hey barkhubh, I'm from Cape Town, where you from ?

I don't have a R1 yet as I sold my Ducati recently to buy the new 2007 R1 which according to Yamaha SA is only due here 23rd February. It's a painful waiting period.

Nice bike btw.

 

I am from a small town by the name of Fort Beaufort, 220 km from Port Elizabeth. I am very sure it must be painfull to wait that long.

 

I lived in PE for awhile. Here's a pic of my previous bike minus a few mods.

 

Very nice. My ride is still stock. I think the 1st thing i need to do is to add a steering damper as it is very unstable under full power and she love shaking her head and i am a bit nervous of that. A full blown slapper is no friend of mine.

 

:rock

Not many SA people on the forum, quite sad. I think we need to market it a bit and get some areas to form forums.

Cape Town is stunning, I live in PTA but CPT has the best twisties, will bring the bike down next year.

Find, attached pics (oh those red things dangling from the pipes are the plugs they conveniently say "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" :rock ) Sorry forgot to take them out.

Stock 2007
GYTR Slips Ons
GYTR Air Filter
Solo Seat Cowl

and the rest will come next year :boobies

Safe riding :fork

 

hi guys, just moved to Cape Town, lovely twisties here.... planning Killarney as well, will be checking out the drags there this coming Sunday as well.......

 

damn representing R1 from the distance.. Nice.. Just dont take the 1 out on the safari.. JK.

 

Howsit bros! I am from JHB but I am leaving for the garden route today, towing the black horse to.

 

It is raining here for some time now, R stay inside for now.

 

took the power house out today to Camps Bay,etc. nice weather, some corners not too friendly, going up to the mountain....

 

Well a big Hello to my fellow SA citizens,

Yup I agree the cape has got the best twisties, but the weather is crap, well I am stuck in good old Gauteng but we got good good tracks, Zwartkops is 10 km's from my house, but it's quite a short track, better for 600cc's, kayalami is also pretty close, damn long straight and turn 2/3 is killer.

Nice to see you guys here, it's an expensive sport here in SA but it reserves it I guess, for the more deicated. I'll get the bike down to Cape Town next year and come nad tear up those good twisties.

Ride Safe bro's, will see you soon.

Pierre

 

I'm not from SA but I was there last year at Phakisa for a few days. Nice track. You have a lot of fast riders down there.

 

:thumbup

I am glad you are familiar with SA, yes the tracks are good and we got some brilliant riders, it's difficult to get into racing, sponsors are not easy to come by, you need to start "private" and fyou have to fund your own fun for a while, so I think alot of talent is missed. There is also alot of misconception about SA in the international eye, it's actually very first world.

Ride Safe :fork

:crash

 

true, 1st world in a lot of ways, worked in the UK for a while, and i reckon SA is definately up there if you call farm lands and single lane roads apart from Central London "Firstworld"..... but I won't go there..... but on the BRIGHTER side, I entered a Drag Racing event(biggest in the Cape), called Fast and the Furious.... 2morrow, it shud b cool....... I also enquired, I'll be riding the Killarney track on the 13th Jan, can't wait 4 that!! Yes, Pierre, Kyalami is hectic, almost came short after the mine shaft on my 1st time there.... be safe, will let u guys know what happens..... Keep Kool!!!

 

No Other South Africans Here?

 

hey r1juice, I'm still here ;-)

Been around Killarney a few times and was also going to go on Sunday till I read the weather report which says gale force winds, not fun!

btw, had my R1 since Feb last year, forgot about this thread

There is a track school at Killarney each month this year so no big deal if you miss one. Actually there is more than one as they are handled by different people but I generally only go to the Boland Bike track days/school.

Here is Boland Bikes schedule: http://www.twowheels.co.za/tdmenu.htm

Some pics of my bike which I took on Wednesday on the dam bridge just outside Villiersdorp on my way through Franshoek pass..

 

hey r1juice, I'm still here ;-)

Been around Killarney a few times and was also going to go on Sunday till I read the weather report which says gale force winds, not fun!

btw, had my R1 since Feb last year, forgot about this thread

There is a track school at Killarney each month this year so no big deal if you miss one. Actually there is more than one as they are handled by different people but I generally only go to the Boland Bike track days/school.

Here is Boland Bikes schedule: http://www.twowheels.co.za/tdmenu.htm

Some pics of my bike which I took on Wednesday on the dam bridge

just outside Villiersdorp on my way through Franshoek pass..

AAWH MAN!!! you missed out.... it was great fun ridning at Killarney today!!! Weather was good as well. It's still hot and sunny now, got back about 2hrs ago...... maybe we'll meet on the next track day,i'm def going!!

GOOD to see other SA R1 riders here as well, maybeit will be a ood idea dieyoung69, unite the R1 riders of SA..........

 

:thumbup

Hi Guys,

It seems that South Africans is quite hard to come by, but I must say so is
R1 ones in South Africa - must be because of the price.

It would have been nice if we were a bit closer to each other, but I want to come down to to Cape Town again some Time, Oh dear God those are the best twisties, those pictures of your bike next to the coast just makes me want to move down there.

I see they are running Calafornia Superbike School in SA now, there was a thread about it yesterday. Would Love to go and do it at Kayalami. I think it's R 3200 per level and there are four. a Bit pricy but I think it's worth every scent.

Market the forum and the thread, then we can start setting up a club.

:fork Ride Safe :fork

Pierre

 

Howzit my broers!
hehehe.
I've been on here for ages and many SA boytjies have
come and gone. We've been too geographically scattered across
SA to have any get togethers and the like. Mostly why
we so quiet I guess. Been riding an R1 since 2000. Got an '05
at the moment.

 

:bow Lekker my outjie !!!

Let's stick to spinglish :crash

Nice to see some more guys from around, yeah we are scattered. From where are u bru ?

I'm glad your an "R" veteran by the looks of it. I recently came from the "dark side" :secret: But I've been on a couple of R1's in the past and it was my goal to finally get my own. No regrets - what an addiction.

I've been a PTA boy all my life (the 30 years of it) but I work up in Africa most of the time, not much future at this stage in SA with all the damn politics and AA crap. But I spend enough time at home though.

We must make a plan and organize something to unite SA R1 riders, so we can post some pics of events and show the world how we do it, and what we are made of - even if it's damn expensive for us.

:sneaky And we have the best looking chicks :fact

:fork Ride Safe :fork

 

Rob ( plimmer on the forum ) is originally from SA.... Live in Georgia now... :fact

 

Cool. Would be interesting to hear from him, how he likes the US and all that.
Always interesting to hear from locals who have gone abroad.
Thinking of doing so myself once I'm done studying.

 

Johannesburg Here

Marcel when we riding again?

 

Hi R1'ers...

I'm in Durban...been on bikes since young..had Katana Striker, then ZZR 11, and now like yourselves...the R1...late 2000 model though..look forward to getting newer one...:rock....

Let me know if any of you are from Durbs...

Cool Runnings...

 

This summer is gonna cook in Durban...very hot....hope to mee to Durbanites on the freeways...

more time...

 

:thumbup

You got some nice twisties down there man, and those couple of free HP down at see level :rock

I will hopefully get sick of the city and head down to the coast sometime, I'm still waiting for Greg to give me a number in regards to your PM.

Oh :fork Welcome to the Madness :fork

 

I am from a small town in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. Not so good roads here, but travel about 80 km's and the world is a place to play. Going down to P.E. this coming weekend on the R to visit some folks. Hope the weather stay good and calm without these winds.