The FJR as a sportbike

gr8eyes · Feb 1, 2007

Let me have a stab at the point.

Nicky Hayden on the FJR,would leave me for dead, if I were on an R1. Around a track or actually around anything.

Nicky Hayden would be eating dust on the FJR if Colin Edwards was on the R1.

Glenn

Is that the point?

Big Sky · Feb 1, 2007

Yup. That's it.

And that most (90 percent?) of street riders can't or know better than to approach the outer physical limits of the FJR's sporting capabilities, which in the original post were characterized as "so painfully lacking in sporting duty."

Dan23 · Feb 2, 2007

gr8eyes said:
Let me have a stab at the point.
Nicky Hayden on the FJR,would leave me for dead, if I were on an R1. Around a track or actually around anything.

Nicky Hayden would be eating dust on the FJR if Colin Edwards was on the R1.

Glenn

Is that the point?

No, no, no. The point is that the FJR is a fat pig and anyone who rides one is gay. Sheesh. Except SprintST, who would be gay whether he rode one or not. :yahoo:

sprint_st · Feb 2, 2007

Dan23 said:
No, no, no. The point is that the FJR is a fat pig and anyone who rides one is gay. Sheesh. Except SprintST, who would be gay whether he rode one or not. :yahoo:

Gay? GAY??? Now you're implying that sexual behavior and riding expertise are linked. Got any data on that :dribble: Gotta admit, it's as good as most of your other theories. Dan, Dan, Dan - are you a homophobe too???? Maybe life is so great outside the closet it makes me go faster

Actually, at the time I started riding bikes, the term gay actually meant happy or cheerful. Why don't you just drift on down to the EOM. WV is kind of neutral ground with all the twisties you can handle. Bring the FJR or the Futura, I don't care. By that time I should be real familiar with my fat pig and how it doesn't handle. Then you can demonstrate to me what a slug it really and truly is. Screw the theory, let's just do some practical tests. WV does have some of the best 3D twisties in the east so it might be a bit scarey on a sport TOURER.

Dan23 · Feb 2, 2007

No racing for me. I bought a touring bike for... surprise, touring.

charismaticmegafauna · Feb 2, 2007

Well now....hasn't this topic been kicked around?

When I ordered my FJR, the only other bike on my radar-screen was an Aprilia Futura. I've ridden a Futura and have done some minor maintenence on one. You couldn't come at sport-touring from two more different directions, imho. I like them both and agree with what some of the magazines have said when they compared them and found they were very competitive -- one to the other. The 'Priller has more sporting ergos yet is quite comfortable on long distance rides. The FJR is (as has been stated here) more of an all-rounder yet can be very sporting in the right hands (also mentioned here). I modified the suspension on my FJR for more sporting capabilities and have been happy with it -- I'm sure I'd have been happy with a Futura too. Bottom line....it is a bike and rider combo -- you can't have one without the other.

While I tend to think the Futura has a more sporting bent than the FJR; I think you'd find 'Priller guys calling the Futura a tourer.... B)