@TenHut: Nice pics man! Bike's looking great! How much have you clocked on the odo so far? How's the service back up from Honda?

@Tenhut, "this is what bikers do on sundays.... better than going to church. Actually this is my church, 'cause everytime I get to a corner, I start praying like anything"....
Hell yeah, very true brother.

@ Tenhut,

Dude am just a wee bit late in checkin out this post, havent been on here in a while...but then many congratulations on gettin urself the Blade. Is sure a lovely bike!

I aint tryin to deride the cbr in any way but then all o these tests have proved just one thing is that its the gsxr that pips the cbr in some areas and vice versa.

Hence we cant really conclusively say is that there is one bike which is faster than the other hands down coz these bikes are only separated by nano seconds and need i say it is the rider that makes all the difference.

The Racefit on the cbr is a snazzy addition and quite literally as i can see in the video takes more than half o the puneites into oblivion and back real fast.

All said and done I being a Suzuki man through and through apart from respecting the GSXR also do respect the CBR and the other marques out there but as the good ol adage goes...To each their own!!!

Peace!!

dude i think u r confusing me for some other guy. I never said anything EVER about the gsxr being pipped by the CBR or by Yamaha or Kawasaki. But I am going to now lol
If you talk of the tests or ride reviews or ride reports in the leading international magazines then the Zooki doesnt figure on the second or the first spot for the year 2010. Its either the CBR or the BMW
That said I like the gixxer and I have ridden the 2010 hard and ample.
Theres nothing in the world that will make me stick to one brand ever. Especially in litre class. I love all inline 4s.
I am not a through and through CBR guy and this is my brain talking not my ego lol

04/05 gixxer 199.58kgs and 162 to the wheel

07/08 gixxer 214kgs and 158 to wheel

09/10 gixxer 210 kgs and 160 to wheel..

u be the judge.

The Blades seating is pretty damn aggressive to me. On the other hand the gixxer has stock adjustable rearsets and the out of the factory setting appears to be for touring.
The blade on the other hand makes me think I am sitting on the tank and not in the seat. The windblast is a ***** on a stock Blade as compared to a stock gixxer. I think the gixxer has the least wind blast of all the litre class bikes.

Also the 2010 gixxer has mad drivetrain lash. But its got a mad mad monsterous engine. To me the Gixxer is brute power. Turn in on the gixxer however is a ***** compared to the light and agile CBR.
"the 07 and above gixxers don't handle like the older ones and not until 06 and above did the RR's get it rite on the track".. says a racer friend of mine who races in europe.

To each his own is fine by me too, but I love healthy comparisions cause I want and expect all brands to be different. It would be a boring world if all were the same.

Nah dude! I aint got u confused with anybody else! I never did insinuate either is that you had ever mentioned any of the bikes gettin pipped...was just an independent statement! lol!

However there have been tests in which the Gixxer has come out right on top...albeit the CBR and the BMW have too in some other aspects. All of the tests carried out whether in the past or in the present prove one thing and one thing only is that the winner that they choose hands down is in their opinion and it aint binding. So if a particular bike magazine or group in the USA or any other place else picks the Gixxer or the Blade or the R1 as their hands down winner conforms to their parameters plain n simple!

With that said dude I have ridden K9 and 10 Gixxers exhaustively along with the Beemer and the Blade and the comparisons made by you are pretty much bang on !

Yeah the post 06 gixxer models aint as wild ( only in their delivery characteristics) as their predecessors (ask me coz I own a k8 Gixxer 1000). That apart as you have rightly mentioned the mighty powerful engine of the Gixxer series ( post 06) is just much more tamed in its output as compared to the wild and barbaric delivery of the pre k7 models ,,,the modes provided by Suzuki do their job with aplomb !!!

Yes the Gixxer is all about brutal power and handling whereas the Blade kinda mixes it all up well!

I second the fact is that there shud be healthy comparisions...they are the masala and pretty much to a great degree help us in figuring out which one of these beasts is the one for us and by all means ...we would not have a mad and adrenaline pumping sportsbike industry had it not been for them!!

Cheers!!

I love you for this statement of yours...

cabs-problems???

@tenhut dude can u do a endo/burnout/wheely on ur blade-cabs??? cus lot people tell me u cant!!! and ive heard that the battery dies on blade very quickly due to cabs-remainin active after parking the bike???? can u confirm this as im planin 2 get blade c abs ver in india!

You had said somewhere that you own a blade in USA.

So you must be knowing it yourself.

Or were you lying?

dumb question amg

@amg ur kind of slow and full of it rite??? dude ive a 2009 non-c-abs blade back home and its a sweet ride now im in india so wanted to buy c-abs ver here so wot do you think now????

p.s(yeah we get blade in c-abs ver and non c-abs ver back home boy)

C-ABS only prevents sudden wheel locks.
Ergo

1. You can do wheelies as there is no sudden wheel lock involved there
2. You can do burnouts as there is no sudden wheel lock involved there
3. You can do rolling endos as there is no sudden wheel locl involved.

Just dont lock you wheel...
You can also disable the C-ABS by simply unplugging a fuse if its playing tricks with your mind.

^
Humble apologies sire! I beg to differ...

You see, the 'C'-ABS applies rear brake without you even asking for it. So probably you'll manage a burnout at the cost of a super-hot rear disc and super-fast worn brake pads.

Wheelies? Check.

The hypothesis in bold is wrong, and hence the inference based on it.
C-ABS DOES NOT distribute the force to the rear brake without you asking for it.
All what you think it doesnt do or does, it does only WHEN triggered ! The prime most important thing to understand is this :

• C-ABS has to be triggered. Only after it is triggered does it bother itself and the bike with braking force redistribution. Untill then its working as any other braking system.

• Now, the second most important thing in understanding how C-ABS works is knowing WHAT triggers this system.

• Asking for WHEN and WHAT is pretty much all you need to do to understand the C-ABS
• Now when doing a burnout there is no sudden change in the rate of rotational velocity of the wheel. There is no sudden acceleration nor deceleration at the front wheel. So nothing will TRIGGER the C-ABS. As you go on giving it some gas the rear wheel will start spinning on the spot(what we call as a burnout) Since the system has not been triggered and since you are not applying rear brakes, guess what is happening ? Simple ! There is no braking force at the rear...meaning a smooth burnout.

the ABS system works like this:

• theres a speed pickup that reads how fast the wheel is moving.

• if the wheel is moving fast and slows down at a speed thats impossible for the bike to be slowing at (lets say 100kmph to zero in a fraction of a second), the bike lets brake pressure off a tad. then puts its back on.. but it does this so fast, that the effect is the wheel slows down really, really fast. You still skid the front wheel and leave a black smear down the pavement.. but because the wheel is still rotating slightly, the front wont go out from under you as fast. Also the "combined" aspect of the C-ABS will distribute the braking force to the rear wheel while it is letting go of the force on the front wheel for those miniscule moments. All in the name of making the bike stop in the shortest possible distance.
• So doing roll on stoppies is very much possible because it has nothing to do with wheel locking. If your braking is wrong in a stoppie and u end up locking the front wheel while the rear is in air the C-ABS will be triggered and will distribute the braking to the rear wheel which is in air !!!!!!!! Do you see what is happening now ? The front is rolling only slightly and the rear is being given some braking force but the rear is in air and you aint bothered with the distribution of the braking force to the rear anymore.

C-ABS is hence that one thing that every bike should have as it has no downsides, absolutely no downsides, except for the 10 kgs weight gain.

OT- .. like it buddy..

OT- @AMG- brother if you do not know about someone, just dont comment. The guy was just asking.

Good bye rains ! Hello Fireblade !

sweet pics tenhut!

what speeds were you carrying through in da first & last pic?


would like to kno a lil bout that orange jetpack too.