Nicksparrow
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Hello all, wanted to introduce myself to the forum and hopefully entertain some of you with my misfortune haha.
I've been riding primarily naked and sportbike for 22 years now. Started with a 72 cb360 I bought as a box of parts for 100$ in 1999 and on from there. Really felling love with bikes when I was in med school and residency in Phoenix and used my bulletproof gen 1 ninja 250 as my only transport.
Obviously, 1999 when I got I to bikes the busa made history. As long as I've been I to bikes, no matter how many suoerleggeras or s1000rr's picked with tech came.out, the busa was and always will be subjectively to me, the apex predator of motorcycles.
All along since starting school, my deal with myself was when I pay off my student loans, I can buy a new busa. Well after 15 years, I finally paid them off on Jan 26th. On Jan 27th, I drove 3 hrs to pick up whatay be the steal.of the century: a 2020 busa with 800 miles, yoshi full system, pcv and autotune all installed. Guy bought it and had the dealership load it up, then actually tried riding it and found it wasn't for him. $10.5k otd for a near 0 mile busa with full system and fuel management pre installed! Woohoo!
Then... tragedy. On the way home, the first massive ice storm rocked the Midwest, and I totaled my truck, the trailer, and cracked a bunch of fairings on the busa.
it’s funny, I tell regular ppl about the accident and they say “well at least you’re ok”. I tell fellow bike nuts and they say “well you might as well have died”
foetunately, I bought the uhaul insurance, and holy crap if they didn’t just write me a check to get the busa fully inspected and fixed. They paid for a new yosh full system because there is one small scratch on the heat shield of the muffler lol.
finally get my bike tomorrow, and couldn’t be more excited. I have an ft ecu harness to play with some ecu settings (fan temp and decel fuel cut largely, I’ll de restrict eventually but not for now), a Translogic qs, and a busa adapter plate for my bursig, and can’t wait to get riding!
Hope that wasn’t too long winded but it struck me as at least a mildly interesting “first busa” story. Look forward to getting to know everyone here.
sorry for the lack of good pics. I took these at the dealership, and pretty quickly thereafter she left me briefly.
I've been riding primarily naked and sportbike for 22 years now. Started with a 72 cb360 I bought as a box of parts for 100$ in 1999 and on from there. Really felling love with bikes when I was in med school and residency in Phoenix and used my bulletproof gen 1 ninja 250 as my only transport.
Obviously, 1999 when I got I to bikes the busa made history. As long as I've been I to bikes, no matter how many suoerleggeras or s1000rr's picked with tech came.out, the busa was and always will be subjectively to me, the apex predator of motorcycles.
All along since starting school, my deal with myself was when I pay off my student loans, I can buy a new busa. Well after 15 years, I finally paid them off on Jan 26th. On Jan 27th, I drove 3 hrs to pick up whatay be the steal.of the century: a 2020 busa with 800 miles, yoshi full system, pcv and autotune all installed. Guy bought it and had the dealership load it up, then actually tried riding it and found it wasn't for him. $10.5k otd for a near 0 mile busa with full system and fuel management pre installed! Woohoo!
Then... tragedy. On the way home, the first massive ice storm rocked the Midwest, and I totaled my truck, the trailer, and cracked a bunch of fairings on the busa.
it’s funny, I tell regular ppl about the accident and they say “well at least you’re ok”. I tell fellow bike nuts and they say “well you might as well have died”
foetunately, I bought the uhaul insurance, and holy crap if they didn’t just write me a check to get the busa fully inspected and fixed. They paid for a new yosh full system because there is one small scratch on the heat shield of the muffler lol.
finally get my bike tomorrow, and couldn’t be more excited. I have an ft ecu harness to play with some ecu settings (fan temp and decel fuel cut largely, I’ll de restrict eventually but not for now), a Translogic qs, and a busa adapter plate for my bursig, and can’t wait to get riding!
Hope that wasn’t too long winded but it struck me as at least a mildly interesting “first busa” story. Look forward to getting to know everyone here.
sorry for the lack of good pics. I took these at the dealership, and pretty quickly thereafter she left me briefly.
Be sure to post up some more pics once you get it home.
