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Title: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 10, 2007, 04:59:22 PM
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Onlypastrana199 on March 10, 2007, 05:18:34 PM
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a1/Onlypastrana199/worthlesswithoutpics.gif)
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 10, 2007, 05:35:46 PM
and of course, now it's RAINING. :mad: :mad: :mad:

(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/tank.jpg)

(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/disk.jpg)

(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/bike.jpg)


















Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: makenzie71 on March 10, 2007, 05:37:40 PM
serves ya right for turning fanny bandit on us...
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 10, 2007, 05:38:10 PM
(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/vin.jpg)

(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/bike2.jpg) :o

(http://idisk.mac.com/jenstrona/Public/Pictures/cbrrr/with_gs.jpg)


needs a name...
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Onlypastrana199 on March 10, 2007, 05:39:03 PM
HAWT Im jealous now! Congrats!
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 10, 2007, 05:39:28 PM
Quote from: makenzie71 on March 10, 2007, 05:37:40 PM
serves ya right for turning fanny bandit on us...
jealous...
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: TragicImage on March 10, 2007, 06:04:22 PM
I'm gonna drive to CO and take it.... for a test ride.


You can't handle that bike anyways... its too big for a girl. :flipoff:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Onlypastrana199 on March 10, 2007, 06:15:51 PM
Ha! Rarely anything men think is too "big" for a woman to handle actually an issue  :laugh: Don't worry Jen...I'll just ban him from the chatroom  :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: annguyen1981 on March 10, 2007, 10:04:41 PM
Congrats Jen!

Welcome to the 600 club?
:laugh:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: 97gs500e on March 11, 2007, 10:13:18 AM
so how does one do a nice fender eliminator on that bike without losing the tail light?
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: CasiUSA on March 11, 2007, 11:42:14 AM

(http://stores.sportbiketrackgear.com/catalog/1000rr_04_ut_exhaust_main.jpg)
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: pandy on March 11, 2007, 12:27:04 PM
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdy!!!! Congratz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: makenzie71 on March 11, 2007, 01:49:57 PM
Quote from: jen_ on March 10, 2007, 05:39:28 PMjealous...

I am above jealousy.  It's one of the sins I can avoid.
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: 97gs500e on March 11, 2007, 03:42:38 PM
Quote from: CasiUSA on March 11, 2007, 11:42:14 AM

(http://stores.sportbiketrackgear.com/catalog/1000rr_04_ut_exhaust_main.jpg)

umm.. wrong bike dude
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: sys49152 on March 11, 2007, 07:08:48 PM
Wow, gorgeous bike!  Probably the best of the '07 600's.  Play safe and enjoy!
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: SmartDrug on March 12, 2007, 01:41:11 AM
Congrats man, she's beautiful!
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 12, 2007, 07:32:41 AM
So after my first day on the CBR... DAMN. 

Rode about 200 miles on Sunday.  Some in town, some freeway, some tame-ish canyons.  Still tring to figure out how to ride it.  Haven't gotten over 9000 rpm, and the redline is at 15k.

Almost dumped it first thing in the morning in a sandy cold driveway. Doh!

Getting off the bike I feel like an old woman...much more agressive riding position than the GS. Obviously.

I love the sound of the I4.  I love how when you roll on the throttle she just leaps ahead.

I love how everone gathers around my bike to look at it and point and talk about it.  Why didn't that happen with the GS?
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Mandres on March 12, 2007, 12:34:05 PM
that's a beautiful bike, I've been waiting for them to come widely available.  Do you mind if I ask what they're selling for?  The local dealer doesn't have any and if they did I'm sure they'd be waaay over MSRP.
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: natedawg120 on March 12, 2007, 01:09:28 PM
all the honda dealers around me sell sell them for MSRP, which is $9499.00.  Now they almost never have anything in stock, hello spring :laugh:.

That is a very pretty bike, i want to upgrade soooooooooooooooo bad...
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: groff22 on March 12, 2007, 01:29:03 PM
Unlike the low rumble the GS produces, the CBR Does sound amazingly sexy... I'm not saying the GS sounds bad or anything, but when you're at a light with a friend on a CBR it spawns serious jealousy :)....

Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: RVertigo on March 12, 2007, 02:04:58 PM
H#nda?   :o :nono:

Unforgivable!
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: jen_ on March 12, 2007, 02:57:43 PM
Quote from: Mandres on March 12, 2007, 12:34:05 PM
that's a beautiful bike, I've been waiting for them to come widely available.  Do you mind if I ask what they're selling for?  The local dealer doesn't have any and if they did I'm sure they'd be waaay over MSRP.

Depends where you are really.  I paid MSRP plus tax.  I heard people are paying $14,000 for them in California. Which seems crazy, but the market will support that to some extent there, it being a new bike, and Spring time.

To each their own.  I don't think I got a deal, but I don't think I paid too much either.  Plus the dealer is close (as in I don't have to drive an hour to Denver) and they seem pretty nice there.  I'm sure I could have waited a few months for the price to go down, but if I always behaved pratically, I wouldn't be buying a sportbike, would I?

Sound--
I didn't mind the sound of the GS, in that I didn't notice it.  The CBR--wow.  Especially as the revs go up.  Like watching a race, but I'm riding it.

To think I thought a 600 wouldn't be "enough"--how dumb was I?

Hubby gets the GS.  Guess I should peel the "batgirl" off the windscreen...
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: annguyen1981 on March 12, 2007, 07:54:14 PM
I know what you mean about the sound.

My R6 with it's Micron exhaust seriously sounds like a jet engine.  I LOVE it.

:)
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: TragicImage on March 12, 2007, 11:53:24 PM
Quote from: jen_ on March 12, 2007, 02:57:43 PM
Quote from: Mandres on March 12, 2007, 12:34:05 PM
that's a beautiful bike, I've been waiting for them to come widely available.  Do you mind if I ask what they're selling for?  The local dealer doesn't have any and if they did I'm sure they'd be waaay over MSRP.

Depends where you are really.  I paid MSRP plus tax.  I heard people are paying $14,000 for them in California. Which seems crazy, but the market will support that to some extent there, it being a new bike, and Spring time.

To each their own.  I don't think I got a deal, but I don't think I paid too much either.  Plus the dealer is close (as in I don't have to drive an hour to Denver) and they seem pretty nice there.  I'm sure I could have waited a few months for the price to go down, but if I always behaved pratically, I wouldn't be buying a sportbike, would I?

Sound--
I didn't mind the sound of the GS, in that I didn't notice it.  The CBR--wow.  Especially as the revs go up.  Like watching a race, but I'm riding it.

To think I thought a 600 wouldn't be "enough"--how dumb was I?

Hubby gets the GS.  Guess I should peel the "batgirl" off the windscreen...


yea I think Mission Motorsports and LA Cycle were wanting like 12-13k OTD... ridiculous.
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: natedawg120 on March 13, 2007, 08:55:53 AM
Holy crap that is retarded.  The dealer is making mad bank off the sales if they are selling them that much over the MSRP.  Soemthing about that seems a little shady, glad i'm in VA and not CA in that aspect :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: FearedGS500 on March 13, 2007, 09:09:21 PM
ohhh its so pretty !!!!! i want one . they have a blue and silver one (and i'm not one for blue ) but it looks sooo gooodd .. i will probly upgrade as soon as i get out of college ! ( maybe by then they will be even better ! )
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: SmartDrug on March 14, 2007, 08:26:15 AM
Quote from: FearedGS500 on March 13, 2007, 09:09:21 PM
ohhh its so pretty !!!!! i want one . they have a blue and silver one (and i'm not one for blue ) but it looks sooo gooodd .. i will probly upgrade as soon as i get out of college ! ( maybe by then they will be even better ! )

Hell, drop out of college and buy it now... all the cool kids are doing it.    :thumb:
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: baco99 on March 14, 2007, 09:38:30 AM
v. nice!
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: FearedGS500 on March 14, 2007, 10:34:19 PM
ahahah ....no ...... cuz if i wait ..... then i can get more then just one if i really want to :P
Title: Re: New Bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: SmartDrug on March 15, 2007, 01:14:14 PM
Quote from: FearedGS500 on March 14, 2007, 10:34:19 PM
ahahah ....no ...... cuz if i wait ..... then i can get more then just one if i really want to :P

Smart man, an education helps you buy more toys.