Yes sir! It's actually not a bad beginner bike. Having now ridden a couple different 1000s, a 650, a 300 and a H2. I can honestly say the busa feels the most stable and has the most easily controlled throttle of anything I've ridden.
What Bikes Did You Have Before Making The Jump To The Busa
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Why did you choose the busa over other bikes? | General Bike Related Topics
The busa is my first motorcycle and i love her.700 miles so far and fortunately no mishaps like a drop or an accident.I love her.Personally i choose the busa not for her top speed or anything else.I just LOVE the way she looks.Even if she had a 600cc engine inside i still would have gotten...
I agree! All the worry was in my head during the test ride, but the busa can be very forgiving under 4k RPM.
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2015 CBR300
Got the bike brand new in March 2015. Went on an 11 hour ride to tail of the dragon on June 2015. Commuted on it for 4 years in all weather. On my way to work, a lady merged into me and cracked most of the fairings. I was not injured thanks to my winter suit with armored knees. Insurance totaled it. While I was going to turn the keys in at the dealership where it was being looked over they had a VFR and an 09 busa. Was a bit of a hard choice but I was happy with my decision.
Got the bike brand new in March 2015. Went on an 11 hour ride to tail of the dragon on June 2015. Commuted on it for 4 years in all weather. On my way to work, a lady merged into me and cracked most of the fairings. I was not injured thanks to my winter suit with armored knees. Insurance totaled it. While I was going to turn the keys in at the dealership where it was being looked over they had a VFR and an 09 busa. Was a bit of a hard choice but I was happy with my decision.
Mythos
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had four bikes and the busa was the last one I got.
Yamaha DT-100 in about 1976, sold in about 1980.
Didn't have any bikes for a longtime.
'90 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 in 1995. Sold it cheap to a used bike dealership just to get rid of it.
08 Kawasaki ZX-14 from 2008 to present. Still own it but it's totalled, I crashed it last summer.
08 Hayabusa. Sitting there waiting to be ridden but I'm not planning to ride it around here lest it suffer the same fate as the ZX-14.
Yamaha DT-100 in about 1976, sold in about 1980.
Didn't have any bikes for a longtime.
'90 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 in 1995. Sold it cheap to a used bike dealership just to get rid of it.
08 Kawasaki ZX-14 from 2008 to present. Still own it but it's totalled, I crashed it last summer.
08 Hayabusa. Sitting there waiting to be ridden but I'm not planning to ride it around here lest it suffer the same fate as the ZX-14.
Blkoutbusa
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1983 Honda Shadow VT750
2004 Suzuki GSXR 600
2006 Suzuki GSXR 1000
Current: 2012 Hayabusa
2004 Suzuki GSXR 600
2006 Suzuki GSXR 1000
Current: 2012 Hayabusa
Right Now: ‘06 Busa
‘ 07 Ducati Monster S4RS
‘00 SuperGlide
‘ 96 Ducati 900SScr
’77 Bonneville
‘78 Yamaha SR500
‘85 Sportster
also 3 more Triumphs and a Yamaha 250 DT1 enduro.
Sold : 3Harleys, Triumphs, Suzuki X6, Kawasaki Z1, Husqvarna 250 , 360, 2 Honda 550s, Bultaco, BSA, Too numerous to mention Honda Suzuki, Bridgestone, Vespa.
‘ 07 Ducati Monster S4RS
‘00 SuperGlide
‘ 96 Ducati 900SScr
’77 Bonneville
‘78 Yamaha SR500
‘85 Sportster
also 3 more Triumphs and a Yamaha 250 DT1 enduro.
Sold : 3Harleys, Triumphs, Suzuki X6, Kawasaki Z1, Husqvarna 250 , 360, 2 Honda 550s, Bultaco, BSA, Too numerous to mention Honda Suzuki, Bridgestone, Vespa.
Damn, what are ya a hundred?
R1BusaNoob
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"96" Yamaha diversion 600
"94" GSXR 750
"98" Kawasaki Ninja 600
2001 Yamaha R1
And now 2013 Suzuki Hayabusa
"94" GSXR 750
"98" Kawasaki Ninja 600
2001 Yamaha R1
And now 2013 Suzuki Hayabusa
Zerks
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I bought a brand new one in 1971... same color... that one is a 69 or a 70 model as shown by the vents on the side cover where the oil tank is... isn't it a dry sump engine? or close to it?
Zerks
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1971 Honda 750, my first bike.
74 900 Kawasaki
76 900 Kawasaki
81 GPZ 1100 Kawasaki
83 GS 1100 Suzuki
84 V65 Sabre
85 V65 Sabre with full Hondaline fairing.
89 Yamaha V Max
1990 ZX 1100... Traded for the V Max... what en evolutionary step in frame strength and superior brakes
2001 Hayabusa
85 V65 Sabre... again... just can't ride these anymore after experiencing superior engineering and power.
2005 Honda Valkyrie... gear whine deluxe with straight cut gears. I liked it!
2005 Hayabusa... crashed... don't ask....
2010 Concours... commuter... awesome motorcycle for 2 up
2002 Hayabusa roller for my 05 motor donation.
74 900 Kawasaki
76 900 Kawasaki
81 GPZ 1100 Kawasaki
83 GS 1100 Suzuki
84 V65 Sabre
85 V65 Sabre with full Hondaline fairing.
89 Yamaha V Max
1990 ZX 1100... Traded for the V Max... what en evolutionary step in frame strength and superior brakes
2001 Hayabusa
85 V65 Sabre... again... just can't ride these anymore after experiencing superior engineering and power.
2005 Honda Valkyrie... gear whine deluxe with straight cut gears. I liked it!
2005 Hayabusa... crashed... don't ask....
2010 Concours... commuter... awesome motorcycle for 2 up
2002 Hayabusa roller for my 05 motor donation.
Hayabusa Wannabe
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Welcome @R1BusaNoob !
hayabuser
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Ageist!
I'm only half that and am on bike #32... only three have been 'Busas though... five if you count B-Kings.
xxbirdowner
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Bikes:
1986 Honda Night Hawk 700s
1995 Suzuki RF 900
1999 Honda Blackbird 1100XX
2003 Suzuki Hayabusa
2004 Honda CBR1000 RR
2005 Suzuki Hayabusa
2006 Kawasaki Zx14
2008 Kawasaki Zx14
2008 Suzuki Hayabusa 1441 big bore.
2012 Kawasaki zx14R (Still Have)
2013 Honda F6B Goldwing (wish I would have kept)
2018 Yamaha Vmax (awesome Bike fuel range sucked)
2018 Honda Goldwing Tour (Still Have)
2022 Suzuki Hayabusa (Silver &Red)
1986 Honda Night Hawk 700s
1995 Suzuki RF 900
1999 Honda Blackbird 1100XX
2003 Suzuki Hayabusa
2004 Honda CBR1000 RR
2005 Suzuki Hayabusa
2006 Kawasaki Zx14
2008 Kawasaki Zx14
2008 Suzuki Hayabusa 1441 big bore.
2012 Kawasaki zx14R (Still Have)
2013 Honda F6B Goldwing (wish I would have kept)
2018 Yamaha Vmax (awesome Bike fuel range sucked)
2018 Honda Goldwing Tour (Still Have)
2022 Suzuki Hayabusa (Silver &Red)
airborneuph
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Here's something you won't see very often .. Came across this old picture from 1976, my old Trackmaster framed Triumph .. Lot of modification to that thing- check out the very rare ARD magneto driven off the exhaust cam .. Sonny Routt's big bore 850cc kit .. Megacycle cams with 3 valve springs on each valve to manage the 8000 rpm shift points .. I had to get custom made "stellite" pushrods to keep the heavy springs from bending the stock ones .. The spring pressure was great enough that it would mushroom over the tips of the valves to the point where I would use adjusting shims from my bevel drive Ducati, which sat atop the valve stem, to preserve valve life .. When the pressure would destroy shims I could just replace them ..
MAP Performance ported head with 2 38mm Mikunis, the shop specified 12 inches from carb bellmouth to piston top, so if the intake tracts look unusually long, that's why ..
Nickel plated Trackmaster, made to the companies suggestion as to neck angles for a streetbike, since they mainly sold those frames to the dirt trackers of the day ..
Kimtab "snowflake" wheels which were relatively new for the day back then, sporting disc brakes ..
Betor (Spain) front end which was pretty much on par with the Ceriani, considered by most to be the bst of the day ..
The plastic tank and fenders were made by a company named Star Racer ..
The bike was light enough, that if I grabbed ahold of it correctly, from the side, and tipped it back against me, I could lift it off the ground, Something I did often enough to demonstrate how light it was to anyone who asked ..
Best I could get out of it was a 12.0 at the local dragstrip, which certainly wasn't stellar, but for the time it was definitely respectable ..
Any of you "older" gentlemen who remember the old days of street racing at the "Cabbage Patch" bar outside of Daytona during Bikeweek may well remember this bike, as it spent many a Bikeweek weekend there getting properly beaten by the 4 cylinder bikes ..
MAP Performance ported head with 2 38mm Mikunis, the shop specified 12 inches from carb bellmouth to piston top, so if the intake tracts look unusually long, that's why ..
Nickel plated Trackmaster, made to the companies suggestion as to neck angles for a streetbike, since they mainly sold those frames to the dirt trackers of the day ..
Kimtab "snowflake" wheels which were relatively new for the day back then, sporting disc brakes ..
Betor (Spain) front end which was pretty much on par with the Ceriani, considered by most to be the bst of the day ..
The plastic tank and fenders were made by a company named Star Racer ..
The bike was light enough, that if I grabbed ahold of it correctly, from the side, and tipped it back against me, I could lift it off the ground, Something I did often enough to demonstrate how light it was to anyone who asked ..
Best I could get out of it was a 12.0 at the local dragstrip, which certainly wasn't stellar, but for the time it was definitely respectable ..
Any of you "older" gentlemen who remember the old days of street racing at the "Cabbage Patch" bar outside of Daytona during Bikeweek may well remember this bike, as it spent many a Bikeweek weekend there getting properly beaten by the 4 cylinder bikes ..
81 Xl 185
80‘s gsx 250
84 gsx400f
86 gs 650 shaftie
82 gsx 750 had 2
85 Kawasaki 750
86 750 slabbie
81 gs 1000sn still own nearly rideable
74 Gt 750 still own in pieces
92 gsxr1100
2002 gs1200ss still own rideable
xr 400
crf 450x
95 kawasaki zx6r tracky still own very rideable
2004 gsxr1000
2014 fjr 1300 still own touring machine with the Missus
And now 2013 hayabusa currently fitting rcc stage 2 turbo kit can’t wait to ride it
80‘s gsx 250
84 gsx400f
86 gs 650 shaftie
82 gsx 750 had 2
85 Kawasaki 750
86 750 slabbie
81 gs 1000sn still own nearly rideable
74 Gt 750 still own in pieces
92 gsxr1100
2002 gs1200ss still own rideable
xr 400
crf 450x
95 kawasaki zx6r tracky still own very rideable
2004 gsxr1000
2014 fjr 1300 still own touring machine with the Missus
And now 2013 hayabusa currently fitting rcc stage 2 turbo kit can’t wait to ride it
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Nice! Welcome along my Kiwi bro'.
You've been into bikes a while by the looks of your history right there lol.
Where are you in Godzone?
Northland - North of lock down
So you've been stuck for some time now, bummer.
I'm in rural Mid Canterbury, the whole south island is my playground lol.
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