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Speaking of fabulous videos, i found this gem of a VTR1000 thrashing a ZX12R and a Hayabusa.

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go on john tell em..how it is m8...i miss ye ol girl glad she went to a good home tho m8

lee67 wrote:go on john tell em..how it is m8...i miss ye ol girl glad she went to a good home tho m8

I miss the VTR too mate Nice bike that is. Glad your enjoying.

The tillers a 'different' animal though like the pull at 6000rpm in 3rd. Porches dont.

oh aye....its got some pull alreet''....thats one thing i miss..mind you will do me some good to calm down

Im sure youve had the VTR 'opened up' mate?

How does it compare to the TL?

i have john.....erm, truthfully not a patch on the tl, engine wise!!...but im happy to pootle along of late....now camchains are locked off, gave it more berries today..did 117 miles, and petrol light aint lit ..any luck with that grabrail

lee67 wrote:i have john.....erm, truthfully not a patch on the tl, engine wise!!...but im happy to pootle along of late....now camchains are locked off, gave it more berries today..did 117 miles, and petrol light aint lit ..any luck with that grabrail

How does the TL compare alongside the Mille? I didnt think they were miles away from the storm in terms of grunt. I was going to get the Aprillia but went for quality (apart from CCTs obviously)

tl and mille' are very very similar.....nothing in it really, apart from spares for suzuki are easier to get lol......compared to storm...a tl has 25bhp more standard, thats without playing about....my tl made 128 bhp on dyno..thing is with the tl...they are calm smooth speed, too easy to go ballistic....i could do 150 easy and think nothing of it( buffeting wise etc)..today at 120 on the storm, i knew i was doing that speed...also a tl will pull 6th gear from 2000 revs very smoothly and get instant pick up!!...but both tl and the storm have there good and bad points as pointed out already, if u love v twins, id say try a tl at somepoint, u wont be dissapointed!!

You are selling it well, what are the bad points apart from build quality.

build quality??? tls aint got a problem there...most suzuki's dont, if looked after....a tl has one or two niggles like most bikes have...they slated it for the rear damper...in 17 months of owning mine, id never had any probs with it....the only gripes i had were a weeping coolant pump seal( fixed it once and it stayed dry for ages, then started to weap again)..that and the rear spiggot gasket..but these are simple fixes...the rest was pure class...and it always got attention , now im gonna shutup or i might buy another lol

Yep enough biggin up Suzuki's