33 replies to this topic

[Barnsley-Bill]

Lovely bike mate the butterfly valve is a waste of space imo I took mine out when i fiited a yoshi full system and didnt notice any loss in mid range but then again i have a power commander on mine.
Get ready for eating the tyres lol

[cameron]

Lovely looking bike

My Neighbour had the ZX9-R, that was bloody quick, so that Ninja must be Bonkers

[tingymagig]

Barnsley-Bill, on Oct 23 2009, 12:27 AM, said:

Lovely bike mate the butterfly valve is a waste of space imo I took mine out when i fiited a yoshi full system and didnt notice any loss in mid range but then again i have a power commander on mine.
Get ready for eating the tyres lol

yea been speeking to more people since you mentioned fitting a power comander to it i may go down that route even with the aky can on it my uncles K9 gixer runs a bit splutery low down as he has an aky system and hes planning on getting a power comander i think with the butterfly i may not need one but it would also remove the 185mph limiter which always sounds good

cameron, on Oct 23 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

Lovely looking bike

My Neighbour had the ZX9-R, that was bloody quick, so that Ninja must be Bonkers

cheers

it is bonkers only thing ive really had chance to test is 59-104 (was looking at the thread on here about the cars times gave me the idea) steady 60mph in 2nd speed dropped slightly to 59 as i pushed the start button then held on for dear life till i saw 100 then took me another 4mph to push the stop button could have done it in first but was worried about it wheeleing, anyway 2.76 secs

[Barnsley-Bill]

The splutery low down feel is on all new bikes mate its the way they set them up Mine was crap and I nearly droped it a few times due to this.
A Power comander will improve it no end  and a good dynojet dyno will give you a custom map too :0.

[tingymagig]

Barnsley-Bill, on Oct 30 2009, 10:24 PM, said:

The splutery low down feel is on all new bikes mate its the way they set them up Mine was crap and I nearly droped it a few times due to this.
A Power comander will improve it no end  and a good dynojet dyno will give you a custom map too :0.

gonna see what i can get at the NEC on the 26th

[tingymagig]

after a few opinions


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(its the exhaust for the less observent cant decide between carbon or titanium look

[Exocet]

I reckon Carbon.

[tingymagig]

finally got my manky looking and puney sounding exhaust sorted some before and afters







and after







also discovered that the DB meter things on the iphone only go up to 100DB but the standard was around 65-70 DB at tickover the new one 85-90DB but it sounds much throuteyer if that makes sense

[DSK]

Thanks Tingy, pictures!!  Bring that to Combe in the back of the V70 and I can ride it lol.  I rode the first ZX10 and just found it to be too much of a headbanger and in fear of keeping my licence decided against one but the R1 at the time didn't perform the way I wanted, never fitted on a GSXR for some reason and the Fireblade just looked too much like its baby brother.

Whats this variant like?

[deathrider311271]

DSK, on 10 April 2011 - 20:52 , said:

Thanks Tingy, pictures!!  Bring that to Combe in the back of the V70 and I can ride it lol.  I rode the first ZX10 and just found it to be too much of a headbanger and in fear of keeping my licence decided against one but the R1 at the time didn't perform the way I wanted, never fitted on a GSXR for some reason and the Fireblade just looked too much like its baby brother.

Whats this variant like?

not being funny DSK but R1 didnt perform the way u wanted???  The R1 is an awesome bike as all the 1000s are it certainly doesnt lack in performance i must admit its more like riding a tourer than the others for riding position

[rhkumar]

looks amazing! Love the colour ! See you on Sunday @ 11am !

[tingymagig]

Whats wrong with 1 of em not performing the way u want the 09fireblade certainly didnt perform the way i wanted i was bored of it in 15 mins yes it was ballisticly quick and very competent in the bends it just didnt have the same urguncy or charictor of this thing i was fairly dissapointed tbh

Ive not ridden the R1 or the s1000rr yet (really must get round to that) but compaired to the firblade and gsxr this is definatly still the most mental 1000 it just never really feels right unless its screaming its nuts off right up the top of the rev range

[DSK]

deathrider311271, on 10 April 2011 - 21:06 , said:

not being funny DSK but R1 didnt perform the way u wanted???  The R1 is an awesome bike as all the 1000s are it certainly doesnt lack in performance i must admit its more like riding a tourer than the others for riding position

I actually liked the 2008 R1 and spent 15 minutes in the office pondering where to sign on the dotted line or not but, with the cross-plane crank R1 just around the corner and the fact that I was not impressed with the low-down torque/roll on performance I held fire.  It was a very competent bike but felt like a potent 600 as I found it to be a bit of a tap dance on the gearbox.  Over winter dealer networks only had 1 R1 demo bike between them so getting a test ride and trying to predict a dry ish day meant I waited.

I am most probably going to be working in North London in a month or two so will buy a litre bike then.

[tingymagig]

what my speedo looks like