Right well a bit of history, i actually got into all this going fast malarky from driving my mates RX8 and watching the fast and the furious. I was looking for a an MR2 Turbo but i ended up getting a 1995 Celica gt4 st205, which has the same engine as the mr2. I ended up rebuilding the whole engine and upgrading it myself plus a bigger turbo and all sorts of other stuff. The car ran over 420bhp but in the end with petrol going up it was just too expensive to run, everytime i got in it, it cost me a 10er. I ended up selling it to some guys who drove over from switzerland for it.
I then had some spare dosh and decided to do my bike test this year, i picked it all up pretty quickly as i used to ride a bike when i was 16/17 on my cbt plus i have had off roaders.
I got myself a 2003 ZX9R F1P and to be honest, its a great bike i must admit, very comfortable, plenty of power, its a great street bike.
After a few months i wanted something more up to date and i got taken in by this litre fad haha, plus i understand direct injection a lot better than carbs. I decided i wanted either a cbr or a gixxer, i must admit i was leaning heavily towards the cbr. Now i am not really spiritual or religious but i lost my dad to cancer in August and on that journey EVERYTHING was telling me to turn around and go look at the gixxer, which is what i did. I would like to think it was that old git up there telling me this haha.
When i got on the gixxer, obviously in reviews it says its the biggest of the 4 litre jap bikes but i couldn't believe how small it was, if i got on anything smaller i think i would have been scared, it was like riding a piece of paper compared to the 9. Next things to do on her will be maybe some tinted indicators and tinted rear light but not sure if it works with the Titanium silver paint, a tail tidy with an ever so slightly smaller plate, put my BMC air filter in and then get it remapped.
In terms of my location well, I am from Middlesbrough but i am based in Cornwall as I am an aircraft engineer in the Navy but also live just outside Marlborough in Wiltshire.
Mike
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