Yep! Your a half arse rider with the throttle control of a man with parkinsons
No. the stars are aligned your favour
No. but only cause your lucky (and weren't trying hard enough!)
Your just gonna lose a limb or two. Cause i only wish harm upon you
Scotsman on a German
Viffer 400 to a thou not a big deal - all the other threads are "I'm moving from a GN250 to a GSXR1000 K7 coz I got me my restricted and summ mad skillz yo!"
Which is usually why the nay sayers turn around and call the poster "tit".
Have fun, enjoy your bike and learn about traction budget.
In space, no one can smell your fart.
Hardcore Biker
mate, its just like riding a bike.
its no jump, its just what you do.
get on a grunty bitch and rape the fuck out of it! ride it like you stole it!
just remember they take some stopping, and get up to high speed fast.
L-Plate Rider
8.5 is a good deal. but will have to wait a while me thinks. have just finished at uni recently and dont think the significant other will appreciated money being spent on a new bike as already have a couple in the garage.
have you ridden her yet? how she handle?
Forum whore
Ask Dover he went from a Small bike to 3 x 1000cc bikes and brought two of them back to the shop that he brought them from in Boxs.....
Crazy Steve.
Re(tarder)
nah hoping up to pickit up tomorrow. but had a quick spin. didn't really ride it much. just made it move in straight lines.Originally Posted by nz_rider
8.5 is a good deal. but will have to wait a while me thinks. have just finished at uni recently and dont think the significant other will appreciated money being spent on a new bike as already have a couple in the garage.
have you ridden her yet? how she handle?
ive just finshed uni too. get a personal loan on a grad package. cheap as chips and fuck all interest. its more important to be out there riding than wishing to be out there riding.
L-Plate Rider
oh right your not in chch i see. did you just find it over the net. i am a bit dubious of the whole purchasing over the net things at times. especially when the thing is in a different city to me and i cant get to check it out.
personal loan the way to go you rec. i take it thats what you have done?
good on you mate.and you are right it is better to be out there riding that wishing you were.
are you having it as a road bike or race bike?
Shed Troll
I went from 250 to 1200 and it hasn't been an issue.
I wouldn't call myself a mature rider either. Right hand control is the key, and the spidey sense to anticipate things.
<- A new way to take a rubber!
When we get new toys, we all have the urge to push them (or more likely ourselves) to see what they are capable of.
Just resist that urge for a while... until you get familiar with the bike, then slowly increase corner speeds, lean angles, braking time etc... allowing plenty of reserve when you start out riding it.
Re(tarder)
yea ive bought heaps on the net site unseen. i judge a bike off the guy im buying it off usually. if there honest about the thing and can tell you whats actually been done to it i feel pretty safe. every now and then you get onewith something wrong but its usually luck more than a toughy. but i saw the bike last weekend cause it is alot more money than i have previously spent.oh right your not in chch i see. did you just find it over the net. i am a bit dubious of the whole purchasing over the net things at times. especially when the thing is in a different city to me and i cant get to check it out.
personal loan the way to go you rec. i take it thats what you have done?
good on you mate.
are you having it as a road bike or race bike?
its gonna be a road bike but it may end up with a spare set of firbeglass fairings and being a wee clubbie trackday bike too. shall see
L-Plate Rider
good on ya mate.well by the sounds of it you must have been very keen on the thing if you travelled to adn from dunners just to see the thing.
my partner has just seen this thread and is saying no way to me getting one. getting that look at the mo. haha.
thinking you havent got a g/f to worry about at the mo, and to say no way on the purchase. lol
lucky for some.
Geriatric hoon
The force is strong in this one.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Re(tarder)
well for those that care i have survived. i am still alive. dissappointing i know. i was gutted to have to get up this morning for work.
big bikes are really hard work round a track but awesomly fun. ive never been to the track and not been taken down the straight. it was stupidly fun going past bikes at stupid speeds. braking at the first corner is iffy though. but i think its me and shifting a bit early and boucing the back end. its strange not making full throttle in many places too. but its good. and snaking the rear out of corners is soo easy and controllable. its no gary mccoy - ness but its good fun and feels cool. but proabbly somewhat slow.
on the road its great for overtaking. pace comes on soo fast. its pretty uncomfy but nothing a strong dose of harden the fuck up don't fix. and i think all 100hp+ bikes should come with radar detectors stock. cause they just can't (CAN'T) go slow. handles great but it feels kinda unsettled on big bumps. but thats probably what suspension feels like.
anyway ive proved 35 odd % wrong. soo far. but give me a few more months guys.
see ya fellers about
I am therefore I do
Good on ya Dude...lookin fwd to linning up with you inthe next clubmans outing
The Heart is the drum keeping time for everyone....
Re(tarder)
haha not planning on taking it out for a race yet. a bit undecided as to whether i will. might wait to pick up the cash reserves before hand. or till i drop it on the road. dont wanna go trash out a couple of grand of fairings and other crap just yet. but ask me again in the near future and ill prob change me mind
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