Looking for Love
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:21 pm
I've been hanging around this site for nearly a month now so i thought i'd better introduce myself.
I bought a Firestorm new in 1997 and during the time i owned it i went to the F.I.M. rally in Sweden, toured Norway for a week, and did a tour down through Britain to end up at a rally in Lands End for the solar eclipse in 1999. (i live in the Shetland Isles)
I wrote off this bike in 2001 (thankfully no serious injury) and with the insurance money bought a year 2000 VFR800, a better bike for touring as it has a bigger tank and this particular bike came with hard luggage. I thought this was the ideal bike for me, but time has moved on and i now have a family and have recently just finished building a new home( haven't been on the bike for 4 years!) so don't have much time to get out on a bike.
The VFR is a good bike but i still yearn for a Firestorm. My firestorm was by no means perfect, it had a terrible fuel range, sometimes would cut out at junctions for no apparent reason, you had to ride around town in 3rd gear as any higher it would start to judder, but all this gave it character!
The styling of the bike just seems spot on to me, it still looks like a modern bike.
The reason i joined was to find and buy another Firestorm. It has to be a red one (the fasted) in good standard condition with low milage and preferably the newer model with the bigger tank.
I've been searching MCN, Bike Trader, Gumtree and e-bay to try and re-unite myself with my true love.
Hope i'm not asking for too much!
I bought a Firestorm new in 1997 and during the time i owned it i went to the F.I.M. rally in Sweden, toured Norway for a week, and did a tour down through Britain to end up at a rally in Lands End for the solar eclipse in 1999. (i live in the Shetland Isles)
I wrote off this bike in 2001 (thankfully no serious injury) and with the insurance money bought a year 2000 VFR800, a better bike for touring as it has a bigger tank and this particular bike came with hard luggage. I thought this was the ideal bike for me, but time has moved on and i now have a family and have recently just finished building a new home( haven't been on the bike for 4 years!) so don't have much time to get out on a bike.
The VFR is a good bike but i still yearn for a Firestorm. My firestorm was by no means perfect, it had a terrible fuel range, sometimes would cut out at junctions for no apparent reason, you had to ride around town in 3rd gear as any higher it would start to judder, but all this gave it character!
The styling of the bike just seems spot on to me, it still looks like a modern bike.
The reason i joined was to find and buy another Firestorm. It has to be a red one (the fasted) in good standard condition with low milage and preferably the newer model with the bigger tank.
I've been searching MCN, Bike Trader, Gumtree and e-bay to try and re-unite myself with my true love.
Hope i'm not asking for too much!
