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From: AW on 19 Jun 2007 17:19 On Jun 19, 9:32 pm, "Cab" <my_email_address_is_in_my_...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Bear wrote: > > There's no point arguing, eh? One either likes a thing, or one does > > not. > > Just the ones that don't like the Katana are all wrong. :-) I'm in the halfway house. I think the Kat's stunning and I want one. ............But I hate the front end - the guard and front wheel, specifically. The rest of the bike is razor sharp, that guard never looked right and the wheel's too big. So want one with UD forks, monoshock rear end and better wheels and brakes.
From: Ace on 19 Jun 2007 17:20 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:06:10 +0100, "Cab" <my_email_address_is_in_my_sig(a)privacy.net> wrote: >Andy Bonwick wrote: > >> >> There's no point arguing, eh? One either likes a thing, or one >> does >> not. >> > >> > Just the ones that don't like the Katana are all wrong. :-) >> >> Says the man with a restricted GSX1400. > >It's not restricted. Just pathetically underpowered, eh? >And that wasn't a bite :-Pp Looks like teethmarks to me. -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) \`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing) `\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10 `\|/` `
From: Bear on 19 Jun 2007 17:46 In article <1182287952.148452.272660(a)u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, AW says... > On Jun 19, 9:32 pm, "Cab" <my_email_address_is_in_my_...(a)privacy.net> > wrote: > > Bear wrote: > > > There's no point arguing, eh? One either likes a thing, or one does > > > not. > > > > Just the ones that don't like the Katana are all wrong. :-) > > > I'm in the halfway house. I think the Kat's stunning and I want > one. > > ...........But I hate the front end - the guard and front wheel, > specifically. The rest of the bike is razor sharp, that guard never > looked right and the wheel's too big. So want one with UD forks, > monoshock rear end and better wheels and brakes. I couldn't agree with you more. Someone (Veggie will know who, since it was in Streetfighters, ages ago, poss BigCC Racing) built a Spondon-like, big tube, monoshock frame for a Katana. Which allowed both a monoshock rear, plus easy fitting of a smaller wheel, UD fork, front. That, plus a big-bore, turbo, 400 bhp Kat motor, plus the pop up headlight front end from the 750 Kat, would have produced a bike that I could have just sat on and fondled for all eternity. <googles> Ah. Turns out it was actually a Spondon frame. And it was BigCC. Check this out (only one small pic, sadly): http://www.netquest.co.uk/katweb/sf/issues/sf096-52.htm Even the burd Streetfighters draped over it was gorgeous. That's probably my ultimate bike. -- Bear
From: Mike Fleming on 19 Jun 2007 18:56 In article <rn4f739rplvnep13bd32qt4cgqh0l19fc0(a)4ax.com>, Ace <seesig(a)virgin.net> writes: > Aye, the Katana continues to be one of the worst styling exercises in > history. Ah, at last, someone else who recognises the true hideousness of the things. You don't also happen to think that the recent(ish) MV Agustas are terribly overrated examples of terminal featurelessness as well, do you? -- Mike Fleming
From: SpamTrapSeeSig on 20 Jun 2007 03:43
In article <nkng73pm9bfi7kn8sqaoo5pamnpdphn3q1(a)4ax.com>, Mike Fleming <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> writes >In article <rn4f739rplvnep13bd32qt4cgqh0l19fc0(a)4ax.com>, Ace ><seesig(a)virgin.net> writes: > >> Aye, the Katana continues to be one of the worst styling exercises in >> history. > >Ah, at last, someone else who recognises the true hideousness of the >things. You don't also happen to think that the recent(ish) MV Agustas >are terribly overrated examples of terminal featurelessness as well, >do you? This one's an overrated example of terminal featurelessness, er, perhaps: <http://www.eurospares.com/graphics/katana.jpg> Regards, Simonm. -- simonm|at|muircom|dot|demon|.|c|oh|dot|u|kay SIMON MUIR, BRISTOL UK EUROPEANS AGAINST THE EU http://www.eurofaq.freeuk.com/ GT250A'76 R80/RT'86 110CSW TDi'88 www.kc3ltd.co.uk/profile/eurofollie/ |