Re: [ST] New list member

["The SunFlowers" <wflowers@xxxxxxx>]

> Hello, my name is Stuart Mumford and I am looking at purchasing a 2002
> Sprint ST.

Stuart,
Do I know you?  Maybe a QNX customer?  Your name is tantalizingly familiar.
Or didn't you used to be on this list in the past?  And/or the Hinckley
list?  This really reads like a troll!

> It will be my first motorcycle and I have a couple of questions.
> Is it a good first motorcycle?

Awesome!

> Is it a shaft drive? I need a bike that can wheelie and I know that it is
> impossible for a shaft drive motorcycle to wheelie.

Why do you need it to wheelie?  Is it because you think it is "cool"?  Or
because you have squid friends who demonstrate their lack of sense by
wheelying down the road?

Yes, it can wheelie, esp. if the front sprocket is swapped for one with
fewer teeth.  But there are a lot of lighter bike that wheelie freer.  That
isn't what the ST is about.

> What is the top speed? My friend has a GSXR 1000 and it can do 165.

And where, outside of a closed course, would you ever responsibly see those
speeds?

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Bill "Bench Dawg" Flowers
2000 Sprint ST



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