Post by capitano on Aug 28, 2009 21:25:44 GMT
Predominantly for Brett, here's the 883R I owned a few months ago, and the GSX1400 I got in a swap deal for it.
Having ridden Harleys for 13 years I was tremendously hacked off when I had to sell my FXD1450 because it hurt my knee (old injury).
Having ridden around on a Gilera Nexus 500 Scooter (very underrated) for 3 years I chanced upon this 883R on fleabay nearing the end of its auction and at a very silly low price. So I bid.....and won it!
I put 1600 miles on it in 3 weeks, culminating in a trip down to the New Forest
Sady, on my return, I found I couldn't get off the damned bike as my knee had stuck painfully in the rigid position it has to get into to wrap around the sticky-out air filter.
So, to save my riding season and with the Bulldog Bash 2 weeks away I decided to see if I could swap it for a nearly new Bandit.
Ayway, Haslemere Motorcycles had a bike in that I'd covetted since its launch, the GSX1400. It was a bit unloved and in a word, tatty.
But the motors are generally unburstable on these bikes and the cult following they have means that most of the tatty areas could easily be sorted out. The rest could stay as they were. If I have an immaculate bke I spend more time keeping it that way. Tatty bikes get ridden more in my life ;D
So, here's what I swapped the Harley for. '06 GSX1400 Suzuki Final Edition (the model was killed off by Euro 3 emissions regulations). In a word it is marvellous! ;D ;D
Having ridden Harleys for 13 years I was tremendously hacked off when I had to sell my FXD1450 because it hurt my knee (old injury).
Having ridden around on a Gilera Nexus 500 Scooter (very underrated) for 3 years I chanced upon this 883R on fleabay nearing the end of its auction and at a very silly low price. So I bid.....and won it!
I put 1600 miles on it in 3 weeks, culminating in a trip down to the New Forest
Sady, on my return, I found I couldn't get off the damned bike as my knee had stuck painfully in the rigid position it has to get into to wrap around the sticky-out air filter.
So, to save my riding season and with the Bulldog Bash 2 weeks away I decided to see if I could swap it for a nearly new Bandit.
Ayway, Haslemere Motorcycles had a bike in that I'd covetted since its launch, the GSX1400. It was a bit unloved and in a word, tatty.
But the motors are generally unburstable on these bikes and the cult following they have means that most of the tatty areas could easily be sorted out. The rest could stay as they were. If I have an immaculate bke I spend more time keeping it that way. Tatty bikes get ridden more in my life ;D
So, here's what I swapped the Harley for. '06 GSX1400 Suzuki Final Edition (the model was killed off by Euro 3 emissions regulations). In a word it is marvellous! ;D ;D
