Been checking out the website for a couple of weeks now...felt good enough about what I had read to purchase a barely used (5k miles) '02 Bandit-S. It has some little things...heated grips, cruise control, Zero Gravity windscreen, full Micron exhaust...somebody really loved this B12, so now it's my turn
I won't say how old I am, but I owned my first street bike back in the mid 70's till a buddy I rode with was taken out by a woman pulling on to the highway in front of him; she said she never saw him but it killed him.
I wanted a bike that was big enough to catch a drivers' attention, have a comfy seat from the factory, (my other ride is a YFZ450..ouch!) easy to work on, with some reliability, not a crotch-rocket, but not a police cruiser either (I looked at a BMW1100RTP) Now I heard about all the oil burner hubbub so that won't catch me off guard, and I can change pistons if it becomes necessary. Anyway, hats off to you guys and all your input ideas and advice. I won't be contributing much, but I'll be reading up a storm.
I do a lot of ATV'ing Riding the dunes on the Oregon Coast, and running the tracks in Eastern Washington. Won my first Hare Scramble this summer for the Open Class..just got lucky