I know, I could have posted in the WDYR thread, but I'm just soooo excited about my baby I felt she deserved her own thread. Last night the owner dopped off an '88 Hawk GT with 15k miles, and I proceeded to take her out for a nice hour long ride. What a frickin' blast...

 

Congrats on your new bike! Now that you have oodles of riding experience you can buy my 01 YZF r1

 

How about a posting a pic of that bad boy??

 

Don't laugh too hard - that butt-ugly paint job saved me about $800 - $1000 on the bike.



Yeah, I gotta get out the paint stripper one of these weekends and get those wheels / stands / headlamp fixed. Next will be a little Buell flyscreen, then I'll start putting the CF bits on and/or doing some repainting.

 

Looks real clean, 15k miles on an 88 is nothing. I hope to have that many miles on my R6 by next year. Is that a Corbin seat?

 

Yup. I have the original and am probably going to put it on this evening for a comparo - I'm really curious as to the difference between the two when riding, as a cursory inpection doesn't reveal much improvement.

 

Congrats, the Hawk is a great bike. I raced one a couple of years ago, and loved it aside from the fact that is was underpowered vs. the competition.

It's ironic that it was considered a failure on the sales floor, and now they're highly coveted...clean examples can go for almost as much as they costed new!

 

congrats....ride safe....

 

Are all members of team SWIFT following rules, you think?