Looks, power, handling, payload, Watching the newer bikes on the road today, I'm glad I don't look like I'm trying to mate with some angry mechanical insect.

Plus at the local watering holes, I enjoy the cache of almost always having the oldest bike there

 

I like that too, last club ride I did, I had the oldest bike (amongst 40+bikes) by a minimum of ten years (maybe more like 15?), but I could still run with the fast guys @ + 210km/hr. And my old girl cost $1400, not $14 000.

 

I'm on that midnight train to Georgia - my 87 today left a trail of debris out
on 95 (MAINE HWY IN MAINE ! LOL) - started with s Harley (Me 3rd gear)
then a Suzi 750 - 4th gear , then a B mmm Trouble U in 5th - ult chickin
syndome - so yeah - these Hurrycanes drives some of them new owners up
the walls - but truthfully because 85% of 'em have no ***** !

ANYWAY

Back to why do you ride a Hurricane

Well I just rode this (old) 87 Hurricane in in WinterLake Blue Silver Metallic
and ya know what, for a 25 year old Kick azz SportBike, - she's a killer machine .....


STILL

 

I bought my 1989 registered 1000f-j off Ebay for £700 as a cheap runabout after selling my much loved Suzuki GSX1400 owned for 11 years as I needed the cash.

Must admit, riding home, I thought "what have I bought, listen to those revs, where have all the gears gone??" I'd just sold a bike where 4,600rpm equalled 100mph and that had fantastic grunt from 1,500rpm, (86 lbs ft of torque). The riding position wasn't right for me, I broke my right leg badly back in 1996 so it only bends to 100 degrees so the riding position was going to need some work.

Then as time went on and I rode her more and more, Buell footpeg mod, the same as I did on my GSX1400, risers on the bars, having a seat reprofiled, that induction roar as she banshees up the rev range is incredible.

Some folk may say, why buy a bike you need to change so much, well the one thing I have loved about this bike from the start are those looks, she is a beaut!!!! I ride her down the road and the looks she gets are amazing, yep I still miss Big Bertha, (my GSX1400), but the Pacman is slowly taking her place.....

Cheers, Steve

 

Similar to some others here I LOVE pulling up at a servo, pub, cafe or whatever and someone coming up and saying new bike mate ? Then I play the " guess how old it is " game. When I say she was built in 1989, the jaws hit the ground very quickly. That is one of the reasons I ride a 1000F.

 

why do I ride her ? look at her man , she's beautiful !
I mean the 90 model has got to be the pick of litter (especially in red n black ) but imagine her with a Casey Stoner Repsol replica paint job .

 

Al,
Being a Blackbird owner as well as the 1000F I saw a Blackbird recently in the Repsol livery and I didn't like it. I thought after looking at them on ebay they would look ok but seeing it in the flesh was a definite no way for me.

 

fair enuff Bordo , I was thinking along the lines of a bit of repsol orange amongst the existing paint sceme ,particularly the wheels ?

 

This belongs to one of the guys in my local club.

Looks a bit swish I reckon.

 

I got mine a while back and i honestly never thought about a hurricane. But i love anything with potential and anything that is different. I purchased my bike and yes it had already been pretty much been built but still needed a few things. Now i love her she is fairly quick for an older bike lol. Still have several more things to do to her on top of the stuff i have already done. But by next summer shes gonna be one mean machine (more than she is now).