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Hey everyone.

It should be a happy day for me today, but it is with great sadness that I announce the departure of the ER6f.

After a very happy 'year and a bit' together, and after the recent modifications we are parting company.

I have traded her for a GSXR600.

Of the forums that I post on this one has been my favourite by a long way, and I am very sad to no longer be a Kawasaki rider.

Jonno and I hope to buy another Kawasaki in the next year or two to tour on, so I hope I will be welcome again.

Thanks to you all for your friendship, advice and support.

awww crap....

well that sucks..after all the bling and everything....

im sure u will still be welcome in here tho, after all, bikes rate second behind g-banger pics!!

so u may stay...

You made me smile again Neka!

I didn't realise that some things rate more highly than bikes!

G banger pics (on chicks) rare higher than almost anything we have a few malcontents here that ride things other than Kwaka. Why the change might I ask? Seemed like you and the ER6-f were fairly happy together...

Black Magic wrote:You made me smile again Neka!

I didn't realise that some things rate more highly than bikes!

oh yea.... chicks on bikes rate much higher than bikes alone...

Thats a shame bm after all the bling you invested in..... hope you do get back into kwakas..

Thers a few on here that are drawn towards the evil light but the power of god kwaka will eventually return you to the real thing,so you dont have to leave

Black Magic wrote:
Thanks to you all for your friendship, advice and support.

where ya going..????
its still a sportsbike
and we do have other members with gixxers

now if you had gone out and bought a Highly Dangerous...well
different story

cheers
Smitty

nothin wrong with a spewsuki, still better than a h h hoooooooonda or yamahahahahahahaha, & youll be back cause aint nothin like a kwakka

Smitty wrote:

Black Magic wrote:
Thanks to you all for your friendship, advice and support.

where ya going..????
its still a sportsbike
and we do have other members with gixxers

now if you had gone out and bought a Highly Dangerous...well
different story

cheers
Smitty

yea what he said....

altho ..if u keep sending gbanger pics, u can even have a HD

What is it with you QLD'ers defecting to Suzuki...

Congrats btw...

red_dave wrote:What is it with you QLD'ers defecting to Suzuki...

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the sun fades curtains up there

Smitty wrote:

red_dave wrote:What is it with you QLD'ers defecting to Suzuki...

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the sun fades curtains up there

It's obviously fading more than that!

Thank you everyone- although I would like to think I was welcome here for more than my butt!

There WILL be another Kwaka in our stable in the near future if all goes according to plan.

I blinged up the ER because I was getting a little bored with it. I made the decision to keep it and modify it rather than trade it in a few months ago.

A few weeks ago I went on a ride with some people and a friend got me riding her GSXR600. From the second I got on it was a whole new experience. (Bear in mind I have only owned a ZZR250 and the ER.) The gear changes were magic, the cornering was unbelievable- I felt like I was part of the bike. My first ride on the Gixxer and I was blasting along at WAY faster than I had ever ridden the ER. It wasn't the speed though- it was how good I felt on the bike.

The next day I went looking, and deliberated (painfully) for a couple of weeks. The 2007 Gixxer is running out at $13,990 on road at the moment. Yesterday I went into the bike shop to get a trade-in price on the ER. In my mind I had decided that if they gave me $7000 change-over I would have to defect to Suzuki. I walked out with $6700 changeover ($7300 I got for the Kwaka- I believe they are going for around $10,000 new.)

So there you have it- temptation won out. Now the ongoing task of keeping my riding within my skill level, and learning to ride better not faster.

I will still be here, so it is goodbye to the ER - not to KSRC or my love of Kawasakis.

Black Magic wrote:
I will still be here, so it is goodbye to the ER - not to KSRC or my love of Kawasakis.

Sorta makes sense but did you test ride a 636?
I have owned gixxers before... before & yes they are a good bike for stunting