What garage back up bike

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

My zx9r is by far the comfiest bike I've owned - although the clip ons are actually over the top yoke rather than beneath it where they belong. So are an exercise in styling, it seems. Regardless - the 9 is superbly comfortable. I don't even like sports bikes. It came up locally (word of mouth, in the loop kind of schnizz), and it was so cheap I was tempted enough to test ride it...then promptly stuffed the seller's gob with tenners. The only thing I'd change slightly would be seat to peg - but even that's not too bad. I ride it everywhere - A roads, B roads, unclassifieds, town, country and in between. At very illegal speeds, at a sensible pace, and at a gentle stroll. It does everything and is really happy doing it.
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[Rogerborg]

So it's perfect apart from the bars which you'd make worse, and the pegs which you'd make better?
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[chickenstrip]

If G is right, then I must be weird...well, ok, I know I'm weird but...
I have quite a severe back problem, but I'll tell you this (you listening to me? ): There are two times I have no back pain. One is when sitting in a chair that gives good back support. And the other is when riding the Fazer (and equally when I had the Striple). I didn't feel any impact from bumps through my back, and that's even with the Striple's suspension set to "Fuckin Solid", so that otherwise I felt every damn bump virtually undamped.
So I don't buy this thing about bumps being transmitted straight up the spine with upright bikes, and sports bikes relieving this.

[Copycat73]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Copycat73]

[stevo as b4]

Going massively off point here by the looks of it. But there's a definite disadvantage to owning more than one of exactly the same bike.

Its that people think your an autistic weirdo, no matter how well you try to justify it.

[biker7]

[chickenstrip]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I test rode an F800GS and an R1200RT at a BMW event day at Squires, back in summer. The 800 was horrible, seat-wise. It was like I could feel the subframe after a mere half an hour. Everything else was good - but the seat was uncomfy enough to easily off-set the pluses of the rest of the bike's ergos.

Meanwhile the *slightly* sportier positioning of the RT was luxurious in comparison. Compared to most bikes I'd ridden before the RT seemed quite leant forwards, and high pegged. But after 45 minutes it felt like I could be on it all day (with the F800 I was just glad to get off it). Riding the RT gave me the counter-intuitive idea that the comfiest bike might well not be the most "sensible" (i.e. upright) positioning, and that's why - months later - I did something I wouldn't otherwise have done, and tried the zx9r. Which btw is so much comfier than e.g. the W650 I once had (!).
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[biker7]

[Rogerborg]

[biker7]

[Copycat73]

[chickenstrip]

[Copycat73]

[chickenstrip]

Wales has the best concentration of fast, well-maintained roads anywhere in the country. Considering the amount of looney-tunes riding I've done there, two speeding tickets wasn't too high a price to pay

It helped that I got to ride there during the week, when there are far less fuzz around to spoil the fun, and could pick my days, so I actually got to see a lot of sunshine and dry roads...no, honestly!

I'd take my Fazer for mountain passes before any sports bike. It may not be the ideal choice, but it's surprising how well it copes with such roads.
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[biker7]

My idea of a bike is one I can ride in the rain on the motorway, crouched low, not getting as wet as any upright bike, not getting blown to bits each time I pass an artic and when the sun shines, using massive amounts of power to blast any mortal biker off the road. No silly reasons here, pure experience of what makes a top bike, for me. As for Wales - most of you know the tourist bits. Never go there myself, too many visitors. As for back up...anything small and reliable will do. If you like it, that'll do.
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[chickenstrip]

[biker7]

[arry]

[G]

[Copycat73]

[chickenstrip]

All these years I've been laying out for expensive waterproof gear, when all I had to do was buy a sports bike. Silly me!
And I didn't know that on a sports bike, when riding in rain, you never actually have to stop or slow down enough that the fairing will stop keeping the rain off you. I can be such a twit sometimes
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[Chalky.]

'98 R1 fucking pussies