A picture a day...biker banter (Vol 5)
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Pipewerx do an exhaust for it.
https://www.pipewerx.co.uk/gallery/suzuki/gsxr1000...
If it hasn't got one already, as part of the deal.
https://www.pipewerx.co.uk/gallery/suzuki/gsxr1000...
If it hasn't got one already, as part of the deal.
rodericb said:
catso said:
Prefer the simplicity of the Ducati. With the MV, despite being a nice looking bike, it just looks like he was trying too hard.
How is that? The MV is literally 916 2.0. Got a couple more embellishments which modernised it a bit. The colour scheme might not be to everyones taste on the Tamburini version - the normal ones had the traditional red and silver (or blue and silver). The first years of the F4 had those gorgeous star shaped wheels too.Biker's Nemesis said:
Blue wheels.
and....???Managed to get the old blue-wheeled GPz1100 back on the road after 14 years of languishing in the garage. Oil and filter change, new brake fluid, new battery and a new chain and it's running just fine - sailed through its MOT
I had decided I would sell it (hence getting it back on the road) as I just wasn't using it - but it scrubbed-up really well so I was actually thinking of holding on to it - so I took it for a wee spin in the nice weather. Candy blue paint, sparkle silver frame, candy blue wheels and LOTS of polishing - in my eyes at least, it's still a great looking bike - sounds good too
But at the end of a 50-mile run I'd made my mind made up - I'm selling it 
It'll be a wrench as I've had it for over 20 years and I built it as 'my' ideal vision if a GPz1100, so I'll miss it just being in the garage. I'd had a z900, and a Z1R and this was the big daddy and completed the trilogy of the top-of-the-line air-cooled Kawasakis. But just too much like hard work to ride it, and it's a shame for it not to be used. Strangely, I used to sit on it every so often planning to get it back on the road and it was like putting on an old pair of shoes - it just felt 'right'. But just like an old pair of shoes can then give you blisters once you start to walk in them again, so this was giving me dreadful pains in my wrists (yes, I know it's all core strength and all that - but by that time by back was aching too). Sore hip joints - I could hardly bend my legs to get my feet up on the pegs after a few stops. And a crick in my neck from having to look 'up' just to see where I was going. No doubt if I'd stuck with ass-up-in-the-air/hands-down bikes in the intervening years my body would be able to handle it...but its purgatory for me now.
Still relatively quick when it's opened up (and the fastest thing pennies could buy in 1984 with an honest 120hp)...but I missed the low-down monster grunt of a big v-twin. I jumped straight onto the Indian for a back-to-back comparison when I got home as by that time I'd settled in to the GPz riding position again despite the pain...and wow...it made it clear just how upright the riding position is on the Indian and how low the seat is; I kept wanting to lean forward for the first few miles! But it was also like settling back down in your favourite [leather
] armchair - attached to a steam catapult. So absolute confirmation that my sports-bike days are over, and whatever else happens I can't see me moving from the Indian as the consummate comfortable mile-eater...and the big v-twin just feels sooooo good (although it highlighted the gearshift is rubbish compared to the GPz). But there's maybe a place for an upright-ish hooligan bike with a big twin if I can move the GPz for some cash
anonymous said:
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Cheers. No I planned to leave the exhaust till the running in miles were done, but the shop discounted a brand new carbon Yoshimura R11 for near enough half price so I couldnt say no.
The RR has lean sensitive TC / cornering ABS, 10 mode TC, anti-wheelie, 3 riding modes, launch control, Quickshifter and blipper. As well as the new balance free forks, balance shock and few other bits.
You cannot individually control TC and AW... but TC mode 1 effectively disables AW allowing you to do wheelies. I’m more interested in keeping the front end down so run it at TC mode 5 out of 10 and ride mode A or B. All ride modes have full power ... they just get there differently.
I bought the RR simply as it looks a bit more polished than the base version and I really wanted the factory Quickshifter and blipper which is amazingly smooth ... freely admit after my last crash the electronics and nice to have as a safety net and help me get my confidence back on the bike.
I really like it - about to head off to Wales for 3 days on it.
Edited by Mr OCD on Sunday 23 September 13:09
Mr OCD said:
Andybow said:
Best way to run a bike in, have fun, lovely looking bike btw
Cheers. I was actually considering the Triumph 765RS at one point, but I just can’t get Sportsbikes out of my head! 
Exhaust already fitted.
Andybow said:
Nice one OCD looking good, love the can as well, tail tidy fitted on mine today, just waiting for crash bungs etc, Wasn’t gonna change cans but it’s quite quiet, and the baffles are welded in, luckily Austin have just released some cans so I’ll probs get one of those. 
Lol ... just ordered tail tidy, bungs for forks and swingarm, engine crash protection and a bit of carbon ... Mr OCD said:
Are those tires up to 3 days in wales?
It pissed it down 100 miles in on my trip and pissed it down the 230 miles back
Some cracking roads but there was a lot of tractor s
t being dumped and it turned to slurry in the rain.Just encase you need to no what your new bike will look like after a run to wales I will post this hear
tvrolet said:
Biker's Nemesis said:
Blue wheels.
and....???Managed to get the old blue-wheeled GPz1100 back on the road after 14 years of languishing in the garage.
When I bought new Dymags for my Fireblade I had them done Blue, both my R1 and MT 10 have Blue wheels.
Mr OCD, Blue wheels are smart.
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