This weekend in the SF Bay Area was amazing... Sunny and in the high 60's and mostly dry... Another reminder of why I left Scotland and moved here.
It was also a reminder of just how mind-boggling the BMW S1000RR is. My Wife on her Daytona 675R and I on my BMW S1000RR, hopped on our Bikes first thing Saturday morning for a relative orgy of weekend Motorcycling.. I rode up to Alice's Restaurant to meet some friends and got reacquainted with full throttle (it's been really cold and rained pretty hard recently and I have been riding my commute every day, cursing the Gods of weather).
Holy cr@p! Full throttle through the gears makes the scenery blur like hitting warp speed on the Enterprise. Even after owning the 1000RR for 13 months now, it never gets old.
I met my friends and a couple of them wanted to ride my Bike to see if it lived up to the "hype".. My first friend has a ZX-14 and we swapped... My impression of his bike was that it's HEAVY!!!!! I mean Sport Tourer heavy... Didn't want to turn, brakes SUCK, fast, but doesn't have that demonic top end rush of the S1000RR.... He got off my Bike with the hugest grin on his face....
His first words when he got his helmet off were "HOLY F'ing SH1T!!! that thing's FAST!" he raved about the brakes and how he only had to use one finger etc and the "telepathic" handling...
Friend number 2 has a first gen R1... Heavy and felt like it has the same power as my Wife's Daytona 675R... He got off my Bike looking a bit pale... I did notice that he had jumped on my bike and given it a massive dose of throttle in 2nd and 3rd gears and had the front end a wee bit off the ground... He told me he almost soiled himself when the front end came up on him in 3rd... He LOVED the Bike and is planning on how to get one himself.... again, it was the brakes and the power he raved about, also loved the handling.
Sunday, Wifey and I did about 220 miles of pure curves. Went up the coast to a place called Jenner.. cut across from the coast through Guerneville on our way to Calistoga via HWY 116..for the best chicken wings on the planet... WHAT A ROAD!!!
The S1000RR was really in it's element.. big long 3rd and 4th gear sweepers; twisty 2nd and 3rd gear corners that linked together for miles and miles; whenever a passing opportunity opened up, the S1000R just devoured whatever was in front of it... 7, 8, 9 cars in a single mind-blowing gulp.. shattering performance... After my 18,000 mile service the Bike runs better than it ever has.. shifting is sublime and perfect... The Akrapovic full system and the PCV with custom tune make the Bike even MORE of an animal.. perfect fueling etc.
Even given the patches of damp, hiding in the shade and under the trees, the BMW S1000RR didn't put a foot wrong all day.. I pushed the Bike fairly hard and didn't have a single moment, not a single twitch, or mis-step...
What a Bike... AMAZING! And a perfect Weekend....
Just a perfect day!
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