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Main Area => Odds n Ends => Topic started by: ojstinson on October 06, 2012, 07:57:41 PM

Title: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: ojstinson on October 06, 2012, 07:57:41 PM
http://www.cycleworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2013-Yamaha-FZ8-left-side-3Q-view.jpg
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: yamahonkawazuki on October 06, 2012, 08:15:31 PM
interesting. if ridden to its full putention  :police: couldnt even keep up lol
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: codajastal on October 06, 2012, 08:27:29 PM
Quote from: ojstinson on October 06, 2012, 07:57:41 PM
http://www.cycleworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2013-Yamaha-FZ8-left-side-3Q-view.jpg

Nice
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: Watevaman on October 06, 2012, 08:58:01 PM
 Ugly tank, ugly headlight, ugly mirrors.

Just looks too complicated for my taste.
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: ojstinson on October 06, 2012, 09:08:35 PM
Sometimes bad ass and ugly are synonymous.
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: modular on October 07, 2012, 05:41:13 AM
The suspension, mainly the forks, are woefully inadequate on the FZ8.
Title: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: Higgins13 on October 07, 2012, 09:04:05 PM
Meh. Needs full fairing
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: The Buddha on October 08, 2012, 06:24:12 PM
Yea the headlight is about as pretty as a pair of chrome truck nuts. Hell atleast those are behind not in front.
Cool.
Buddha.
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: SAFE-T on October 08, 2012, 09:04:25 PM
Rode one 2 (?) yrs ago as they were released here before the U.S.

The problem is that it is a bike that answers a question no one asked. You get more power than the FZ6, but not as much as the FZ1. But it's not that much less money that you would choose it over the FZ1. If Yamaha had put a street version of their crossplane 800cc MotoGP motor in it, I don't think you could have kept them in the showrooms ~ woulda made the Street Triple sound pathetic in comparison. But Yamaha didn't, and I've never seen one on the road even though they've been available for a couple of years now.
Title: Re: Now this is one Bad As*s looking bike.
Post by: Shaddow on October 08, 2012, 11:01:39 PM
Its what I'm thinking of getting when I can ride again. Love the ride, feel, etc