10 year old Busa - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[bigfoot]

An old pic of my old 99. Pity I had to wreck it! But I did get almost 40 000 klms on it in 12 months.............. Giddy Up!




I traded my ZZR1100 in on the Busa back in 1999. What a difference! Ordered it with the Yoshi and the polished wheels...........

Must be time to go Generation 2???


Happy Birthday, Phil.

shame you had to wreck the busa mate! both the Busas look absolutely awesome! guessing you ride the blue one now??

[shortty57]

Beat ya a while back Pan. Mines a Feb/99 VIN#00033
Its now done 78.500k's. Still the beast with plenty torque.
Regularly mantained and looked after so been totally trouble free.
Ward I think is a few Vin # before me.

over 10 years old and still a great bike thats called a living legend.

OK Volvi
Still here
Feb 99
Build #023

[Volvi]

right shorty, what was your nic before? I reckon youve got the birthday cake havent come across an earlier vin# except JP's 002 that got fried on Cols dyno, neither of whom are still in same business so can allow myself to reveal this fact.

[Heidi1]

Didn't Peter Stevens have the 001, or was that just a rumour.

[crumpy]

Shown before but then it is the birthday.
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Still looks great still goes great has 128000ks still gets pampered still doing some hard rides just about to head of to broken hill for 3 days next week to clean the cobwebs out.In may its bday, I will get the kids to sing to old 72.I might open a new bottle of maguires on the it.

[Billy the kid]

I still urge people to buy gen 1 busas especially the 99ers.
A great bike that offers a lot.At bargain prices now!

Happy b'day for your busa Pan!!May it be with you for at least another 10 years!!

[pan]

I still urge people to buy gen 1 busas especially the 99ers.
A great bike that offers a lot.At bargain prices now!

Happy b'day for your busa Pan!!May it be with you for at least another 10 years!!

...thanks Billy. I'm sure it will!

[Hutch99]

mine turns 10 in Sept... and just hit 27Ks last weekend.

i try to limit the rides to weekends(out of Sydney).
but the bike looks at me like my dogs do everytime i pick up their leash... take me out, and let me loose!lol

[Volvi]

Didn't Peter Stevens have the 001, or was that just a rumour.

No 001 was brought in by Suzuki for initial promo work when first released so most jorno pics and first exhibition of the bike were of the 001. What I understand is that suzi never registered the bike, its never been ridden and has kept it for their history museum.

No.002 was bought by JP who worked at suzi at the time. Both copper/silver.

[FastPhil]

Bugger i missed my racebikes birthday, feb 99, it did get a present though, a new head..

I missed mine as well she was a Feb baby number 87 and 85,000 Ks

Didn't Peter Stevens have the 001, or was that just a rumour.

No 001 was brought in by Suzuki for initial promo work when first released so most jorno pics and first exhibition of the bike were of the 001. What I understand is that suzi never registered the bike, its never been ridden and has kept it for their history museum.

No.002 was bought by JP who worked at suzi at the time. Both copper/silver.

[pan]

Itâ€s over. The end of an era. This was actually my first bike (I donâ€t like think of the 1982 Honda VT 500 learnerâ€s bike that I had for 2 months just before I got the Busa)



As a few of you may remember, about 6 months ago I had mentioned how I donâ€t ride much anymore because I use the car to pick up kids from school, etc, and I had decided I would turn the Hayabusa into a track-bike and slowly remove much of the bling bling…

...but a month ago I had my first “accident”… if you can call falling off at 2km/h an accident. I basically had a brake master cylinder fail suddenly and lock up the front as I was taking off from a set of lights (as far as I can tell). The front locked up, the wheel slipped and the bike fell on itâ€s right side slowly. I picked up the bike thinking it would be fine, but the front seemed to have locked up so I got it towed away.



A week later the insurer (e-bike) had assessed it as a write off! I still donâ€t understand why, but they mentioned there was a small scratch on the frame!?!?!



Here are photos of the damage. If I didnâ€t have insurance I think I wouldâ€ve bought a mirror, a frame slider, painted the fairing and kept it, but itâ€s been taken out of my hands…

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…and here it is, “written-off”











The insurer has been great. They paid up Agreed Value, and without saying how much, it is enough to buy a new Busa and have some left over for bling!



Farewell my bling bling machine. You will be missed!

[Volvi]

shud be a good oppurtunity for someone to buy off the insurer real cheap and low cost fix up, wheres the 'wreck'? and plug the insurer seeing theyve been good to you.

[Hutch99]

damn straight 'wheres the wreck'... always looking for parts!hehe

[BabyBusa]

Sorry to see it go , but maybe/hopefully Volvi is correct and the insurer will sell it back to you at a discounted price.

[BUSGO]

Really sorry to see that PAN.
Your bike has been a star attraction on the forum for about 5 years.

I hope you get a very good replacement and consider keeping it on the road.