[Hitman83]

Originally Posted by LoganG1k

The only problem I see with your mode "C" theory is that I read somewhere that the bike defaults to "A" each time to turn the bike off. You may forget and give it too much throttle in "A" and end up on your ass.

Very possible however it's gonna be a while before I have the balls to open it up. Also the difference is so much that even being unfamiliar with the bike I could feel it instantly. We're not talking about going from I mode to S# here...

[Hitman83]

Originally Posted by LoganG1k

The only problem I see with your mode "C" theory is that I read somewhere that the bike defaults to "A" each time to turn the bike off. You may forget and give it too much throttle in "A" and end up on your ass.

I hate to be an ass but I've taken a lot of crap from some of you guys and it pisses me off. I know the bike is too fast for me but you know what it's probably too fast for just about anyone unless they've got the track experience of Viperguy. And no I didn't buy it because I thought it would be cool; I bought it because I liked it.

I will learn to ride on this bike and regardless of what many of you think I will ride it responsibly. I'm done justifying myself but I would like to say that I appreciate the advice given from everyone

[renns]

I'm not trying to be an ass either, but you WILL drop it, and you most likely WILL crash it.

A 750 is too much. A NEW bike is too much. My GSXR still scares the sh*t out of me and I've been riding it for a year now.

[1loudsti]

Originally Posted by viperguy

ok... not many folks getting killed by making a slight mistake boating.

maybe not but i wasnt just referring to boating
generalize it a little more...respecting something that can be fun but can kill you too...water was just the best example i could come up with that i thought everyone would understand

[viperguy]

Originally Posted by Hitman83

I hate to be an ass but I've taken a lot of crap from some of you guys and it pisses me off. I know the bike is too fast for me but you know what it's probably too fast for just about anyone unless they've got the track experience of Viperguy. And no I didn't buy it because I thought it would be cool; I bought it because I liked it.

I will learn to ride on this bike and regardless of what many of you think I will ride it responsibly. I'm done justifying myself but I would like to say that I appreciate the advice given from everyone

Well maybe you will listen to my second piece of advise.


Take the rear foot pegs off and throw away the rear seat. Never ride another person on the back... unless there your children (as you can do what you want with them). Lets look at two past buddy's.

Deewy, Was stationed with the guy at Shaw AFB. After serving 1 year in jail he got sentenced to 10 years (yea 1 year for investigation and trial). His wife packed up and left him with their 3yr old daughter. What did he do? He crashed and his rider died. Was on a New R6 and he had been riding 4 years.. They were going about 75 near an intersection when some lady let her foot of the brake and her car moved about a foot ...problem with that was he caught the movement and thought she was going so he moved left slaming the median... I was going to go to the trial. But did not want to see the faces of the wife and 2 kids of the guy who was "thinking about getting a bike".


Next guy is John.. long ago back when I rode a 94 7R ... we had a fuddrukers meet every friday night in Ft. Lauderdale. Anyways I always rode up front so we took of on the I-95 to south beach when while riding some guy damm near clips me and I focus on him and start screaming WTF?.. I then see he is going crazy.. I look back and NO CARS... not good.. I turn around and ride 1/2 a mile back to find john walking around crazy like asking for his mom (he was about 30 yrs old...big boy).. he was completely Gone..didn't know where he was.. anyways, I see a crowd gathering around some POS station wagon and see another rider jerking aorund some old hatian women .. so I investigate.. It then took us(3 guys) about 15 secs to roll a 3k+ old wagon off his fiance(I did not know she was under the car). So.. john was just riding in the back at a slow pace in the passing lane when the old women decided to go left as she turned into his rear wheel he got tossed over the hood and his girl went left under the bike and then under the car. I understood that the women then drove quite a distance because she felt her brakes did not work right.

John had to tell her parents the next evening. He then tried to OD the next day as he said he could not pull a trigger (both hands were screwed). Saw him one last time about 2 weeks later.. He was not going to make it. His backgroud was in developing and had a very sucessful career up until then. Never saw him again. I believe he was sucessful in taking his life about 4 months after the accident after couseling and what not.

Lesson is ... DO NOT RIDE ANOTHER LIFE UNLESS YOU FEEL YOU WANT TO KILL THEM. And are ok with notifing their relatives and living with it the rest of your life.

[Boostpimp]

Originally Posted by viperguy

Lesson is ... DO NOT RIDE ANOTHER LIFE UNLESS YOU FEEL YOU WANT TO KILL THEM. And are ok with notifing their relatives and living with it the rest of your life.

Pay attention to that last line.

Back in 1997 I was merged into by a jeep cherokee that put me off a highway on-ramp into the dirt at over 70mph. He saw me coming and decided to ignore his yield sign to beat me up the ramp. My wife was on the back of the bike with me. I woke up from being knocked out on impact and had people standing all around me. I asked them where my wife was and nobody said anything. It scared the sshhiitt out of me because I immediately tried to get up to find her and was informed that I had a badly broken right arm. I threw 1 guy who was trying to hold me down and I started to get up again. They told her to come over and let me see her because they couldn't hold me down...she walked over (she'd been on her cell phone) and said I should just lay still. When we hit the ground apparently she deflected off my back and over me and tumbled away from the wreck while I took the entire impact of the bike and the ground.
If anything had happened to her I'd be in prison now for murdering the driver of that jeep who ran me off the road and put my life and my wife's life in danger.
I won't take anyone for a ride anymore because I don't want them to die on my bike.

[Sti King]

If I ever decide I want a bike i'll for sure keep in mind this thread very informal.

[Rdrcr]

Originally Posted by Hitman83

Thanks for the compliments guys. I picked up the bike today and rode it home. My first impression was "HOLY $HIT THIS THING IS FAST!" These bikes are a lot faster than I had expected. 1st gear felt really tall so I slowly revved it to 15k and couldn't believe it when I looked at the speedo and realized I was going 80+mph in first gear! 2nd must go 120 or something ridiculous like that. Let's just say Viperguy wasn't kidding when he said the bike is TOO MUCH. It may only have 147hp but feels like it's got 1000hp.

Yah think! What has everybody been telling you? You bought way, way too much bike.

It is likely asking for too much, but, be extremely, extremely careful with your new toy.

Mike

[Blackfang]

I am looking to get back onto another bike. I had a ZX6R for 5 years on top of 15 years riding dirt bikes. I never outgrew a 600 after 5 years. Heck I am going to be getting another 600 and it still will have enough power for me.

[shockey`]

Originally Posted by Hitman83

It may only have 147hp but feels like it's got 1000hp.

A stock wrx has about 14lb/hp

A stock STi has 10.64lb/hp

A bugatti veyron has 4.21lb/hp

Your bike has 2.53lb/hp

A ducati desmosedici RR has 1.88lb/hp


Nothing. Comes. Close.

[Hitman83]

I hear what you're all saying about others on the road. Since picking up the bike yesterday I've already had a woman drive at me in the worng lane through a construction zone and had a lady false signal a turn only to floor it as I let out the clutch to pull into the road. If I get hurt it's probably ging to be from someone elses stupidity.

[shockey`]

Originally Posted by Hitman83

If I get hurt it's probably ging to be from someone elses stupidity.

Naw. Ya think!?

[lovemyGDB]

congrats on your bike... be careful, those things scare me to death... my boyfriend just bought a triumph daytona 675 SE, i doubt i'll be riding on it though, lol.

[TuffStuff]

careful with the bike...I know it seems redundant but I just lost a good friend to a gsxr1000 last week.He took a turn and the girl on the back freaked out leaned the wrong way he gave it too much gas and hit a pole...He had been riding for a few years and had taken that turn regularly but all I know is the tire marks were everywhere it looked like figure 8s all over the road..he literally did dough nuts into a pole.He also wasn't wearing any gear so make sure you do that, but still a solid concrete pole isnt forgiving with or without protection. I am also getting a bike but it will not be a 1000(even tho the 08 cbr is SEXY) just for the fact that you lose traction WAY too easily.The 750 may not be as bad but its still ****in ridiculous.
Good luck and be safe

[enoxard]

Originally Posted by Hitman83

If I get hurt it's probably ging to be from someone elses stupidity.

not true, if you get hurt, its your own stupidity. on a bike, you MUST compensate for idiots. else, you lose.

like others said, take the MSF course. id recommend parking your bike until you do.

i learned on a gixxer 750, without all the fancy modes. i lived, barely. after going down 3 times in the course of 3 years, i figured my luck was running thin. i sold the bike and bought the STi.

hope you have more self control than i did. the slightest roll on the throttle of that bike will put you over 100MPH nearly instantly. and the bike rides like butter. so at 130+ it feels like your going 80, until you look at the speedo or start coming up on a turn.

best of luck. personally, i think the money would have been better spent on STi mods.