The Bambit is gone! Long live the Bambit!

Fare thee well!

We've been through a lot. It was my second bike that I bought in 2005 to replace my GS500E, twice the horse power and all that lovely Bandit midrange torque and sound. I've had it out to the Cabot Trail in 2006, my very first multi day tour, then collided with a deer on it in 2007 putting it into the garage with tweaked forks and missing fairing, and me into the hospital courtesy of the ambulance. I put it back on the road last year at the urging of my good friend Willie, and parted company with it this year as the DR650E is the new love in my life. I'm down to two bikes in the garage now, one of which is powered by pedals. :D 

2011 Suzi Visits Quebec

Dee invited Suzi and I to make the trek up to Quebec to camp out overnight at the Esprit white water rafting campground, and who could refuse when a lovely girl sends you a Garmin GDB with a wonderfully twisted route? I did have to create a KML file and use GPSVisualizer to convert it back into a GDB so I could have a Route AND a Track, but that's the geek in me. Think of it as a highlighted route marked on the map, I've become addicted to tracks and the trackback feature, but once in a while I like to gas up and get lost. ;)

Anyhow, Suzi was a bit nervous on the Bandit as opposed to the KLR but she settled in and began to enjoy the ride as soon as we passed the first stinky cow farm. It what she likes. :)

Suzi greets the people that she meets in her own particular way.

Bandit vs. Bambi - the Resurrection of Bandit!

I hit a deer here About four years ago.

Well, it's finally done.
In 2007 I hit a deer while riding my 2001 Suzuki Bandit GSF600s, and tonight was it's maiden voyage post accident. Now I remember why I was trading it in on a VFR. :P
Most of you know what it's like to ride a street bike, but I've been off them for so very long that the seating position is foreign to me, the leaning into a corner... It's coming back, but I'd still take my KLR over the Bandit unless it's a long highway ride, as anything over 100kph the Bandit rules and delivers a nice smooth ride, albeit the stock windscreen is too small and I'm getting tons of buffeting unless I hug the tank.
I think I'm taller than the Japanese test riders. :P

It's ALIVE!!!

2007 Bambi vs. Bandit

Deer causes bike crash on 404 

TheStar.com - News - Deer causes bike crash on 404 

June 30, 2007 

Rachel De Lazzer

Staff Reporter

An accident involving a deer and four motorcyclists on Highway 404 led police to close the southbound lanes until around 11:30 p.m. 

The accident occurred when a deer wandered into the highway near Davis Dr., said Sgt. Rob Michaud with Ontario Provincial Police. One of the motorcyclists hit the deer, which was killed. The motorcyclist was taken to hospital to be treated for non life-threatening injuries, while the other motorcyclists were treated on scene.