Electric Ignorance (Page 2 of 3)

That's the best way to do it.  Play as many as you can, and you will eventually find one that "fits" you.  You may also want to play a lot of different instruments of the same make and model, particularly at the lower end of the price range.   You might get three different QA people with very different standards all looking at the same production run, and the result will be three very different guitars.  That is why I always tell people that they should never buy a guitar they haven't played.

Indeed it is, but it's not £2500 better than the screaming Street Triple and STR which use a very slightly detuned version of the engine from the 675 Daytona, try one, I promise you'll be grinning from ear to ear.

Jerry

I haven't ridden the Street Triple, but I have ridden the 675, and, uhhh, yeah!  Loved that bike.  Still grinning.

i have a mid-70's Yamaha FG-350W guitar and a 1976 Yamaha RD400 motorcycle. I intend to use them both until they wheel me out to the graveyard to be worm food.
I love 'em both. The good quality surprised me.
Happy boy!
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Terrific Toots, I was weaned on bikes like the RD. Here, during my youth, you could ride anything upto a 250 without doing a test and loads of us had RD250's, Kwak KH250's and Suzuki GT250's, I love the smell of two strokes! And getting the thing dancing in the rev range to keep it in its power band. Great stuff!

Jerry

I've owned Yamaha acoustics (well, borrowed one and didn't want to give it back) and I absolutely love my Dot.    I've also owned an F-150 (with the 351c and extended cab) but it was an '81.  Other than the 12MPG, I loved that truck.

@Buzzwagon and Dino48. You guys are absolutely right. That old 400 can scare the pants off some 750's. People come alongside me at stop lights and try to buy that old RD out from under me.
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toots they were known as Pocket Rockets then,I had a Kawasaki 500 triple one of the fastest bikes for that time,my friend had the 400 and he kept up with me till I hit fourth gear.

I've rode Honda, Harley, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Indian, my all time favorite and fastest was Suzuki. Oh yea, one of the sweetest sounding acoustic 12 string guitars I ever had the pleasure of strumming was a Yamaha.

Rabid sorry we took over your  electric ignorance post we got too motercycles and it's been fun talking about them. Toots The kawasaki 500 was a two stroke also. I could not pop the clutch at all as I would do a wheelie all the time.

Conversations meander.

Very astute, Jerome. Guitars have a positive correlation with sailboats as well as motorcycles. I always take a guitar along on my sailboat. Have yet to find a practical way to transport a guitar (or tuba) on a motorcycle.
Bill Moore, I also learned the hard way not to scare the ladies.
I had my wife and her cat aboard my sailboat in a big wind. I refused to lower sail and motor. She took her cat and her gear home forever. That was two years ago.
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