Good work Six now go out and ride around on your back tire!
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Good work Six now go out and ride around on your back tire!
If only I wasn't bikeless.
I'm always looking, and a few bikes look interesting, but I keep coming back to another gsxr1k.
After all this shutdown, hang on for a gen3 has got me thinking, maybe a gen3 is coming. And maybe it'll be worth the wait.
Then again, I'de rather spend 6-8 grand on a used 1k, than $20k on the latest and greatest, that might be a lemon.
The $20k guesstimate isn't too hard to belive either, considering gen2 retail is pushing $15k, U.S dollars.
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Ho on.
I hope if it cost 20k it comes with saddlebags like fallenarch’s suggested super duke GT for touring. If it does, I’ll be awaiting to buy a used one in a few years anyways. I can’t bring myself to pay “Harley” type prices on a motorcycle, even though I have more than that sunk into my busa right now. I’m the type of buyer that gets the cheaper option and then spend the rest of the money having fun upgrading it and making it my own.
Yep, I'de much rather buy cheaper and spend more in aftermarket parts.
For almost 25 years, you could walk into most dealers and buy a 1k, Busa, zx11, 12, 14 for around 10 grand.
That is quickly slipping away.
Cap, I'm the old one? Don't think I didn't see that....... 
We, as a group, have no one to blame but ourselves, and I 1) put myself in that group and 2) hate the word 'blame'. The pace of social media, the desire for instant gratification (instant messaging, sharing with a broader audience in your world by posting on FB or Instagram), it's all where we are now. I wish things were different for us here because I miss the old gang, miss making new friends, the excitement of plans to ride once or twice a year with people from all over, the jokes, chemistry, healthy banter and inside jokes. Many I know miss it, but it's like lightening in a bottle.
I would never expect cap to just keep this train chugging, or more importantly, change the way he wanted this site run to try to get lurkers. I cannot imagine how much time and work he's put in all these years, and I was pretty close to it all for a long time. I know this though - he always has his heart in it, and forever thinking about a greater good, big picture, and being respectful.
Do you really not have access to enough girls on Busas? It's laughable as one of the few females here, especially when the internet provides plenty with a simple Google search. If you don't understand the standards set from the start, you have not been here long enough. Every single bike forum I've ever been a part of that allowed and encouraged that content is now gone, some for several years now, so it's not a measure for meaningful traffic. Many of those that have been here a long time chose to stay because the oRg is different. The formula worked. Other social media, coupled with Suzuki's "bold new graphics and colors" year after year led us here.
Life changes, for everyone, and I think what makes me the saddest is just how amazing the chemistry once was. The content covered everything from Busas to what our kids just did, pets, home improvements, marriages and family loss, funny stories that you just had to be there for to non-stop sharing of and sending out parts, offers of help, so many paying-it-forward it still amazes me. If everyone reading this only knew some of the incredible things this site accomplished for others...
We were the most insanely dysfunctional family ever, caring about each other, knowing a lot about one another, family. That chemistry somehow went away, no real point in time that caused it, just a gradual thing. As much as I want it back, I don't know how or if it can happen. We live in a world of impatience, Google, find, done...I'm sad for everyone that found us in the last several years. You missed out on something so special, something that should not have worked but did. People meeting on the internet in the days when that was completely crazy. Anyone here reading this that understands that statement, recall trying to explain it over and over, to family, friends. No one understood, what would make a bunch of strangers pack up and head out to a tiny mountain town, spends days riding and laughing, learning about someone new, then leaving feeling sad that it ended, making plans for next time. This place did.
Perhaps a new crew will find that lightening. The content gathered here was not just about finding out free info to fix your Busa. It was the relaxing end of a tough day, or a distraction from a bad day at work. It was Easter or Thanksgiving dinner with family you haven't seen since last year, it was a place you never logged out of because if you missed a day, you'd miss the next huge thread that everyone is referring to, or the big news someone shared. You'd miss that we lost someone we all loved dearly.
The only way these relationships ever happen is posting, sharing, over-sharing, helping and caring about complete strangers that might become your best friends.
We, as a group, have no one to blame but ourselves, and I 1) put myself in that group and 2) hate the word 'blame'. The pace of social media, the desire for instant gratification (instant messaging, sharing with a broader audience in your world by posting on FB or Instagram), it's all where we are now. I wish things were different for us here because I miss the old gang, miss making new friends, the excitement of plans to ride once or twice a year with people from all over, the jokes, chemistry, healthy banter and inside jokes. Many I know miss it, but it's like lightening in a bottle.
I would never expect cap to just keep this train chugging, or more importantly, change the way he wanted this site run to try to get lurkers. I cannot imagine how much time and work he's put in all these years, and I was pretty close to it all for a long time. I know this though - he always has his heart in it, and forever thinking about a greater good, big picture, and being respectful.
Do you really not have access to enough girls on Busas? It's laughable as one of the few females here, especially when the internet provides plenty with a simple Google search. If you don't understand the standards set from the start, you have not been here long enough. Every single bike forum I've ever been a part of that allowed and encouraged that content is now gone, some for several years now, so it's not a measure for meaningful traffic. Many of those that have been here a long time chose to stay because the oRg is different. The formula worked. Other social media, coupled with Suzuki's "bold new graphics and colors" year after year led us here.
Life changes, for everyone, and I think what makes me the saddest is just how amazing the chemistry once was. The content covered everything from Busas to what our kids just did, pets, home improvements, marriages and family loss, funny stories that you just had to be there for to non-stop sharing of and sending out parts, offers of help, so many paying-it-forward it still amazes me. If everyone reading this only knew some of the incredible things this site accomplished for others...
We were the most insanely dysfunctional family ever, caring about each other, knowing a lot about one another, family. That chemistry somehow went away, no real point in time that caused it, just a gradual thing. As much as I want it back, I don't know how or if it can happen. We live in a world of impatience, Google, find, done...I'm sad for everyone that found us in the last several years. You missed out on something so special, something that should not have worked but did. People meeting on the internet in the days when that was completely crazy. Anyone here reading this that understands that statement, recall trying to explain it over and over, to family, friends. No one understood, what would make a bunch of strangers pack up and head out to a tiny mountain town, spends days riding and laughing, learning about someone new, then leaving feeling sad that it ended, making plans for next time. This place did.
Perhaps a new crew will find that lightening. The content gathered here was not just about finding out free info to fix your Busa. It was the relaxing end of a tough day, or a distraction from a bad day at work. It was Easter or Thanksgiving dinner with family you haven't seen since last year, it was a place you never logged out of because if you missed a day, you'd miss the next huge thread that everyone is referring to, or the big news someone shared. You'd miss that we lost someone we all loved dearly.
The only way these relationships ever happen is posting, sharing, over-sharing, helping and caring about complete strangers that might become your best friends.
FlatlandBusa
Registered
Party crasher!P.S. my novel just interrupted sixpack and mabusa.....
You're welcome guys!
I think I used that line at a funeral one time......
Me too, vman's...yours was at Don's I bet...
I believe many of us have used it in any setting we could, for years. We still do, when someone sees a group of us going back and forth like we do, usually in a restaurant or any public place. People always look confused, because none of us look alike and it's very chaotic, who can one-up the other. It's a given that they'll eventually ask "How do you all know each other?"
The answer is always the same, and in unison
Mathewrussell52
Registered
I wasn’t here years ago. And prob younger than most 32. I posted my build here and one of my precious parts of my build was my girls in the garage helping me. I went back and forth in posting a pic of them in princess dresses in the garage with drills working on the busa.
I struggled with posting a pic of my girls on the internet. And not sure if being over protective or times have changed?? I did post in the showcase also this is the only form of social media i do.
I struggled with posting a pic of my girls on the internet. And not sure if being over protective or times have changed?? I did post in the showcase also this is the only form of social media i do.
I joined when I was 32 or 33, and now I'm 47...14 years of owning the same Busa, and like you, at first completely apprehensive about sharing pics of my then very young sons, but like you, they'd be helping work on the bike, then got in to dirt biking...cool stuff to share.
Shoot, there's an entire thread dedicated to me finding both kids Googling "boobs". They were 6 & 8.... funny stuff, and they know now that I told the oRg...they've even been teased about it by friends from here. They're good sports.
ali123
Banned
no disrespect... but if anyone there LOVES this business.. I mean truly still loves this thing... and lets get this out there now.... this IS A BUSINESS... and sometimes business sucks.... sometimes ya gotta fire that guy employed by the company for 35 years... because he doesn't get it.. he wont listen... he is hardheaded.... but my feeling is this... sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do... but in the end.. u do whatever you have to do to save your business... are we proud of it? no... but in the end.... its better than the alternative... 20 years of hard work gone... it turns my stomach... and I for one cant stand anymore of it! and sometimes captain..... YES... hope does drive an enterprise.... and sometimes.... in the end... ya got the winning lottery ticket... when everyone else thought you were crazy... that ya couldn't do it,... but ya gotta have that FIRE inside ya.Cap, I'm the old one? Don't think I didn't see that.......
We, as a group, have no one to blame but ourselves, and I 1) put myself in that group and 2) hate the word 'blame'. The pace of social media, the desire for instant gratification (instant messaging, sharing with a broader audience in your world by posting on FB or Instagram), it's all where we are now. I wish things were different for us here because I miss the old gang, miss making new friends, the excitement of plans to ride once or twice a year with people from all over, the jokes, chemistry, healthy banter and inside jokes. Many I know miss it, but it's like lightening in a bottle.
I would never expect cap to just keep this train chugging, or more importantly, change the way he wanted this site run to try to get lurkers. I cannot imagine how much time and work he's put in all these years, and I was pretty close to it all for a long time. I know this though - he always has his heart in it, and forever thinking about a greater good, big picture, and being respectful.
Do you really not have access to enough girls on Busas? It's laughable as one of the few females here, especially when the internet provides plenty with a simple Google search. If you don't understand the standards set from the start, you have not been here long enough. Every single bike forum I've ever been a part of that allowed and encouraged that content is now gone, some for several years now, so it's not a measure for meaningful traffic. Many of those that have been here a long time chose to stay because the oRg is different. The formula worked. Other social media, coupled with Suzuki's "bold new graphics and colors" year after year led us here.
Life changes, for everyone, and I think what makes me the saddest is just how amazing the chemistry once was. The content covered everything from Busas to what our kids just did, pets, home improvements, marriages and family loss, funny stories that you just had to be there for to non-stop sharing of and sending out parts, offers of help, so many paying-it-forward it still amazes me. If everyone reading this only knew some of the incredible things this site accomplished for others...
We were the most insanely dysfunctional family ever, caring about each other, knowing a lot about one another, family. That chemistry somehow went away, no real point in time that caused it, just a gradual thing. As much as I want it back, I don't know how or if it can happen. We live in a world of impatience, Google, find, done...I'm sad for everyone that found us in the last several years. You missed out on something so special, something that should not have worked but did. People meeting on the internet in the days when that was completely crazy. Anyone here reading this that understands that statement, recall trying to explain it over and over, to family, friends. No one understood, what would make a bunch of strangers pack up and head out to a tiny mountain town, spends days riding and laughing, learning about someone new, then leaving feeling sad that it ended, making plans for next time. This place did.
Perhaps a new crew will find that lightening. The content gathered here was not just about finding out free info to fix your Busa. It was the relaxing end of a tough day, or a distraction from a bad day at work. It was Easter or Thanksgiving dinner with family you haven't seen since last year, it was a place you never logged out of because if you missed a day, you'd miss the next huge thread that everyone is referring to, or the big news someone shared. You'd miss that we lost someone we all loved dearly.
The only way these relationships ever happen is posting, sharing, over-sharing, helping and caring about complete strangers that might become your best friends.
Mathewrussell52
Registered
Maybe one of my kids will get in to dirt biking. My nine year old didn’t like it. But hoping form my 3 or four year old will.
ali123
Banned
We need to come up with reasons WHY THIS SITE will work.... not the negative and making excuses about social media/instant gratification, etc.... The fault dear brutus lies in OURSELVES.. not our stars that we are underlings........ off topic but....... Roberto Duran quit against Sugar ray and never got his redemption... and duran... TO THIS DAY... has his excuses as to why he quit.... nowadays... young fighters who quit.... even in sparring... everyone knows in that gym that kid quits when he takes it to the body or to the end of the nose... whatever the excuse.....they spend the rest of their lives making up for that ONE moment of weakness... a quit job is a quit job.... slip/slide/duck/bob/weave....hold/ foul the guy... do whatever you have to do to survive.... it can be done... but one has to believe. anyone with me????????
ali123
Banned
It may be that everyone is out of ideas.... but if ure getting paid for this.... keep swinging... don't let captain quit on this.... maybe u need new/fresh ideas and a willingness to embrace the new world of FB and google.... things change... but people really don't... in the old days.. people hanging out online was crazy... now its not... there is an answer... nobody has found it yet. a gen3 changes everyones fortunes though.. that is a fact... don't quit... you will hate yourself later on... somebody needs to be the voice of reason... this is a information site... it can be a place to hangout.. but for most busy people.. its an info site.... embrace and build around this. know your strengths.... and ure value. 20 years worth... a new gen3 comes out... and new advertsing revenue... its a million dollar company and beyond.
ali123
Banned
"To Foster an Environment where Hayabusa Enthusiast can share stories, images, information and in the process build relationships."....... make the freeloaders join the site to get to the forums.... thats a start.... then they would join in the discussions....for years I lurked cause I got my answers without joining.. now that I'm here.. I cant shut up...
ali123
Banned
we are inferring that our captain will not accept any new ideas or financial help... ITS THE CONTENT.. nobody can or ever will duplicate this... this is why we must save it.
Vabs,P.S. my novel just interrupted sixpack and mabusa.....
You're welcome guys!
Believe it or not, this place is still creating those friendships. This is the first forum I sign up for. I was in my 20s. I tried fighting social media, but realized I couldn’t win the battle and was missing out on a lot of information, potential friendships and even contact with family becasue the internet just makes it easier. Today I’m 31 and have the phone numbers of a couple of the members here, have done business with them and have reached out to the one located in Texas to check on him during the hurricane and he has done the same for me during the one that hit my area here in Florida. Just a few days ago another member reached out to me through PM to tell me he was coming to Florida and wanted to meet and go ride the areas I know. Turns out he’ll be staying fairly close to me and we exchanged personal info. So, rest assure that this site hasn’t lost its “magic”. I’m still too old school I guess, to be posting pictures of my ugly mug on the .org, but the only reason I signed up here was because I didn’t see the F word on every other post on the forum and most answers to my questions were found with the simple use of search option. Even my handy cruise control was installed reading posts on here and when I had an issue adjusting it, it just took a little more searching and Caps post about how to set the switches on it fixed my problem. I’ve reached out to mods in the past to donate some money and was explained caps position and I completely understand his point. I can see how you guys have experienced things that left you with a bad taste and don’t want to go that route again. Also, have always wondered how much work I’m creating for someone when I send a report about some spammer trying to sell a fat loss product on the org, but I’ll be sad when this place is gone.
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