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     Danger_dave |
Criteria is; I line all the bikes I've tested for Kiwi Rider Mag up - and I'm allowed to keep one - which one would it be? Nothing to do with track performance or prices or other typical magazine selection. Just which one did *I* like best and cover most. I've been on board an pretty big range of bikes and scooters this year. V-max to Vespas. Tenere to two strokes. Tenere would get a mention, same for V-max and the Vespa GT300ie. (excellent fun) But the one I liked best was....  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Just asked; Co-pilot picks the Goldwing. Came under very close scrutiny from the front seat too. | ||
| 86129squids |
HTFU!!!! The GS, get her a comfy back seat and some honeyfarkles. | ||
| Danger_dave |
That's the problem the Goldwing faces. Everyone says HTFU, but the fact is with 2 people and gear it's 650kg. If you want to ride it like a normal bike and park on gravel for example, or just dealing to it while the passenger gets onboard - it takes a man, and a lot of him, not some old dodderer. | ||
| 86129squids |
Oh- OK, then get the GW and see if you can farkle it like "Yellow Wolf" did- IIRC a fair amount of $ for custom suspension and a serious DVR setup- supposedly he did an Iron Butt just by doing laps on the Dragon... Made DVD's of runs through the Gap, no losses at all to the efforts of squids... lotsa sparks. (Message edited by 86129squids on December 30, 2010) | ||
| Danger_dave |
Yeah - not that much needed - new ones handle great - low COM, the problem is its width/girth - like all the supertankers. CP didn't get a run on the back of the GS - I reckon it would be comfy as the Tenere though - which she rated. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
That is a GS 1200 correct? What is HTFU? Hush the f#$k up? My friends and I will use STFU - Shut... | ||
| Americanmadexb |
Just to contribute to BW this week... harden the F$uck up! | ||
| Danger_dave |
Bad, bad language warning. The character is a parody of a famous aussie (old school) gangster; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y | ||
| Whisperstealth |
Don't be a pussy is what your say'in. That Beemer does look nice. And is a great bike. I'd like to have one - if money wasn't an issue, and I already had a few others I'd like. For the money though I'd go with an XB12X. DD, Having ridden so many bikes, what bike would you choose out of these. Given that you already had a XB12XT and KLR650. - Which I do. XB12X BMW GS 1200 DUK MS 1200 | ||
| Danger_dave |
XB12X - best value, least refined. BMW - if money was no issue. Duck - too small for me - and too ugly. | ||
| Brumbear |
I like the Triumph tiger and I can't wait to pop on the 800 XC and if Buell doesn't have a new street bike out next year 2012 I will probably end up in trumpet. But here is lil sumptin for you wingers out there I love this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMEXD4hmKc | ||
| Slowride |
DD, I took my GW 08 to Buelltoberfest a year ago and ran it with a group of Buellers. You're right, it did handle fine... with me hanging off of it like a crazy monkey. I eventually backed it into the corner just after the one the crazy HD rider flew off of this year. I was way to hot taking that right hander and started to trail brake... lol or at least I thought I was going too and then remembered that the brakes are linked. Anywho, with Froggy and Chad Hargis on my six, I threw that damn GW into the hard left, put the knee way forward and then down and hit the wick on it... whatcha know, it did a full power, controlled slide, out and around the corner. It kind of felt like the old 928 drifting around the outside. Again, I put a lot of miles in a very short time on the GW. The CP and I did a 44oo mile trip from Texas to California n back on it over 14 days. It was a chore to keep that thing in line when she was climbing on and off as well as turning it around at the top of the Hollywood sign in a gully of dirt and gravel, but nothing says I love you like a 48 point turn. FWIW, I would have picked the GS as well. The GW is a great touring machine, it just doesn't suit my riding style. | ||
| Stirz007 |
DD - don't know if you get this one out your way.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA | ||
| Danger_dave |
We don't have Geico here - nice - I checked out the series. | ||
| Danger_dave |
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| Britchri10 |
The Geico Ad with the little piggy gets my vote! | ||
| Gunut75 |
............"and that's why yellow makes me sad"...............  Thats my favorite commercial of all time! I think it's slightly cooler than the little piggy. Dave, you have one of the coolest jobs on the planet. I'm off to Mamby Pamby Land. Thank's Mrs. A.  | ||
| Britchri10 |
R. Lee Ermey(Sp?) would be my fav' of all time if he had hit the guy with the tissue box! Chris C | ||
| Whatever |
Screw the bike... I want your job, you bastard !!! | ||
| Whisperstealth |
R Lee for me. All I could think about with that pig was a shot gun, and bacon. | ||
| Gunut75 |
fav' of all time if he had hit the guy with the tissue box! He probably did. Maybe they didn't air that one.  | ||
| Whisperstealth |
He did hit him. glanced off his leg. Now a facial, that would have been epic. | ||
| Danger_dave |
The story: http://kiwiridermagazine.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010 -bds.html | ||
| Blk_uly |
Hey Slowride I resemble that remark! |
