(umairhashmi @ Oct. 16 2006,20:17) Why did you keep the blackbird but sell the busa?
Money problems?
Not realy money problems, but I do have to commute 193 miles to work each way, and I do it five days a week, so I do want to get rid of my credit card thats been nagging me for years, to put me in a better position to take a lower paying job in my area, if I go back to where I used to work, doing the same thing I do now, but in my home town, it's about a 35K a year pay cutt, so I'm paying off all my bills and getting rid of the Busa, knocked out my credit card,
Now as to why the Busa and not the XX? I owned another XX and lost it in a crash in 2002, it took me four years to find another red XX that was clean and close enough to me to make it practical for me to buy, infact I have never even seen another red XX beside the one I crashed and the one we own now, Yes color is important to me, not that red is the only XX I would buy, but most of the ones I see for sale are silver, and to me thier ugly, I figure, based on my past experiance, if I was to sale the XX and regret it and I just had to go buy another one to replace it, I know it would be very hard to find one, you dont see them that often, but as my friend said, (who also owns a Busa) you cant swing a dead cat without hitting a Hayabusa, I know I could go out and find a Busa in just about any color I wanted for just a little more than I sold mine for with probably half the miles on it as mine had, and I just can't get over how smooth the XX is, but I allready miss the power and TQ of teh Busa, but not to the point I feel I'm going to go buy another one soon, infact I rode a 2007 GSXR750 yesterday, and man I'm in love, took it through some pretty tight twisties at rocket speed, I never knew a bike could handle so well. when I got back on the bird, I felt like I was on a Lincoln continental,
my goal is to have a Gold wing and a canyon carver, GSXR 1000 or 750
? but for now, I'm focusing on paying off bills, but I did also sale my daughters ninja 500 on sat and we will replace her bike, probably buying her a SV650S that our friend has, so I guess im not being totaly practical, but I got offered a deal I dont think I can refuse.