Which Jap 1000 would you pick?

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Keep in mind that there is one thing you'll never have enough of with a 1000cc bike.

TIRES TIRES TIRES TIRES TIRES [shadow=red,left,300]TIRES[/shadow]

Don't say you haven't been warned.  Man, I jumped from a Lightweight Superbike to a 750 Gixxer.  The Gix is an awsome bike, but it eats tires, chains, gears and brake pads too fast for me to be able to afford to race it.  A 1000cc bike could only be worse.  Another problem I've had is that I just can't get the thing into a corner deep enough on the brakes.  That whole 175mph thing just rewires your sense of when you should pull the right side lever!
Me?  I want an SV.  The big stuff has proven too rich for my blood.

[duc995@aol.com]

That works for me.  I am not racing anymore, and the track days are getting fewer and fewer...mostly because I don't have fun anymore at the (plentiful) "rinky dink" tracks that we have in the SW.  I am only satisfied with REAL tracks like Road America anymore, and that type aren't available very often!

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Well, then you should love a 1000cc bike.  I coach for STT, and I can tell you that the track day guys have them in droves.  Many of these 1000cc pilots do the blaze, camp, blaze, camp routine.  But giving credit where it's due, I saw a few Hayabusas at the track this year, and they were FLYING through the corners.  I never would have believed it!

[duc995@aol.com]

Yeah...the last track day I did on my 250 was ridiculous.  Liter bikes were splitting me on the straights like I was an orange cone, but in the corners we were fine.  I am just getting uncomfortable all crouched down on my bike, wide open, waiting to get center-punched from behind! :(

[Dawn]

Paul had a blast on his SV at Road America....  even with the 600's in the advanced class.

Even though the 600's would blast past him on the straights, he would get them on the brakes and through the corners and eventually, they weren't passing him anymore.   ;D

... and then his clutch went out.   :(  (Barnett's in an SV don't seem to work.  Vesrah's do.)

 :D

[duc995@aol.com]

Yeah...SVs can do those things...that's why racing them with them on an Aprilia RS 250 was a problem.