Although still a lovely bike, she was getting a bit long in the tooth. 40,000 miles on a middle weight sports bike is almost unheard of. So back in March I started looking around for a new ride. My good mate Beefy and I arranged to test ride a couple of possibilities at Littlehampton Motorcycles one Sunny Saturday in late February. Honda CBF1000
Honda CB1300
Honda CBF600
Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade
My Conclusions
Honda CB1300
I really wanted to love this bike before I rode it. It was good, but it just wasn’t quite floating my boat. Very quick and lots of fun, but it gave me some pain in my left ankle, which surprised me as the riding position was less extreme then my CBR.
An excellent bike. Comfy, quick, great riding position, etc. It ticked all the boxes and comes with ABS to boot.
Almost exactly the same size its big brother. Obviously less powerful, but not too bad. The engine felt very similar to my CBR600 in fact.
OMG!!!! What an experience. On the open road it felt like it wanted to throw me of the back all the time. Quick is not the word, but what else would you expect from a 180 BHP sports bike. Great fun, but not at all practical for my daily commute to work and my lunch hours are not long enough for the endless visits to the chiropractors.
Four months and over 5000 miles later and I'm still convinced I made the right choice
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Every other week we as a family are glue to the TV to watch the trials and tribulation of the Formula 1 motor racing world. This year we have been paying particular attention to the career of number one British driver Lewis Hamilton. He’s doing rather nicely at present too. Let’s hope he can manage to keep this success going and gain himself a World Championship in only his second season.
However, over the last couple of years we have noticed a rather worrying trend amongst drivers whose first language is not English. During many of the post race press conferences they seem to repeatedly use the phase “For Sure”. In one such conference last year, Kimi Räikkönen said it a total of 23 times !!!!!
This year the situation has got even worse. Now the Brits have started. On at least two occasions Lewis Hamilton has said it and during today’s qualifying session, even guest commentator Damien Hill said it.
Who will be next? Gordon Brown, during Prime Ministers Question Time?
Usage of “For Sure” in English
Many of you my have noticed (assuming anyone actually reads my drivel) that my Blogging has been a little lacking this year. In fact, this is my first entry for 2008.
I’ve been quite busy with other project and general life crises. Back now I’m back and hope to catch up with my musings on the world around me.Did you miss me or has no one actually noticed my absense?
