Are you a motorcycle rider too?

[blastoff99]

I miss my CBR929RR...

[2008wagon]

My wife and I both ride on the street, she does track days, I am a roadracer for 9 years now. She's got a 2004 ZX6RR and I've got a 2007 ZX10R. I'll post pics, have to re-size them first......
We ride Kawasaki exclusively, for various reasons. I've done some instructing, and recently had the opportunity to instruct for Sportbike Tracktime, but I declined at this time.

[ramathorn]

searching through my folders and i found a couple of my old ones.

both were sold earlier this summer so i could buy some guns and upgrade to the 929 . the savage was sold to build my fence.

k2 gsxr 600 with full 750 swap:

01 kx250

85 suzuki savage

[rockhopjohn]

Well, I just went off my meds again and bought another bike. I have wanted a Suzuki DRZ for a long time now, and when I saw a street legal DR-Z400E pop up on CL for 2300 bucks, I had to jump on it. I picked the bike up for $2100, and I am very happy with it. It is definitely a real animal compared to my XT. Which isn't surprising considering the DRZ has 2.5 times the HP, and weighs the same as the XT.

[porcupine73]

OOOHHHhhhh that is nice. Looks like brand new. Those are very popular bikes, lightweight, enough power for on-road as well as off-road. Is that the stock exhaust?

[rockhopjohn]

That is an aftermarket exhaust, and it is a little loud for my tastes. I have a Supertrapp on my XT that is just about right, but this one is pretty loud. The funny thing is, says "Quiet" right on the side, I would hate to hear what the loud version sounds like.

I was just out ripping around in traffic with it, and it lightning fast, and torquey. I think I am going to swap the rear sprocket though, because this is set up for more off road riding, and I am about a 50/50 on/off rider.

[Mikey97D]

Very nice RockhopJohn! May I suggest getting a FMF Q Spark Arrestor? FMF has come out with a few nice & quiet exhaust systems recently.

[SubieDoobieDoo]

"Off the meds"? lol! That scooter IS the meds!

[rockhopjohn]

Yeah, I am really looking forward to getting some time in on this bike. I have been riding my XT for 8 years, so I am really comfortable on it; when I took the DRZ out this afternoon I could tell it was going to take me a while to warm up to it. I also separated my should 4 weeks ago on the XT, and this is the first time I have been back out in the dirt sense, so I was taking it pretty easy.

Hopefully we will have another month or so of good warm weather here so that I can ride some this fall. We already had snow a few days ago, and their was still snow along the sides of the road when I went out this afternoon, so I am not holding out too much hope.

[ETC]

nice bike,

those pro circuits can be a little loud but all in all they are pretty nice pipes. have you pulled the end cap off to see if it really has the quiet core insert in it ? they make a pretty big difference in the db output.

i have white brothers pipes on a few of my quads, like the supertrapps they have the disc system [externally instead of internally] and you can really tone it down if you want or need to [forest riding].

was thinking about a yoshi for my 450r but there isn't a whole lot of gain over the stock pipe with the hrc insert. need to find one that gives some more low end grunt since the last bike was a 660 and this one just revs to the moon, had to learn how to ride all over again.