More ground clearance than a Monster, and more oomph than a Ducati 900SS - which Ducati were you thinking of comparing it with?Originally Posted by slowpoke
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More ground clearance than a Monster, and more oomph than a Ducati 900SS - which Ducati were you thinking of comparing it with?
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Can the speed restrictions be removed?
Based on looks, sound and being a parallel twin (less to go wrong than 4 cylinders you'd hope) I've been pretty keen on one. Yet to test ride one though. I heard they didn't have much more power than my 400 though and I'm already a bit tired of that
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Yes, but it involves cutting a wire to the CDI that forever removes the side stand cutout switch from operation. For the amount of time spent over 180km/hr on the road versus the nasty shock on the next left hander I personally don't think it's worth it.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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hey james could you please email or make a copy of that workshop maual for me? it'll come in handy for work on the brother inlaws trx850.
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TRX850 is a fantastic bike, i was going to buy one before buying the fazer, and if they were the same price, same year etc at the time i was buying the fz i would have bought the TRX.
A well setup TRX has enough ponies to kick anything in the right set of twisties. The only v-twin i would ever own......because it doesnt feel as retarded as a a vtwin
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perhaps thats because it's not a v-twin, its parallel
but you're right about the twisties, they're quite light and nimble but are very torquey
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And probably the only ducati sounding non-ducati.
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It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.
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definitely (now wait for some duc purist to come and tell us off)
roger-doger had one with duc pipes on it....a real head turner....sounded fookin magnifico!
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ok jim my email is jnr454@hotmail.com. sorry i cant pm you, i need more posts cause im a newb. cheers for that
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Well I'm in Australia now riding the TRX dad eventually purchased. Only done a few hundred kms so far, but I like it. Very user-friendly, not at all a worry (in terms of horsepower) compared to riding a 250RS. Suprisingly similar power-delivery (but with less legs, and scaled up 400% or so lol) compared to the CB250RS.
Handling is heavy, of course, but if you keep it on the power it'll stay locked in and scribe perfect arcs. Not sure what to make of the stock suspension yet -- smooth as anything, until it hits a decent sized lump and then just gives up and kills your arse. Bars are much too high, make it quite uncomfortable for where your feet are. All could be fixed. Fairing/screen need to go in the bin.
The one thing that is giving me the most trouble is the snatchy throttle that people have mentioned. Either off (massive engine braking) or accelerating -- no sort of neutral inbetween. Even going down the motorway is a hassle. Adjusting for it, but will fiddle with cable slack (seemingly all slack adjusted out -- what was that you mentioned about the TPI, Jimmy2?) and carb sync later perhaps. Chain is tensioned nicely.
All in all, having an absolute laugh on it. Sounds mean through the straight pipes.
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Righty-ho, follow up about the snatchy throttle. Checked the cables again, looked at the service manual w.r.t. TPI and it seemed all good. In the end, checked the chain again and it seems that dad had tensioned it a little tight, so that with the steep angle on the swingarm and my weight added it got too tight. Backed it off to about 30mm and 90% of the snatchiness has gone away. The rest I'll put down to light throttle springs and me being hamfisted.
600kms yesterday, sore arse, sore arms from the too-high bars and fairing, but other than that had a ball. It's quite chuckable in the low-speed twisties, so long as you're not shy about being firm with the counter-steering. Nevertheless, going through Mt Mee (yes, that is a real place-name), I was wishing I was on the 250RS -- would've been full throttle, crouched down, working the gearbox, scraping pegs -- on the TRX, I spent the whole time in 2nd nana-ing the throttle
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Get rid of all the cable slack on the throttle cables.
They are sensitive to having everything adjusted just right.
You'll be bouncing off the rev limiter in top before you know it.
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