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Ha! Glad it's not only our club that can't sequence properly. To add insult to injury, they run a one minute buffer between the five minute countdown for each class, so a yacht timer watch with five minute intervals doesn't work. Maybe I should thank them for saving me from buying yet another...

You can see a real shift in swingarm fabrication between the SP-1 version of the RC51 (2000-2001) and the SP-2 version (2002-2005) here: The older one on the right is a traditional fork swingarm with bracing welded on. The newer one isn't made of box-section steel anymore and has more of a...

It's a braced swingarm and sort of a callback to the bikes that inspired the ZRX from the late-'70s and early-'80s, I think. The stock Japanese bikes of the day had weedy swingarms and bendy frames that had long been overpowered by the huge power advances through the '70s. Braced swingarms were...

Wow, finally a reasonably priced ZRX! Going to look at the Griso for sale locally tomorrow, may be starting a new thread soon if it's as advertised...

@basmn I had over 150 hp in the mountains for years and years. Lived in BC from 2005 to 2019, owned a ZX-14, ZX-10R and Tuono in that time. The power is nice, but often overkill, especially as we would ride The Pace approach. Main riding buddies were a 999 (122 hp claimed) and Daytona 675R...

Yes, to a point, but wringing the neck of a 400 everywhere is a lot of work and sometimes requires more commitment than you want as an only bike. Most of us have to ride some distance to get to the twisties (even in BC, it was over an hour and a half of highway riding each way to get to the...

Yes, but it's a derail from the ABS discussion because I didn't touch the brakes. I'll tell a short(ish) version of the story anyway. Spent a summer working in Ottawa, and used to head up to a lookout in Gatineau Park after work on my Hawk GT, enjoy a couple corners and have a smoke to get...

I like it a lot. Wings are silly, but underseat exhausts were also kind of silly in the early-'00s, so the wings will similarly become a marker of the era. I feel like this is the way forward for sporting street bikes. 150+ hp is totally useless on the road except for bragging rights, but...

I think the hairs are being split finer and finer here as we descend into position lockdown, but I'd like to make a couple of clarifications: - On the track, as @42Seb points out in his excellent post above, traction isn't a issue when braking in a straight line. Where it is an issue is when...

As per usual with F9, they've cherry picked the data to generate clicks. The ABS on that Honda CB500 is about as basic as it gets. I'd like to see them compare to a bike with an actual sixaxis IMU and multiple sensors, like an S1000RR, RSV4, any Ducati in their upper range, etc. Something that...

I was stuck doing this when I traded my ZX-10R for my Tuono in early-spring 2019. Was moving back to Ontario from BC in the summer, and wanted to get as much time on the Tuono in BC before I left. Ended up eating probably $2500 in 'convenience fees' compared to selling privately, but looking...

I'm in like Flynn, though I'll have to demand Shannonville because I can channel all the races I watched Steve Crevier win there on an RC51 against guys like Frank Trombino...

While I genuinely appreciate the offer, I'm unlikely to take you up on it. I have to confess, at the time, I was totally a Honda guy. My first bike was a Hawk GT, which was basically an RC30 frame and single-sided swingarm mated to a torquey but limited v-twin pinched from an Ascot. This...

Probably doesn't make sense for my current situation, but the thought of flying with my bike to Rome and taking off from there fills my brain with about a million trip ideas. So, so many things to do from there I'd need about a decade off...

We're also traveling with a couple of dogs (that my wife would only let me leave in the trailer over her dead body), so are pretty limited with options away from hiking trails and outdoor dining. You're about the fifth person to tell me that the Corning Museum of Glass is incredible and very...

Thanks! It's insanely spectacular so far, and I am amazed I've lived as long as I have between Toronto and Niagara without ever having heard of it. Meanwhile, it's actually closer to get to than many of the campgrounds north of Toronto. From Hamilton, anyway. No riding this time, just towing a...

I absolutely have. The R nineT is even nice enough to overcome my BMW aversion, but even the cheapest out there are closer to $10k. And while I like them a lot, the vibe of them does feel a bit manufactured by a consumer study group looking to make a bike that appeals to CB400 custom cafe...

Here's an even better picture to recalibrate the name away from horrible sugar substitutes: The bike is named after the Stelvio Pass, a legendary road that clings to a cliff in Northern Italy between there and Austria, and that's quite close to the Moto Guzzi factory. It's also well known as...

The new Stelvio I really dig. The old Stelvio looks great as long as you can't see those comedy surprised-cartoon-character headlights...

My Burgman 400 is the loudest two-wheel device I've ever been on at speed, absolutely deafening racket. My Tuono, on the other hand, was whisper quiet for me, quieter than the ZX-10R and ZX-14 I had before it. Wind noise is such a random thing, with so many variables, that it's almost impossible...