Top Ten bikes that "you actually would ride" list

Tyler wrote:

trianglelaguna wrote:


:laugh: Yeah they were all looking at you thinking "Shit that guy's a gonner...."

I actually drove a new one, Jesus H Friggin Christ those bikes are nuts. I owned an older one and the new one has been put on some laboratory grade steroids. Way to unweildy to be a sport bike, and much heavier than the old one. Still way too much fun to be legal though. You roll the throttle on hard and the back end goes all over hell on you, and then when it hooks up the front wheel starts to jump, then ist time to shift, and the same shit happens all over again.:ohmy:

Really? I had heard that the old Vmax's were much faster than this new one and that the new one didn't have any real usable torque and that they actually were slower. Well, I guess that last part was true, it seems like a blast! I love sliding that rear wheel all over hell and back, especially around corners. Gotta ride both of them though before I can make any real enlightened opinion of my own. Wow. What a crazy bike. The equivilent of the Dodge Viper. I hear those cars are a beast to handle on the track.

saxon...i saw that little piece of shit you drive.....dodge viper...more like the viper lounge...guys night...dodge viper.....t.p


saxjonz wrote:

Tyler wrote:

trianglelaguna wrote:


:laugh: Yeah they were all looking at you thinking "Shit that guy's a gonner...."

I actually drove a new one, Jesus H Friggin Christ those bikes are nuts. I owned an older one and the new one has been put on some laboratory grade steroids. Way to unweildy to be a sport bike, and much heavier than the old one. Still way too much fun to be legal though. You roll the throttle on hard and the back end goes all over hell on you, and then when it hooks up the front wheel starts to jump, then ist time to shift, and the same shit happens all over again.:ohmy:

Really? I had heard that the old Vmax's were much faster than this new one and that the new one didn't have any real usable torque and that they actually were slower. Well, I guess that last part was true, it seems like a blast! I love sliding that rear wheel all over hell and back, especially around corners. Gotta ride both of them though before I can make any real enlightened opinion of my own. Wow. What a crazy bike. The equivilent of the Dodge Viper. I hear those cars are a beast to handle on the track.

For all its might and heft the new V-max is not quite the hyperbike it could be. I couldn't really tell you if it is any faster than the old one, to me it felt heavy and is lumbaring bastard at slow speeds. The 1998 v-max I had would wind out about 140mph I don't think the new bike will be any faster, its not meant to be either. With the v-max its not about how fast it can go, it's about how fast it goes fast. Its a drag/muscle bike and it does that well. The new tourqe curve is diffent than the old bike, in fact I liked the old engine better because with the v-power it kind behaved like a two stroke and kicked very hard when it got in the powerband. The complexity of the new bike bothers me a bit. Service wise it looks a bit difficult. I think it is beautiful though. The single piece machined aluminum air intake runners are a thing to behold. For $18,000 its not as good dollar per dollar as the old bike by any measns. I still want one.

dosen't interest me in the least if they were serious about performance with the new v-max they would have made it chain drive like all the real go fast v-maxs have been converted to.

it is all poser props....you get a good rider on just about any modern bike and he's gonna be able lay down a controlled acceleration and also not need a rear tire every paycheck...although it is just kinda nice overkill looks wise...i bet folks would have a hard time catching up to it on a ride ...but in a ,i'll meet you in the next town it'd just be overkill.....i'd feel silly sitting at a stop sign on it...like feel kinda like i had a piece of tape on my back...small pee-pee on board....

well you know what they say it's not the 2"nail, it's the 200 pound hammer. right?

This is in no way a complete list but the ten that come to mind are as follows

Ducati 1198
Triumph Speed Triple
'10 VFR 1200
KTM 690 Duke
Norton 850 Commando (My dads friend had one when I was a kid and it was what made me love motorcycles)
BMW R1200 GS
Honda RC45
Ducati Streetfighter
Honda Fury (I don't know why but I like these)
Aprilia RSV4R

My incomplete list in no order:
1) 100% stock Z-1 (The original and still the best! Best sounding 4cyl bike.)
2) Restomod KZ1000 (Have, in process)
3) First gen Zx-10R (Have, fav. hypersport)
4) ZX-14 (Fav. GT Bike)
5) Concourse 14 (Best bang for buck fast touring bike)
6) RC-51 (Fav. V-twin)
7) Rune (flat 6cyl, trailing link front end, uber-cruiser)
CBX (Six angels having orgasms in unison! The most beautiful sound that an internal combustion engine can make with natural asperation.)
9) Desmosidici (MotoGP with lights!)
10) Speed Triple (Super Naked! Love the 3cyl. sound.)

trianglelaguna wrote:

it is all poser props....you get a good rider on just about any modern bike and he's gonna be able lay down a controlled acceleration and also not need a rear tire every paycheck...although it is just kinda nice overkill looks wise...i bet folks would have a hard time catching up to it on a ride ...but in a ,i'll meet you in the next town it'd just be overkill.....i'd feel silly sitting at a stop sign on it...like feel kinda like i had a piece of tape on my back...small pee-pee on board....

It is the rediculousness of the bike that makes it cool. Though anyone riding that bike will look just as rediculous its still a fun toy. Serious motorcycles are for serious riding, that bike this is for being rediculous.

ZX 1400

there was one almost exact like at motogp bike night cannery row...saxon and yiannia were like like two little boys next to a fire truck....you could'nt budge em....each his own ...really nice components...completely impracticle for cali caynons even most roads.......pastrami stand bike imo...but ohhhhhhh the components...somebody's got a good job and a checkbook....top shelf everything....the one we saw,had ohlins forks and shocks..marchaniese rims and brembos...wow!!!!!!

chance wrote:

ZX 1400

there was also an rc30 that the gentleman..cause he was one....had started a little side buiness in his later yrs by making one off rc-30...rc-45 ..parts...hand built carbon fiber tanks,tails,top trees, and unobtainium ,little goodies...he claimed it wheighed 305...and he let us all take turns sitting on it....standing up with the bike between your legs ...you could toss it side to side and stop the toss with just your legs...thats what a 140 hp 305 pound bike feels like...old school iron hrc disks and monoblock one piece billet hand made grabbers....one finger dbl clicker instant bite brakes....ect.......even yianni the drag bike guy was all smiles sitting on it....then we're up in the corkscrew watching rossi and stoner qualifying(bumping bikes) on sat morn and here comes the guy "ron" we musta seen him 10 times that weekend....what a cool dude and one of a kind bike....