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14-12-2006, 07:23pm
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post in the group. I'm not yet a Hayabusa owner, but intend to be asap. Still hacking around on my GSXF1100 (pictured). 1988 model, but has only 35 000km on the clock, and still has plenty of mumbo. Gotta luv those Suzuki engines...they always made great powerplants. Anyway, I'm aiming to upgrade to a Busa, and run the same set-up as in the pic below.
To the best of my knowledge, this is one of only a handful of Hayabusa's in the world using a single-wheeled Uni-Go trailer at present. (The towbar hitch jig for the Hayabusa hitch manufacture appears to have been lost, in the change of manufacturers, from Christchurch N.Z. to the new one in Ohio, USA. Not to worry though...I will soon see to that. )
Anyway, the trailer is rated to 215kph, weighs 32kg and can carry 140L with a max cargo weight of 50kg. I fly with mine on, even up Mt.Glorious - Mt. Nebo, and I reckon a Hayabusa's rear subframe, and suspension would see it work light-years better than it does on mine. I'm pretty sure it will look even better too, behind a Busa, colour-matched or custom painted with either a Hayabusa decal on the trailer too, or a custom-airbrushed pic of a real Hayabusa falcon, on the side of it, as though pulling out of the bottom of a dive at speed. We'll soon see. No need to take it easy with one of these trailers on...just turn and burn! The guy who rides this one proudly told us he'd had his up to 280kph with the trailer on!!! The rear wheel on it is only 10" in diameter, and I don't even want to think of the speed it was travelling, when he did that. Sheer madness. I know from experience that it will handle 140kph+ all day long, and you won't lose time to the other guys not towing one, 99% of the time. Regardless of the terrain, you can keep your normal speeds and the fun of riding the Hayabusa, the way it was meant to be ridden.
Snapping it through a series of fast direction changes is also not an issue, providing the hitch rigidity is appropriate and the subframe is solid enough not to flex. Forces involved aren't big, but the real subframes on some modern sportsbikes (and even that on my old GSXF) are made of cheese. Anyway, once I get mine on a Busa, I'll give you some feedback...or better still, onboard camera footage from another Busa. I love my old GSXF1100...but can't wait to get a Busa in my garage instead.
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With Kind Regards,
David
My email = dcg1963@yahoo.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/scorpion63
http://www.unigo-japan.com (Promo Movie, pics, info)
Sorry it's in Japanese.
This is my first post in the group. I'm not yet a Hayabusa owner, but intend to be asap. Still hacking around on my GSXF1100 (pictured). 1988 model, but has only 35 000km on the clock, and still has plenty of mumbo. Gotta luv those Suzuki engines...they always made great powerplants. Anyway, I'm aiming to upgrade to a Busa, and run the same set-up as in the pic below.
To the best of my knowledge, this is one of only a handful of Hayabusa's in the world using a single-wheeled Uni-Go trailer at present. (The towbar hitch jig for the Hayabusa hitch manufacture appears to have been lost, in the change of manufacturers, from Christchurch N.Z. to the new one in Ohio, USA. Not to worry though...I will soon see to that. )
Anyway, the trailer is rated to 215kph, weighs 32kg and can carry 140L with a max cargo weight of 50kg. I fly with mine on, even up Mt.Glorious - Mt. Nebo, and I reckon a Hayabusa's rear subframe, and suspension would see it work light-years better than it does on mine. I'm pretty sure it will look even better too, behind a Busa, colour-matched or custom painted with either a Hayabusa decal on the trailer too, or a custom-airbrushed pic of a real Hayabusa falcon, on the side of it, as though pulling out of the bottom of a dive at speed. We'll soon see. No need to take it easy with one of these trailers on...just turn and burn! The guy who rides this one proudly told us he'd had his up to 280kph with the trailer on!!! The rear wheel on it is only 10" in diameter, and I don't even want to think of the speed it was travelling, when he did that. Sheer madness. I know from experience that it will handle 140kph+ all day long, and you won't lose time to the other guys not towing one, 99% of the time. Regardless of the terrain, you can keep your normal speeds and the fun of riding the Hayabusa, the way it was meant to be ridden.
Snapping it through a series of fast direction changes is also not an issue, providing the hitch rigidity is appropriate and the subframe is solid enough not to flex. Forces involved aren't big, but the real subframes on some modern sportsbikes (and even that on my old GSXF) are made of cheese. Anyway, once I get mine on a Busa, I'll give you some feedback...or better still, onboard camera footage from another Busa. I love my old GSXF1100...but can't wait to get a Busa in my garage instead.
With Kind Regards,
David
My email = dcg1963@yahoo.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/scorpion63
http://www.unigo-japan.com (Promo Movie, pics, info)
Sorry it's in Japanese.