Yesterday I called on a 2008 CBR 1000rr at a dealer in Tucson, I put a deposit down on it but I realized the insurance was ~400 more a year for the litre bike, and I wasn’t too fond of the yellow paint…
The salesman I was speaking to informed me of a disgusting deal on a left over '09 Kawi ZX6R black on black. I told him it was sold and would be there the next morning to pick it up.
The following has to be the worst 7 hours of my life. It’s approx 250 miles from Tucson to Yuma, I had my friend drop me at the dealer so I could ride home. I figure i’d be ok in just a sweatshirt for the ride… well about an hour in, I miss the exit for I-8 because I’m too busy playing with the stop watch on the dash, and realize when I got to Phoenix that I was going the wrong way, YES, drove an hour out of my way for nothing, and I’m freezing already because it’s around 50 degrees.
As soon as I turn around and head back to I-8 it starts down pouring (it rains 3 times a year in southern AZ, and today was one of the days) and when I say down pouring, I mean monsoon type shit. Great.
I ride for about an hour until I start losing it, I’m so friggen cold that I feel as if I’m about to black out, so I pull into a gas station and when i get off my bike I fall to my knees because my legs are completely numb (some how I could still shift though?)
I manage to hobble into this gas station and tell the clerk I need to sit here and wait out the rain… 3 cups of coffee later and I leave, I sat in the gas station for 2 hours because I literally could not stop shaking. I ride for about another hour and finally get home. Total trip: 325 miles. 3/4s of them in the pouring rain.
I can honestly say that I’ve never been that cold in my entire life and I’ve been in some COLD ass weather.
Either way, fun first day with the bike, heres a shitty cell pic of it, future mods include: rear fender eliminator kit, Akrapovic slip on, black wind screen and maybe some track days
Let me get this straight, you were mad that a litre bike that is a 2008 was 400 more dollars a year insurance wise? You realize that would be only 33 dollars more a month then you currently were going to spend which made you ditch the bike completely? I understand that color not being in your taste, but a 2008 1k bike compared to a 2009 600 is two totally different bikes so what made you go from a 1k to a 600, $400?
ya on my zx7r, I had a girlfriend in Cortland ny, rode out there spent the weekend, planed to leave Sunday night. but she asked me to stay to Monday. Monday night i had to work. i stayed it was awesome Sunday night. should have left. Monday POURED. I rode from Cortland too buffalo in pouring rain. everything I had packed was soaked I had leathers on and they weighed a ton.
Nah, those were just two factors which made me change my mind. the 1000 was $1000 more, a year older, an ugly color (sorry Geoff), and an 08 (which I really wanted ABS on the '09s)
Plus, I really wanted an all black bike, they had 2 ZX10s there too on the cheap,but they were that ugly blue color, MEH.
And as far as the power goes, a 600 is plenty quick for me, it will still do 160+ and is mad fun in the corners.
The Honda was a tid bit quicker, could be from the full exhaust and power commander though…which will be on this bike soon
