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Daytona Deliberations For owners and riders of Daytona 900, 955, 1000 & 1200

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Old 09-30-2006, 12:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Still haven't sold the 1200 yet. Winter is approaching and so I think it'll stay in the garage. Rode it today and it felt great. Much more solid and to be honest better built than the 955i. Just feels like a more quality bit of engineering and the fairings etc nicer finished. On the other hand the 955i is a grin a minute. A jump on go have some fun bike that handles so much better and generaly is a hoot to ride. So my Dilema is do I sell? If I don't I know One or other will probably sit in the garage doing not much for most of the time. Also leaving a bike to stand around is not too good for it. I'm not blessed with unlimited funds so if they both develop a problem I'm in the poop plus I'm not too good at dividing my attention but at the same time I realy like em both. AArgh. Course I could spend money on the 955i putting nicer bits on it to up the quality feel. Its the bit you hold on to and look at whilst riding it that looks cac in my humble opinion.

Righto what should I do then?
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Old 09-30-2006, 12:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Cover the top yoke with a carbon cover, put some pretty coloured bulbs in the clocks as for anything else what floats your boat nick. there is a world of bling out there or some tastefull after market stuff, just flick through the busters catalog. :hammer:
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Old 09-30-2006, 03:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Nick, Back in '86 I had the same 'delima'. My trusty Z1 was long in the tooth and I just had to have a Ninja 600.

I retuned the Z1 to be a long legged two-up kind of bike and the 600 became a 'me only' bike after a two-up on it really showed the lack of torque. At the time I was riding a m/c to work every day and it wasn't difficult to keep either on the road.

By now you can tell that it makes sense to me for you to keep both.

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