PEACE, people!
It's a MOTORCYCLE, not a fragmentation grenade! I have a friend who has a Busa and I do have the utmost respect for this machine. As for all the rhetoric about "a big, heavy bike" anything bigger than a 250 weighs 350-450 lbs, the Busa weighs 478. Hell, some of the big cruisers weigh 700-800 lbs, are you gonna rip him a new one for buying one of those?!?
YES a Busa WILL kill you if you are an idiot, but so will your Stang, no? Ever done anything stupid in your Stang and got lucky enough to live to tell about it? I thought so. Anyone mature enough to have grown a brain larger than than their penis and control a high-performance car should know enough to learn gradually the performance envelope of a motorcycle and grow the skills to ride it to a level of performance they enjoy.
I am going to buy a Hyabusa in the near future, and I have occasional and limited experience riding cycles in the past. As a Stang driver I know that as soon as I feel I am comfortable with a wheeled vehicle, I want more-any of you relate to that, or are all these mod posts a pile of bull****? I have no desire to buy a $10000 bike to practice on (which any even smaller performance bike is close to) and want another better $10000 bike six months later.
Flame if you wish, but lighten the **** up!
P.S.- I'm 46 years old, BELIEVE me the testosterone levels are not raging, just ask my wife!
P.P.S.- For $10,275 I am going to ride out of the parking lot on something that will do 0-150 in less than 10 seconds and top out at a factory-LIMITED 186 MPH, as well as out-perform a $600,000 Ferrari Enzo. How much are any of you going to spend to
still not match that level of performance?!?