So something told me to check Windmill cycles online inventory today after I got home from work. Right there staring me right in the face is the exact bike I have been wanting. Same color, year, and all.
A 2007 GSX-R 1000. Orange and black.. one of the more rare color combo's.
Knowing there was absolutely no way I was going to get another bike without being in the hole because I owe $2,000 more on my k7 600 than what it's worth, I went there anyways just to stop in and talk about the possibilities. I'm pretty friendly with the owner, anyways and I stop by time to time to check out the riding gear, etc.

So I walked in and immediately fell in love with the bike. Oh my goodness so clean. What looks like a voodoo exhaust, PC III, frame sliders,gel seat.. ugh!
Anyhoot I start bullshitting about the bike to the owner and pretty much said I am just looking at the bike without any possibilities of buying it because of my current bike loan. He agreed and said now was a bad time to get another bike.

So I was like "eh maybe I'll try to sell my car".
He started chuckling "why would you do that?, it's almost winter"
"Not my Daily Driver, my toy car", I said.
"Hmm, what kind of car?", He replied.
"A 97 TSi AWD", I said.

Immediately his eyes lit up, and he told me he has been looking for one of those for himself and we could work out a deal with trading in my bike along with the Talon. I told him the rock bottom I would take for the car and he seemed fine with it. Showed him a picture of it on my phone and he loved it. He gave me his home email to send him some more pictures tonight and I emailed them to him and got a response back within 5 minutes saying the car looks great and he will come to my place to look at it in person tomorrow.

Ultimately, with both trade-in's I will have a lower loan than I have now on the current bike. I hate to get rid of the car but already having a Tundra and bike on the road leaves having the Talon pretty useless as I am becoming more in love with bikes and more out of love with cars, lately.

So hopefully I am not jinxing my chances by posting this but I just had to get the excitement off my chest lol.

BTW Nelson, If you are still interested in this exhaust for CJ's bike, now would be a hell of a time to buy it buddy. Maybe even the Bazzazz fuel management too, because I know having this crap on the bike isn't going to help my trade in cost any.





Teaser pic, although it looks 1,000,000x more beautiful in person!..

bad ass bike dude and yes I am very interested in the stuff for the bike.....call me tomorrow anytime, I don't think I have your number saved

That bike looks great in the pic, I can only imagine what is looks like in person

mmm orange & black...just in time for halloween

good luck with everything dave, def love the orange and black

thats my favorite color combo

cool, yet another gixxer lover!!!! i like it! glad you found an american deal that works for you. that's awesome! have fun. i love it when a plan comes togetha!

Thanks guys! (and girls)

So he came and looked at the car today, and he loved it. He agreed on giving me what I want for both the car and my bike trade in. So far, so good!

congrats dude! hoping for the best for ya....btw did u get my PM

I did. I just replied *I think* I'm so not use to this type of forum lol. Still trying to get use to using anything other than vbulletin

haha got it and replied....let me know if we can make it happen somehow....my number is 508-989-3992 by the way

Looks as if it isn't going to happen. I was given a price of $8,995 when I originally looked at the bike and then was told $9,200 the other day and he would not budge on the price even $200. So I left him a voice mail at the office saying I was no longer interested in it last night. It's a gorgeous bike but I don't think it's worth anything more than $8,500. I'm a little pissed at the fact that they couldn't even cut me a little slack considering this would have been my second bike purchase from them.

So with that said I think I'm going to tear down the 600 this off season and throw a 750 into it. Supposedly they swap right in and can be had with low miles in the ball park of 700 bucks. I guess ultimately that will be the better route to go. I wont have the higher insurance of a 1000cc bike, and I get to keep the DSM at the same time. Maybe I'll paint my bike the orange/black color scheme too while I have the plastics off doing the 750 swap.

that sucks dude....

but good luck if you do the 750 swap that sounds pretty sweet!

I skimmed over your first post, but offering your car up for your absolute minimum price and your bike sounds like you'd get a slightly raw deal. Bikes depreciate fast so I would say keeping your bike, doing the swap, and keeping your car is a much, much smarter decision.

Too bad, that bike is pretty. Maybe you could do a paintjob on your current bike and be cool with it?