New here, 01 Yamaha R1

Hey guys !

Nice forums you got going on here…

Well first I’ll introduce myself, my name is Dave (Dave Singh). I drive a Yamaha R1 (first bike, and oh boy i loved reading that first bike topic :smiley: ahah). Actually I found these forums because was in Latham, NY a few nights ago and just heading home when this honda pulled up at the light… And i was like ok cool watsup etc etc. Let me tell you before that honda came I was at that fucking light for a good 5-6 minutes straight sitting there… thats becoming such a comon thing now with a bike … sitting at lights forever haha.

Ok so then the honda is there, light FINALLY goes green… then I stall :smiley: yay haha. so then i catch up with the honda and im like ok maybe they wanna race because I hear some exhuast noise going on… Yea they wanted to race… damn I was in 4th gear cruising and they hit I really didnt even think twice I was sure to get them. Yea… right, I gotta say that honda was fast as hell for what I thought it was… We matched up againa few more times and raced some more this time I just stayed in 1st and 2nd gear. So basically after all that and pulling over the dude driving was Jay and told me to come here check the site out.

Thats pretty much my story on how I got here, I dont drive the bike very hard because I got some nasty nasty tire wear going on, belts are starting to come apart and I really dont have ANY traction with that thing its pretty scary, I dont know if you dudes drove an R1 lately but they are pretty scary, so running them on belts is not necessary to get an adrenaline rush. I’m buying a new tire this weekend, probally a pilot, so i’ll be much more willing to push a bike a bit more after that.

I got like no direction in my talk so just be warned if you havent figured that out already. So yea the R1 is my first bike i’ve had it for about a month now, its a totally stupid bike and I dont want anyone to look at me and use me as an example to say “Hey his first bike was an R1 , so why cant I start out with one” Nah thats pretty stupid and most likely your gonna hurt your self really bad. I dont mess around much myself and I dont do stupid things, but it doesnt matter because when your on a bike like that its not really you making choices anymore its more like the bike so if you have any lack of self control you better watch yourself when shopping for a bike because it will be too late to be sorry. Thats just my advice because I hate hearing my friends say “oh yea i wanna get cbr1000 this summer, and gsxr1000” and I cant even tell them they are retarded.

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What do I do ?

I’m 20 years old, a web designer self employed and I also own my own business and I work a business development team here in new york. All my income is from computers/internet so I guess im lucky to be alive today and not 20 years ago? ha

check out my sites, only if you want too, no advertising intended here…

http://peerlessconception.com < my portfolio exrtremely out of date but im too busy to care

http://gom-networks.com < my webhosting

http://gom-team.com < my hobby its a gaming site for last 3 years we modify some game called street legal racing redline

http://gom-host.com http://gom-domains.com/ other misc crap

http://xtremesr.com < this is a racing site I manage with my friend in texas his name is brandon, he shoots alot of videos of dallas street racing, and hes a killer video editor, the site is dead as hell but really we cant be bothered these days, but check the site out for its videos… really they arent bad

Thats about it, I dont have a car atm I had an 83 mercedes until december and I sold it, looking (aggressively) to buy a 98-00 mercedes C43 amg, if anyone has or know anyone who has one for sale PLEASE tell me

Ok sorry for the long ass post

Welcome to the boards!

Long posts are always welcome, it just takes a bit longer to reply to them ;D

R1 as first bike? :wow

I’m glad to hear you “enjoyed” reading my “First Bike” article, wouldn’t be surprized if you printed it out, crumpled it up and played trashcan basketball with it :ahh

Pilot powers are fantastic tires and I personally swear by them. Great heat retention, wear life, tread pattern stickyness and price combination.

We all heard Swifty’s (Jay’s) story of him “beating an R1”, but I’m sure he’ll chime in here to defend his point. Racing on a questionable integrity tire should a nono however :nono

i do chicken strip delete mods for cheap.

Yea R1 for the first bike :slight_smile: hey, as crazy as it sounds I would rather print your first bike post out and hand it out to everyone telling me they want to buy a 1000cc or even 600cc . I couldnt agree with you more. 95% of people are not fit to start with 1000’s who never even owned/rode a bike before… im just that 5% you dont see very often.

Yea I’ll go with a Pilot then… its 200 bucks for a 190 and 35 to install, sound good?

Ahhh I KNEW he was gonna tell everyone about his race with the R1 :smiley: hahaa well its alright, let me get that pilot on and get your self out a camera i’ll make it up to you… promise

im not even afraid to admit I dont kno what a chicken strip is other than guessing it could be decals or something

it only goes as fast as you turn the throttle, but like you said you need to have a real strong sense of self control which 99% of people dont have when they hop on bikes.

other than decals, i have been known to delete chickin strips for people on their bikes and grind taillights/mufflers. I was never happy with my tires untill there was little shreds of rubber on the very outside edge of my tire :wink:

You sound like you got a level head on your shoulders but only time will tell. Hope it works out for your best, make sure you have good gear and consider MSF.

Chicken Strips - The tread left on the sidewalls of a sport bike. How much of this there is (or isn’t) is how some Bikers size each other up.

For more bike terminology look here. It’s a good read.
http://shift518.com/index.php?topic=1000.0

hahaha ok I just always called them lines… let me see your lines etc

Im not a moto gp racer :smiley: so im not grinding my knee on the road yet, im just riding the bike and at times when a fr3sh honda comes around i’ll zip around, but in a few years im sure i’ll get into more aggressive riding but for now im fine… for an 01 my bike actually looks and sounds pretty nice so im not trying to lay it down , at least when i can help it.

Anyways cool thanks for the replies and comments etc, i’ll surf around the forums some more. I actually just got another web server yesterday and im running some grand theft auto servers on there for money so today we been developing a killer control panel for it, hopefully if it goes well thats the answer to my bike payment/insurance :slight_smile:

It was me and Jay in my civic :lol but what’s up dude, nice to see you here.

haha nice yea thats the car in your sig right? anyways cool man yea I figured to stop by, i meant to days ago but was really busy and caught up with some shit

i read all those terms lol i guess im a squid ha