Boohoo, my gs will be smallest bike at Sunday ride.

[b1k3r 3li+3]

[Ed_in_Az]

Just keep pushing 'em and let the guys in front get the speeding tickets. :lol:

[b1k3r 3li+3]

i'll be bringing my digicam and taking pics, i hope to borrow my sisters camcorder and make my own video,  show you guys how to lean and takes turns on the gs on a decreasing radius inner to regular outter s turn. and the bike is totally stock, stock tires, motor etc. only cosmetic mods have been done.

[glenn9171]

"Stock tires" and "lean angles" are not to be uttered in the same sentence.  

[b1k3r 3li+3]

thats right, i saying that cause im not on some super sticky rubber, but my awesome leet riding skillz make up for it. hehe :lol: na just kidding,

want to make a video and show people that if have the skill and ride the bike properly you can keep up with bigger bikes cause you should be able to ride the gs to its limit while as on a bigger 600 ss or larger ss most riders are unable to ride them to their full potential.

[Anonymous]

Your "little" bike is so light and maneuverable that in the tight twisties you'll equal/better them.  It's on the straights that they'll dust you.  I did my MSF class with ALL big hogs and giant cruisers.  Though I was impress with their maneuverability, I dusted them all, turning in 1/2 the radius they could.

I too love my GS.

[Dragonfly]

I have absoutly no problem running with the R-1's and other much bigger sportbikes when we get in the really tight twisties. but if you let them get anymore than 10ft of straight away they are gone!!

[Dragonfly]

I have absoutly no problem running with the R-1's and other much bigger sportbikes when we get in the really tight twisties. but if you let them get anymore than 10ft of straight away they are gone!!

The Gs is so light its really easy to "flick" back and forth WFO.



Micah

[Turkina]

*raises hand*
Modern sportbikes have weights equal to or less than the GS.  So, what about the GS makes it more 'flickable' than those race-replica bikes?   Frame geometry and suspension should give the high powered bikes the edge.  Maybe it's because we have wider handlebars

Of course, rider skill has a lot to do with it, but wouldn't the same rider do better on the sportbike, not even including the straights?

[b1k3r 3li+3]

its called the shaZam! in pants aka fear factor, i dun fear the ole gs, i respect it most of the time.  while as some people, fear their super sports, instead of respecting it, if they take the corner to hot, they'll go wide or they'll go slow and try to baby it through a corner.

it has to do with skill and bike equally i believe most time.  believe me if i was on a R1 with super sticky tires, i wouldn't horse it through a corner like I would my gs, but Bob Brussard probly could.

[Wrencher]

*raises hand*
Modern sportbikes have weights equal to or less than the GS.  So, what about the GS makes it more 'flickable' than those race-replica bikes?   Frame geometry and suspension should give the high powered bikes the edge.  Maybe it's because we have wider handlebars

Of course, rider skill has a lot to do with it, but wouldn't the same rider do better on the sportbike, not even including the straights?

That is very true. The old saying is "A poor rider on a fast bike is slower than a good rider on a slow bike' or one of hundreds of variations of that.

I don't think this saying has been updated to include the last few generations of SuperSports. A poor rider on a '04 CBR-600RR is still going to be slower, but I would hesitate to call them slow at this point. The gap between entry level skill and the bikes ability to tollerate it is getting smaller and smaller with each generation of bike. The bikes are still getting faster too, but their ability to forgive the smaller mistakes is growing at about the same rate.

The long and the short of it is, it would take an intermediate skill level rider on a modern SS to match a veteran on a GS-500.

This is more a matter for diving rods and bench racing over beer, but my personal opinion is the GS-500 is losing ground in the "superior flickability" rather quickly. The GS is definately a nimble bike, but it is being caught rather quickly.

[juggernaught]

It's not size that matters.....it's umm....how you use it....  :mrgreen: