RocketScott wrote:
After buying my R1 I quickly realized I needed to focus on software upgrades over hardware.
It's a liter class sport bike that makes 178 HP and weighs less than 400 lbs.
Somehow replacing the titanium exhaust with carbon fiber didn't matter much to me after the first ride.
Something similar started me on my path towards preferring old tractors to motorcycles.
When I was in the navy I bought a KZ1300. I think it was 804 pounds, 6 cylinder shaft drive. Man, that thing was smooth. Speedo went to 85MPH
like that is going to stop a young kid from going too fast. The goal with a low speedo became to see how quickly I could peg it. FTR - way too quickly, and there was still a lot of top end to go.
After a few months of adventurous ownership and thinking that I'd bought it a few times, I came to the realization that my life would be short if I kept the bike. I traded it for a 1920's Caterpillar which is still up at my tree farm. Thieves cut the radiator out of the Cat. Bastards.
Before the KZ1300 I had Ossas and a couple of other dirt racing bikes. Hella fun, those pipey European bikes.
