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23-04-2007, 11:14pm
ok - just so its out there...
IMO - unless your silly with the throttle - it wont bite - it aint fly by wire & you get good feel back from the throttle - you will find till you open it they are a nice mosy beast.
Turning is not an issue - its your mind that makes it think its an issue. Coz it looks massive - esp when your sitting on it looking at the plastics around the front of the tank. Yes you have to work harder & yes you better have good tyres if your going to make a point of it.
Its more about learning HOW to corner the busa, not that the busa has issues cornering. I had this issue at first - but over the years I found it was just me & my riding style & that I had to corner the bus a little different ;) remembering that sliding ya butt back in the seat makes heaps of difference in the nose to rear end weight ;)
Some have said (not in this thread) that the wheel base is too long. I simply knocked out a link in the chain to shorten it up a little, I run diablo corsa 3's that are nice & pointy.
Remembering that when it comes to cornering - its not al about the bike & the weight it has - its about the rider more then anything....
My normal riding mates are on a cbr250 & gixxer750 - now of course in the straight line I leave them for dead. Get up to the likes of reefton & its not the case. out of the 3 of us the cbr250 rider (over 10 years riding dirt & racing plus 10 years road riding) is the fastest of us all in the corners, because he can hold the corner speed better then the bigger bikes.
Next? well - its myself. The guy on the Gixxer just can't keep up with us, not a bike issue - a rider issue.
However always on the way back down the spur the gixxer gets me in the first section but I clean up in the sections close to healsville - why? coz I dont like going as hard as he does in those first few corners, I dont know them as well as he does.
Last time we went out - the cbr250 rider was holding me up coz I was holding more corner speed - turned out to be his tyres. after I blew past him I had a cbr1000rr holding me up in corners on the BEST parts of reefton!! :(
Guess all I am saying is - enjoy your bike mate - dont listen to everything & hope to catch ya for a ride sometime ;)
PS: Rocket just can't corner them coz he is a skinny arse :P
IMO - unless your silly with the throttle - it wont bite - it aint fly by wire & you get good feel back from the throttle - you will find till you open it they are a nice mosy beast.
Turning is not an issue - its your mind that makes it think its an issue. Coz it looks massive - esp when your sitting on it looking at the plastics around the front of the tank. Yes you have to work harder & yes you better have good tyres if your going to make a point of it.
Its more about learning HOW to corner the busa, not that the busa has issues cornering. I had this issue at first - but over the years I found it was just me & my riding style & that I had to corner the bus a little different ;) remembering that sliding ya butt back in the seat makes heaps of difference in the nose to rear end weight ;)
Some have said (not in this thread) that the wheel base is too long. I simply knocked out a link in the chain to shorten it up a little, I run diablo corsa 3's that are nice & pointy.
Remembering that when it comes to cornering - its not al about the bike & the weight it has - its about the rider more then anything....
My normal riding mates are on a cbr250 & gixxer750 - now of course in the straight line I leave them for dead. Get up to the likes of reefton & its not the case. out of the 3 of us the cbr250 rider (over 10 years riding dirt & racing plus 10 years road riding) is the fastest of us all in the corners, because he can hold the corner speed better then the bigger bikes.
Next? well - its myself. The guy on the Gixxer just can't keep up with us, not a bike issue - a rider issue.
However always on the way back down the spur the gixxer gets me in the first section but I clean up in the sections close to healsville - why? coz I dont like going as hard as he does in those first few corners, I dont know them as well as he does.
Last time we went out - the cbr250 rider was holding me up coz I was holding more corner speed - turned out to be his tyres. after I blew past him I had a cbr1000rr holding me up in corners on the BEST parts of reefton!! :(
Guess all I am saying is - enjoy your bike mate - dont listen to everything & hope to catch ya for a ride sometime ;)
PS: Rocket just can't corner them coz he is a skinny arse :P