Some of you may remember me mentioning my friend Nancy....she is the one that rides a Hayabusa and drives corvettes...you have likely seen pics of her and her vehicles in my Friday Afternoon Safety Meeting posts....
Anyway I got to know her 13 years ago when she had a 1982 katana 1100 for sale with only 7500kms on it....I had now way of affording it but I had heard about her as she was kind of a local legend and pretended to be interested to meet her...lol but from that meeting we became good friends and would ride together often. She's a cool lady....she is 73 now and started riding when she was a kid in Victoria....her first street bike was a 1976 GS750E and she put a Rickman fairing on it....she has had a lot of brand new bikes since...1982 Katana, 1985 GSXR750....etc....and when I first met her she had two Hayabusa's....2008 and a 1st gen 2000
We even dirt biked together.
She has not been riding the busa much as her physical health has not been the best and she is a small lady to begin with...so a couple of years ago she told me she was giving the Busa to me in her Will.........
Well yesterday she decided to surprise me for my upcoming 60th birthday and she had a friend of ours bring the bike over to me
She said "I can't ride it anymore and it's a shame to see it just sit in her garage and I'm giving it to you anyway, so I want to do it now so you will ride it". She also said "you are the perfect guy to take care of my baby, you being a Suzuki guy, I think this bike should be in your garage now".
It was pretty emotional with tears shed.....
She bought the bike new in 2000 and has modified it over the years...the Corbin seat she had custom made at the factory in California when she rode the bike there.
She also added Carbon Fibre Rims!....jesus are they ever expensive...lol
I was with her several years ago when she had it dynoed
I used to love riding with her because it was so funny watching the reactions of other bikers when she took her helmet off riding the busa....
Anyway I got to know her 13 years ago when she had a 1982 katana 1100 for sale with only 7500kms on it....I had now way of affording it but I had heard about her as she was kind of a local legend and pretended to be interested to meet her...lol but from that meeting we became good friends and would ride together often. She's a cool lady....she is 73 now and started riding when she was a kid in Victoria....her first street bike was a 1976 GS750E and she put a Rickman fairing on it....she has had a lot of brand new bikes since...1982 Katana, 1985 GSXR750....etc....and when I first met her she had two Hayabusa's....2008 and a 1st gen 2000
We even dirt biked together.
She has not been riding the busa much as her physical health has not been the best and she is a small lady to begin with...so a couple of years ago she told me she was giving the Busa to me in her Will.........
Well yesterday she decided to surprise me for my upcoming 60th birthday and she had a friend of ours bring the bike over to me
She said "I can't ride it anymore and it's a shame to see it just sit in her garage and I'm giving it to you anyway, so I want to do it now so you will ride it". She also said "you are the perfect guy to take care of my baby, you being a Suzuki guy, I think this bike should be in your garage now".
It was pretty emotional with tears shed.....
She bought the bike new in 2000 and has modified it over the years...the Corbin seat she had custom made at the factory in California when she rode the bike there.
She also added Carbon Fibre Rims!....jesus are they ever expensive...lol
I was with her several years ago when she had it dynoed
I used to love riding with her because it was so funny watching the reactions of other bikers when she took her helmet off riding the busa....
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