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My old streetfighter suffered a slightly catastrophic engine failure on the weekend, so time for a new bike!
Here it is. 2005 GSXR1000, 26k km, full Micron system, Ohlins steering damper, tinted double bubble screen, fender eliminator, new rearsets, braided lines, $12k with 3 months reg and new rear tyre. In damn good nick, only problem seems to be that the gear indicator is blacked out, looks like the LCD display died. Now if you'll excuse me, the weather's cleared, I'm off for a ride.
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I have no idea what you're on about.
But congrats anyway.
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Sick bike. Is the weather nice enough there year round to ride that all the time?
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In most of Australia, it's usually not raining all of the time. Unless it was last summer in Sydney. But yes, one could conceivabley ride pretty much any time.
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That bike is going to be able to destroy 99.9999%+ of things on the road in straight line acceleration and cost just a bit more than the cheapest new car on sale in Canada/USA.
Props.
Why the Gixxer and not another litre (or in the case of Ducati, 1.1L) sport-bike?
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Booked in for an Eastern Creek rideday in a few weeks, will have to nut up before so I can give it the full berries down the straight.
Basically. Good rider should be able to do 0-100kmh 3 secs flat and the 1/4 in 10. Don't think I've heard of one doing a 9 in standard trim (i.e not lowered/stretched)Originally Posted by Kitdy
Always been a fan of Gixxers. R1's are a bit too fully sik cuz, needed physio after just sitting on a ZX-10R and Hondas are a bit too snore for me. Also, I have plans for this, and not having undertail pipes or a headstock intake help those plans.
It's got a full titanium exhaust system, Micron is the manufacturer.
Black is the only proper colour for a motorcycle.
Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
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Mine is black but I disagree
Suzuki == GSX-R colours
Honda == CLassic red/silver with yellow old style wing
Yamaha == THe US racing colours yellow/black
Ducati == red, can only be red
MV == red/sliver
Bennelli == silver/green
Kawasaki == there only shoudl EVER be green in the catalogue
Triumph == a mix of rust and oil, all Triumph owners know why
Harley == no colour, jstu all chrome with leather tasles
But price is always king !!!!
re the Micron, are you guys allowed to have full race cans or are they the road legal versions. What about removable baffles - legal or not ? I run a full race with the "race only" dremelled off and a CE plate rivetted on. So on first look PC plod thinks it a legal if a "little noisy" exhaust
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LOLMine is black but I disagree
Triumph == a mix of rust and oil, all Triumph owners know why
doesn't that get a bit tiring when riding around though? the full on noise all the timere the Micron, are you guys allowed to have full race cans or are they the road legal versions. What about removable baffles - legal or not ? I run a full race with the "race only" dremelled off and a CE plate rivetted on. So on first look PC plod thinks it a legal if a "little noisy" exhaust
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Can do but on those occasions that what ear plugs are for
Mine, if I throttle of to just a "tickle" then it's "quiet " and will appease any police officer who shows interest. The advantage then if any ass-hole tin can driver doesn't see me I can blip the throttlw and scare the sh!t out of them and wakens them up into paying better attention to road users
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Le...gal?re the Micron, are you guys allowed to have full race cans or are they the road legal versions. What about removable baffles - legal or not ? I run a full race with the "race only" dremelled off and a CE plate rivetted on. So on first look PC plod thinks it a legal if a "little noisy" exhaust
It has some little plate on the back of the can but haven't actually read it yet. Doesn't matter about baffles etc etc, just gotta be under the noise limit. There was a push by the Govt. a few years ago for all exhausts to require an ADR plate, stock or aftermarket, but that fell by the wayside fortunately.
And:
This.
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Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death...
– Hunter Thompson
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Very nice, what made you chose the 1000 over the 750?
My mates Dad had a K4 GSXR750 but just swapped it over for a K8, not having much luck with it, last week it was reversed into and knocked over, snapping the stand, by a van whilst paying for fuel and then a few days later a car changed lanes, knocked him off and drove off bending, cracking and scraping most of the bodywork.
I'm still waiting until I can run a bike and a nice car...
Hope you have better luck with it than with the 1st bike and the last one!
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Seems like he hasn't came back from his ride yet... oh well.
Anyway, congrats on your new toy! Have fun!
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nice, a friend of mine recently got a litre bike, a honda fireblade i believe. said it was a lot of power. so i expect you'll be having fun
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Congrats, man.
Especially in black and red that looks sick.
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Fast & Sick. Careful out there.
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