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Very nice
I'd love one but my guts to big I've tried riding them knees dont bend like they used to so went with another new Busa more comfortable for me.
I picked mine up on Wed's have fun and watch out for the salt ok on dry roads but it'll eat your/all your bikes if the roads are wet I work for the highways and it kills the trucks that do the gritting and there washed out after every run. F**kiIN Evil stuff.

Really sweet mate enjoy mate

Nice.

Nice bike, Did you buy it from Bridge? If so I may have seen you today heading towards Marsh Barton...

furry, can i ask how you got well over 140 bhp AT the back wheel on your TL?

Cos thats amazing for a tl to have that power at the crank, let alone the wheel' have you got a dyno run?

Webber wrote:furry, can i ask how you got well over 140 bhp AT the back wheel on your TL?

Cos thats amazing for a tl to have that power at the crank, let alone the wheel' have you got a dyno run?

PMSL

????????

I have a sweet GIXER AP 50 that will smoke your TL my friend and it's
so good i put my name on it !! [/img]

Not really m8 the SB8R uses TLR engine and does over 160 at the rear wheel!!! (It would cost a fair bit to get my TL into the same state of tune as that!)

Mine is not in a standard state of tune either

Should hopefully be getting the bike over to TTS in the next week or so to get ECU remaped and will get rear wheel dyno from them

Likewise gsxr1000 does over 150 at the rear wheel, but when you get into these sorts of figures, an extra 10-15 bhp doesnt matter as much on the road!

In a standard state of tune, at the crank....

GSXR1000
http://www.bikez.com/bike/index.php?bike=4343
160bhp

TL1000R
http://www.bikez.com/bike/index.php?bike=33
135bhp


Can assume on both bikes that in a standard state of tune, around 5bhp is lost from crank to wheel...

so 155 and 130 respectively...

Now Considering I've done alot to mine I am quite confident that 130 at the rear will be well over 140.


Yes webber you race R1 which I expect if you know what your doing is doing a nice 180bhp +, but to be honest who cares, as I said before I'm a real world biker I'm interested in what works on the road not the track!
(Allthough keep in mind TLR was designed as a WSB bike, but then due to bad rep of it's bro the TLS, they had to drop the idea)


At the end of the day, I think everyone should have a GSXR in their garage, fantastic piece of kit, but it doesn't make any sense using one for every day riding, they just are not designed to do that nor take that sort of punishment...

V-Twins are tougher and more rideable under road use, even something like Age's 996 is a suprise on the road day in day out if you can stomuch the service costs! (Even if it is slower than mine )

Other reason for TLR of course, is there is no way your going to get more bang and rideabilty for your buck, just nothing else touches it, hence I brought one ;)

My bike was purchased as a toy to use for fun,

I was in the fortunate position to be able to (within reason) buy whatever bike i wanted.

The GSXR fulfils my criteria for a bike perfectly. A TL whilst being a great bike doesnt fulfil my needs as well.

Simon

Well I think you did the right thing, ok 7k is alot for a toy, but thats only when GSXR's on the road makes sense, just to have in the garage, all nice and clean, sun shining outside, your all geared up ready to have a crack!

Best of all, you got the K4 model, which at this time of yr due to K5 now being out, is as cheep as your gonna get it new, so ya did well, not to mention best of all, cos the K5 looks like a piece of crap yours will hold its value well too

If money was no object I'd have both TL and GSXR1000, as I said I think everyone should have one, allthough secretly I've got my heart set on an SB6R ;)

I got the TL, purely cos I bike every day, that is, the only reason, it's my balence of performance vs every day use.

Anyway enjoy m8 weather slowly improving now, best advice is get some of that scotoiler-spray it's pucka for neutralising any salt you get on the metal parts of the bike!
(Also anonther one called HCF-50 I think???, but I've not tried that one)

is that the scottoiler 365 spray?

It sounds good, but wasnt too sure, might try it

Simon

Yups...

It's expensive for what it is, thats why I suggested the other one, but I donno if HCF is the right code for it?????

Your meant to put it on the bike as an good all round protector, but main thing I find it useful for, is neutralising salt after riding (when bike is cool) on exposed metal parts, mainly stainless exhaust pipework, but other areas also, you then see it dripping off creating a blue/white neutralised electrolite pool on the garage floor under the bike it's really good stuff...
(Stainless and Alu may be rust proof, but they ain't salt proof, salt creates an electrical current which breaks down the metal very quickly indeed)

Even though it ain't cheep, I've had one all over winter, and only just past half full, so it's actually not worked out too bad, and saved alot of the bikes metal work (which all seemed a good thing till I crashed it 2 weeks ago LOL)

Only thing thats not so good about it, is it's water based, which means it will wash off pretty quickly, so I think the best way to make use of it, is spray it on the bike, leave it to do it's job, wash off with fresh water or wipe off, and then get some WD40 on the bike...

This time of yr though, it's the exhaust pipes, engine casings (suzuki's engine paint ain't the best) and calipers that really suffer with salt, and obviously due to heat and/or exposure, something like the Scotoiler spray won't stay on there long, so it's a constant use solution, which does make a difference

mates TL1000 S is 127bhp at the wheel standard.

hes got a full set of m4 pipes now,ghey k&N filter,carbon airbox and some other bits and bobs.
thats kicking out 137 now.

sweet bikes.