23-10-13, 08:46 PM
Either is a fantastic bike, your spoilt for choice. I'd go for the bigger one, it's the best all rounder ever built, but I'm old and fat, I need the extra grunt. I'll own up to summat though...years back I had a gsxr1100wp, first of the water cooled gixxer elevens. I had the front suspension set up and re internal led by mark brewin, years before he opened BSD engineering. I slaughtered just about everything I came across on that bike, and felt like I was king dick, as you do. One summer evening on the bitchfield to Stamford road I happened across a bloke on a fz600, which had only just come out. There was a clue that he was a good rider in that he was wearing a one piece, but the bike as far as I knew was a commuter with a de tuned thundercat lump. Easy pickings....or so I thought. Time and time again he just pissed off, got 200 yards in front then waited for me, then pissed off again..not only that, it looked effortless, I was hauling my bigass gixxer about trying to stay with him, sweat pouring out of me and forearms feeling like they was gonna burst. It was a very humbling lesson, and I've treated them "commuters" with a lot of respect ever since... :o :o