Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
It has the can off a ZH2. 
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
More than a tip of the hat to Rins and Mir's 2020 bikes,which look sweet to my old eyes. 
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
Apart from that can, it's a good looking thing.
Won't be slow either?
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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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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
LOL 1 bike out of a squgillion made.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
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
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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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
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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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
When I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVS
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
Park a GSXR1100 next to a GSXR1000 and you'll see how small the 1000s really are.
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
Didn’t you, the ZX9, and tractor trailer have a bit of an incident - or was that someone else from the VD days?Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:18 amWhen I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVS
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
When i looked,for a split second I thought it was a pannier!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!
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
Well remembered. Coming down the A1 from Mallory and tractor and trailer reversed out of farm at dusk. Just after Weedon.Nidge wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:57 pmDidn’t you, the ZX9, and tractor trailer have a bit of an incident - or was that someone else from the VD days?Yorick wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:18 amWhen I was racing I had a CB900 alongside the YPVSweeksy 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.
1990 CBR600
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Re: Limited edition 100th anniversary GSXR1000
Almost anything looks small next to a GSXR1100, the world's fastest bargeBigjawa 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.
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