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Burnmyheartdown
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 01:32 am: | 
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Where can you get these 140 HP 600's? The literbikes are putting 150ish at the wheel.
MAYBE a kawi 636 is 140 at the crank, with pipes and power commander... |
Joele
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 01:39 am: |
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I have a 919 and I have never gotten use to the speed it belts out - but the XB is more fun to ride because it's more compact and handles amazingly. |
Vonsliek
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 01:50 am: |
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er .. the kaw zx6r (636) is 110 & change at the rear wheel .. does 170 & change mph .. but its not THAT fast over 1/4.
yada yada |
Nadz
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 01:58 am: |
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After the 'Busa schooled me on the highway, he got off at my exit and started following me on the twisties. Those things can't turn for ••••, kept losing sight of him (and I wasn't really diggin' in). But he always caught up on the straightaways! That was one fine day all around, said us both. |
Wheelsleaning
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 09:43 am: |
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All this reminds me of my first track day a few months back. Stripped the headlights, passenger pegs, brake light, and turn signals off, then headed for the track. 100mph straights for me were 130+mph straights for everyone else. But few were close to me on the turns. Wait till I get some practice. |
Stou
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 09:52 am: |
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I have a 2001 FZ1. I installed some Givi hard bag and full fairing. I use this bike for long trip. It's comfortable and fast. A very good bike for sport touring.
But for city riding and small backroad, my XB9SX is lot more fun to ride  |
Wyckedflesh
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 11:13 am: |
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I remember watching some guy with a passenger on a Yamaha FJ1300 playing tag with a Mille, a modified S2, a CityX, a couple of S3's a ZRX1200 an XB12R and an XB9S, running them all down like it was nothing...oh HI Ferris  |
Js_buell
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 11:42 am: |
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I liked my 97 gixxer 750 a lot but the real power was coming only at 10k rpm and in first gear it mean 50 mi/h so almost every time I wanted to use a bit of this power I was over speeding. Thats why I felt in love with buell on my first demo ride on a x1 and after that on the xb's |
Jerry_haughton
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 11:53 am: |
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...oh HI Ferris
helps to have a great passenger.  |
Spatten1
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 12:15 pm: |
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One of my customers has a Goldwing, the new perimter frame type, and a Super Blackbird. His buddy spent $30,000 on a new Harley with all of the Screaming Eagle stuff, and assumed that meant his bike would make decent power. He challenged my client with all the expected bravado.
Needless to say, the friggen Hondaminium burned the $30,000 Harley. |
M1combat
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 01:15 pm: |
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"I remember watching some guy with a passenger on a Yamaha FJ1300 playing tag with a Mille, a modified S2, a CityX, a couple of S3's a ZRX1200 an XB12R and an XB9S, running them all down like it was nothing...oh HI Ferris "
There were quite a few Tuonos and a coupla Guzzi's there too . I remember running up the mountain, keeping the S2 and XB9 in my mirrors just to be sure and all of a sudden I look back and there's a big blue 'bago behind me... I picked it up, still there, no smaller... I picked it up, still there, no smaller... Then it went around. I decided the S2 and the XB9 could play fine by themselves but I'm going to chase the 2up 'Bago . I was following at about 60' or so when a Tuono went by with a Block pass... I thought "Maybe this mountian riding with other people IS just like the freeway, if you give someone room, they'll pass...". So, I pulled up behind the Tuono that had pulled up behind the 'Bago and stayed within about 8-12'. After about a mile or two he waived me by so I attached to the back of the 'Bago for about 5-25 miles (I really have no idea, I was having WAY too much fun to notice little details like that ).
One of the coolest things I've watched in my entire life was Jerry (with Denise on the back mind you) at MAX+ lean angle with the pegs folded into the engine cases dragging his inside foot (completely off the peg, just hung out there like an out-rigger) around some VERY tight and VERY tasty twisty roads .
Denise was complimented by Ruben (the guy on the Tuono) telling her that she had a much larger pair than he did . I agree, and the same goes for me... Kudo's to Denise .
The three of us were locked together for quite a long while. After the Tuono waved me by I didn't look in my mirrors again. I just kept one eye on Jerry's tail light and one on the road looking for dirt and the safest line (which was typically in Jerry's tracks, and any time it wasn't, I'd bet that Jerry had the better line ). It seemed like I followed Jerry for somewhere around 15 miles or better at about 15'.
The most fun I've ever had...
Oktoberfast Approaches . |
Jerry_haughton
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 04:46 pm: |
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One of the coolest things I've watched in my entire life...
really helps to have a great passsenger. |
Denisea
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 05:17 pm: |
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at MAX+ lean angle with the pegs folded into the engine cases dragging his inside foot
Kudo's to Denise
It really helps to trust the rider.
Oktoberfast Approaches |
M1combat
| | Posted on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 05:27 pm: |
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"really helps to have a great passsenger."
"It really helps to trust the rider."
True and from what I've found I believe that both of those statements are well placed  . |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 08:18 am: |
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It also helps when the passenger is an excellent rider.
Many of us who know D would have no reservations about being the passenger with her piloting. |
Jerry_haughton
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 10:19 am: |
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It also helps when the passenger is an excellent rider...
indeed. |
Denisea
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 11:03 am: |
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Experienced maybe, excellent...? but thanks for the thumbs up my friend. Still in the Ferris in Training course -- maaaybe by October I'll be past lesson 1 |
Jlnance
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 03:11 pm: |
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Jerry - I took another look at www.fastferris.com It's comming along nicely! |
Jerry_haughton
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 03:29 pm: |
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thanks Jim! SO much work to do, ten years worth of Buell-related stories and photos to get archived on there, just taking the first tentative steps with the site right now, what it's gonna be, where it's gonna go. have had a couple entries in the Guest Book the last few days, which is VERY cool. thanks again.
ride to lean,
Ferris |
Rocketman
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 06:59 pm: |
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Ferris just looking at the above pic I was wondering if life could actually get any better?
Does she ever give you any trouble? 
Rocket |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 07:02 pm: |
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Does she ever give you any trouble?
You're asking Ferris about that SV650 - right? |
Jerry_haughton
| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 08:20 pm: |
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Rocket:
no.
none.
Slaughter:
good question.
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