From reading about age I may be the oldest Busa owner at 60. Been riding for about 43 years, maybe 230,000 miles, bikes include: BSA 650, TRIUMPH TT 650, NORTON SCRAMBLER 750, SUZUKI: 1978 GS1000; 1984 GS1150ES; 1986 GSXR1100; 1988 Katana GSXF1100; 1999 BUSA; KAWASAKI 2 1993 ZX-11-D'S;
The Katana is a hybrid: 1993 gsxr suspension, inverted forks, clip on's, calipers, rotors, wheels, mez4 tires superior to the stock set up;
My interests include developing performance in stock motors, minor mods like carbs, "blueprint motor" cc heads, great valve jobs; used to drag race chevrolet and corvett; won street eliminator at many tracks with a couple of "stock" well tuned fuel injected corvettes, 1960 and 1961 vintage. In those days anything below the 13 second e.t. was awesome, since I drove mine on the streets, my only car, and it went in the mid 12's it was unheard of at the time.
Later I became involved with Porshce's, Speedster, Roadster, 911 Targa, those cars were all very fast for their cc and out performed almost every other I ran across while deomstrating excellent fuel economy.
My 1986 gsxr was completely stock with exhaust system, the factory rubber velocity stacks taken out of the air box and "yosh-flowed" stock carbs, i.e. no hesitation, power at any rpm. For a stock machine it was incredible [1/4 mile @ 128 $ 10.43 et].
My motorcycle interests include having the bike perform at its "peak", but to be as civilized as stock, i.e. improve on or lose no drivability while maintaining fuel economy.
My objective is to achieve similar results with the Busa.
My profession is Psychoneuroimmunological Mediation and pain management. I work in Sport Medicine, rehab athletes and non athletes, e.g. the application of a finely tuned body. I consult in California and Florida. Have a zx-11 in Florida, hope to upgrade it to another Busa. In California I have a zx-11 and a Busa. The zx-11 has 1mm over bore pistons, 12.5 muzzy pistons, stainless steel valves, p-m valve springs, street grind webb cams [all because the stock valve springs failed], the valve seat pressure fell to 26-29, should be about 40, and it was less expensive to go this route than replace with stock stuff.
I have bred French Briards, have 5 of them, one prize male just diagnosed with cancer and unfortunately my 88 year old mother had another stroke. These two events may alter my ability to get "busa" number 2 for Florida.
I want to enhance the "Busa" with Sato exhaust, pc-II and dyno.
Looking for "friends" in Florida as I do not know many floridians.
Regards to the "busa.Org" I jokingly referred to the "adminstration nazi", hope this has been taken as a joke???
Alan
