The Dream Bike

[dugandan]

That's what they call the RR down here in Oz, I fell in love with them when i was riding a Gen2 hayabusa, I test sat on one back then too, but the peg height! I was a 55yo 100kg 6' tall guy. Well the years past and at 60 I bought one after a year away from bikes, a rwb Gen-3, 2017. I got used to it very fast and loved it, still do in fact. I'm 63 now, retired, and since have bought a tenere 700 for the dirt roads out here AND two more Gen-2 Hayabusas, one a rescue bike -long story- . What can I say I don't want to leave all that cash for the kid lol. I never owned more than one in life, weird thing retirement...
I came here because my regular forum, the big aussie one "vanished"? I've had a read around, you blokes are on the ball and I'm happy to have a place to keep informed and answer my questions.




This is how I bought it, but the neighbors complained, and I couldn't take it for long either lol

 

[alex]

Welcome along!
Sounds like retirement is where you got to live the N+1 rule of bike ownership. The perfect number of bikes is +1 to the number you have.
What's the bike scene like in Oz? Healthy numbers or fairly rare?

 

[dugandan]

Sounds like retirement is where you got to live the N+1 rule of bike ownership. The perfect number of bikes is +1
What's the bike scene like in Oz? Healthy numbers or fairly rare?

Thanks for the welcome Alex. It's pretty spread out here, as you'd imagine, but if you live near a tourist hub at the end of good roads as I do, you see a fair share of bikes. A lot of American made bikes come out my way but just as many sport bikes and Adventure bikes. The American bike riders typically stop at the coffee shops but the other riders go up into the hills beyond, especially the Adventure types as there are lots of good dirt/gravel roads near the border. Go out West and it's all ADV bikes, they were a real game changer I recon, I love mine, it can go anywhere I'm brave enough to take it or just cruse comfortably up the blacktop. In my younger days I rode a Honda 250 Elsinore for a bit, nice bike, but chalk and cheese compared to these bigger dirt bikes we have now.

I haven't mentioned groups and all that because I'm a lone rider, a loner at heart. I live alone, never go to meetups etc, I've always been that way, since a kid. We're a bit limited out here in the countryside because of all the Roos hopping around too. I wouldn't dare ride at night, I don't believe many riders do unless it's in the city. What's it like in London town, many good rides out into the countryside?

 

[alex]

Best riding in the UK is as far away from London as possible. Wales, yorkshire, scotland.

London is just a traffic jam.

I don't bother road riding, track only...shipped to Spain/Portugal/Italy

 

[MrSmooth]

Welcome dugandan, I've ridden SE QLD back in 2010 on a 1050 Triumph Tiger I rented for the weekend with my QLD friends we I did a tour from Coolum Beach via Toowoomba and Mount Glorious and back to Coolum Beach over 3 days which was epic and great fun too. I'm also the same age as yourself and have multiple bikes now alongside my 2018 K46 exactly the same as yours but with a loud SC Projects MotoGP stubbie exhaust fitted.

As Alex said earlier riding in London is absolutely awful, I was a volunteer Blood Biker riding through the City at night on a marked FJR 1300, uBer drivers and drug dealing Mercs all overtook me in the urban 20 & 30 mph zones and there are speed cameras everywhere. Get out into the countryside away from London and the roads are usually less congested (early weekend mornings) and you can have some fairly innocent fun.

BR
Steve

 

[Flyingscotsman]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[dugandan]

Welcome dugandan, I've ridden SE QLD back in 2010 on a 1050 Triumph Tiger I rented for the weekend with my QLD friends we I did a tour from Coolum Beach via Toowoomba and Mount Glorious and back to Coolum Beach over 3 days which was epic and great fun too. I'm also the same age as yourself and have multiple bikes now alongside my 2018 K46 exactly the same as yours but with a loud SC Projects MotoGP stubbie exhaust fitted.

Cool cool, that would have been a good ride, well maintained roads over that side of brisbane town. There was a lot of damage done to the roads on my side by big rains a couple of years back and they haven't rebuilt them properly, just patched them in many cases and replaced short sections. Completely understandable when you consider the financial state of the world and the fact it was all built back in the day with cheap oil. Sad to see it go that way though, it's the main reason I bought the Tenere 700, it eats the bumpy stuff and actually handles quite well on the blacktop with the Pirelli scorpion STR tires it came with. I switched to Michelin Anakee Wilds but I'm going to revert next time around.

I'll look around the forum for some pix of your bikes mate, always curious about what others ride. Though I can't buy anymore without building an extension on the house lol. It sounds pretty miserable in London town these days, probably the same in Sydney, and Brisbane is getting bad. It's the reason I moved out here in the countryside.

I just re-configured my garage to fit my new busa in along with the other 3. It's a stunning Red and Pearl White 2017 with 20k on the clock. my 2012, 2 years ago, came with 20k on it as well. Blokes seem to buy these bikes and not ride them






A road near home

 

[dugandan]

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks mate.