It's March 10th,2011.

Despite gusting crosswinds, cold wet tires on cold wet pavement, and bands of rain moving along the foothills, I jumped on the ninja and did 80 miles. Which means I'm officially out of the break-in period.

Wow. Remember your first literbike ride? Where the power just kept coming and coming to the point where all you could do was laugh in your helmet? Well, I've been riding my zx-10 for years, and have become jaded/habituated, but it's now like that all over again.

The power delivery is just SO smooth, just like somebody snuck in a stroker zx-14 under the bodywork. Rolling on through the corners, throttle transitions, it all just feels like the stocker bike, just turned up to 11.

The short sharp blast of the blowoff valve doing it's thing with every high rpm shift, carrying the front wheel a few inches high effortlessly through the gears, every straight is suddenly so much shorter.

I'm gonna like this thing.