How fast will the thing go?

[Hawk]

160 and still bucket loads left, I left a cbr600 at 150mph for dead.

Its true about the road vs speed thing, as soon as you look at the speedo your arse drops right out and you slow down.

Done on an airfield somewhere in essex.

[bov]

.........Blue roooooles.....!

[Chuff]

i know but picked up first on a very icy day but still had to play ...(helps having a big airfield officer, 70 on the roads honest !!!!) saw 163 and then realised it wasn't a farmer sH~te spreading but me.............wot a toy !

[numb bits]

I knew someone else would see the light and buy the original best colour,dependant on your speed reflects what colour you see as you would like to call it pink it must of been going too bloody quick for you to focus on aint that right Birdcrazy..

[space invader]

Did anyone else do what I did, and jump off a fairly torquey thing like a TDM 850, get on an any think they knew how to ride it........?

2 hours after I bought it I drove 100 miles on Dual carraigeway, never above legal, down to Edinburgh, where some bitch, sorry, I mean lady friend, begged me for a run.....

No bastid in the shop told me what happens at 4500 RPM....

Drizzly rain............ EDZ bypass...... Intent on giving it BIG Handfull trying to impress, right, here we go off the roundabout.......

In second........ Listening to the engine, 'cos I don't do speedos, they take your eye off the road.....!

RRRRRrrrrrrmmmm
CHANGE,
RRRRRmmmm
pause...... (it's got a little flat spot!)
RRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMM AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHOLY FUCKINJEEEEEZUZZZZZ Back end was snaking like Kylie in that video with the gold shorts... I managed to get it back straight and continued for the next mile, breathing like Michael Jackson on a Cubs outing.....

Her reply as we slowed for the next roundabout.....?

"That was fun.... make it shimmy again........."

I dropped her off, drove home, and never called her again...


TSI

PS

When my wifes brother got a shot of the bike the day after he passed his test he was told 4 things........
1) It's damp......
2) This is unlike anything you have ridden before....
3) DO NOT TAKE IT ABOVE 4000 RPM IN THE FIRST THREE GEARS IN THIS WEATHER
4) Break it you buy it......

He ignored one...... Guess which one......

And came back 2 minutes later white as a ghost, puked, and has refused to get on it since......

Thinks it is a death trap!!! "More snakes than Medusa........"

This from a man who two years later drives an unfaired 1200 Bandit.......

[Simon S]

I know what it's like too come off a less powerfull bike and jump onto somit will a fook more go in it.
The previous bike i owned was a 600 Fazer which has very similar power delivery as the .The only trouble is the is about 50% up on power One of my overtaking procedures was carried out in Fazer fashion, 2nd gear wait.......... and nail the bastid
Within half the time i'd expected i found my self bing a load of brake to slow my self down again .

[Chuff]

with both space invader and simon on the small bike to big bike........... ...

having now been the proud owner of my for the past FIVE, yes all of five weeks i had discovered that winter is n ot the time to buy a new toy (did the same with my blade 2 years ago....some people never learn !)

i have now discovered the joy of the higher end of the 's rev range and following the replacement of some old, hardened avons got a bit over confident on the new scrubbed diablos ..luckly she snaked softly enough me to catch ( well i am a fat git !) but it did enlighten me i had made the right choice in a bird...still 750 miles in the last five weeks has left her v.v.v dirty and me awaiting dry weather.......and some very disgruntled sports bike riders who couldn't keep up on there twitchy pocket rockets in the wet !