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I have an '05 Kawasaki 360 Prairie 4x4 that I play around with whenever time permits.
As well as the black '05 Fazer, the Missus also has an '07 Aprilia Tuono. This was her treat to herself when she sold her house last year. She's done a few tweeks to it, Akropovic cans and chip, Ohlins rear shock, CRG shorty brake and clutch levers, Aculine rearsets, OZ Racing wheels and some tasteful carbon fibre bits
I have occasional access to her bikes, usually when I'm taking mine to bits for something, sometimes we have a swap when we're out riding just for a change of scene. Usually I'm to be found sitting on these beasties which are mine:
My '98 FZS600 Fazer. This is my donkey bike, a motorized mule. It's a bit of a Frankenstien's Fazer, the engine, frame, tank and running gear are from a '98 bike, but the headlights are so rubbish on those early Fazers I bought an '02 shape fazer headlight and a load of '02 shape body parts to fit round it and got a mate of mine to do a speedblock paint job on them. It's had some other fettling as well, an Ohlins rear shock, K&N filter, Harris Performance can. The Fairing lowers are aftermarket items as well, all off e-bay. I've had as many bits of bare metal as I can powdercoated in a tough satin black finish as it gets used in all the crappy weather and was starting to corrode badly. The dirt just slides off it now!
This is my sexy Italian, an '04 Aprila Falco. It was this that impressed Debz so much that she bought an Aprilia for herself. This is the sunny Sunday fun bike, but it's also done touring duties taking me accross Europe and back twice now, plus the odd long weekend ripping up northern France. It's had quite a lot of work done on it, Ohlins rear shock (again), Rengade airkit, chip, big bore headers and cans, Gilles Variobars, OZ wheels, CRG levers, lowered gearing... and more to go on when I get the time. If I only had to have one bike this would be it. It turns heads where ever it goes, always gets a little crowd round it at bike meets, sounds fantastic and pulls like a train, accelerating hard over crests in the road even at speed in fourth and the front wants to come up.
I notice that there are quite a few others here with HD and that the better halfs prefer the comfort of the HD i to fall in this bracket so what does everyone else ride when not on the FZ.
I ride a XL1200C and Vstar1100