Rake aboot 4,935 Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 round the world.. 270 thousand kilometers.. five years five months.. horizons unlimited meet. ripley derbyshire.. Were you at the HU meet,,?? tried getting on the HUBB lately,, I`ve had nowt but hassle trying to log on! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,169 Posted June 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 round the world.. 270 thousand kilometers.. five years five months.. horizons unlimited meet. ripley derbyshire.. Were you at the HU meet,,?? tried getting on the HUBB lately,, I`ve had nowt but hassle trying to log on! yep was there.. great few days with some great and very interesting people.... bin on the hubb tnite..[were true friendships are made].. i,ve had no probs getting on..but its coming up [try logging off..then log back on again].. hope this helps... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,169 Posted June 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Not a fan of Yamaha as the engines and gearboxes go bang if you ride them hard. lol............. keep em coming... dont forget this bike has done pushing 300000kms.. this thread was not about r1 v busas,,i was just trying to show people that it dont matter what you ride,, its still possible to get round the world on machines that dont look the part.. this lad was a one man band,, and a pleasure to meet.. not a ewan/charley with a full backup team behind them... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Laurence_13 7 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Not a fan of Yamaha as the engines and gearboxes go bang if you ride them hard. lol............. keep em coming... dont forget this bike has done pushing 300000kms.. this thread was not about r1 v busas,,i was just trying to show people that it dont matter what you ride,, its still possible to get round the world on machines that dont look the part.. this lad was a one man band,, and a pleasure to meet.. not a ewan/charley with a full backup team behind them... great thread mate, nice to see it's still possible, my dad rode overland with my mum on a brand spanking Laverda Jota 1200 back along that's still in the garage, one owner from new! love hearing the stories from that and would love to do it when I'm older, although I have the greatest amount of respect for charlie and ewan, some of the photo's mum and dad have are just incredible, on a scale that ewan and charlie never got to! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andyfr1968 772 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Not a fan of Yamaha as the engines and gearboxes go bang if you ride them hard. lol............. keep em coming... dont forget this bike has done pushing 300000kms.. this thread was not about r1 v busas,,i was just trying to show people that it dont matter what you ride,, its still possible to get round the world on machines that dont look the part.. this lad was a one man band,, and a pleasure to meet.. not a ewan/charley with a full backup team behind them... great thread mate, nice to see it's still possible, my dad rode overland with my mum on a brand spanking Laverda Jota 1200 back along that's still in the garage, one owner from new! love hearing the stories from that and would love to do it when I'm older, although I have the greatest amount of respect for charlie and ewan, some of the photo's mum and dad have are just incredible, on a scale that ewan and charlie never got to! It's not an SFC by any chance, is it?? I had wet dreams about those when I was a lad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
superfurryanimal 91 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 (edited) ............. archiehood has the best avatar i've seen ! Edited June 29, 2011 by superfurryanimal Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Laurence_13 7 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 (edited) It's not an SFC by any chance, is it?? I had wet dreams about those when I was a lad hhaha, unfortunately not! very similar looking, but theres quite a few differences. Heres a link to the specs if your interested SFC1000 - http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/laverda/laverda_1000sfc%2085.htm Jota 1000 - http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Laverda/laverda_1000_jota%2082.htm doesn't really go into a huge amount of detail but its a good at a glance comparison. Edited June 29, 2011 by Laurence_13 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Whats in the box Byron ? a fridge freezer kay..lol.............. so what ya riding chimp... bet its a monkey bike....lol........................ this and that these days , im afraid im a suzuki nut thru and thru , i took a mates R6 for a spin the other day and it just rekindled my hatred for them. i was blowing away turbo R1's with a standard hayabusa 10 years ago , you wanna go fast in comfort get a busa not one of them things. 'there goes anothe-R 1' OR gsxRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR You decide lol always makes me laugh when someone is obsessed with a certain make of bike or car and therefore every other bike/car is shit! These people usually just blindly buy the same make over and over again and won't even consider another make, I find it a bit bizarre to be honest. And comparing a Hayabusa to an R1??? It's not really the same type of bike is it! R1 and GSXR fine, but not a Hayabusa. A Hayabusa would piss on most things in a drag race but put it on a track against an R1 and it'd be a different story. A veyron would piss on a ferrari in a drag race, doesn't mean a ferrari is shit does it!! And you might not be a fan of the R1 but you can't deny that when the R1 came out it pushed the boundries forward a mile, it p'ssed on everything else in it's class! and it took everyone else a few years to catch up! Great achievement by this guy by the way, is he a small bloke? having done a few longish rides I can't imagine how uncomfortable an R1 would get after such a long journey! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JR Yipp 111 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 wonder how many times he dropped it. would love to do somthing similar in a truck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
andyfr1968 772 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 It's not an SFC by any chance, is it?? I had wet dreams about those when I was a lad hhaha, unfortunately not! very similar looking, but theres quite a few differences. Heres a link to the specs if your interested SFC1000 - http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/laverda/laverda_1000sfc%2085.htm Jota 1000 - http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Laverda/laverda_1000_jota%2082.htm doesn't really go into a huge amount of detail but its a good at a glance comparison. Cheers for the links All of a sudden I was fourteen again reading Performance Bikes and nursing a semi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chimp 299 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Whats in the box Byron ? a fridge freezer kay..lol.............. so what ya riding chimp... bet its a monkey bike....lol........................ this and that these days , im afraid im a suzuki nut thru and thru , i took a mates R6 for a spin the other day and it just rekindled my hatred for them. i was blowing away turbo R1's with a standard hayabusa 10 years ago , you wanna go fast in comfort get a busa not one of them things. 'there goes anothe-R 1' OR gsxRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR You decide lol always makes me laugh when someone is obsessed with a certain make of bike or car and therefore every other bike/car is shit! These people usually just blindly buy the same make over and over again and won't even consider another make, I find it a bit bizarre to be honest. And comparing a Hayabusa to an R1??? It's not really the same type of bike is it! R1 and GSXR fine, but not a Hayabusa. A Hayabusa would piss on most things in a drag race but put it on a track against an R1 and it'd be a different story. A veyron would piss on a ferrari in a drag race, doesn't mean a ferrari is shit does it!! And you might not be a fan of the R1 but you can't deny that when the R1 came out it pushed the boundries forward a mile, it p'ssed on everything else in it's class! and it took everyone else a few years to catch up! Great achievement by this guy by the way, is he a small bloke? having done a few longish rides I can't imagine how uncomfortable an R1 would get after such a long journey! i suppose it's like dogs isnt it ? dont get me wrong ive had a few good uns ie: rd's / ccm's etc but always went back to suzuki , good strong engines that take some going to lunch em. i think what pissed me off with the R1 was it is too track committed , not a bad thing thats for sure but left a lot of widows in the process. it didnt take honda long to fire a good one back at yammy tho did it but people got R-blind and was nothing but a 'must have' , you wanna go fast on the road you dont need much more then a good 600 or 750. quote 'the hayabusa X1 was born on the race track' i guess going round the world on a R1 is something special but it could be done on any bike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,169 Posted June 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 yeh,,i know.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,169 Posted June 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 wonder how many times he dropped it. would love to do somthing similar in a truck. try this link ,,great bit at four min twenty five.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,169 Posted June 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 my lass,,,,,next face of ktm..... i wish... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smithie 2,443 Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 ............. archiehood has the best avatar i've seen ! lets be fair, archiehoods probably had the best ten avatars i have seen... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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