love the bike DESPISE the badge
Just looking back over the last yr and having owned several 1 ltr s/bikes and being out there riding them for over 8 yrs last yr was a very different experience something i never contemplated when going from gsxr to s1rr.When i bought my last gixxer 1st new bike i had payed outright i left the shop that day buzzing in fact i buzzed all that yr ,buying the s1 was different still bought outright but left the showroom thinking god what have a done something inside me was saying this is wrong the bike was minted but bmw what have you done well i soon started to find out.
tbh it took a good bit of the fun out of having it ,from regular wk/ends out with some m8's to out on own all because of a badge.
think the s1rr is the best bike that i,ll ever own as for the badge well i never wanted it ,but it came with the bike ,in my opinion up until the s1 came on the market most people that owned a bmw bike [Scotland everyone] have a middle name, and were from another planet where bmw owners live .
the weird thing is s1rr owners don't belong to that planet maybe i shouldn't have bought one , the only thing is i love the bike but don't like getting treated like an alien .
now the s1rr is mine and they don't like you touching or changing anything on it,for some weird reason planet bmw still think the bike's still there's and only they can authorise the use of a non standard part ,
like akrapovic or should it be [BMW akrapovic ].
over the last yr I've seen a lot when out on s1 especially the places where i used to stop when out on my gixxer , its went from everyone being in the one big s/bike club to me on my s1 and them, god i felt it [the alien] does it ring any bells lol!, only now looking back i can see the big picture the badge didn't fit into the sports bike culture ,even though the s1 was the best out there , everyone just seen the badge.
Things have changed a bit since then 1st of all fuc bmw and there authorized parts, fitted arrows ti headers and link pipe to my akra slip-on sounds great, power commander fitted sounds even better going up the box, some blue flames popping out the back going down the box arcs cf belly pan custom seat, racetec k2's that bmw said were not authorised to use [lol again]
As for the sport bike culture[save up and buy one] fuc them as well they better get used to seen the s1 for what it is and that the guy riding it only wants the best and probably the safest super-bike ever made , and the badge well that's all it is a £4 badge nothing else , now these things don't bother me in fact i get a buzz out of the bike now ,as its the way i want it and not the way bmw would like it.
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Just looking back over the last yr and having owned several 1 ltr s/bikes and being out there riding them for over 8 yrs last yr was a very different experience something i never contemplated when going from gsxr to s1rr.When i bought my last gixxer 1st new bike i had payed outright i left the shop that day buzzing in fact i buzzed all that yr ,buying the s1 was different still bought outright but left the showroom thinking god what have a done something inside me was saying this is wrong the bike was minted but bmw what have you done well i soon started to find out.
tbh it took a good bit of the fun out of having it ,from regular wk/ends out with some m8's to out on own all because of a badge.
think the s1rr is the best bike that i,ll ever own as for the badge well i never wanted it ,but it came with the bike ,in my opinion up until the s1 came on the market most people that owned a bmw bike [Scotland everyone] have a middle name, and were from another planet where bmw owners live .
the weird thing is s1rr owners don't belong to that planet maybe i shouldn't have bought one , the only thing is i love the bike but don't like getting treated like an alien .
now the s1rr is mine and they don't like you touching or changing anything on it,for some weird reason planet bmw still think the bike's still there's and only they can authorise the use of a non standard part ,
like akrapovic or should it be [BMW akrapovic ].
over the last yr I've seen a lot when out on s1 especially the places where i used to stop when out on my gixxer , its went from everyone being in the one big s/bike club to me on my s1 and them, god i felt it [the alien] does it ring any bells lol!, only now looking back i can see the big picture the badge didn't fit into the sports bike culture ,even though the s1 was the best out there , everyone just seen the badge.
Things have changed a bit since then 1st of all fuc bmw and there authorized parts, fitted arrows ti headers and link pipe to my akra slip-on sounds great, power commander fitted sounds even better going up the box, some blue flames popping out the back going down the box arcs cf belly pan custom seat, racetec k2's that bmw said were not authorised to use [lol again]
As for the sport bike culture[save up and buy one] fuc them as well they better get used to seen the s1 for what it is and that the guy riding it only wants the best and probably the safest super-bike ever made , and the badge well that's all it is a £4 badge nothing else , now these things don't bother me in fact i get a buzz out of the bike now ,as its the way i want it and not the way bmw would like it.
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