Immature and proud of it.
Decided to give in to my advancing years and sell the RF.
And buy a nice comfy, middle-aged bike, something like a Bandit. In fact, it is a Bandit.
Bloody hell, it's got some grunt though. Accelerated into a gap in traffic and nearly collected the car in front, instant torque. And it's good to sit up nice and high and see for miles.
Getting a new toy is always good too. It only cost x dollars and a new sewing machine.
Lou
Hardcore Biker
Congrats on the new bike.
Nothin wrong with a Bandit.
Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
Congratulations, Lou!
IMHO the Bandit is a far superior bike to an RF anyway. Good choice
We'll see you at Motoracers stunt day then?
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Congrats Lou - Send pictures!!
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The Ragin Cajun
The bandit is a primo bike we have a 600 one at home it was the play toy before the gsxr600.
The only problem we have ever found with them is the seat, that is the bike seat we modify the most of at our father in laws business, there is like 1 every 2 weeks at least we modify. suzuki just about have it right but the seat lets it down
Soo-deep
Congrats Lou, would that be a 12 or 6 hundy?
Hardcore Biker
Ahhhh shiny new toys .... Wickud Lou, hope it gives you many years of motorcycle mania.
Not even with yours!!!
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Based on Lou's comment about grunt I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a 12.Originally Posted by Motoracer
Of course, owning a B12, Lou is now obligated to start stunting.
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The Ragin Cajun
i was looking at the 1200 bandit before i got my gsxr600, to get in to a bit of stunting, but the lure of the gsxR was to big
gee wizzz
Hey what do ya do to modify the seat.
Im riding one ant the moment and the seat height thing is a total pain in the arse
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The Ragin Cajun
pretty much cut some of the seat out, to a hight you like(we put a bit more foam in cause the foam on those seats is to soft which over time makes it hard, you put hard foam in which means you don't go thru it) then we put a nice cover on it, we done tons of them, one of the best ways of doing it, is coming down with ya bike and we modify the foam to your a$$ and height.
and go from there, to cover how you want it, you can look at www.trimit.co.nz or if ya want i can email you some pics of some of the bandit seats we have done.
Deus ex ukulele
Only the latest model Bandit would rate as better than the RF. The early models have way too much frame flex.Congratulations, Lou!
IMHO the Bandit is a far superior bike to an RF anyway. Good choice
We'll see you at Motoracers stunt day then?
Anyway Lou, welcome to the world of the grunty 1200!
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
Not wishing to appear a smart arse, mr H but I beg to differ.
To my knowledge, the "flexing" you reffer to was, I believe, to be caused by shit rear suspension. Johann "Peoples hero" Bruns succesfully eliminated what we all thought was frame flexing by replacing the shock with a Works Performance unit and some 1 inch "jack up" linkages in the rear.
After that, the boy gave me an absolute hiding around Manfeild on my GSXR750W.
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Deus ex ukulele
I stand corrected, WT.
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Bugger getting old on a Bandit! Suppose the next step will be sticking on flat Renthal bars, a race can and some trick bits to turn it into a mean street fighter!
Good on ya!
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