Ninjaman12R
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posted April 28, 2005 11:07 AM
Any of you retreads read the Cycle World Shootout????
Just wandering if any of you guys have read the shootout in the latest Cycle World? It's the 10R vs. Gixxer K5 vs. the MV. They gave the nod to the 10R. The gixxer's weakness appears to be the rear shock!?!?!?!
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burgerking
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posted April 28, 2005 11:59 AM
would be very nice to read it, but no CW over here, does someone has a scan of the article?
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beansbaxter
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posted April 28, 2005 02:09 PM
what's a retread?
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frEEk
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ummm... yeah
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posted April 28, 2005 05:12 PM
if u have to ask...
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beansbaxter
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posted April 28, 2005 07:43 PM
I can't remember which issue it was, but when they reviewed the 10R their was a negative comment about the mirrors but the author basically said who cares and wrote that:
quote:
"... objects are no longer relevant"
should be printed on the mirrors of the 10R anways.
I wanna make a T-Shirt outta this one-liner.
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beansbaxter
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posted April 28, 2005 09:01 PM
The answer is what freek put on his bike.
Retread
n : a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new
treads [syn: recap]
v 1: use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn: rework,
make over]
2: give new treads to (a tire) [syn: remold, remould]
Retreads, according to the Tire Industry Association, are every bit as safe as new tires. False
They are routinely used by school bus and commercial airline fleets, and all federal vehicles are mandated to use retreads. In the United States, approximiately 45 million scrap tires are used each year to make 24.5 million automobile and truck tire retreads each year, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
Retreads are used due to reduced cost and reuse the tires carcass with a RE-Tread.
My advice do not buy them or be one unless you have a commercial fleet of vehicles
And that's today's English lesson
Now Back to the topic-
Also there is a sportrider (equally shallow) review out that gives it to the gix over the kawi. Their reason is that the kawi is hard to put the power to the ground and unstable in a straight line.
If anyone buying a 1k buys it because of a advertising magazines review they are going to be disappointed in the fall when the new bikes come out.
All liter bikes (any mass produced product) have their weakness and are always a compromise due to production costs and final price. Many of the complaints can be fixed easily some you have to live with unless you have cash to burn.
The mirrors suck on the new gix too from what I have heard. They shake and you get a nice view of your elbows.
10k is a lot of cash to spend, don't take someone's word or a journalists/advertising copy writers view of a new machine. If you want a new bike try them all and find one that suits your needs not what some tiny little review that is straight out of product literature. Needless to say all bikes have enough hp to more than handle the street rider's needs.
Also look at things like that are of real concern to cash limited weekend warrior's rider comfort, cost and ease of consumer maintenance, gauges and useable powerband.
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bovinespongiformencephalo
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posted April 29, 2005 06:24 AM
Are you mad? Get the Gixxer everyone. It's newer and cooler. Without it you'll be just another shmo on a 10R.
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zx9rcr500r
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posted April 29, 2005 04:05 PM
quote:
Are you mad? Get the Gixxer everyone. It's newer and cooler. Without it you'll be just another shmo on a 10R.
Yes we are shmoes ..... Nobody has a Gixxer.
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