Check out the new (old) ride , awesome raw power , and so easy to ride with good steering, brakes are bit how you going , suspensions been given the ohins treatment (bumps dont bother it) , been dyno tuned at 143hp 2nd gear 20% throttle rear wheel for more low down power , spits out 163 hp at the top gear at 80% throttle, pretty good for a bike 9 yrs old bike with a taxi k's.
It's not as smooth as the 650f but i like that , it feels like a motorbike should, rawish and electric like.
It's seems to eat the traffic very easily , i thought id need a gear shift indicator (like the 650f) to work out which gear im in but you seem to be able to roll the throttle on in any gear and it just goes. So i dont need one. The corners seem to come up a bit quicker than they used to so i've noticed i have to concentrate more than i used to.
The seat is very cozy for a little one , better than the f (and it's huge)
It's got a centre stand , thanks christ for that, power commander , tinted screen ,gear rack , other than that she's stock.
Apparently she'll go 340km flat out , (not with me on it) that's faster than rosi on a gp bike - insane .All this for well under 10 grand.
Congratulations on the new ride.
You will certainly get years of great riding out of it.
Just take it easy till you get used to the accelleration.
As you have already found out the brakes are not as good as the hyper speed could use but are ok under normal riding conditions.
What area are you in?
"If time catches up with you. You're going too slow!"
Regards BUSGO
welcome aboard , take the time to learn your bike especially in the twisties , remember ANYONE can ride fast in a straight line.......
One thing you really should practice on a quiet street/ industrial area is some emergency braking - these are heavy bikes to pull up and if your like me and have come from a fireblade - the braking difference is noticeable. so best to get the feel for it now before you actually need to
Be safe and welcome to an excellent forum
Busaboc
Hayabusa , If your not on one , your behind one .....
(07-06-2009, 09:26am)Ozboc Wrote: welcome aboard , take the time to learn your bike especially in the twisties , remember ANYONE can ride fast in a straight line.......
One thing you really should practice on a quiet street/ industrial area is some emergency braking - these are heavy bikes to pull up and if your like me and have come from a fireblade - the braking difference is noticeable. so best to get the feel for it now before you actually need to
Be safe and welcome to an excellent forum
Busaboc
Careful dude,some of us drag race you know and put alot of effort into going fast in a straight line,I wouldn,t agree ANYONE could go faster.4years on and i,m still learning.
Ok , sorry i should have said "anyone can go fast in a straight line on the road "
I have had a few people / friends rave on about how fast the bike is and that they can give me a run for my money - as soon as we hit the twisties --- they become smaller and smaller in my mirror ... these are the people i refer to ..... drag racing on the other hand
you guys are NUTZ!!!! :)
Boc
Hayabusa , If your not on one , your behind one .....
09-06-2009, 08:26pm (This post was last modified: 09-06-2009, 08:29pm by BUSGO.)
I don't want to dissappoint or upset 99sydrd especially on his lovely bike.
It is in fact a 2000 model not a 99 and had no changes from the 1st model except for the oil line to the cam chain adjuster as back fitted to the 99 models as a recall fix.
Still very much a first of breed busa but the blue silver scheme introduced the 2000 series late in 1999.
The 1999 models for Australia are the Copper/Silver, Red/Black and Red/Grey models.
In other countries the Red/Grey model was released as a Black/Grey bike and the Red/Grey was released overseas in 2000 as well.
Here is a chart to show the 1st 4 years of colour schemes.
Australia didn't get any of the special edition or limited models until 3 of them were released in 2007 as the last of the GEN 1 version bikes.
Red with black frame, Blue with black frame and Black on black.
These were all previously released in the USA as limited edition models.
"If time catches up with you. You're going too slow!"
Regards BUSGO
(09-06-2009, 08:26pm)BUSGO Wrote: I don't want to dissappoint or upset 99sydrd especially on his lovely bike.
It is in fact a 2000 model not a 99 and had no changes from the 1st model except for the oil line to the cam chain adjuster as back fitted to the 99 models as a recall fix.
Still very much a first of breed busa but the blue silver scheme introduced the 2000 series late in 1999.
The 1999 models for Australia are the Copper/Silver, Red/Black and Red/Grey models.
In other countries the Red/Grey model was released as a Black/Grey bike and the Red/Grey was released overseas in 2000 as well.
Here is a chart to show the 1st 4 years of colour schemes.
Australia didn't get any of the special edition or limited models until 3 of them were released in 2007 as the last of the GEN 1 version bikes.
Red with black frame, Blue with black frame and Black on black.
These were all previously released in the USA as limited edition models.
i was going to say the same thing... still one of the 'No TRE Needed' to hit 300+
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