Thank you very much! This is fantastic. One critical question please.
I had about thirty different bikes all together. But, the GTS1000 is the only bike I can safely apply brake while sweeping high speed turn. This is a hell of a safety feature and we all know this is possible only due to RADD. I have not found its limit on this aspect yet. To me folk is a folk which is a lever. I'm still guessing that FJR may does every thing better except this. Is my guess correct? Regards, Sail >>> John Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/25 12:58 PM >>> How is this Sail......REPOST: I posted this soon after getting my FJR. I still own the GTS. All new FJR owners carry on and expound about the thrill and the happy face they get from the wonderfully responsive FJR1300 torque monster of an engine. As I also do. But, few mention one the strongest virtues I find the FJR displays, and the one that brings as big a grin to my face as I ride at any speed........it's is an unbelievable handling, well balanced, and graceful 600 lb. Gorilla. I come from, and in fact, still own a super fast Blue Yamaha GTS1000 ...you remember the one with that funny front end.....forkless. I bought the GTS because after one test ride on Roger Van Satens GTS, I was riding an FJ1200 at the time, and I was in awe of it handling prowess. I have often bragged how great a bike the GTS was, and still is, and that I would probably never sell it. It weighs a few pounds more than the FJR. It is a little top heavy bike when not in motion, but once on the move it handles like a much smaller bike. Owners often joke about how they often give Go Fast Joe Rocket on his 600 cc machine a surprise on mountain roads with the ability and agility of the GTS to move through the curves at speed. I just finished a 14,000 mile ride on GTS in just over a two weeks period, it is a great performing bike in all respects. Every aspect of it virtues and strengths are still vivid in my mind and my motorcycle sense touch is still active from spending long hours in the saddle. The difference between the GTS and FJR is still readily discernible to my senses. My point is the GTS is no performance or handling slouch for being a 600 pound plus Gorilla. I was worried that the FJR would not handle as well as my GTS. With that said, the power and torque from this FJR1300 engine is awesome, but just as awesome is it's handling and balance at any speed. Yamaha has not just built a go fast machine, but a big bike capable of doing donuts in a parking lot or moving down a gravel road with ease and grace. Wing Honda owners brag about how well that half ton monster handles at walking speeds and stop lights, and it does. Yamaha has also learned the trick. The center of gravity on the FJR has been put down low, making it handle like a much smaller and lighter bike from the moment you release the clutch. Not only am I smiling, as I open up the throttle to pulling away from a traffic light or pass a car, but I smile from the time I push the start button on FJR. I smile as I do a snap turn out my driveway , or a u-turn on a two lane road, as I flick it around at walking speeds, or as I dive into a corner at speeds 10 mph faster than I comfortably did a few weeks ago ..... It is simply a big ass R1 in many respects. I was at one with this machine the first time I put my leg over it. It isn't quite as stable at high speeds in cross winds as the GTS, nor does it have as smooth a high speed ride as the GTS....but is is close. The FJR doesn't get the all the attention the RAD front end GTS always gets. If the GTS had the beautiful built in hardbags of the FJR it would have been even better. Yamaha you have a winner. The FJR is the most fun bike, best all round handling bike, I have ever owned. I feel like that guy in the USA Suzuki Kantana TV commercial with the bike following him around enticing him to take it for a ride at all hours of the day. Hawke FJR 1300 ...... (vanity plate) Snarly GTS 1000.........(vanity plate) 2K Day http://homepage.mac.com/johnlaurenson/ On 11/25/02 11:49 AM, "Sail Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you mind giving us some comparative analysis on two bikes? > > Regards, > > Sail > >>>> Roger Van Santen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/24 9:07 AM >>> > That's news to me. I haven't heard it from my dealer and haven't > experienced it. Maybe I don't notice a surge because I've been on a GTS for > so long ;^) > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thor Metzinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:59 AM > Subject: FJR1300 PRODUCTION CANCELED. > > >> Just heard this last week from the Excel Yamaha Dealers in Lakewood, CO. >> >> I asked when they were getting in the new FJR1300, all 5 people instantly > said, we >> aren't. >> >> Yamaha has cancelled production of 2002-3 & FJR1300A. They said it was due > to a >> severe power-surging problem. >> >> Has anyone else heard this news? What about you FJR owners? any surging? >> >> THOR >>
