Sad Day in my life
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12-06-2007, 04:55 PM
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Sad Day in my life
I sold my 929 last night. I am still trying to recover. came home looked in my garage and it hit me hard. Good news though, I can now start looking for the next one. really wanna see the 08 100rr in person before i make a judgement. Ideally would like to find a repsol with low miles. Wish me luck, this is a difficult time in my riding life.
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RE: Sad Day in my life
i regret ever selling my 929. i had always dreamed of owning a t2 rx7 and finally had teh chance but it meant trading my 929... biggest mistake of my life (seriously!) in my opinion the 929 is one of the finest bikes honda produced . good luck finding a new bike but you will always miss the 929
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12-06-2007, 09:15 PM
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On that note, I just wanna vent on how cool it is to own a 929. Think about it, all you see out there are R6's,R1's,and gsx-r's. The market is saturatedwith bland bikes that everybody owns. And everyone has the same cookie-cutter mods done to their bikes!Us 929'ers have a special thing going on. We own one of the best performing bikes ever engineered and our bikes are becoming a rarity. The 929's were only produced for two years andthey owned the sport bike market in that short time. To this day, we can still compete with the newer big dogs and with only a few minor mods. I don't know about you guys, but I get compliments on my bike all the time and I consistently smoke some of the newer cats. We own a rare bike that will go down in history for being an invaluablestepping stone to the modern 1000cc+ class sport bike.Good news is, you can only go so big before adversely affecting your power:weight ratio. That being said, we'll be in the conversation for quite a while! Viva la 929"ers!
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I've got a 2001 CBR 929 with less than 3000 miles on it (bought it with about 700 miles)... I've lived overseas for the last 8 years and didn't ride it too much. Guam isn't that big and it was too scary to use my bike in the Philippines, plus I used my friend's bike most of the time over there. My I'm back in Killa Kali and starting to rack up the miles. Yea, it's still pretty brand new. No major mods except Scotts Damper, Erion Pipe and SATO rearsets.I guess you can say my 929 is still virgin tight.
Manyhave offered to buy it andI say "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Manyhave offered to buy it andI say "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
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12-07-2007, 09:26 AM
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ORIGINAL: driego
On that note, I just wanna vent on how cool it is to own a 929. Think about it, all you see out there are R6's,R1's,and gsx-r's. The market is saturatedwith bland bikes that everybody owns. And everyone has the same cookie-cutter mods done to their bikes!Us 929'ers have a special thing going on. We own one of the best performing bikes ever engineered and our bikes are becoming a rarity. The 929's were only produced for two years andthey owned the sport bike market in that short time. To this day, we can still compete with the newer big dogs and with only a few minor mods. I don't know about you guys, but I get compliments on my bike all the time and I consistently smoke some of the newer cats. We own a rare bike that will go down in history for being an invaluablestepping stone to the modern 1000cc+ class sport bike.Good news is, you can only go so big before adversely affecting your power:weight ratio. That being said, we'll be in the conversation for quite a while! Viva la 929"ers!
On that note, I just wanna vent on how cool it is to own a 929. Think about it, all you see out there are R6's,R1's,and gsx-r's. The market is saturatedwith bland bikes that everybody owns. And everyone has the same cookie-cutter mods done to their bikes!Us 929'ers have a special thing going on. We own one of the best performing bikes ever engineered and our bikes are becoming a rarity. The 929's were only produced for two years andthey owned the sport bike market in that short time. To this day, we can still compete with the newer big dogs and with only a few minor mods. I don't know about you guys, but I get compliments on my bike all the time and I consistently smoke some of the newer cats. We own a rare bike that will go down in history for being an invaluablestepping stone to the modern 1000cc+ class sport bike.Good news is, you can only go so big before adversely affecting your power:weight ratio. That being said, we'll be in the conversation for quite a while! Viva la 929"ers!
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12-08-2007, 02:16 PM
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one of the reasons why none of the new bikes worked for me was because of the following 2 reasons.
1. the seats are much harder and really uncomfortable than the older sport bikes (like my 929)
2. ever since they put the tail pipe going out the ***, there's no compartment to store anything anymore.
now that bike makers have realized that exhaust out the back seat isn't really all that necessary because most of us spend less time on the track and more time in the "real world", we really need bikes that has a balance.
looks like most of the bike makers are finally moving back to a lower side tail pipe. i do like the shortys.
well, the '08 cbr1000 finally went that route but they forgot to give us back the trunk space just like the GSXRs and R6
1. the seats are much harder and really uncomfortable than the older sport bikes (like my 929)
2. ever since they put the tail pipe going out the ***, there's no compartment to store anything anymore.
now that bike makers have realized that exhaust out the back seat isn't really all that necessary because most of us spend less time on the track and more time in the "real world", we really need bikes that has a balance.
looks like most of the bike makers are finally moving back to a lower side tail pipe. i do like the shortys.
well, the '08 cbr1000 finally went that route but they forgot to give us back the trunk space just like the GSXRs and R6
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RE: Sad Day in my life
ORIGINAL: lexiconby
one of the reasons why none of the new bikes worked for me was because of the following 2 reasons.
1. the seats are much harder and really uncomfortable than the older sport bikes (like my 929)
2. ever since they put the tail pipe going out the ***, there's no compartment to store anything anymore.
now that bike makers have realized that exhaust out the back seat isn't really all that necessary because most of us spend less time on the track and more time in the "real world", we really need bikes that has a balance.
looks like most of the bike makers are finally moving back to a lower side tail pipe. i do like the shortys.
well, the '08 cbr1000 finally went that route but they forgot to give us back the trunk space just like the GSXRs and R6
one of the reasons why none of the new bikes worked for me was because of the following 2 reasons.
1. the seats are much harder and really uncomfortable than the older sport bikes (like my 929)
2. ever since they put the tail pipe going out the ***, there's no compartment to store anything anymore.
now that bike makers have realized that exhaust out the back seat isn't really all that necessary because most of us spend less time on the track and more time in the "real world", we really need bikes that has a balance.
looks like most of the bike makers are finally moving back to a lower side tail pipe. i do like the shortys.
well, the '08 cbr1000 finally went that route but they forgot to give us back the trunk space just like the GSXRs and R6
I totally agree with you on both points lexiconby!!! Lots of my friends are jealous about my trunk and many have mention the comfort of my seat. It's kewl to go to bike night, pop the trunk and pull out my McDonalds. I was at last weekends Long Beach Bike show and I did notice how hard the seats were compared to mine.
Paint scheme for the limited edition CBR 600 looks sweet...
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