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Well, I figured if I was going to do any ranting about anything while deployed it certainly wouldn't have been about motorcycles, but you know what they say. I was sitting in my work area this afternoon and one of the contractors that works for me came strolling by with a helmet, so I had to ask him what bike he was riding. He told me he was riding his wife's bike, a 2004 Kawasaki ZX6R. I thought okay, cool, but then he went on to tell me that it was his wife's first bike and that she had had it up to 256 km/hr. I did a little quick math and realized that's about 160 mph and immediately started discounting things that he said.
He contined by saying that his friend had taken the bike, ZX6R (with 636cc) and had beaten every streetbike he had come up against including a 'Busa! I said really and he went on to tell me it was only the 1100cc version of the Hayabusa.
He goes on to tell me that he liked the 160 hp that the bike had, but he didn't like the lightweight feel that it had when he got it up to speed. He preferred his Ducati 999 to that.
So we continue talking and I ask him if he bought the Kawi while here was here in Kuwait. He said yeah, but the bought the Japanese version and it cost them around $10k. He then told me I could go take a look at it and of course I did thinking there had to be some mods to it, but it was straight stock. He said he wished they had bought the ZX10, but he didn't want anything with that much power.
Anyway, it's going to be a long year for that young man! There will be a never ending series of questions about who his wife has beaten on that thing and whether or not they have raced that Hayabusa 1100.
Sorry, this is so long but I couldn't not say anything!
He contined by saying that his friend had taken the bike, ZX6R (with 636cc) and had beaten every streetbike he had come up against including a 'Busa! I said really and he went on to tell me it was only the 1100cc version of the Hayabusa.
He goes on to tell me that he liked the 160 hp that the bike had, but he didn't like the lightweight feel that it had when he got it up to speed. He preferred his Ducati 999 to that.
So we continue talking and I ask him if he bought the Kawi while here was here in Kuwait. He said yeah, but the bought the Japanese version and it cost them around $10k. He then told me I could go take a look at it and of course I did thinking there had to be some mods to it, but it was straight stock. He said he wished they had bought the ZX10, but he didn't want anything with that much power.
Anyway, it's going to be a long year for that young man! There will be a never ending series of questions about who his wife has beaten on that thing and whether or not they have raced that Hayabusa 1100.
Sorry, this is so long but I couldn't not say anything!
