Monster Torque (Bike warning)

[SteveH]

A Torque Monster in the world of bikes... bought one of these today:



Truly superb, the sound is incredible.

[gdavison]

MR Vader .. Your new bike has arrived !!

[jamesthecat]

nice,BUT were is the screen give it two weeks an you will have arms like a chimp an a neck like tyson

[kaisersolsay]

Hope you have shares in Dunlop......she'll eat a back tyre every 8k!

[Duncan]

Wow - that looks fantastic! Please post some thoughts on what it's like once you've put some miles on it... I could be very tempted by one

[SteveH]

Cheers Guys... Love the Vader comment.

My bike does have a screen to make the Motorway more practical, a touch of Carbon Fibre of course! It is really quite a comfortable bike to ride, much more than it looks... I love this reporters review of the bike, his first impressions:

The bike has a slightly disturbing tendency to make the rider produce bizarre whooping noises while going for the most dubious overtaking opportunities available in the certain knowledge that, regardless of the gear the machine is in, it will make the gap with time to spare.

It sounds disturbingly like a large, powerful outboard motor, spitting farting and burbling on the over-run. At low speed the sound pressure, even with earplugs in, is slightly uncomfortable as you crack the throttle open and your ears pop from the sudden vacuum.

It’s huge. Until you get on it, when it shrinks. Ooh err.

It has the comfiest seat ever made. And that’s official.

It has fantastic brakes.

It handles like a sportsbike and doesn’t weave around high speed sweepers even with the throttle pinned to the stop. Though the back does start to slide.

Small children point and stare when you coast by, and start crying if you accelerate. If you roll off the throttle they get blown over by the back-blast.

Cats and other small mammals explode if they enter the exclusion zone around the exhaust area.

I think I rather like it…

[SteveH]

A few photo's of the beast taken last night:

[MoRS6+]

My God that is clean!! Was reading the specs last night, awesome machine...

The RS6 of bikes!

[SteveH]

Cheers bud, it is indeed... fantastic engineering. You can understand how I bought it as a true impulse buy, no idea what it was when I bought... but knew it was right.

100 mile round trip to work today, superb! Peoples reactions in works car park witnessed from afar a sight to behold.

[delboymafia]

Nice and clean, what a machine.

[jamesthecat]

dude really jealous as crashed mine just over 2 years ago broke my right leg in 7 places and snapped me hand back and nearly off doin 184 on my zx12 also had a r6,two gsxr k5 an k6 but I'm fine diddly dandy now just got a bit of a limp and cant ride bikes,that is one nice bike,and the weather for it,god now I'm depressed I'm going to try and bend me leg ride carefully now

[SteveH]

Good god... 184mph!! thats gotta hurt. Glad (and amazed) that you survived!

[jamesthecat]

that's the reason i got into the rs6 as its about the only car that will have a go at bikes, well within budget anyway and now iv got airbags,you can still spot me now driving round with my leathers an helmet on

[SteveH]

Should be... James the Stig!

[jamesthecat]

broken lucky tobe alive stig