Hi all .... after about 6 months of procrastination, I bought my 2006 S2000 a few weeks ago. It is GP-white, black interior, 9,000 km (that's about 5,500 miles for the metric-challenged ..) on the odo, and in like-new condition.

I have a hunch I'm a tad older than most of you here ... at 56! I missed my mid-life crisis, so I'm having it now!

Here in SA, all the S2000's have the 2 Lt engine, unlike the 2.2 Lt the USA has. Why? Buggered if I know, but I guess it has something to do with the limited market in Darkest Africa, although I think the European models are also 'only' 2000 cc-engined.

I recently sold my last motorbike (2005 Honda VTR SP2) after owning bikes since I was in my teens, up in what is now Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia).

Prior to the Honda I owned 4 BMW bikes, that last one being a K1200RS. It's unlikely I'll own a m/bike again, and the S2K is the closest I can get (on 4 wheels) to fast bike riding.

Looking forward to gaining more knowledge of the S2K 0n this forum. I'll post a photo as soon as I figure out how to do that on this forum!

 

Hi, I don't know anyone else from Africa or any African country on the boards, so I guess you'll just need to keep a lookout.

Confgrats on the car though - post pics! You have to be a mameber to post on this site, but you an post useing free services on the web like imageshack.com or pages.google.com and then link thenm in your posts here.

 

Welcome You'll find a few other grey hairs here who picked the S instead of a mistress. It was cheaper

You'll learn alot here - lots of smart people and nice too.

 

Well - I don't know about it being cheaper .... I've had both!
Thanks for the welcome guys ... I'll upload a couple of images to a "flickr" type photo host put a link here.

The infrastructure here in Darkest Africa is not the best (read: potholes in roads .. ) so I need to be careful with the low profile tyres (tires ) on the S.

The one thing that does work well in South Africa is the speed cops .... speed trapping here is a revenue stream, not a road-safety issue.

It's hell in Africa - but someones gotta live here!

 

Here's a few photos of my 'new' S2000 ...

http://lc100gx.googlepages.com/home

 

looking good man

 

Thanks to all for the welcome ... there are absolutely zero after-market goodies for the S2K available in SA .. if I wanted anything I would have to import myself.

I don't know the new vehicle sales figures for the S2K here in South Africa, but I would think Honda sell well under 1,000 units per year.

A new one has a recommended retail price of ZAR365,000 (about US$ 52,000 !). A decent wage here would be ZAR 200,000 per annum upwards. So you see that a new S2K could cost almost 2-years gross earnings!

Low demand = non availability of after-market accessories. Sucks!

 

There's quite a few SA s2kers in the UK forum.

 

Welcome aboard and good luck with the modding. Looks very nice but I would paint the wheels to match.

 

The wheels or the tyres ?

White-walled tyres went out of fashion here when I was a young man

...they are only used by our version of the hoodlums and gangsters, i.e. our taxi drivers