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PostPosted: 09:22 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Feeling rather silly... Reply with quote

I sold this bike, for £800

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It was a great bike, least the guy that bought it is really enjoying it Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 17:37 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I reckon the guy who paid £800 for it feels worse than you do mate.
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PostPosted: 18:41 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you've not ridden one of them, then Question
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PostPosted: 18:55 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gissit!! Drooling
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PostPosted: 18:58 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd have given you 800 for it, I like that...
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone that saw it (with taste) wanted it. Not many would recognise it immediately...

But onward and upward, I got this to help me feel better (now battling the 'voices' to strip the fairings off and jackup the rear) Surprised

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PostPosted: 19:06 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

BLUEX5 wrote:
Oh my god. What have you done to a modern classic? FFS the frame and swinging arm are even black. Sick

I guess that's why I had to hunt for ages to find a standard one - too many amateur "street fighters" making them look and go worse than standard.

I wouldn't say £800 for a hacked about J/K model is cheap - I only paid £1100 for a clean standard M with the long stroke engine and USD forks.


hardly hacked about. the tail looks like it was designed for the bike Razz The swing arm is better lookin than the standard weedy effort Thumbs Up and black is definately the best colour Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:08 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Noice. My mate's old man has one like that. Fucking stonking. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 19:08 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

before you do that go and have a look at some others who have tried it
busa's dont look good like the old gixxers when streatfighter'd
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PostPosted: 19:12 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

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before you do that go and have a look at some others who have tried it
busa's dont look good like the old gixxers when streatfighter'd

I know, I am fighting the voices Thumbs Up I'd rather sell it and buy something else to play with Karma
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PostPosted: 19:14 - 11 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

lol on a side note if you do it ill have the nose cowl off ya mine's cracked Twisted Evil Razz Laughing
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PostPosted: 06:12 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

busapaul wrote:
before you do that go and have a look at some others who have tried it
busa's dont look good like the old gixxers when streatfighter'd


Lies, Ghostriders turbo'd one. Wink
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PostPosted: 08:29 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knar im riding a frigging gs500e which is older than me, and i wouldn't say no to a busa if i had the chance, but i hate the lines on them...
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PostPosted: 10:55 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

vmax.dude wrote:
BLUEX5 wrote:
Oh my god. What have you done to a modern classic? FFS the frame and swinging arm are even black. Sick

I guess that's why I had to hunt for ages to find a standard one - too many amateur "street fighters" making them look and go worse than standard.

I wouldn't say £800 for a hacked about J/K model is cheap - I only paid £1100 for a clean standard M with the long stroke engine and USD forks.


hardly hacked about. the tail looks like it was designed for the bike Razz The swing arm is better lookin than the standard weedy effort Thumbs Up and black is definately the best colour Laughing


You were bound to get the blinkered brigade in giving it...."oh my god, a bike not standard or replica'd up. must be satan himself"

Plus you didn't post a pic of full matching leathers either.
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PostPosted: 11:59 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

metalforever wrote:
I knar im riding a frigging gs500e which is older than me, and i wouldn't say no to a busa if i had the chance, but i hate the lines on them...


I wouldn't say no to a gs500. I've seen some amazing ...oh dare i say it fighter'd/rat'd bikes based on the gs500 Cool

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PostPosted: 12:13 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The reason I think how I do Guv is because 95% of modded bikes are worse than standard, either in performance, ergonomics, or both. Also as per our very own workshop section, quite a number of enterprising mechanics should actually stick to flower arranging or whatever their day jobs are. Lets just say I know of someone who built a YZF750 fighter, he had all the mechanical aptitude of tutton and the damn thing was held together with garden wire and farm bolts. If something is relativly unmolested it's easier to spot signs of idiot bodging. Plus £800 is still alot of money for a none standard J/K model regardless of how well it's put together.


When something becomes custom, its worth what people will pay for it. And because you have seen some badly put together bikes means that they are all badly put together does it?........Mean while back in the real world....... Razz
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PostPosted: 12:25 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

i think its a cool bike, and feels far better to ride than what they do as standard ,and in my eyes in starndard they are friggin ugly, you get the purists, but fuck'em Middle Finger
i'd rather have a comfortable fighter, than a prissy plastic bike with bad ergonomics any day of the week, including the weekend Very Happy


the only thing that was letting downs pauls fighter was the lights... which ive now sorted (not my bike, but am looking after it while a friend is in south africa building huts for the natives Very Happy)

the only thing that needs doing now is jacking up the rear slightly Very Happy
ill try and get on to that today Very Happy
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PostPosted: 12:56 - 12 May 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
busapaul wrote:
before you do that go and have a look at some others who have tried it
busa's dont look good like the old gixxers when streatfighter'd


Lies, Ghostriders turbo'd one. Wink


lol cant argue with that but thats the only 1 ive seen thats any good Mr. Green
lots of others ive seen on some of the busa sites look crap
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