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09-05-2009, 10:42pm

Picked up my new bike from 500km away yesterday, and took me all of today to recover...18 years without a bike, and I buy one of these... Icon_rolleyes

..certainly puts my old 1100R to shame power wise, but handling is poor, Im looking into that...

Anyway HELLO

Shawn

**Greeny_SA** · (This post was last modified: 09-05-2009, 11:37pm by Greeny_SA.)

Shawn Wrote:Picked up my new bike from 500km away yesterday, and took me all of today to recover...18 years without a bike, and I buy one of these.....certainly puts my old 1100R to shame power wise, but handling is poor, Im looking into that...

Anyway HELLO

Shawn

Welcome Shawn, what have you bought yourself, a gen 1 or gen 2 ? There is plenty of info on this site about how you can improve the handling, or ask & someone will know.

10-05-2009, 05:41am

Greeny_SA Wrote:
Shawn Wrote:Picked up my new bike from 500km away yesterday, and took me all of today to recover...18 years without a bike, and I buy one of these.....certainly puts my old 1100R to shame power wise, but handling is poor, Im looking into that...

Anyway HELLO

Shawn

Welcome Shawn, what have you bought yourself, a gen 1 or gen 2 ? There is plenty of info on this site about how you can improve the handling, or ask & someone will know.

TBH Greeny , I dont know, 2004 model. Ive allways had Suzuki,s So I bough this one, because it was small. nobody told me it was also ballistic. I have to say Im impressed , aside from the handling issue..

Thankyou

Shawn
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**Landmine** · 10-05-2009, 07:28am

Welcome Shawn,
18 years without a bike, then pickup a GSXR 1300 and ride home 500 Km would have been quite a tense ride. It maybe not so much of a handling problem as a can not handle the ride problem.
There is lots of information in this site and willing advice from members to sort out problem if there is one.

If there is bike on the road it is a ride, If there is more than one bike it is a race.

10-05-2009, 07:41am

Landmine Wrote:Welcome Shawn,
18 years without a bike, then pickup a GSXR 1300 and ride home 500 Km would have been quite a tense ride. It maybe not so much of a handling problem as a can not handle the ride problem.
There is lots of information in this site and willing advice from members to sort out problem if there is one.

If there is bike on the road it is a ride, If there is more than one bike it is a race.

I was a motorcycle courier for 9 years, riding a bike is pretty much instinctual, to be more specific in the "handling problem" It favors right, tends to want to stand up left, not a biggy Its just that I noticed it...
The bikes never been dropped and appears straight as...Your right though it could be me...

Oh yeah the 500 was in the pouring rain, and then fog , In the dark...so yes Ive a few aches....

LOL

S