The mighty GN

[John]

I did the Taka's on my MIGHTY GN yesterday, apart form the wind trying to push me of the road, and my lack of counter steering skills, she went beautifully! In fact I managed to keep at a steady (ish) 120k's on the straights, and slightly more down hill on the straights! I love my bike (well until I can ride a bigger one!)

I always get concerned when new riders talk about counter steering - your brains a magicial bit of kit, let it ride for you.

[Str8 Jacket]

Oh yeah, woops. Too early in the morning yet, Im on hoiliday you know...

Nice one, have fun. Would you like to borrow the GN one day, so you can practice some "faster" riding?

[Eurygnomes]

My MIGHTY GN has no problems sticking at 110kph (unless it's uphill into the wind...which...let's face it, in Wellington - is frequently the case) and she passes things on the motorway too (without my intervention of course) when I let her.

And she's coming up for sale...

[GN1NiteStnd]

MY gn is a little crapier than most, meets my learner needs well. And when its time to buy sum more grunt. Ill sell it to another learner (hopefully not as a parts bike). And by a GB500! I cant wait!

[sunhuntin]

my lil pup pulled nicely all the way to shannon and back. got left in the dust on the way down, but she hauled ass all the way back [120k most of the way] she even passed a few cars on the uphills and rolled passed a couple of the harleys [only to be blown back again a few minutes later! LOL] am really pleased with how well she ran.

filled her up at work when i got there [2 hours late ] took more than the usual $10 to get her to the brim. i shoulda been on reserve, but she hadnt started farting, so mustve been happy enough. still need to give her a clean though, but will see to that later on a bit.

[froggyfrenchman]

there is nothing wrong with a gn. what you must remember is that they are a learner bike. not real fast but reliable as hell, never blow up and last forever. Not a sports bike by any means, so dont complain bout the handling. If you do come off a zxr250 or the likes, youre gonna be up for $500 to fix fairing and mirrors will be at least $50 each. $50 levers.
Come of a gn and its $10 for a new lever and $15 for mirror, whole indicators are $20 brand new.

The gn does exactly what its designed to do, and does it well. If you ask me, anyone thats been riding on the road for less than 2 years riding anything else has made a dumb move. "FAST" 250s arnt fast, just make a lot of noise. Stick with the gn, can teach you alot. Then move up to a 400 or 600 when you can.

I know theres gonna be a whole lot of 15yos that think theyre the best rider in the world wont agree with this, dnt bother arguing.

Your god has spoken

[rfc85]

there is nothing wrong with a gn. what you must remember is that they are a learner bike. not real fast but reliable as hell, never blow up and last forever. Not a sports bike by any means, so dont complain bout the handling. If you do come off a zxr250 or the likes, youre gonna be up for $500 to fix fairing and mirrors will be at least $50 each. $50 levers.
Come of a gn and its $10 for a new lever and $15 for mirror, whole indicators are $20 brand new.

The gn does exactly what its designed to do, and does it well. If you ask me, anyone thats been riding on the road for less than 2 years riding anything else has made a dumb move. "FAST" 250s arnt fast, just make a lot of noise. Stick with the gn, can teach you alot. Then move up to a 400 or 600 when you can.

I know theres gonna be a whole lot of 15yos that think theyre the best rider in the world wont agree with this, dnt bother arguing.

Your god has spoken

thats what i say 2,it goes very well when riden as a gn 250 not some sort of high powered bike, i might do a new haka about this

[Ixion]

there is nothing wrong with a gn. what you must remember is that they are a learner bike. not real fast but reliable as hell, never blow up and last forever. Not a sports bike by any means, so dont complain bout the handling. If you do come off a zxr250 or the likes, youre gonna be up for $500 to fix fairing and mirrors will be at least $50 each. $50 levers.
Come of a gn and its $10 for a new lever and $15 for mirror, whole indicators are $20 brand new.

The gn does exactly what its designed to do, and does it well. If you ask me, anyone thats been riding on the road for less than 2 years riding anything else has made a dumb move. "FAST" 250s arnt fast, just make a lot of noise. Stick with the gn, can teach you alot. Then move up to a 400 or 600 when you can.

I know theres gonna be a whole lot of 15yos that think theyre the best rider in the world wont agree with this, dnt bother arguing.

Your god has spoken

Words of wisdom folks. Best way to get to be a safe rider is to learn how to push a bike to extract everything it's got. Any fool can jump on a high powered bike and ride it past. Until things go all lavender, then it's all over, rover. I suspect the main reason beginner riders want to move to ZXR CBRRR etc is that the extra power hides riding skill deficits. Might be a bit more generous than FF on the 2 years, some riders move up faster than others. But GN250 SR250 CB250RS are jolly good places to start riding. I suspect that riders who stick with their GN through the learning period will stay alive and still be riding years hence.