Hey! I'm thinking about getting a road bike. (mattwood)

[mattwood]

yeh i think u might be right!! haha, that sounds like me. I always try to go faster on the last lap or sumthing and end up falling off and end up at A&E...

i reckon an old 250 would be alright for me because my dads quite mechanically minded and would definately give it the once over before he even thought about letting me ride it!!

Thanks for looking out for me though

[Pancakes]

Yeah what Jrandon said about that. I agree, please don't act your demographic. There's a reason your insurance will cost tons. What ever way you go it could be very rewarding especially if you have the patience and cash-flow (or can make the sacrifices) to take on a project. Do take care eh.

[mattwood]

yeh, i will be sensible on the road. i'll keep the sillyness for the dirt where theres no trucks or cars to hit me. besides im not going 2 go hooning around like a loony on a bike that i will be trying 2 do up and sell off for a profit

[speights_bud]

There are guys on this forum who can hop on an RG150 and embarrass your average rider on a 100+hp 600cc bike.

Hehe, yerp! this is VERY fun!

I wouldn't underestimate theRG150's Matt, I'm racing one at the moment which is stock standard, they'll do 180km/h on the track and are so light and agile for cornering.

I learnt to Road ride on a GPX250 that i still have which will be coming up for sale at somestage. just had to replace the crank and some other bits in it. The GPX's aren't the most powerful 250's but if you get to know your bike you can make many heads turn

Welcome and good luck on the bike hunt

[mattwood]

I wouldn't underestimate theRG150's Matt, I'm racing one at the moment

oh im not underestimating them! ive ridden my 125 down the road many times and it scares that hell out of me haha i could only imagine that a 150 would be faster!

hey, just a question 2 any1 in the know, which would win in a drag? a RG150 or a RGV250? im guessing the 250 but if the 150 is lighter would it be a close race?

also im pretty big, over 6ft and weigh 92kgs. would i fit on the 150?

[speights_bud]

i Was racing my GPX (did one event) and i finished 3rd, to a whole pack of rg150's, i was 86kg's (lost a few in the last month or two: and im nearly 6ft tall aswell. The GPX's arent that fast but do suit taller riders better thansay the ZXR's and 'some' inline 4 250's

As for the Rg's and fitting on them, i think you'd fit ok, but may have ground clearance issues depending on how you ride, im riding mine atm and the expansion chamber will drag on the ground occasionally. (RH off camber corners, bumps &dips)

As for ur 150/vs250 Q, the 250 would win, the weight is not so much the thing that would determine who would win but the ability of the rider ie keep it within peak revs/powerband

[mattwood]

i suppose there would be alot of mods for the rg150s?

can u just crank up the suspension abit like with mx bikes? or would that make it handle weirdly?

i try to relate everything back to mx bikes because i have never really had any experience with road bikes haha

[Pancakes]

Hey Matt, those 250's are wicked! The one I had was the dry clutch model and had multiple powerbands. Amazing bikes. The RG's are good bikes but not in the same league.

[speights_bud]

no probs, yea you can crank the preload up on them, but road bikes are much more responsive to doing suspension adjustments like that, but yea i vbelieve you can do a few things to get better clearance, im looking into it myself for racing because i keep grinding off the welds onthe expansion chamber seams. Aftermarket shicks/ones from particular other bikes have been known to be used

[mattwood]

-pwoah- multiple powerbands! awsum haha!

oh yeah, hmm do you think it would be worth the hassel? or just get a bike that it wont happen on? fixing the expansion chamber every few days would be abit of a piss off haha

[speights_bud]

im talking only grinding mine away when i'm trying to stand it upright a little mid corner, knee just touching on the track and the back end trying to let go... You wont be having those problems on the road i wouldnt think, i have only touched it twice road riding, once was a hollow in the road the whole bike bounced through, the other was an off camber corner, which a bike will often scrape a peg or something else on

[mattwood]

oh sweet, because i will probably be using it to ride 2 school each day. Its a pretty good ride to school, im out in the country so can either take the long way over some steep hils or down SH1.

[speights_bud]

Yea i used to do that, it was about 34km to school from my parents place at the farm and there was some wicked twisty backroads on the way there that could take the same time if ridden in a not too crazy manner either

[Squiggles]

im pretty keen on wot pancakes was saying, gettn an old RGV 250R and doing it up while i have it and try sell it off for abit mor then i payed for it!

i kinda tend to think i would get bored on a 150.. ive never ridden one before but im keen 2 be able 2 go as fast as i can with my learners.

I had an 88 rgv250 as my first road bike, im still here, probably would've been a better learning curve to ride round on something with a little less power for a couple of months beforehand

Rode mine to and from school, and long distances (chch and back), not too comfy in the seat department

got and sold mine for under 2 grand

[mattwood]

hah yeh! im not to sure how far away school is.. a good 25km i would say. and the last 10km is in town and pretty heavy traffic, having a bike would sure beat taking the bus, plus i could probably get up an hour later and still get there at the same time




man a ride to chch from Auckland! im keen! haha. how would a bike go down south with the ice and snow? i guess u would be pretty screwed if u hit ice at speed, or tryed to turn aye