, and on the L/M/N the swingarm is too long, they don't want to turn initially and then they flop into the corner, anyone who can ride one of these fast is brave, stupid or an epic rider, on a road with bends a similar age GSXR400 is a lot faster. The killer "K" is the best of the Slingshots, but it's still an animal that requires massive balls to ride fast.

I'd still have one if one came along at the right price - I don't know why.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:04 pm .... stuff

I'd still have one if one came along at the right price - I don't know why.
Here ya go boys- a pair of decent end cans and a bit of fettling and Robert's your mother's brother, as it were.. :)

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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Not ridden a WP, they're supposed to handle a lot better, that's a lot of bike for not much money, but not as manly as an oil boiler.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Got a 750 K, I feel manly and a bad rider both at the same time.
Grr/oopsie.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Tricky wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:23 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:04 pm .... stuff

I'd still have one if one came along at the right price - I don't know why.
Here ya go boys- a pair of decent end cans and a bit of fettling and Robert's your mother's brother, as it were.. :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GSXR- ... Sw3tNfVU2K

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It's nice, but for some perverse reason I really want a purple one...

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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Do you lot still pine for black and white tellies?
Z86s, Ford Escorts and Sinclair C5s?
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Limited edition mmm screw the punter as they think they are getting something special.Add a few quid for a few things you can likely do for half the price yourself. Sorry I am a cynic by nature of age not wisdom 🤪
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Tricky wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:23 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:50 pm I'd quite like a GSXR1100, it's probably the only GSXR I'd ever consider buying.
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:04 pm .... stuff

I'd still have one if one came along at the right price - I don't know why.
Here ya go boys- a pair of decent end cans and a bit of fettling and Robert's your mother's brother, as it were.. :)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GSXR- ... Sw3tNfVU2K

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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000

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Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:03 pm Do you lot still pine for black and white tellies?
Z86 Ford Escorts and Sinclair C5s?
With the amount of people knocking about on those silly electric scooters, I'm thinking the C5 was about 30 years ahead of its time.
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