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z1100r:
The decision has been made for me...its definately the Honda. One of our group comming down today from Skegness broke down on the motorway and I've only just got back from picking him up in my van...A bloody 2007 R1 and his rectifier has burnt out. Well this caused me to miss my MOT slot for the Z and his R1 is now sporting my Z's rectifier anyway. The Ace has a bald tyre that i didn't notice...so I've just been sat in the garden polishing, and ravishing she looks too...all filled up with juice, no leeky forks, and my rooksack packed - with a tub of polish in it aswell. hehe

Argh  awesome cant wait to get going now.

mick:
Have a gud un mate  8) and take plenty of photos  ;) also watch out for Biffta (dave) on here on his 400/4 from Liverpool  ;), cheers Mick.

z1100r:
What a week we had. Rather alot of beer, Alot of laughs, and we had the most photographed bike in our road. It was so ridiculous we started hiding after a couple of days because it was non-stop. Photo after photo and non stop chatting about it to folk from countries everywhere. We were on a major road next to the Lido with alot of people traffic.

 Wherever we went people stopped and looked at it. My mates got pissed off with it in the end - even I did.

 I even had folk pull up next to me at traffic lights and talk about it. Everyone loved it.

 It goes pretty good too apparently. We went alot of the way there at 100+ mph at one point cruising at 110 for about 20 miles. My speedo said 80mph, I've got to sort that, I had no idea what speed I was doing. My mates R1 packed up again over there so he had to push his bike onto the ferry and come back on the back of me. He's 16stone but the little Honda didn't miss a beat and we were still doing 100 odd alot of the way back. Amazing.

 Highlight for me was out gunning a Kettle (GT750) up the mountain mile relatively easily..definately shocked him..it was the first time I've thrashed it for ages and it surprised even me...a bloke behind on a VFR said it hit 120mph going up, but over 130mph on the decent and he went on about it all night.

 I had a bit of clutch slip trouble when the oil was cold if i gunned it, but when it warmed up its was OK. Post some pics later.

UK Pete:
That sounds like you had a good time, 130 MPH would put most of the 750's to shame, i would not dare to push my bikes that hard , maybee i should give my f2 a blast and see what it does
Pete

z1100r:

 I did see a tidy 550 and an import 750 but only on the ferry comming back. They passed us in the streams of bikes whilst we waited for my mate to push his R1 off the boat. My mates F2 that was the same colour as yours did 125mph flatout. We used to compare my 600 against his 750 during the tuning of the 600 motor. I saw a 350 four actually in the Ramsey sprint, we nearly entered mine, but I decided the clutch wasn't good enough so we entered my mates old 1989 ZX10 instead. He did Ok but not as good as our old 87' CBR1000 last year.

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