Good news everyone, I bought a blue 2017 Hayabusa!

[mabupa]

Good advice, but if you want to save money, you can buy 3 keys on eBay for less than $10 and have them cut for $2 each and just store the originals in the safe. That’s what I did and you can’t tell the keys are no OEM, except for the fact they are blue or red.

 

[RedBull]

Enjoy
Your bike ! ! !

Nice deal ! ! !

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

Have you ridden it yet? And welcome @Hayabusa Wannabe! (are you still that??)
Note on Keys and that code: I bought an OEM key blank ($64) and had it cut for $2. No immobilizer programming required (confirming that US bikes (mine's a '14) do not utilize immobilizer tech). Could have saved even more w/ generic but wanted the OEM key head.

Enjoy it, and let the forum know your adventures!

No, Sunday was the perfect day in the universe here but the bike is not insured yet.

Yep thank you, the first thing both my tech and I do is make lots of keys, and I want OEM blanks if possible too.

The original owner did not have the key code. The selling dealership has a policy to only give the key code to the first owner, and only while standing in the showroom. Suzuki verified they do not keep key code records. Neanderthals!

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

Redbull you remind me of Max Headroom.

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

And welcome @Hayabusa Wannabe! (are you still that??)

Thanks. I have been here for two years now. I was close to getting this bike not long after I came here. Then I quit my career flatly and took a long vacation. This annihilated my short-term material life but probably added decades to my biological life.

Am I still a Wannabe? I was waiting for someone to ask this. Yes. Because I am starting from a wholly ignorant view of this bike and my metric is "knowledge". So my name will continue to mean "Seeking knowledge of Hayabusas and everything else" (from the smart people here.)

There is a problem as there is another Wannabe here thus the name is not as original as I thought. I reserve the right to request a name change at some point if I decide that I feel bad enough about stealing their name (they were here first.)

 

[RedBull]

RedBull
You remind me
of Max Headroom .

 

[Fernando]

Blue is Porn Color

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

The battery is probably original so I'd junk it for a new one...sitting around for a couple years and most likely not on a trickle charger kills a battery fairly quickly.

I charged the battery on Sunday. After 24 hours it was at 12.89 V. After two days it is at 12.85 V. I know they can have dead cells and the steady-state voltage does not tell the entire story, but I think I will stick with this one for now. I am not cheap, this is just a judgement call.

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

I wanted to go out today in the 5 PM hour but a gut feeling just tells me stay out of the after work traffic, where even one dingnut racing home can ruin a lot of things. I probably have to wait for a good weekend day. Well, that's typical anyway.

 

[Nastee]

Bingo, bingo, bingo, bingo, wait hold on a sec...expensive lightweight bolts? That's CRAZY! Well I should learn to never say "never."I do appreciate beautiful, high quality fasteners. So perhaps the crazy Ti builders here will rub off on me.

Run the tires they look fairly new from pictures just make sure the seller didn't wipe sides with armoral for quick sale if so get it all off. Can buy next set on line for best prices. Run what u have for a season to appreciate the Michelin pilot 5 or contental attacks. You will find heavy high TQ bikes will eat up other tires bald in a single season no joke. Some have luck with shinko rear drag tire. But the M5 will give high mileage take any abuse thrown at it & plant big HP no problem at all. But again nothing wrong with the tires on it they don't have much wear lines at all from being leaned over far as i can see. Oh yeah have fun be safe & don't over think it.

 

[Hayabusa Wannabe]

Run the tires they look fairly new from pictures just make sure the seller did not wipe sides with armoral for quick sale if so get it all off.

Yes, while initially inspecting it, the tires had the hairs or "vent spews" everywhere but on the middle of the tread, another indicator that the three hundred miles on the odometer was accurate. I think the owner may have run the rag he used to Armor All the black fairings along the tires. I kept saying that I was going to wipe the tires first but began riding, and ended up in the rain of all things. Thus I think I am past the worst-case scenario and am good moving forward to grind these babies down this summer.