dunno bout everyone else here, but I been haunting my local Kaw dealer for bout a month now-finally got a 14 in last friday, and I went to see it monday,well....
looks a LOT smaller in person, doesn't seem overly wide or long-front fairing is narrower from the look of things, but those headlights!!! yeeeccckkk!
tank is almost too small for me, and clip-ons seem angled outwards more than the Busas. Felt like my hands were spread further apart-not very comfortable...and that windscreen (if i can call it that-did they steal it from the ZX-10? smaller than the Busas for sure, and very narrow) I couldn't tuck in behind that unless I chopped my feet off.
the seat leaves a lot to be desired too-unless you're longing for that banana thing you used to have on your sister's bike when you were young, or you actually like Blackbird seats...They try to make it look like a single-seater by puttn a piece of plastic over the rear section-not foolin anybody here.
so, I ask the Kaw dealer what it takes to get a ride on one-his response "oh, there wont be any test rides, we're only getn one of each color, and these things will sell themselves" uh, u actually expect folks to buy a $12k bike without even RIDING it first?! "well, its the Busa-beater, blah blah blah, wonk-wonk-wonk" at that point I went off "Oh is it, really? I OWN my busa-if you got ANYBODY in the back who can ride, we'll take your 14 up to Great Lakes Dragway right now, and if they can run a faster quarter than my Busa, you can HAVE IT. If you lose, I'm trailerin that ZX-14 home with me. You wana try me?"
all i got was "Well, we can't race the dealership's bike." I said "Fine, when you get sumone in here dumb enuf to buy this thing WITHOUT riding it, give'em my number, and I'll race them, then come back here and sell you back your slow-ass bike back so I can buy more #### for my Busa!"
he didn't have much to say after that...why are Kaw salesman all retarded? have yet to find a nice, intelligent Kawi salesperson-do they exist? or are they all sniffn the same glue bottle?
looks a LOT smaller in person, doesn't seem overly wide or long-front fairing is narrower from the look of things, but those headlights!!! yeeeccckkk!
tank is almost too small for me, and clip-ons seem angled outwards more than the Busas. Felt like my hands were spread further apart-not very comfortable...and that windscreen (if i can call it that-did they steal it from the ZX-10? smaller than the Busas for sure, and very narrow) I couldn't tuck in behind that unless I chopped my feet off.
the seat leaves a lot to be desired too-unless you're longing for that banana thing you used to have on your sister's bike when you were young, or you actually like Blackbird seats...They try to make it look like a single-seater by puttn a piece of plastic over the rear section-not foolin anybody here.
so, I ask the Kaw dealer what it takes to get a ride on one-his response "oh, there wont be any test rides, we're only getn one of each color, and these things will sell themselves" uh, u actually expect folks to buy a $12k bike without even RIDING it first?! "well, its the Busa-beater, blah blah blah, wonk-wonk-wonk" at that point I went off "Oh is it, really? I OWN my busa-if you got ANYBODY in the back who can ride, we'll take your 14 up to Great Lakes Dragway right now, and if they can run a faster quarter than my Busa, you can HAVE IT. If you lose, I'm trailerin that ZX-14 home with me. You wana try me?"
all i got was "Well, we can't race the dealership's bike." I said "Fine, when you get sumone in here dumb enuf to buy this thing WITHOUT riding it, give'em my number, and I'll race them, then come back here and sell you back your slow-ass bike back so I can buy more #### for my Busa!"
he didn't have much to say after that...why are Kaw salesman all retarded? have yet to find a nice, intelligent Kawi salesperson-do they exist? or are they all sniffn the same glue bottle?
