I have heard very good things about the bazazz as well which is similar to the PC5 . A mate has it on a 09 zx6r and swears by it.

With bursts of this caliber who the hell needs a horn on his machine!!
I'm also interested to know this

Let me be the first to request you to post the videos.

And tonight i will be needing sleeping pills. The earth shaking scream of your bike will not let me sleep.

You can literally see the flames at night when theres popping at the exhaust.
A friend of mine who was following the Blade said he clearly saw those. I didnt believe him untill I saw them myself.
Tom Cruise should have really gone for this Bike instead to look cooler !

@Satya the vids need to be edited before I post them.

Videos!! iWant!

which means that the A/F mix is rich? Can someone throw light on this?

Also, I swear by the blade and absolutely love it to bits, but if you are talking of MI 2, then the Speed triple is spot on irreplaceable. The sounds and sights of that bike are the very fabric of motorcycling utopia.

Wheel spin

@TEN

I was expecting a wheel-spin report

I guess that would be me it sure does!


Right, AF rich which leads to unburned fuel to escape and which is why the flames...

its there on the Pune thread... waiting for a one pager on it now

Oh ya...Read the trailer...waiting for a full report.

@Ten...wake up man

Hey TenHut
I have got a tricky one for you
Am looking forward to buying a new blade abs
Honda has come out with some awesome special prices for this yr end ( indications that they might be coming out with a new model... may be )
now.... the problem... read on

i want to buy one in black colour
now all the other colours come with a BLACK CHASIS and BLACK WHEELS
only the black bike comes with SILVER / CHROME CHASIS and GOLD WHEELS.

i want a bike in black colur, gold wheels and black chasis. now obviosly , buying a black bike and painting the chasis would be ridiculously expensive, considering u will have to strip the whole bike.

but one of the honda dealers gave me an option.... they have a black and white bike... they want me to buy this bike and they will get black body work and paint the wheels gold for me

am waiting for a quote from them as i type this
i have no clue if its a good idea or if it will look good or not
what are ur 0.02 $ on this issue
thanks in advance

If that colour combo appeals to you you will always find people to whom it shall appeal too. beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder blah blah blah.

Honda Mumbai had an old black with golden alloys when i bought mine. Maybe they still have it ! They were also dishing out a handsome discount on it as its an 08 model I guess. Or maybe 09. Not sure..

Whether u should go for the change in body work and repainting the alloys to gold depends on their quote tbh.

Your quest towards having a full black one with golden alloys is a good one for sure ! Good luck !

I dont think I am gonna write anything about wheelspins. They seem to be a normal occurance amongst litre bikes and if you have tuned all the power into the lower and the mid range you are gonna end up having massive wheelspins.
The wheelspin I had yesternight was the craziest ever...but then I was also being a jerk revving the bike a little more than what I should have been for moist conditions.

Anyways..no matter how much ppl tell me to be smooth on the throttle and stuff, they aint gonna get what it is to ride this in the rains/wet conditions. Some are telling me to swap my bike with theirs...yeah right...and what makes them think they wont faceplant on it ?

Lemme try and explain it...imagine you work as a butler at a bar...then one fine evening a huge black powerfull gorilla, the size of Kingkong, walks into the bar and walks straight upto you. He is however well mannered, so he takes a seat at the bar counter and says "One Caffe latte with vanilla"
You are shivering ...but then he says "please" to end his request with.
You breathe easy...the gorilla means no harm. But its a gorilla and has no money on him...will you dare say no to him ? ...thats not the point though..
You serve him the cafe latte he ordered...but forget to add that fine touch of vanilla and whipped cream.
The gorilla only has to look upto you now and you will be shitting bricks.
Throttling the Blade is like serving the Gorilla his cafe latte. Its well mannered. But you just wanna make sure you are making no mistakes....cause if u do..there is no telling what the king kongs gonna do to you....

It is a given fact that riding a litre class is a LOT of work. It seems like its a shit load of fun to someone who doesnt ride it everyday. Fun it is.. but its the gorilla kind of fun..make no mistakes is the mantra..

Then there are those who tell you to ride it in the rains for the bike has ABS...."what r u afraid of...you cant lock your wheels"
Lets look at the braking aspect of it...the brakes are really good...and really strong..but shedding 290,000 joules of energy is no easy task. That’s for the combined mass of the blade and the rider slowed from 200kmph to 20kmph. It takes a 75watt light bulb an hour to do that. How long does it take your brake fingers? I’m not sure, but when our same old poor dog is peeing in the mid of the road and its wet everywhere, it had better be a lot sooner. Ofcourse if its wet everywhere you better not be doing 200 kmph at all but you get my point.

Why am I still riding it in the rains then ? The sound, the feel, when you open it up is like being hit from behind by a giant baseball bat from the sky

Check it out..
YouTube - Racefit

Bro I loved the video a lot.. you rock.. ...Keep it up...

BTW in the last @40 kph sign board you are driving at ~140 kph...haha

@Tenhut:which s/w are you using to edit videos?

Rather abrupt ending to the video no?

Man, that Racefit sound amazing, and the blade is a screamer; would just love to hear it in person

Keeping the nose down in first gear, full throttle starts, must be hellishy difficult!