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Thread: Life after 250cc - What did you test ride first?

  1. 7th January 2008, 23:37 #46
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    Test rode two bikes today, after a year of riding round on my GN250 ... a gorgeous looking, well looked after cruiser - a Kawasaki VN800, and later in the afternoon a Triumph Bonneville. While riding I was thinking the entire time, "Tame the Beast". Somewhere on the summit road it happened - I broke her in and after that she just purred like a kitten! I am so much in love ...

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    So which one do you think you will get then?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 200BUSA View Post
    So which one do you think you will get then?
    Little black Triumph rules

    I put a token deposit on it today, and am waiting in a state of suspended excitement for Friday when I can collect it.

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    Thats great news,you be careful now.See you for a ride soon then?
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    Haven't really read the thread, but I would be what you call a 'bike slut'.
    I am still on my 250, and in order, these are the 'bigger' road bikes I have had a taste of riding.

    Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa.
    Yamaha FZ1 Fazer.
    Kawasaki EX500.
    Suzuki GSXR750 SRAD.
    Suzuki GSXR1000.
    BMW F650GS
    Suzuki GSX1400.
    Triumph 955i Sprint ST.

    Maybe it wasn't a wise move test riding the 'Busa first...but wow. What a ride! I wonder what's next...

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    started on fxr150 (ok after 50cc scooter) and while i owned it, rode a zxr250 and then a zzr1100..difference between power is fairly cavernous..
    then bought a vfr400r nc24 and test rode all kinds of bikes while i owned it, then got my first 1000 and didn't ride anything else till i got a cbr250rr..then back up to vfr400r nc30, then i've just had my eye out for something with massive amounts of power, nearly bought a gsxr1100..kinda glad i didn't, now..
    take a TL for a ride before you buy an SV, you'll appreciate where the engine comes from..
    original quote from 98tls - Who gives a shite about Kw when you can all arrive in Fox at the same time sit and have a coffee and thank fuck for motorcycles..whatever the wording on the gas tank.
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    I never had a 250

    went straight from a clapped out Kawasaki 100

    to a Suzuki GT550

    nothing 'till 7500rpm - then it smoked the rear tyre - and the flexiframe didn't like going round corners. And the brakes were crap too
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