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Post by kenmoore on Apr 10, 2018 21:33:58 GMT 10
I browse this forum on a regular basis and am saddened by the lack of activity on here.
I should point out that I am a long termer and note that the same goes with the other well known VTR sites.
I can't help but wonder what my VTR would be like if I hadn't of joined this and other forums, I also wonder if it is because I am getting older!
I would like to see some "Stories " from owners about experiences whilst enjoying the VTR.
It never ceases to amaze me how you bump into people when on your bike. It usually starts out with "What is it? and goes from there.
With my bike after 6 years of fettling I enjoy riding it and giving my mates the shits along the way.
An example of this is,
About a month ago I had been for a ride down Batemans Bay, Braidwood, Talong and Neriga with a mate on a Guzzi 1100'and stop at the NerigaPub for a beer and a stretch and I notice a new Ducatti . Turns out the owner is a member on here .Some pleasantries and a brisk ride home spending a couple of $ along the way in appropriate places and everyone is happy.
Tell us all about funny things that happen when out and about.
Cheers
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vtrstormer
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Post by vtrstormer on Apr 19, 2018 20:04:46 GMT 10
The best is when your mate buys a $35k Ducati and everyone only has eyes for your 99model Honda VTR... definitely worth every cent
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griffo
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98 Yellow
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Post by griffo on May 16, 2018 8:46:58 GMT 10
I've been a member and admin on a lot of forums and I think social media pages like Facebook have reduced a lot of the activity on the forum type pages , they both have their advantages if you need a question answered quickly things like Facebook mean you can ask and someone around the planet will be on and answer in real time so a quicker result , but the advantages of a forum like this is all the archived information you can come in and look at , it is a pity more people don't participate in here though .
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vtrstormer
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Post by vtrstormer on May 24, 2018 19:21:06 GMT 10
Yes I totally agree. I kept this going for the info that was collected over a long period of time. It’s a great spot and heaps of info but Facebook and pages that offer that real time answer has taken over. I will continue this forum, it has its place
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Post by twitchy on Aug 29, 2018 14:37:36 GMT 10
G'day from WA! Haven't been on here for a loooong time, but still floating around. I have a build thread on vtr1000.org but haven't updated it in a while. I need to get on here more often I think!
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Post by Sharpest1 on Sept 1, 2018 19:56:15 GMT 10
Well I had a 99 yellow for about 6 years, did 105,000km on it and sold it to buy a Triumph Sprint ST 1050. Put 110,000 km on that and sold my 10 year old bike to buy a 20 year old Storm. I'm loving being back on a storm.
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Post by misnblu on Oct 11, 2020 7:59:07 GMT 10
Yes I totally agree. I kept this going for the info that was collected over a long period of time. It’s a great spot and heaps of info but Facebook and pages that offer that real time answer has taken over. I will continue this forum, it has its place Thank you for keeping the faith on the forums here. As a long time forums member, moderator, and admin of different types forums I can say social media has taken over and forums are dying. I just joined the forum here and have been reading everything I can on the other VTR forums to learn more about my new old 'Hawk I just purchased so I can enjoy the bird to the fullest. Iv'e already invested over $3000 into the bike to make it my own and joined here to see if there's any more information hidden in the threads for the taking. From all my reading I can say the 'Storm/ 'Hawk is one heck of a bike and after taking it out on her maiden voyage I can agree she's a keeper. Like others here I'd like to see more traffic and members but like everything time changes the face of information and forums have seen their days. My first post and thanks for keeping the faith. |
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Post by davo231481 on Oct 13, 2020 20:46:07 GMT 10
Yes I totally agree. I kept this going for the info that was collected over a long period of time. It’s a great spot and heaps of info but Facebook and pages that offer that real time answer has taken over. I will continue this forum, it has its place Thank you for keeping the faith on the forums here. As a long time forums member, moderator, and admin of different types forums I can say social media has taken over and forums are dying. I just joined the forum here and have been reading everything I can on the other VTR forums to learn more about my new old 'Hawk I just purchased so I can enjoy the bird to the fullest. Iv'e already invested over $3000 into the bike to make it my own and joined here to see if there's any more information hidden in the threads for the taking. From all my reading I can say the 'Storm/ 'Hawk is one heck of a bike and after taking it out on her maiden voyage I can agree she's a keeper. Like others here I'd like to see more traffic and members but like everything time changes the face of information and forums have seen their days. My first post and thanks for keeping the faith. I love reading all the info on this forum. It’s helped me a lot when maintaining my bike and been able to get good reliable advice. |
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Post by macca on Nov 8, 2020 15:32:58 GMT 10
Question: what second hand bike would you buy if you sold the storm? I am finding that I need something that makes me want to speed less and is more comfortable. I like the street triple but feel it would still encourage the rider to push things. I also like the Harley 883 sportster but have concerns about reliability and maintenance cost. What other bikes do you guys rate?
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Post by Von Nudenut on Nov 10, 2020 10:10:31 GMT 10
What about one of the more “retro” Triumphs? There is a few different models that would be comfy, more modest in their sporting prowess so as not to encourage hooligan behaviour and yet have a cool persona.
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Post by davo231481 on Nov 24, 2020 19:37:10 GMT 10
But do they have that soul? Perhaps to a person that grew up on Brit bikes but as I grew up riding jap bikes and watching gp500 races I don’t feel much for the bike marque that marks it’s spot with a drop of oil every time it stops. That said I appreciate the Trumpy heritage and would jump on one before throwing a leg over a hardly. If I was to jump ship to a Brit bike it would be more likely to be a Daytona or ,at the other end of the scale, a thruxton. That said it would still need to have some larrikin cred
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Kev W
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Post by Kev W on Nov 25, 2020 6:39:38 GMT 10
I rode a brand new Triumph T120 Black about 12 months ago. 1200cc, abs, traction control, great brakes, very comfortable.
I was surprised how much I liked it.
Has the same classic look as an old Bonneville with modern technology
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Post by foxy on Jan 12, 2021 19:40:12 GMT 10
Question: what second hand bike would you buy if you sold the storm? I am finding that I need something that makes me want to speed less and is more comfortable. I like the street triple but feel it would still encourage the rider to push things. I also like the Harley 883 sportster but have concerns about reliability and maintenance cost. What other bikes do you guys rate? I sold my storm and test rode the Speed triple...it was fast enough but a pretty boring ride. IMO. I ended up getting another V twin in the KTM 990 Superduke, I have had it for 8 years now and it still makes me smile every time i ride it:) Rebuilding a '93 blade at the moment but i still have a soft spot for the Storm......If Madads storm was in Perth, i would probably buy it....my favourite colour too |
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Post by steve400 on May 19, 2021 16:44:03 GMT 10
Gday legends. Long time no see.
Been out of action for a bit - here’s a story for ya:
My mate Gaz bought an SP1 and wouldn’t shut up about it. Fucking heroic bike, he found it in a mechanics garage and it had 40k kms on it, fairings ok, not much work needed. We went on a few rides and it’d just MONSTER my firestorm in every aspect. He’s been riding for years and is heaps quicker than me but at flat stick from stop I just saw dust, and had no chance catching him in the corners.
For the record mines a red 05 firestorm, hi mount staintunes, hi flow filter, stage 1 jet kit and dyno’d at a bit over 100 ponies and maybe 93-94 nm? I can’t remember, but if it was over 100 I would have obviously remembered that. Standard gearing, no other fruit really, HID headlight and a Ventura rack and a few other bits and pieces, but the quick turn throttle is my favourite mod. If there was a demon from hell locked in a cage inside your old carbureted thousand cc v twin, then installing a quick turn throttle is akin to handing this demon the keys to that cage. Before and after, this is by far the absolute best and cheapest mod I have made to the bike. It’s not like a modern thousand mile an hour fuel injected superbike so full throttle isn’t warp speed, it’s just bloody fun. A quick turn throttle is your ticket to more fun. I got a set of Rizoma grips on eBay for like fifteen bucks. I can say without hesitation that it’s the best $15 I spent on this bike.
Anyway, fastforward. I spend my days drooling over Gaz’s bike, Gaz spends his days drooling over his bike, and we ride whenever we can and drink piss and talk about riding whenever we can’t. Gaz overstays his visa and gets a letter from the government telling him to leave the country and not to return for three years, so he packs his bat and ball and flies back to Nottingham, UK to hang out with his old dad and drink whiskey for fun.
I fly over to see some pals (this is obviously pre covid) and find Gaz to catch up for a pint and a yarn. We go to “Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem”, which was apparently established in 1189, making it the oldest pub in the western world. I don’t know much about history, but I can imagine this is the last drink in the UK that the knights had before they galloped over to kill muslims in the crusades. The killing isn’t amazing, but the place was bloody old, and I liked that.
We get to talking, and Gaz says to me “Stevo. Do me a favour, go pick up my SP1 and ride it, I don’t want it seizing up and I know you’ll take good care of it, if there’s anyone who loves that bike as much as I do it’s you”
I pick my jaw up off the floor and stutter a thank you. We get hammered and I crash his dads place and wake up with a sore head. The rest of the trip was remarkable, but irrelevant to this story. I got home and chased down Gaz’s mate and went to pick up the bike. Holy. Shit. What an absolute weapon. Sped home via the old pacific highway, across the harbour bridge and over to eastern suburbs, up heartbreak hill, down through Bondi and along the eastern beaches to home at Maroubra. Parked up in the garage next to the firestorm and thought to myself, this isn’t bad at all....
Gaz ended up buying a hectic and HRC fettled SP1 over in the UK, and I contacted him and send him some money for his Australian SP1. Picked it up for $8500, which I thought was pretty reasonable. Washed it and polished it and cleaned the chain and serviced it and stared at it and started it up just to listen to it. I just loved the absolute shit out of it.
Last November I was riding it down the snowies with a couple pals and hit a gnarly pothole on crookwell road out of Goulburn. Bottomed the forks out, bottomed the rear shock, death wobbled a bit, went off into the gravel, still somehow upright, couldn’t brake, couldn’t steer, was just staring at the road trying to will myself back onto some sticky tarmac so I could get some brakes working.
Not quite sure what happened next, but the bike went down really hard on the left hand side, and I flew over the front of it at about 80kph. Lots of adrenaline, everything happened very fast but my brain was going a hundred miles an hour so it felt like slow motion. I have a weird memory of sliding head first down the road on my back, looking back at this stunning SP1 bouncing nose to tail and spinning towards me with bits and pieces flying off it. Devastating, I loved that bike so much. And when I realised it was a 220kg chunk of metal in the air and moving towards me quite rapidly, I became pretty scared.
How much it would cost to fix became irrelevant and not ending up underneath it was priority one. Not that I could do much, sliding down the road and rolling and bouncing like a rag doll. Luckily I out slid the bike, and laid on the ground for a little while in shock. I checked my arms and legs for breaks, couldn’t feel anything but nothing looked out of place, so I slowly sat up and found I could stand. I looked back at this steaming wreck of a bike about 10m behind me and then got real dizzy and fell to one knee. At this point some pals caught up and were stoked that I was alive, but heaps worried.
They called the disco bus, made a little shade for me, took all the luggage etc off me bike, organised a tow, and then one of them bailed on the group and followed the ambulance back to crookwell with me to make sure I was ok. The mates I ride with are absolute legends, and I’m a very lucky man.
Broke a small bone in my left ring finger and had a few cuts and scrapes, and the ixon touring pants I was wearing split open at the rear of the upper thigh on the stitch line between the arse cheek and the back leg panel, and my arse hung out that split for a bit on the road so I lost a hand sized chunk of skin which was pretty bloody tender. My mrs is a SAINT and drove down to crookwell to pick me up and looked after me for a month while I was off work and utterly useless. I limped my way to recovery and got back to work, but chasing up the bike, the assessor reckoned they’d get over $2k at auction and with the amount of work it needed I just couldn’t see the value in it. I let it go to bike heaven and I got $9k less a $500 excess so I was square, and a full $3k for my gear and helmet, and I got a month off work on sick leave too - so I actually did quite well out of it!!!
I’m very sorry to say, but whilst the firestorm is still at the back of my garage I am now the proud owner of a 2002 RSV Mille 1000 R, and am happily enjoying the dark side. Fully adjustable ohlins front and rear plus an ohlins adjustable steering damper, brembos front and back, lightweight forged OZ wheels, carbon everywhere, full titanium akrapovic exhaust with massive twin oval cannons, one on each side (just like the firestorm!), resin fuel tank, the thing is an absolute weapon. I was a bit worried I’d be scared after such a massive crash but I’ve taken it out a few times now and the moment I hear those pipes any fear is forgotten and I’m grinning before I’ve even climbed on it.
So yeah. Firestorms probably up for sale soon, I’ll chuck the battery on tender and give it a service and a fresh tank of fuel and see how it runs, haven’t ticked it over for almost a year so I dare say the carbs will need some attention, but once I’m happy with its quality I’ll put some feelers out here before it goes on bikesales.
Stoked to be alive, I nearly lost myself. Turned into a good yarn tho, and I’d have never dreamed of an aprilia while the SP1 was in my garage so I guess I can’t complain.
Great to be back friends. Hope everyone’s doing ok during this Covid bullshit.
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