Honda firestorm

[Becky B]

I have owned my VTR1000 for about 6 months now and i love it, its the first v-twin i have owned and i would say it is a user friendly bike i would recommend any one to buy one, i have done little modifications like shortening the exhausts which made it alot louder. Love it!

[richy rich]

cool :).. sounds nice!! you got any pics of it??:)

[DoodleBug]

http://uk.geocities.com/karlelliott@btinternet.com/vtrfront.jpg

Heres my old one I got rid of recently, bloody good fun I had with it too.

[Becky B]

I do have pics of my bike not sure how to get em on here, im out most days on my bike as i love it that much! Im mostly practising wheelies which im gettin better at and gettin my knee down which is not happening at mo.:-(

[Mi5ter E]

http://uk.geocities.com/karlelliott@btinternet.com/vtrfront.jpg

Heres my old one I got rid of recently, bloody good fun I had with it too.


thats a nice looking red X doodle

[Mi5ter E]

hope you dont mind becky

beckys is the yellow one
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Picture287.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/essexbikers/Picture291.jpg

[DJMCJERICO]

It should be law that any photo taken there someone eating a burger should be in the shot!

[Becky B]

If we all ate burgers in every shot we would be to fat to ride our bikes lol :-P

[DJMCJERICO]

You can Never haveto many burgers :grin2

[SDM]

If we all ate burgers in every shot we would be to fat to ride our bikes lol :-P

OI...........I can still ride my bike :laugh1 :laugh1 :laugh1

[Becky B]

Hey talkin about bein to fat to ride ya bike as me and a few other others witnessed other wk at burnham cafe a fat guy tryin to mount his 999 airwaves ducati, oh my god you should have seen him!!! He was tryin to get on it whilst holding it without the stand down , he looked like he was goin to drop it.

[Lateshift]

I have to admit as a commuter they look like a cracking bike, although having spoken to Doodlebug about it, it seems that they arent too good on the petrol side of life (which sorts of defeats the object seeing as thats what they were built for really).

When i rode Doodles i wasnt particularly impressed as it felt like a barge to me, however that was probably down to me being used to riding an Aprilia.

I think with a few mods on them they could be a cracking bike for screaming around on, a bit limited on the top end but who uses that these days??

Seriously though if you think as a V Twin that its a good bike, then you need to have a ride on its better and bigger brother the SP1 or the more refined SP2, then when you had a go on that, take out an animal like a TLS or TLR :D

I would include the Aprilia in that but in all honesty (and i say this with a sad face :D ) you have to ride it like a race bike to fully appreciate what its capable of, its just that most (me included) arent capable of fully enjoying what race twins are all about unless you take it on the track (and at the price i paid for mine its going nowhere near one :D ).

[DoodleBug]

......it seems that they arent too good on the petrol side of life......

Maybe mine was not set up correctly for the twin Harpoons it had fitted, but it did use about 30% more petrol than even the TLR! Very Juicy. Not great in the wet either, front cylinder would get a damp plug and make it a nightmare occasionally.

[Lateshift]

I think its a common thing Karl, i havent come across anything that anyone has said about them being good on juice, most tend to say they are a bit disappointed at having had to fill up every 100 miles, and every 80 if they are ragging it :D

I expected a bit more from Honda when they brought it out as even my 99 RSV saw 199 miles on the commute that i was doing :D

Still if they are setup right they are a fun bike like anything else, what worried me was watching that video of Shakey Byrne trying to get his knee down on one and hearing it scraping as it decked out every time :D

[harriebird]

Hey talkin about bein to fat to ride ya bike as me and a few other others witnessed other wk at burnham cafe a fat guy tryin to mount his 999 airwaves ducati, oh my god you should have seen him!!! He was tryin to get on it whilst holding it without the stand down , he looked like he was goin to drop it.

that might have been Bob at parkys, he was saying they've jacked his suspension up a bit at the back and it's a bit tricky to get on and off the bike :grin2

but yes he is quite a big chap - total diamond though :cuddle

[gixer400]

very nice looking bike there.

made even better by the colour!!

[Becky B]

Thanx, im getting it painted blue and white like the new blade how cool is that goin to look!