{"id":449496,"date":"2017-08-25T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=449496"},"modified":"2017-08-25T17:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T07:39:01","slug":"big-red-riding-hood-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/big-red-riding-hood-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG RED-RIDING HOOD \u2013 PART ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew 7:15-23 New King James Version (NKJV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLove the in-line fours, who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.\u00a0You will know them by the tingling of your fruits. A good bike cannot tingle your fruits badly, nor can a bad bike tingle your fruits at all. \u00a0Every bike that does not tingle your fruits is cut down and thrown into the fire.
\nTherefore by the tingling of your fruits you will know them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Our first date was outside a giant bottleshop, so she can’t ever say I didn’t take her anywhere nice.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s been a long time since I bonded with a Universal Japanese Motorcycle (UJM).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m actually not sure there are any UJMs anymore. They\u2019re all kinda not universal anymore. There are triples and twins and fours \u2013 both in-line and in a V-shape.<\/p>\n

But back when there were UJMs, they were invariably in-line fours of 750 or 1000cc, and they were the proper choice of righteous, red-eyed teenage hooligans everywhere.<\/p>\n

And here I am again. On a screaming in-line four with 750cc under my fruits \u2013 and that same glorious high-intensity vibration stimulating those fruits each time I open the taps and get it on.<\/p>\n

I am physically not a teenager anymore. But my fruits still like to get buzzed. And so I get it on. This pleases both me and the Suzuki GSX-S750.<\/p>\n

My licence is currently in tatters. There\u2019s not much of it left, but I\u2019m like that scorpion who kills the frog that\u2019s carrying him across the river by stinging it in the head halfway across. \u201cWhy are you doing this?\u201d the frog asks. \u201cWe shall both drown.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t help it,\u201d the scorpion replies. \u201cIt\u2019s in my nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s me and my licence.<\/p>\n

So me and the red GSX-S750 will be spending some time together. Some if it will be quality time, and it will sing the song of Hamamatsu and my fruits will tingle.<\/p>\n

And some of it will not be quality time because Sydney has become a real arsehole of a place to ride around in most of the time.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m going to do things and go places on it. I\u2019m going to reacquaint myself with my old hoodlum genes. They may be dormant, but they ain\u2019t dead.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking the GSX-S750 is a most suitable partner in that regard.<\/p>\n

This is what I like very much about Suzuki\u2019s GSX-S750, in no particular order\u2026<\/p>\n

The noise it makes is just crazy good. It literally shrieks when you\u2019re feeding it some ham.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got really good tyres on it \u2013 Bridgestone S21R Battlaxs, which are almost as sticky as the floor at the last school dance I went to.<\/p>\n

It feels light and small \u2013 even if it\u2019s not all that light and not all that small. But it sure does feel like it, and that\u2019s what counts.<\/p>\n

It no longer looks like a terrible thing. Suzuki has wisely made the 750 look like its 1000cc sibling, so no-one is going to laugh and point at this one like they did at the GSXF it replaces.<\/p>\n

It only has limited electronic interference via an adjustable Traction Control. And that can be turned off. There are no engine maps to explore, and no electronic suspension to ponder. You just turn it on, and light it up. I\u2019m a little simple-minded, so that simplicity appeals to me greatly.<\/p>\n

I shall keep you updated with what we do, where we go and how our relationship progresses. It\u2019s a bike that doesn\u2019t deserve to be ignored, so I shall not ignore it. I shall live with it and it shall live with me.<\/p>\n

And maybe together we can keep the Highway Patrol away from my licence.<\/p>\n

I did a review on it when Suzuki launched it. You can read that HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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