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Post by KD on Aug 25, 2022 10:52:05 GMT
I do my shopping on a yamaha 125 scooter and loads do still nod.
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Post by elstoof on May 15, 2023 15:26:24 GMT
given a little attention to the motor and cleaned the filth of after a winter of neglect. Must ride more this year
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Post by Chopsen on May 15, 2023 19:32:39 GMT
Nice. Dunno what it's like round your way, but I swear there are fewer sports bikes around recently. Lots of cafe racer, low-key cruiser type bikes around. Maybe you're all waiting for the fair weather
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Post by elstoof on May 15, 2023 21:13:00 GMT
Yeah way fewer sports bike riders, apart from 125 repsol replica things or 1000cc screamers, no one really makes anything in between any more. It’s all roadsters and tourers
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Post by minimatt on May 15, 2023 21:58:57 GMT
is it a "by the time you're old enough to afford the insurance yer back's fucked and bent over a tank in a racing crouch with all your weight on your wrists is not sustainable for >15 minutes" affair? dunno, my last bike I was already well down that path (sv1000) and next, if I can justify it, is likely to be some trumpet cafe racer thing
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Post by elstoof on May 16, 2023 7:27:47 GMT
Possibly that, plus once you hit that age if you still want a sports bike you want to wave you’re willy about on a 1000cc so there’s no middleweights left for younger riders. Growing up in the 90s it was all sports bikes and that’s what I love now, looks like the trend might be returning with these Aprilia 660s and R7s, but they’re bloody parallel twins. The Kwak ZX4 looks really interesting but not quite 10 grand interesting
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Post by minimatt on May 16, 2023 8:04:17 GMT
fuck me I take it all back, yeah that ZX4 looks good, didn't realise 400s were back, that 250 2 stroke / 400 4 stroke phase of the 90s (or noughties by the time I could afford them) was ace (had a viffer 400 nc30, best bike ever, and a suzi rgv250, best bike ever when it ran)
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Post by dogbot on May 16, 2023 8:34:07 GMT
They've been popular for a while, no? The intermediate sports bikes (250/300/400cc) have had their own class in racing for about a decade and it's brought their popularity right back. To the extent that I believe the sell quite a bit better than the 600s these days?
I do miss my R1s sometimes. Then I remember what it was like after sitting on one for a few hours and how every silly person on the road wanted to race it, the cost of tyres and racing parts and so on and I miss them less.
Plus, I still have an FZ-1n in the garage if I really want to be a hooligan for a few moments.
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Post by minimatt on May 16, 2023 8:40:07 GMT
ahh cool, I'm just too far out of it, there seemed to be this big gap where you could only get 400s as grey imports from japan for years, the sensible 600s went a bit hardcore, and the market was learner bike > boring ass middleweight > gixxer 1000/R1
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Post by elstoof on May 16, 2023 9:15:45 GMT
Those lower cc A1/A2 classes are all single cylinder or parallel twin though, you can’t get a 4 cylinder engine smaller than a litre any more. 600 class got killed off by euro4/5, it wasn’t worth the manufacturers effort to bring them in line with emissions, Yamaha and I think Kawasaki only sell a track only 600 now. Even triumph killed the Daytona when literally all they have to do is make a body kit for the 765. I hope the inline 4 ZX4 reignites some interest.
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Post by dogbot on May 16, 2023 9:35:34 GMT
They were (/would have been) really expensive to make anyway and so really expensive to buy, which I think helped, too. Especially in the smaller engine configurations, where having a tiny bore/stroke led to a requirement to have really expensive pistons and rods, hardened cylinder linings and valve seats, more electronics to monitor and control it all etc etc. More costs to buy, servicing costs and repair costs higher, less interest to the users.
The P Twin/V Twin/Singles are more robust for the bulk of use cases in smaller racebikes, I reckon. They're easier to get low end torque out of without having to wring its neck at 5 figure rpms like with a recent model R6, for example.
I suppose if it's that important to people to have an I4, they're still available secondhand in their droves.
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Post by patrick on Jun 15, 2023 20:08:27 GMT
Ughh, getting my redundancy and having the money in my account to get a motorbike again but knowing I should save it for house deposit stuff. Hnnngff. Also, my Uncle(who is the reason i'm into motorbikes) visited at the weekend on his Thruxton. It sounded mega. I think the cans were standard but they sounded great.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 15, 2023 20:24:58 GMT
That’s lovely
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Post by patrick on Jun 15, 2023 20:50:37 GMT
It's one of the few classics I really like. It can look really aggressive with a couple of little changes.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 15, 2023 21:13:46 GMT
There’s a guy round here with one, sounds immense and I’m not normally partial to parallel twins
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Post by patrick on Jun 15, 2023 21:31:34 GMT
There’s a guy round here with one, sounds immense and I’m not normally partial to parallel twins I used to be a die hard 90 degree twin fanboy when the 916/996 was around and I first got into bikes. Closest i've got to console fanboy status.
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 23, 2023 19:29:45 GMT
My 2017 CMX500 passed its MOT today!
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Embarrassingly, that’s the first time I’ve ridden it since last year’s MOT.
Even more embarrassingly, it’s still only done less than 800 miles. In six years!
/o\
But, to celebrate, did then take the Mrs. out for a twenty mile whizz around on it!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 19:59:18 GMT
I picture you taking her down to Lake Minnetonka like Prince and Apollonia.
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Post by KD on Jun 23, 2023 20:27:57 GMT
I had to renew my cbt today, took my own bike and still cost me £125.
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Post by suicida on Jun 23, 2023 22:20:59 GMT
Not sure where to post this but this seems as good a place as any, here's Peter Hickman's very recent record breaking 136mph lap of the IOM TT from an on bike camera Insane youtu.be/31RZ5wU-Fg0
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Post by minimatt on Jun 23, 2023 22:27:16 GMT
fuck me that's mad. have done (indicated) ~135mph *once* on a laverda 750s formula and the fucker wanted me dead, doing an average of 136 on public roads, over ~37 miles, christ, balls on that
edit: went looking for pics of the lav
the lav by this stage had been sent down the road several times, I'd fucked the MX5 a couple of years before and that was waiting on my expert mechanical skills, the SV650 was only on it's third, maybe fourth, set of brake/clutch levers by that point and the audi actually worked
it is possible I brought down property prices in my area
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Post by elstoof on Jun 24, 2023 11:59:54 GMT
Beautiful bikes those 750s. Still got it?
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Post by Chopsen on Jun 24, 2023 12:03:46 GMT
My 2017 CMX500 passed its MOT today! \o/ Embarrassingly, that’s the first time I’ve ridden it since last year’s MOT. Even more embarrassingly, it’s still only done less than 800 miles. In six years! /o\ But, to celebrate, did then take the Mrs. out for a twenty mile whizz around on it! This is the way. Tho you've made me feel better about the Rebel I bought in sept last year on which I've done 700 on the clock.
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Post by minimatt on Jun 24, 2023 12:32:10 GMT
nah, headstock broke over a pothole and the resulting faceplate took out too many expensive bits and bent anything not broken
I did wince as I saw how valuable they are now.
Handled absolutely beautiful right up to the point that it didn't, then it instantly turned into a head shaking bastard
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 24, 2023 13:25:04 GMT
This is the way. Tho you've made me feel better about the Rebel I bought in sept last year on which I've done 700 on the clock. Hope you love it as much as I do: they’re cracking, easy little bikes.
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Post by elstoof on Jul 13, 2023 17:34:30 GMT
Took the panigale down to the coast to see my stepmum, I reckon 5 hours in a day is the point where it gets painful to be perched on it. Sadly I spent well over 6 hours, the last 2 filtering in 1st though motorway traffic
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Post by elstoof on Jul 13, 2023 19:23:20 GMT
I have poured a negroni
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Post by Chopsen on Jul 13, 2023 20:51:21 GMT
Ouch. Longest I've ever done was 3 or 4 hours on a deauville, and that was bad enough. And that was *designed* for touring.
I was so knackered when I got to my destination I forgot to put the kickstand down when I got off and dropped the fucker.
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Post by elstoof on Jul 13, 2023 20:57:43 GMT
Ha! I did that once when I was in a rush, the stand didnt stay down so I hopped off to get the garage door open and the next thing I knew both the bike and I were on the floor
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Post by EMarkM on Jul 13, 2023 21:28:08 GMT
I have obviously never done anything like that.
Ahem.
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