Which bike?

[EVILSON]

Hi
Having sold my superduke yesterday, I'm in need of something else to play on.
I've narrowed it down to a carbed r1, fireblade or gsxr1000.
Can anyone tell me common problems of all of them if any, pros and cons of each.
I've got around 3k to spend, maybe more as long as the missis dont find out.
So that will be early years 00-03
Cheers all
Mark

[rsv_man]

02-03 Blade is the best handling and most reliable there......fuel injected tho.

[dan90210]

I'm interested.... Why a carbed R1 over a FI?

For around 3K you can take your pick if you arent too fussy about the model year for any of the bikes you mentioned.

For me.... I love the look of the GSXR, or an R1. Not that the blade is junk or anything, thats just my opinion.

[EVILSON]

[quote="dan83590"]I'm interested.... Why a carbed R1 over a FI?


I think they look better and there cheaper but to honest I don't mind if it's got carbs or fi, do the r1s have 2nd gear problems or was that the r6?
I suppose I'll just see what's about and what tickles my taste buds.

[jer r1]

mine hits 95 in second ---- no problem

[dan90210]

I'm interested.... Why a carbed R1 over a FI?


I think they look better and there cheaper but to honest I don't mind if it's got carbs or fi, do the r1s have 2nd gear problems or was that the r6?
I suppose I'll just see what's about and what tickles my taste buds.

Loads of bikes suffer with second gear issues. Its down to the fact that everyone nails second gear. Anything more is too fast for our roads unless you are a crazy dude!

[billinom8s]

its the r6's that have 2nd gear issues.

the old r1's are great looking and handle well. they will give alot of the newer bikes a run for their money in the right hands.

carbed ones are fun cos you can play with them yourself instead of just plugging into a laptop and tweaking a screen.

ok, i am biased as i collect them

[Funky]

I'm really enjoying my Carbed R1. Before I was starting to lose a bit of the vogour I had with bikes, but this has renewed it.

[Scotty]

The last of the old-style FireBlades, the 954 model (i.e. pre 2004) is widely regarded to be a very good road bike. To be honest there isn't really much wrong with any of your options. As usual, asking other peoples' opinions just gets their opinion, which may be of no relevance to you whatsoever. There are plenty of 2nd hand examples of each around, take some for a test ride.
One of our guys, Mikkie, runs the Blade Trade Centre in Swindon, he has a fair selection of bikes in there. Why not give him a call to see what he has and arrange a test ride - Tel. 01793 420867 - but don't try before Thursday as he's coming to Snetterton with the rest of us to enjoy the cheap double track day that no other SWBs want to do....

Blade Trade Centre Website

[EVILSON]

Not really after peoples opinions on what to get, I'm more after peoples advice on the problems on the bikes I've said about, rather than go to each forum and get an un honest biased answer and end up with problems ect.
To be honest I'm not really bothered which one of the 3 I get as I like them all, but just want to know what to look out for on each depending on what I go for.
Thanks for the replies.
Mark