Evening guys & girls.
Thought i would start a new thread for the new GSXR.
I will try & keep the story short as can be...
A few of you may have seen my thread on my 1100M. Which was a ‘keeper’.
However, as is often the case, once i had pretty much ‘finished’ getting it to the condition i wanted, the mind starts to wander & you wonder ‘whats next’?
I had zero intention of selling it, i have just sold my 93 Blade to a friend/customer/collector & mentioned i had thought about selling the M but could not bring myself to do it.
He made me an offer that was incredibly hard to refuse, i told him to let me think on it so i could be 100% i was making the right decision.
And at this point, lets go back a few years - a friend of mine contacted me and asked ‘what is a 1990 GSXR 1100 worth with 0.8mile on the clock’?
Long story short, my friend is not a huge bike guy and made an offer on this bike which was not near enough to tempt the guy to sell. So around 2 years ago i managed to have a phone conversation with the owner of the bike, who told me it simply was not for sale & never would be. I left it at that & somehow lost the guys number. Then around 6 months ago i found his details & emailed him, to let him know i wanted to make him an offer to buy his bike, safe to say i heard nothing back & assumed that it would never become mine so kind of forgot about it.
Anyway, after a week of pondering the offer on my 1100M, i decided i would let it go, and would likely spend the money on the house. So i got in touch with my friend, and let him know the 1100M is yours.
He was happy, my Mrs was happy, and to a degree i was happy.
A couple of days after agreeing, i got a call from the owner of the 0.8mile 1100L out of the blue. ‘You emailed me a while back, whats your offer’? So made an offer to which he agreed was a very good offer, and he would give it some thought.
After a week he messaged to let me know, thanks but no thanks, if it was £5k more then maybe. Which would make it very expensive. I left it a night, spoke to the Mrs & she is incredibly cool, telling me to just get it.
I upped my offer, not quite the amount he had asked but still by a good chunk. He again said he would think about it, and i gave up hope after a few messages sent to him went un replied. Then on Thursday i got the 1100M out the house and to the showroom ready for final fiddly bits followed by delivery to the new owner. Once out the house, i kind of thought - what have i done.
As a last ditch attempt i sent a picture of the 1100M to the owner of the 1100L and asked ‘know of any low mileage 1100L’s to replace this’?
To which i received a call saying, the 1100L is yours buddy!!
Caught me totally by surprise!
Extremely happy, and cannot wait for it to arrive!
Sorry for such a long introduction to the bike. A few teaser pictures.