Well, I'm Another Step Towards The New BMW...

[Sean]

Originally Posted by shmike

The black does the best job of hiding the ugly, IMO.

I just think she's a butterface.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Sean

I just think she's a butterface.

Yea, I think that the styling will take some getting used to but I owned a Hayabusa... As long as the performance and handling lives up to the hype, I'll live with the styling.

[azoomm]

The yellow/green needs to be seen in person to be appreciated.

The red/white/blue isn't just the alternate plastic color - it's also a polished swing-arm and exhaust.

Congrats on putting money down on it - it's a fantastic [FANTASTIC] motorcycle.

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Originally Posted by azoomm

The yellow/green needs to be seen in person to be appreciated.

The red/white/blue isn't just the alternate plastic color - it's also a polished swing-arm and exhaust.

Congrats on putting money down on it - it's a fantastic [FANTASTIC] motorcycle.

Yea, I see that the swing arm is silver... the exhaust looks the same, but I'll take you word for it. Of course, you realize that the day after I make the deal, I'll be ordering an Akrapovic so the exhaust doesn't matter. I'm already scheming about how I can get the dealership to take the swing arm apart for cheap and send it, the tank and the wheels out to be be painted for me. Otherwise, I'll probably get the white and suck up the out fucking rageous surcharge. The problem is that they have 5, now 6 deposits on the damn thing without even having one at the dealership, so they have zero motivation to deal in any way.

Hey, Azoom, how do you like the DTC and ABS? I won't lie, I'm a little leery of that kind of stuff. On the other hand, having some electronic help would be a bad thing on a bike with those hp numbers.

[Trip]

OMFG, I am at a loss of words to taunt you Tigger. I am going to need a few hours to compose my thoughts into massive amounts of win.

Headlights are fugly, no getting around that. The gills are pretty stupid too. Besides that, it's a bad ass bike.

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Originally Posted by Trip

OMFG, I am at a loss of words to taunt you Tigger. I am going to need a few hours to compose my thoughts into massive amounts of win.

Headlights are fugly, no getting around that. The gills are pretty stupid too. Besides that, it's a bad ass bike.

Allow me to pre-respond...

[Trip]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Allow me to pre-respond...

Well that's a BMW too, it's fucking ugly. I will freely admit it's really fucking ugly. I have always thought it looks retarded, it could always be worse though. It could be a Vstrom or a Versys.

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Hey, Azoom, how do you like the DTC and ABS? I won't lie, I'm a little leery of that kind of stuff. On the other hand, having some electronic help would be a bad thing on a bike with those hp numbers.

yes yes and YES. Get the full package, it's go big or go home time. Seriously.

By the way - it's R-ABS, or RaceABS. This isn't your daddy's ABS, it's designed knowing it's a sportbike with possible race conditions.

Everything on that bike is there for a reason. The gills on one side with the hole on the other creates a vacuum in the bodywork that sends the heat out the side of the motor [the hole side of the plastics] rather than vented onto the rider.