Hi AHC, it's been a long time in the making...

[Mars_GSXR]

...but finally I have one. Or should I say, about to collect my very own Hayabusa. A bit about me: 31 years old, started off like most people riding dirt bikes at a young age. My clapped out old TS185 died pretty quickly and i moved on to cars but the passion for bikes was well ingrained.

Earlier this year I had the option of buying a K4 GSXR600, GSX1400 or Batfinks gen 1 Hayabusa. I chose the 600 because it was a hoot to ride and local. Fast forward 6 months and the honeymoon is over, the 600 is a little cramped for my liking - I feel like a friggin dinosaur trying to pork a golf ball when I ride it. A couple weeks later, it's riding off with its new owner....leaving me bikeless. So I have a predicament. What to buy? I think a GSX1400 seems about right. But I spend the next two weeks chopping and changing, from GSX1400 to SV1000 to Z1000 to gen 1 Busa to gen 2 Busa to B-King then back to gen 2 Busa then finally decide that a GSX1400 is right. Earlier this week I started speaking to a seller in Brisbane about his 1400 and we were on track to do the deal...until a couple of days ago when a local shop placed a classified for a black K4 Busa they were selling.

So I jumped on it. Checked it out yesterday and it looked like it had been well maintained. The exhausts sound great and the test ride, well, what can I say that hasn't already been said about these incredible machines. Rolled back to the shop with a grin and put the deposit down, they're going to change the oil and fluids and I'll pick it up Saturday arvo.

It's a black 2004 with minimal mods, done 24xxxkms. I absolutely, positively hate those grips though and will be searching the forum to see what others have done with their gen 1 grips.

Anyway nice to meet you all, looks like I've got loads of reading to do . Cheers, Mars