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posted November 26, 2005 08:54 AM
Anyone see the engine in the bikes at the bike show yet?
Engineless, eh? Guess that's why the bikes are so light 
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posted November 26, 2005 09:14 AM
Sure ya wanna start a thread like that?
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fish_antlers
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posted November 26, 2005 09:19 AM
hey.. it sounded like a good rumour  !
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posted November 26, 2005 09:30 AM
I'll look at one next Sunday and letcha know.
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posted November 26, 2005 09:45 AM
I hear it's styrofoam. 
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posted November 26, 2005 09:56 AM
I'll give it a stab then and see what happens.
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posted November 26, 2005 03:20 PM
I saw it and touched it . It looks like an engine to me. I just thought it was empty of parts because of the VERY light feel of the whole bike.
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posted November 26, 2005 03:24 PM
...the tires are probably inflated with helium.... 
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posted November 28, 2005 04:22 PM
they're actually fiberglass wrapped with tin foil....
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posted November 28, 2005 04:54 PM
There may be an engine in there, but it may just be the outside cases, nothing inside! You'd never know unless you took it apart. The way I figure it, it CAN NOT weigh more than a 12!! In this day and age, it only seems logical it would weigh less. If it don't, good luck selling them Kawi....cause next years Busa WILL be lighter and more powerful than the old one.
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posted November 29, 2005 08:33 AM
The bikes at the dealer show were runners. As you saw with the pics of the guy doing the burnout. those same bikes are now on the road at shows.
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posted December 05, 2005 04:02 PM
quote:
I'll look at one next Sunday and letcha know.
Well I guess you Northerners are gonna hafta answer the question here.
I can tell you that the red on the 650's swingarm and forks was well received by most of the chicks at the event yesterday.
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posted December 05, 2005 04:30 PM
It's just 399 lbs dry... >:-)
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posted December 05, 2005 05:27 PM
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The bikes at the dealer show were runners. As you saw with the pics of the guy doing the burnout. those same bikes are now on the road at shows.
ya... right...
and earlier you said they were made out of fiberglass... which is it?
you running for office or something?
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posted December 05, 2005 07:07 PM
He's always running for something......bathroom maybe??
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posted December 06, 2005 01:12 PM
the second is the the real story.....oooohhhh! gotta run!!!!!!!!
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posted December 06, 2005 03:45 PM
The second???
"The second" what?
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posted December 06, 2005 04:38 PM
hell with the second.....what about the third
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posted December 07, 2005 05:45 AM
 Edited By: fish_antlers on 7 Dec 2005 05:45
All this talk about "gotta run" has got me scared to eat there now!
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posted December 07, 2005 01:58 PM
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hell with the second.....what about the third
yeah third is in the cases. along with all the other gears.....
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posted December 12, 2005 07:40 AM
Not that I doubted you guys (or the other reports seen at various places) - but the 14's both felt INCREDIBLY light.
I mean light like the night I traded the 12 for the 10 and how the 10 felt like a 600 in comparison.
Light like I couldn't believe when I went and sat on the Busa (and then came back and did it again).
Sure seems odd....
I was assured (several times) that they were "runners".
PS - Brian said he remembered meetin you guys at Seattle.
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posted December 12, 2005 08:01 AM
Yeh , I was assured at Daytona that they are, indeed, runners.
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