Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Paint the gsx moriwaki colours and fit decent sussies
Save yourself a few grand and get that 'new bike' look too!
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Demannu wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:51 pm Paint the gsx moriwaki colours and fit decent sussies
Save yourself a few grand and get that 'new bike' look too!
Or buy an XSR900 and have a better bike and better colours.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Buy a Panigale.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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I chatted with a bloke last year who'd not long owned one. He gave me the impression it wouldn't be around too much longer, proceed with caution is my advice. πŸ€”
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:52 pm
Demannu wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:51 pm Paint the gsx moriwaki colours and fit decent sussies
Save yourself a few grand and get that 'new bike' look too!
Or buy an XSR900 and have a better bike and better colours.
Are you deluded, the XSR is an inferior bike, and it's ugly, not as ugly as the MT09, but what is?
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Demannu wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:51 pm Paint the gsx moriwaki colours and fit decent sussies
Save yourself a few grand and get that 'new bike' look too!
It's already blue and yellow and has a top spec YSS rear shock, it really is a great bike and I'm just bored and want to ride it, but it's cold and the roads are salty.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:18 pm
weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:52 pm
Demannu wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:51 pm Paint the gsx moriwaki colours and fit decent sussies
Save yourself a few grand and get that 'new bike' look too!
Or buy an XSR900 and have a better bike and better colours.
Are you deluded, the XSR is an inferior bike, and it's ugly, not as ugly as the MT09, but what is?
Inferior to a Z900Rs ? LOL i couldn't disagree more... And comparing to a GSXS... well... again.. Nah.

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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:20 pm
Inferior to a Z900Rs ? LOL i couldn't disagree more... And comparing to a GSXS... well... again.. Nah.

:mrgreen:
Without riding all three I can't really comment, if the Yamaha looked nicer I probably would have bought one, the one that looks like a crashed EXUP looks better than the early ones.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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This is more fun than if anything actually happened. 8-)
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Skub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:09 pm This is more fun than if anything actually happened. 8-)
I'm gonna pretend to get a round of drinks in at the bar :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:26 pm
Skub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:09 pm This is more fun than if anything actually happened. 8-)
I'm gonna pretend to get a round of drinks in at the bar :obscene-birdiedoublered:
Pint of IPA please, but what sort of bar would it be, I'm in a virtual 1980s Bikers Pub, feck knows why, because they were always right scabby dives that were desperate for the business.

And what records do you want on the Jukebox?
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Mines a Babycham.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:43 pm Mines a Babycham.
You're more of a Snowball kinda guy.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:42 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:26 pm
Skub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:09 pm This is more fun than if anything actually happened. 8-)
I'm gonna pretend to get a round of drinks in at the bar :obscene-birdiedoublered:
Pint of IPA please, but what sort of bar would it be, I'm in a virtual 1980s Bikers Pub, feck knows why, because they were always right scabby dives that were desperate for the business.

And what records do you want on the Jukebox?
The bar here is open air, so no jukebox outside. Well, it will be in about an hour when I wobble into town :D
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:34 pm
weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 2:20 pm
Inferior to a Z900Rs ? LOL i couldn't disagree more... And comparing to a GSXS... well... again.. Nah.

:mrgreen:
Without riding all three I can't really comment, if the Yamaha looked nicer I probably would have bought one, the one that looks like a crashed EXUP looks better than the early ones.
To be fair when I considered the 750 several group tests and reviewers on YouTube said the 750 is the best handling/scratchers bike of the GSXS, Z9, MT09 group. The MT won most tests on the basis of the fun engine but pretty much all of them commented it was the worst handling. The 750 got marked down as needing the most revs, but never got left and if you are happy to thrap its tits off then it's a good choice.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Oh and I was gonna say definitely buy the Z900RS, they look great but you've already talked yourself out of it!

MCN did a year long round up of theirs last night

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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:42 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:26 pm
Skub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:09 pm This is more fun than if anything actually happened. 8-)
I'm gonna pretend to get a round of drinks in at the bar :obscene-birdiedoublered:
Pint of IPA please, but what sort of bar would it be, I'm in a virtual 1980s Bikers Pub, feck knows why, because they were always right scabby dives that were desperate for the business.

And what records do you want on the Jukebox?
Africa, by Toto. Followed by Thriller.

Repeat.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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cheb wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:04 pm

Africa, by Toto. Followed by Thriller.

Repeat.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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That guy talking to Neevsy sounds bored and half interested and pretty clueless,even when prompted. A free bike to 'test' and he can only be bothered to clock a couple of thousand miles in a year? ffs.
The original Z1 didn't have a pipe up either side,it was 2 up either side,the twin cans was the later Z1000.
When I hear misinformation like that,I take his word on nothing else.
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Re: Thinking about buying a Z900RS

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Skub wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:18 pm That guy talking to Neevsy sounds bored and half interested and pretty clueless,even when prompted. A free bike to 'test' and he can only be bothered to clock a couple of thousand miles in a year? ffs.
The original Z1 didn't have a pipe up either side,it was 2 up either side,the twin cans was the later Z1000.
When I hear misinformation like that,I take his word on nothing else.

Probably more interested in scrounging a ride on Neevsy's Tmax. Better bike all round, so can't blame him for that! 8-)