Not really keen on "look at me" type of posts, but I know you lovely lot are interested...
As some of you know, I’ve been tentatively looking for a new bike over the last couple of months.
Spent the first few weeks looking at the few V Twins out there as I love the sound and rawness of them, toyed with VTR’s, SV1000 and Ducati 900’s but realised that I was ignoring by far the most popular set up, Inline 4s.
The Ron Haslam day changed my mind big time as the CBR600RR was just brilliant.
Following that I tried one out on the road, but just didn’t get on with the heavy wrist and pain that caused after half an hour. Tried an R6 which was great and contemplated the Daytona 675 until I pearched on top of Dabs and realised that it was more wristy than the CBR. Looked at a Daytona 650 last week but finally found my new bike at the weekend and bought it today.
No, it’s not yellow, after seeing Basils black ZX6R I’ve only been looking for black !
2005 Yamaha R6, black. Standard apart from a 3cm lowered seat, which I may keep as I’m a short-arse.
Plan is new Fuel slip-on can (with removable baffle) seat cowl, tail tidy, and if I can’t get some gold wheels for it (fancy a swap Uber) possibly “blacking it out” (removing all decals and powder coating the silver bits). Seen some pics like that and they look awesome.
Second part of my plan is to sell the SV to fund an older R6 track bike. Seems sense to keep to the same make / model for road & track and there seems to be quite a few about within my modest budget (depending what I can sell the SV for).
Really looking forward to my first long blat on it
Gerry
PS: Yellow leathers anybody ???? :-/
