The lead up to your Big bike ........

[Louwai]

I felt guilty today when my daughter (10yo) had a fall at Parkour...

Get her a telescope Pete. Not so dangerous. Unless it falls on her.

[DjPete]

I felt guilty today when my daughter (10yo) had a fall at Parkour...

Get her a telescope Pete. Not so dangerous. Unless it falls on her.

[justridin]

Damn where to start.
pw50 kx80 yz125 cr250 cr500 tt600 rg250 rd350 rz500 xr600 gsx750f cbr929 nx650 vtr1000 now Busa GenII
Riding for 20 years, about 20 offs in the dirt so i dont count those, no major injuries.
2 offs on bitumen doing under 20kph, nothin serious and minor repairs.

Survived my dickhead years and actually learnt something in the process, now i simply shake my head at riders chasing their ego's and smile politely.(like the guy who pulled up next to me on his early model busa last week just to show me how he can rev his tacho to 10k in neutral while waiting for the green light, what a nice man he was)
I have found a bike that does all i need it to do and more when feel like stretching my comfort zone.

[bigfoot]

i'll get slammed for this, cr 80 cr125 and i am planning to jump to a busa!

[TeeCee]

Ok here goes..............

30+ years riding

'69 Honda CB350 twin
'74 Kawasaki Z1 900
'78 Yamaha IT425
'84 Yamaha FJ1100
'85 Yamaha RZ500
'93 Yamaha YZF750
"99 Suzuki Hayabusa

TeeCee

[DjPete]

This was a good thread.
Goes back a bit now but rethinking the topic I reckon it doesn't matter the size of the bike. Some would say that bigger bikes like the Bus turn slower and can actually be safer.

But in the end it aint the bike its the rider.
If the rider has control of that throttle, road sense and his wits about him when on the road then he will (touch wood) be right. Pans thread back a few is a perfect example.

[motoplast]

This was a good thread.
Goes back a bit now but rethinking the topic I reckon it doesn't matter the size of the bike. Some would say that bigger bikes like the Bus turn slower and can actually be safer.

But in the end it aint the bike its the rider.
If the rider has control of that throttle, road sense and his wits about him when on the road then he will (touch wood) be right. Pans thread back a few is a perfect example.

Ahh, Very true. The link between the brain & the right wrist is everything, if it's a weak link..... . Personally I feel a big bike is safer..in the right hands. Ego's and inexperience kill, how many young & not so young guys have gone and bought the latest weapon, the urge to try her out is too much and the bike puts them into a corner long before their brain is, goodnight the fox.
Experience comes from doing the miles in all sorts of conditions and being able to learn from that, storing it into the memory bank and "googleing" it when needed!. I've had ex girlfriends fathers say to me; How long have u been ridin' son? I've held a m/c license for 30-40 years, blah blah blah".
What they don't tell u is that they have only done probaly 3-4thousand klms on a bike in that time, if there lucky!. Time on the bike = experience. A lot of top road racers don't ride on the street, they might be able to handle a bike, but what about roadcraft?! Riding a bike well is only part of it, being able to read the road and the conditions is equally as important.
No matter how much experience u have, it can still go pear shaped & bite u hard, no matter what u ride. There is an old saying : Don't ban Hi performance cars/bikes just low performance drivers/riders.
Anyway, oh yeah, how many bikes?, how many years? How many Klms?Way too many on all three counts.!!

Cheers,
Tex & Bundy

[bigfoot]

so true good read mate!

[m8ee]

postie bike, ts185, xt250, dt200, vfr400, Busa, then turbo Busa: 20 years riding so far.
I have never been seriously injured in a crash, and spent countless hours doing
cartwheels down dirt tracks next to the ts185. LOL.

[VNSVLE]

20 years riding so far for me as well.
1. Was a bitza made up of old school xl 100,125 and 185 bits
2. Was another xl100 (we had a few around the farm also went for a squirt on the old boys TT250 when he was not home :) )
3. WR 400
4. Aprilia RS 250 Black, Grey and Yellow Race replica
5. Suzuki TL1000R Yellow, Black and Grey R.I.P. :( (threw both legs out for reasons unknown)
6. 2008 Blue and Gold Hayabusa

Also have a Modified Honda odyssey with an XJ 550 engine and a home built "odyssey" with full independent suspension, disc brakes and a GS 400 motor in it (if they count :) 0

[ROD]

postie bike, ts185, xt250, dt200, vfr400, Busa, then turbo Busa: 20 years riding so far.
I have never been seriously injured in a crash, and spent countless hours doing
cartwheels down dirt tracks next to the ts185. LOL.

Shane on a postie i would love to see that or was it turbo

[Champs]

As brief as I can.........

At 15 - DT100
At 16 - YZ125E (old bike) then IT465H
At 17 - 250 laws came in so IT465 got some new 250 sideplate stickers and I went into cars for a while
At 19 - Katana 650 (really a GS650 with a poor dress up kit)
At 21 - 1983 Katana 1100. Rode it daily for 16 years (Still have it but off the road in 2003 - waiting on a full restore)
At 43 - 2009 Busa

Only one off on DT100 - Was t-boned by a dick in a stationwagon on a dirt road
Two high potential close calls on Katana - cars involved no surprise

Best Quote (From the crappy 60 minutes beat up on bikes many years ago).......... It isn't the size of the bike, it is the size of the brain in the person on the bike that matters. That was from a trainer who trained posties and bike cops

[Pastor]

Well, there has been a few...
? XS Yamaha 650 x 2
? Suzuki 500 (3 cyclinder)
1980 Suzuki GS1000S
1980 " GSX1100
1980/1 Kawasaki GPZ1100
1983 " GPZ1100
1982 " Z1300
1986 " RX1000
1988 " ZX10
2003 Suzuki 1200 Bandit
2005 Kawasaki ZZR1200
2007 Yamaha FJR1300
2007 Suzuki GSX1300 Hayabusa
Probably around 25 years experience all up as I had 8 years off when the family was young - no money!
Love the 'Busa - should have bought one years ago.
Cheers
Pastor

[ross79]

Mine is a short list as I always had a bigger interest in cars till my cousin got me hooked on bikes.
CT70 -> CBR250RR -> ZX-12R -> Hayabusa.

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My first bike off my Ps is an 08 busa. I think it's all a bit miss guided because I'm a million times safer on it that the poor handling gs500.