Fast, loud and sexy

On the way home last night heading out of London on the Archway road I was following a Blade and a few bikes at the speed limit (ruffli) and I saw a gsxr750/1000 old shape grey red and black coming the other way.
Without warning he dumped the clutch and screamed towards the bridge with his jet aircraft exhaust on the back wheel reaching the limiter and then changing up through the box all on the back wheel.

It sounded Flangetastic, looked the muts and OMG I wish I could do that. I was left with goose bumps at the thought of me actually likeing an IL4 and wanting to go straight to the stealers and buy one.

The sound of it has left an imprint in my head. I can still hear it now.

whoever it was hats off.

Mmmmm, not sure it would beat the sound of something like a 998 with twin
Termis on it though. imo.

Recipe for getting hooked on IL4's

Take 1 IL4 sportsbike
Add loud race can
Select gear 1
Place onto Upper Thames St, at the lights, just before underpass (heading East)
On green light, stay in 1st all the way through said underpass while hitting 15k RPM
Get hooked

Marvellous isn't it

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Originally Posted by Jelster

Recipe for getting hooked on IL4's

Take 1 IL4 sportsbike
Add loud race can
Select gear 1
Place onto Upper Thames St, at the lights, just before underpass (heading East)
On green light, stay in 1st all the way through said underpass while hitting 15k RPM
Get hooked

Marvellous isn't it

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I'm obviously going to have to borrow one. Just the tought of riding something that sounds like an F1 car makes me go wobbly at the knees

Originally Posted by Steve H

Mmmmm, not sure it would beat the sound of something like a 998 with twin
Termis on it though. imo.

Good point! I had a '99 748 with Termigs on it and that was naughty. Used to cook me plumbs in traffic tho

I always thought I would stick with V-Twins after owning an SV cos I love the noise they make.

But after a brief ride on a GSX-R I was hooked! IL4s with a race can scare the s**t out of me, they sound so angry, I cant get enough of mine now! Car drivers hear me coming from 2 miles away now, and move out of the way pretty quickly, whwereas on my SV, which I always thought of as being stupidly loud, Car drivers never seemed to register I was there!?

Seriously though, hitting 14k rpm at 6:30am on the way to work is the best possible cure for a boring day ahead

Or a Zed with twin Fuels...........makes my ears bleed !

Originally Posted by scorpion

I'm obviously going to have to borrow one. Just the tought of riding something that sounds like an F1 car makes me go wobbly at the knees

You can always follow me through the underpass, but 600's are better in such environments. They rev higher and if I hit the limter in 1st I'm doing over 85 mph, or 117 mph in 2nd....

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Originally Posted by Jelster

You can always follow me through the underpass, but 600's are better in such environments. They rev higher and if I hit the limter in 1st I'm doing over 85 mph, or 117 mph in 2nd....

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OMG really?!

I'm getting sold on this idea keep it up chaps and chapesses

Originally Posted by scorpion

I'm getting sold on this idea keep it up chaps and chapesses

No, please, stop.

You're making me itch, right about where my credit card is...