For me, it started off as a curiosity. Even while on the "good" side of the law, I had been an avid 2-wheeler, mostly very tame street bikes (Nighthawk-S, Pacific Coast, etc). A year after I left my former career behind, I was hanging out in my uncle's motorcycle shop. I still had a morbid curiosity about those darn crotch rockets that I had swept off the street and taken accident reports for so many times (all but 2 were cases of kids going WAY over their head in terms of what they bought vs. their experience). My uncle's shop only had Honda/Yam/Kaw, so no Busas. However, he let me take a Blackbird home overnight. It was like a pusher giving a new potential junkie their first fix, I rode that poor bike until almost 5 in the morning the next day, including a few runs at the well-known speed strip out in the county.
Once my addiction had seeped into my system, I sat down and poured over reviews, dealer sites, stats, etc. I wanted to know all there was to know. I pretty quickly locked onto the Busa as the ultimate target. One month later, I came across a '02 repo with only 1989 miles on it. Bingo. Game over. She now has 8700 miles. After today, she'll have another couple hundred. I'm not too proud to say that she's stock, and will stay stock, except perhaps Ivan's TRE. I'm also not ashamed, albeit proud to say that I'm adding Corbin Beetle Bags and a Corbin saddle as I intend on taking "Jenny" across the country from Ohio to Phoenix to see my brother and enjoy the sites along the way later this fall.
Besides, instead of answering the What year/color is your Busa question, it's right there for all to see, and it is a Busa Board after all...or were you talking more of the folks listing everything they own down to the old buick in the back yard?
