08-09-2013, 07:19 AM
'99 Shadow 750. The thing was gutless. It topped out a bit over 80 mph with just me (200 lbs) and a trip pack (30 lbs) on it. Which for a cruiser isn't necessarily a game-ender, but many of the people I rode with at the time in the Southern Cruisers were on considerably more powerful bikes. On long road trips, 80 was the bottom end of our over-the-road cruising speeds. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad bike at all, just not what I had hoped it would be. I replaced it in 2002 with a CBR600 F4i, my last hurrah on sportbikes. That one didn't disappoint me at all, but it did scare the crap out of me (and my girlfriend) a few times. I wasn't too broken up when it was stolen -- and my girlfriend breathed a huge sigh of relief. XD