Not me. You had your chance! Hehe.

Since I'm going track only, I went for Honda's race twin.

Sure would like to ride the roads again, but that would be asking too much.

 

yeah I hate that "sport tourer" crap. if its a sport tourer, the its the worst sport tourer ever made. bad mileage, not comfy(stock) passengers don't like it. (at least the few I've had) and mediocre suspension. but you'd think that other sportbike riders would be compelled to call it a sport bike instead of a sport tourer, because which would you rather get beat by? a sport bike or a sport tourer? cause the "getting beat" part is not up for discussion. so pick... dicks

 

Yeh. My 30 year old (I'm 51) nephew rode with us a few weeks ago, for the first time. He was on his gixxer 1000 and thought he was hot stuff. So I led him down the backroads and at the exit point from the first good 15 mph curve (or so its marked), I dropped the hammer on the SH. Oh, he eventually caught me, about a mile down the road...but by that time we were at the next curve, and then...(repeat as necessary! )

When we came to our usual rest stop store, his first words were "Jesus Christ!..."

Love that SuperChicken!...

 

Sorry, didn't see the request on the current Dragon status. As of last week, the roads were getting covered with falling leaves. LE presence has dropped off quite a bit from the summer months. The best source for current info is dealsgap.com. The store keeps the website pretty up to date on road and weather conditions on the Dragon. Killboy.com and tailofthedragon.com are pretty good as well for Dragon info.

 

Yup! After getting the headers coated and the mid-pipes coated, I put the passenger pegs spacers in place to accomodate the high mounts. It made the back of the bike look "cow wide" so I took them off. Mine is an extensively modded 98. It's too fast and too twitchy to be a two-up machine.

If I need a two-up ride I'll take the VFR.

 

My son and I have been on two wheels for three years and on four-wheelers since he was 18 months old. When the transition from CBR kiddie stuff was upon him he chose the Superhawk for its big power, saved my *** again. No more of the CBR bullshit. When it's time to go - you need to have a machine that knows how to go. Any half-*** Superhawk knows when that is. It takes a rider to stay with it.

Any rider that can take that to the next level truly appreciates what the bike is all about. Nimble, powerful, absolutely on in the front. Digging the corners, powering out to the straights, engine braking down to the next one - the Superhawk does it better than most.

The Gixxers are making three gear changes to the Superhawk one.

 

My wife and I ran into a guy on a Suzuki TL1000R with Yosh cans today at the Candy Store on Ortega Highway. We talked to him for about 20 minutes. When we went to leave and I fired up my '05 (with stock exhaust seasoned by 23k miles) he came over to my bike and said what a nice sound it had.