franz131
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posted September 30, 2005 05:21 PM
Confessions of a Yamaha Rider
My outlook on life has been changed.
I've always been a small bike rider, I've raced RZ350s and various 600s.
I have always believed that a 600 is the fastest way around a race track, or at least the lumpy excuses for tracks we have in Canada.
I had the opportunity to ride a 2005 ZX10 superbike that was campaigned in this years Canadian National race series. I was amazed that it felt a lot like a 600 with the precise turn-in and light steering effort that makes 600s so good. My second impression was that after half throttle it flat hauled and it wheelied A LOT!
I always believed that superbikes were unruly beasts to be tamed by the naturally gifted. After riding the ZX10 I will have to buy my own in order to further investigate how its possible for this bike to be so good.
Please buy lots of oil.
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frEEk
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posted September 30, 2005 05:25 PM
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I always believed that superbikes were unruly beasts to be tamed by the naturally gifted.
yeah, but it was a _canadian_ superbike. given the budget of anything canadian, it was probably just a stock bike with slicks & tape over the lights 
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zx12adam
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posted September 30, 2005 08:52 PM
Not too sure about the tape though.
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posted September 30, 2005 08:57 PM
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I always believed that superbikes were unruly beasts to be tamed by the naturally gifted..
No, sir. They're unruly beasts to be tamed by the UNnaturally gifted.
Carry on.
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zx12adam
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posted October 01, 2005 06:30 AM
Good point.
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franz131
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posted October 01, 2005 03:53 PM
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I always believed that superbikes were unruly beasts to be tamed by the naturally gifted.
yeah, but it was a _canadian_ superbike. given the budget of anything canadian, it was probably just a stock bike with slicks & tape over the lights
I wish you were wrong, but you're not.
It did have some very trick suspension bits and the lights were removed, I checked.
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