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11-06-2007, 07:38 AM
#32
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SuperBike
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
Posts: 1,689
Here is my replacement:
Well it would be, if I could find a way to put a picture in. What am I doing wrong? I've tried hosting sites, pasting Word documents with imbedded photos. HOW DO YOU DO IT?
Anyway. I have a 2006 Specialized Enduro, with Fox coil suspension front and rear.
I never thought I’d be a downhill mountain bike rider, but what a hoot! It goes uphill really well too.
Doug, I love that VFR. Of all the bikes here, yours makes me drool. I’ve wanted that V-4 for a while now. Maybe an older one, before the nose got so big and gaudy.
Well it would be, if I could find a way to put a picture in. What am I doing wrong? I've tried hosting sites, pasting Word documents with imbedded photos. HOW DO YOU DO IT?
Anyway. I have a 2006 Specialized Enduro, with Fox coil suspension front and rear.
I never thought I’d be a downhill mountain bike rider, but what a hoot! It goes uphill really well too.
Doug, I love that VFR. Of all the bikes here, yours makes me drool. I’ve wanted that V-4 for a while now. Maybe an older one, before the nose got so big and gaudy.
Last edited by RCVTR; 11-06-2007 at 07:39 AM. Reason: spelling
11-06-2007, 07:45 AM
#33
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SuperSport
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 731
Thanx man. It is an 04 and that's a Hotbodies exhaust. Sounds badass too, especially at 13000 rpms.
11-06-2007, 07:50 AM
#35
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SuperSport
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MICHIGAN
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If I was willing to spend the money to purchase, insure and maintain two or three more late model bikes, one of them would be an I-4 SS literbike for sure. But I wouldn't trade my VTR for one.
There's no one bike I'd rather have than the VTR. The fact that I was able to buy mine new for barely half the price of a new R1, 10R etc. is just icing on the cake.
There's no one bike I'd rather have than the VTR. The fact that I was able to buy mine new for barely half the price of a new R1, 10R etc. is just icing on the cake.
11-06-2007, 10:15 AM
#37
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MotoGP
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Montreal
Posts: 5,631
Let`s see, I am keeping my VTR as I have a new job which allows me to ride and test other people`s bikes, so... Besides, I have enough invested in it now that I could never hope to get it back. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it runs SO DAMN FINE!!!!
Here are recent pics. The only thing missing are the new (to me) PVM wheels but those will likely wait until the Spring.
Here are recent pics. The only thing missing are the new (to me) PVM wheels but those will likely wait until the Spring.
11-06-2007, 01:33 PM
#38
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MotoGP
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 3,132
State Farm, clean record.. Something to do with AZ insurance laws... They literally didn't want to know what kind of bike it was in giving me the quote till they needed to fill out the paperwork to send me the proof of registration. CC's is all that mattered.
11-06-2007, 01:42 PM
#39
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MotoGP
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Way Out West
Posts: 2,547
AZZKIKER;
"...sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk."
I'm sure that is true for lots of VTR owners, but not for me. Sure, for the ten or fifteen percent of my riding that is tearing through mountains and canyons, the R1 is a much more capable bike.
For the 85%-90% of my miles which are scooting around town or sport touring, I'd much rather have the VTR. I'd love to have an R1 (and a few other bikes) in addition to, but not in lieu of the VTR.
Look, there's two kinds of guys riding VTRs; Those who really want a 1098, R1, gixxer thou etc., but bought a hawk 'cause it was the hottest bike they could afford at the time.
Then there are guys like me who could afford to buy pretty much any bike they want and really wanted the VTR in the first place.
"...sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk."
I'm sure that is true for lots of VTR owners, but not for me. Sure, for the ten or fifteen percent of my riding that is tearing through mountains and canyons, the R1 is a much more capable bike.
For the 85%-90% of my miles which are scooting around town or sport touring, I'd much rather have the VTR. I'd love to have an R1 (and a few other bikes) in addition to, but not in lieu of the VTR.
Look, there's two kinds of guys riding VTRs; Those who really want a 1098, R1, gixxer thou etc., but bought a hawk 'cause it was the hottest bike they could afford at the time.
Then there are guys like me who could afford to buy pretty much any bike they want and really wanted the VTR in the first place.
11-06-2007, 02:25 PM
#40
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SuperSport
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MICHIGAN
Posts: 731
AZZKIKER;
"...sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk."
I'm sure that is true for lots of VTR owners, but not for me. Sure, for the ten or fifteen percent of my riding that is tearing through mountains and canyons, the R1 is a much more capable bike.
For the 85%-90% of my miles which are scooting around town or sport touring, I'd much rather have the VTR. I'd love to have an R1 (and a few other bikes) in addition to, but not in lieu of the VTR.
Look, there's two kinds of guys riding VTRs; Those who really want a 1098, R1, gixxer thou etc., but bought a hawk 'cause it was the hottest bike they could afford at the time.
Then there are guys like me who could afford to buy pretty much any bike they want and really wanted the VTR in the first place.
"...sure you would if the R1 cost as much as you sold the Superhawk."
I'm sure that is true for lots of VTR owners, but not for me. Sure, for the ten or fifteen percent of my riding that is tearing through mountains and canyons, the R1 is a much more capable bike.
For the 85%-90% of my miles which are scooting around town or sport touring, I'd much rather have the VTR. I'd love to have an R1 (and a few other bikes) in addition to, but not in lieu of the VTR.
Look, there's two kinds of guys riding VTRs; Those who really want a 1098, R1, gixxer thou etc., but bought a hawk 'cause it was the hottest bike they could afford at the time.
Then there are guys like me who could afford to buy pretty much any bike they want and really wanted the VTR in the first place.
11-06-2007, 03:19 PM
#41
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MotoGP
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Way Out West
Posts: 2,547
AZZKIKER;
That R1 is a great bike, still about the best looking sportbike out there. Nice to hear how much you're enjoying it.
When I cash in my California house and move back to the boonies, I'll probably pick one up, along with something like a R1200GS, and a street trackerized Norton Commando, and maybe an old RD400 Daytona Special.
I think with those plus my VTR and '83 Interceptor, I'll be ready for anything.
That R1 is a great bike, still about the best looking sportbike out there. Nice to hear how much you're enjoying it.
When I cash in my California house and move back to the boonies, I'll probably pick one up, along with something like a R1200GS, and a street trackerized Norton Commando, and maybe an old RD400 Daytona Special.
I think with those plus my VTR and '83 Interceptor, I'll be ready for anything.
11-06-2007, 03:55 PM
#42
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Back Marker
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 206
Let`s see, I am keeping my VTR as I have a new job which allows me to ride and test other people`s bikes, so... Besides, I have enough invested in it now that I could never hope to get it back. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it runs SO DAMN FINE!!!!
Here are recent pics. The only thing missing are the new (to me) PVM wheels but those will likely wait until the Spring.
Here are recent pics. The only thing missing are the new (to me) PVM wheels but those will likely wait until the Spring.
11-06-2007, 04:37 PM
#43
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Cincinnati Ohio
Posts: 205
The Hawk was a great bike and I really don't miss it... the only thing I found uncomfortable was the stock seat on the RC but I fixed that with a Sargent seat and as for height I'm 6'1
11-08-2007, 06:20 PM
#44
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Superstock
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Merritt,MI.
Posts: 474
azz what's up man nice bike when I get my next street bike we'll have to ride again!!! I was in your town the other night we ended up at sensations or something!!!! I posted my other than hawk pics in a different thread but here they are again
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