Hyosung GT250 vs Yamaha Scorpio for 1st bike & commuting?

**allycatz** · 30th November 2011, 21:19

Originally Posted by Ender EnZed

I imagine most people would be faster around a carpark on a Scorpio. Many people would be (and were) even faster on 50cc scooter but that doesn't make me want a scooter.

He he Ive got both and at the moment I AM faster on a scooter.....

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 21:22

Originally Posted by blackdog

That's a big call mate. I will see if I can get a GT250 (without the R) for a day to play with you, but I am confident enough with my skills that I think we should make it $5000. You have never met me and I am entirely serious.

Exciting times! I don't have 5 grand to put on the table, $500 will have to do.

Where are you based?

**nzspokes** · 30th November 2011, 21:26

Originally Posted by blackdog

I would own the Hyo first due to superiority in size and power.

Not quite true, Hyos have a smaller rider area as your knees are at a more extreme angle than on the Scorpio. Ive sat on them back to back. It may well be a faster position but its not learner friendly.

**blackdog** · 30th November 2011, 21:26

Originally Posted by jrandom

Exciting times! I don't have 5 grand to put on the table, $500 will have to do.

Where are you based?

If you don't have the stakes then I guess you can't play the game.

I am in Wellington though, and I am looking forward to taking your $500 off you, so next time there is a gymkhana here I am more than looking forward to meeting you.

**nzspokes** · 30th November 2011, 21:27

Originally Posted by jrandom

Exciting times! I don't have 5 grand to put on the table, $500 will have to do.

Where are you based?

Id put $500(if I had it) that you would be faster then me on my bike.

**tigertim20** · 30th November 2011, 21:31

Originally Posted by jrandom

You think one doesn't have work hard to learn to be 'relatively quick' on any bike?

Scorpios are a lot more forgiving to do it on than anything else, bar scooters.

a whole world exists outside the parking lot. in most real world circumstances, a bigger bike is going to be much easier to ride quickly, with little effort, a short ride from dunedin to Oamaru would adequately highlight this. the scorp would get thrashed, and the rider would need to be constantly on it to get there in a reasonable time, a bigger bike, lets say a hyosung 650 (picking a pretty average bike here) would do the same ride with fuckall effort. sit and tap the gas whenever you hit a hill/passing lane/come into a higher speed area etc etc. So yes, I am most certainly saying that you do less work on a bigger bike to do an equal speed.

Originally Posted by jrandom

Most people don't know what's good for them.

This is why I am posting here in this thread today.

I think that perhaps you should read this thread, its clearly written for you:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...-Bikers-accept...

Originally Posted by jrandom

I really doubt I'll get any reply to my offer. It's a shame, because it'd be easy money for me, and everyone else at the event would make him pay up, too.

blackdog - I'm open to negotiation if $500 is too much for your budget?

Blackdog, PLEASE take this idiots money!!!

Originally Posted by jrandom

I'm entirely serious.

good thing that you take yourself seriously, cos nobody else seems to!

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 21:34

Originally Posted by jrandom

Really?

NZ$500 says you on a Hyosung GT250R can't beat me on a Scorpio at the next http://www.gymkhana.co.nz/ event [edit: that's where we took that film].

Money on the table from each of us, up front on the day.

I'm entirely serious.

Originally Posted by blackdog

next time there is a gymkhana here...

Heh! You should've specified a Wellington venue before agreeing, dude. Did you even click on my link?

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 21:36

Originally Posted by tigertim20

I think that perhaps you should read this thread, its clearly written for you:

It wouldn't surprise me at all if that thread's OP did actually have me in mind, yes.

**blackdog** · 30th November 2011, 21:42

Originally Posted by jrandom

Heh! You should've specified a Wellington venue before agreeing, dude. Did you even click on my link?

Any weekend any time dickhead. We can work out the logistics. There is no point in talking smack, let's organise a time and place.

You have called me out and I have picked up your gauntlet.

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 21:45

Originally Posted by tigertim20

a bigger bike, not a learner bike, lets say a hyosung 650, or a Triumph Rocket III, would do the same ride with fuckall effort. sit and tap the gas whenever you hit a hill/passing lane/come into a higher speed area etc etc.

Yes. True. The OP should buy a Rocket III.

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 21:46

Originally Posted by blackdog

Any weekend any time dickhead. We can work out the logistics. There is no point in talking smack, let's organise a time and place.

You're agreeing to come to Taupo?

**jrandom** · 30th November 2011, 22:00

*blackdog is thinking about it*

I'm going to bed, man, I'll check the thread in the morning. But I'm not travelling for this shit and eating into my profit (or increasing my loss, perhaps - you sound fast!) and I did make the location clear with the link in my initial post.

So, come to the next Taupo gymkhana if you wish, and we'll have a race for $500.

Perhaps it'll be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

You sound a bit angry, though, so maybe not.

Sometimes I really do wish that we could all just be friends.