First bike... advice please

**PirateJafa** · 21st June 2008, 09:14

This thread really sums up the SMC:

Guy asks for advice on a first bike.

Two weeks and three hundred and sixteen posts later he still hasn't got close.

**ehab2weelr** · 21st June 2008, 10:25

oi zim im so gana kill u bud .....im sik of reading this thread .....just get that vtr man....go with the overdraft......i used all overdraft i could get hahahaha.
how did 205 go?

**motorbyclist** · 21st June 2008, 12:26

Originally Posted by Drider87

There was one when I went to cape reinga in the group, it handled the trip better than my rg so yeah it loves big trips. You should know better andrew, your fxr has been everywhere haha

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

As I recall, one ride you were leading our group out to Miranda on your Fixxer Andrew? :P

yes i did

i know how to ride a bike, or rather clutch, well enough to outrun an r6 on my vfr, or or you guys on 250s with an fxr - learner will have trouble thrashing it that well
i was raping it - if i did that regularly i reckon it would've been fucked within 6 months (new rings, piston etc despite regular oil/filter changes -which it wasn't getting) - note i only thrashed it on 3 rides. all my bikes get a good raping and suffer for it - how do you think i got all my mechanical experience? i mean i sheared the spline off my gsxr250 output shaft ffs!
fxr sucks on the motorway for more than 20min - vibrations make hands go funny and seat is akin to that of a bicycle. it's fine in corners cause you're moving your ass about, but the motorway trips are killers

fxr is perfect as a runabout or commuter

but it's not designed for coro loops. it'll do them, but it'll hurt it. 100kph is very close to redline - do that for 2 hours on the way back and you know it isn't good

i still say buying it to get his restricted then selling is a good idea

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

This thread really sums up the SMC:

Guy asks for advice on a first bike.

Two weeks and three hundred and sixteen posts later he still hasn't got close.

i'd bling ya but it won't let me

**fireball** · 21st June 2008, 18:36

here is the link for my bike

its not a GN.......

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...=yes&p=1615693

**BANZAI** · 21st June 2008, 20:23

That GN is sold.

And I just found out the owner is my orchestra friend's brother lol

Pity you couldn't see the spada but perhaps fate is telling you to buy another bike??? (anyone belive in asian fate? lol)

Hmmm cruiser huh?

I'm not sure if he want cruiser....

Altho nice looking bike!!!