ZZR Dan wrote:ross79 wrote:ZZR Dan wrote:ross79 wrote:Hi and welcome. Good choice, I rode a VTR1000 on the weekend and wasn't very impressed by it. Stick with the kwakas, you won't regret it
Hi Ross,
I'm shaking my head in disbelief...You were'nt impressed? The one I've been riding absolutely screams. Maybe i need to get you on this thing and see if you dont change your mind... The acceleration on this thing just rips your arms out...
Where you from anyway????
I'm from Melbourne, I did live in Warwick for a little while, not too far from Toowoomba. I'm suprised how much toowoomba has changed, had a little look there earlier this year.
The VTR I rode was a 2000 model with Yoshi pipe (i think) on it. Very rough riding, then again it was the first time I sat on a V-twin. Does good wheelies though, I guess I'm a bit too used to the 12 which is close to double the power.
Yeah i do know what you mean. The missus VTR has Micron pipes, K&N filter, fancy Uridium? plugs and leads, Stage 2 Kit thru it, different gearing, and this thing literally rips ya arms off. My mate has a ZXR12 and we were heading down the Warrego towards Brissy and although the 12 has far superior legs up top, it had a shitload of trouble keeping up with the VTR from around the 60k to 240k.....
Mind you, once it hit its straps it was see ya later VTR....
I'm a bit partial to the R1...Whats your opinion?
The VTR I rode had the pipes & K&Ns, but appart from that it was pretty stock. My ZX12R has scorpion pipe, K&Ns, Powercommander and a few other little mods to keep it moving. I have stock gearing as I do a bit of Highway riding and standard gearing is best for fuel consumption.
Sounds like your missus VTR has had a bit of work done to it, I hear cleaning up the ports in the heads of those things makes a major of difference.
The R1? I was close to buying one but then I stumbled across the 12. I think they're a great bike, wouldn't mind trying one out, but I think the riding position is a bit too extreme for me. One of my mates has one and it kills his friends Blackbird, till about 180km/h when the bird catches up and steadily pulls away. I also took a new Fireblade for a spin on the weekend(completely stock) and that thing was amazing! Eventhough the exhaust was stock it had a wicked bark once you hit about 8grand on the tacho. Brakes were fantastic and power was suprising to say the least. Only thing I don't like is the riding position, but it is a supersport
SOLD 2000 ZX12R .
your mate needs to get his 12 out of 1st gear 
, but having now owned and thrashed my 12 for nearly 18 months, there is *No Way On God's Green Earth* that a 12 would or should struggle to hang onto a VTR !!! 
I do like the storm, and have considered them occasionally, but limited fuel range and power puts me off them. AFAIK Honda claims around 110-115Hp for them. ZZR has claimed power of 160Hp. (at the crank) 
Yeah I like Kawasakis.
- I guess it would be a tad better with pipes, PCIII etc...