31-10-15, 10:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-10-15, 10:19 PM by Millietant.)
(26-10-15, 04:54 PM)joebloggs link Wrote: anyone who says they stayed with one on a FZS600 is either lying or the owner wasn't trying.
Oh, I dunno. Plenty of sports bike riders out there who seem to be trying but just don't know what they're doing :rolleyes
I can second nod that - a couple of years back I met up with my brother and his "Sportsbike" mates at Leyburn - they were going over to Devils Bridge and really sneered at my FJ 1200, especially with me having my son on pillion - and also sneered at my wife on her VF 750. Long before we got to Devils, we had to pull ver to wait for all the "fast" bikes - and there was no more sneering.
There were 2 GSXR 1000's, a R1, a Fireblade, a Honda SP2 and a GSXR 600 (my brother). My brother was laughing with us because he knew those guys wouldn't keep up with us - they were all relatively "new" riders who'd come to bikes late and gone from passing their tests straight onto the latest sports bikes.
They couldn't ride for toffee - any half decent rider on one of those bikes would leave us in a blink of the eye as soon as the road started to bend.
So - I can easily believe someone in a Fazer 600 could keep up with a GSXR - I also remember GP racer Paul (Loopy) Lewis challenging all-comers to a race, their road bike against his Harley 'Glide on any track in the U.K.
From what I recall he never got beaten.