What's with the attitude?

[keithaba]

A new neighbor has a nice looking 2006 hayabusa limited (the white one) with lots of extras. It's lowered. Nice lookin bike.

I see the neighbor outside, as I am pulling up on my BB. I get off and there are two other guys out there looking at the bike, one younger one a middle aged.

I approach to introduce myself, and tell him that's a nice looking bike. He replies with an introduction, and tells me actually he is selling the bike today.

I look at the two guys, and ask, "So which one of you guys is buying this beast?"

The younger kid puffs up, and with the most cocky voice I've ever heard, "I AM."

That's it, no other comment, just I AM, in a snotty voice.

"Oh, so what other bikes have you ridden?"

"600." snotty again....

So I just start talking to the neighbor again about what he's getting to replace the busa.

The kid then proceeds to fire up the busa. The bike is running for 5 seconds and he starts whacking the throttle.

I cringe as the cold engine aggressively revs through it's range.

The kid then dives down the driveway headed straight at my bike as if he is challenging it to a game of chicken.... He doesn't even look that there is a big dip and the lowered busa drags it's lower fairing. SCRAAAAAAPE...... Followed by a screaming full throttle run down a short neighborhood street.

The attitude and riding of this young man totally meets the expectation of the typical BUSA rider, but what was odd was the neighbor who was selling it was the nicest, non squidy looking guy I have ever met.

It was just odd to see the typical stereotype squid rider, and then the neighbor who didn't meet the stereotype at all. You truly can't judge a book by it's cover...

 

[radman]

Well, in keeping with the responsibility theme espoused here several times, the seller should refuse the sale. Barring that, haul ass to the bank with the check before the funds become part of an estate.

 

[odot]

Was that warchild junior buying the scoot?

 

[mdisher]

Well, in keeping with the responsibility theme espoused here several times, the seller should refuse the sale. Barring that, haul ass to the bank with the check before the funds become part of an estate.

Exactly!... and a CASH transaction would avoid the latter part of the equation.

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

As a dealer principal once told a grieving mother, "Listen lady, we just sell 'em -- we don't bury 'em."

 

[Geezer]

As a dealer principal once told a grieving mother, "Listen lady, we just sell 'em -- we don't bury 'em."

Now that's cold.

 

[FJRBluesman]

If the kid bought it, odds are with that display of recklessness, he'll be a statistic soon then later.

 

[jmarran]

I sure hope the kid has a Corona tank top!!!

 

[keithaba]

I sure hope the kid has a Corona tank top!!!

haha, hope other's saw that corona link so they know what your talking about!

I would be pissed if I was selling it. As soon as he whacked the throttle, I would have been like, "WTF are you doing? Do you know anything about motorcycles?"

I'm sure that's what my eyes said....

 

[Hit the Road Jack]

The kid's obviously anxious to start practicing his flip-flops on the tank stand up demonstrations for the video cameras!

 

[Tenchi]

The kid then proceeds to fire up the busa. The bike is running for 5 seconds and he starts whacking the throttle.
I cringe as the cold engine aggressively revs through it's range.

I dislike people that do that. First of all because they destroy things that don't need to be destroyed - engines, oil, bikes, other people's lives... Secondly because they make my insurance premiums higher.

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I had one buyer for my ZZR do this immediately after turning the bike on. Not even 5s - ignition, bike starts, WHAM on the throttle. Straight up to 10,000 rpm on the cold engine without letting the oil pressure build up or anything and held it at 10,000 rpm for the duration of his "hand behind the exhaust to see if anything's coming out" test.

It took a huge amount of restraint to not deck the guy right there - I'd invested a large amount of money making sure the bike was running top notch and here's some f*ck totally disregarding that and doing all he can to damage the engine and ruin the brand new oil in there. He then performed some tests that showed this d*ckhead didn't know diddly squat about bikes other than he had a licence (and he had experience on his side too, which makes this even more worrying). He almost crashed it doing a U-turn in the car park too - and 250's are not hard bikes to handle. It's just a 250, and yes, they're built to take abuse, but hell... just because it's built to do it doesn't mean you HAVE to do it, especially if it's not yours.

I sold it to someone else at a slightly lower price purely because I know my now ex-bike would be cared for better in her hands.

</end rant>

 

[brianm767]

Sounds like an accident waiting to happen.

Oh and not all Busa owners are like that as you know, I was 43 when I sold mine and a grey haired grandpa, I'm just lucky the young guy who bought mine was a little more cautious, he also came off a 600, but he really respected the busa and it's power, he said he wanted a Busa to begin with, but he knew that was a mistake, and wanted to have a few years on a 600 first, i hear he's doing fine on it, makes me feel better,

Oh and believe it or not, I've even met A Holes on Wings,