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master baits
20-01-2003, 00:49
No one in here into scoots , seeing as the price of petrol and insurance is deadlier than the output of the vehicles we proably all end up using them anyway.
Not quite - had plenty of bikes tho, currently on an R6. Well, when the weather improves a touch at any rate! If I had a scooter or a supermoto I'd use it at this time of year for a right good laugh :D
No other 2-wheeled fiends around then?
garycooper
20-01-2003, 22:13
Had at 'twist & go' scooter now for the past 6 years. (first Piaggio Hexagon 125, second Gilera Runner 180, present Gilera DNA 180) It's cut my journey to work from 30 mins in the car to 10 mins on the scooter. My Scooter Site (http://www.garys-gilera.co.uk)
used to have suzi ap 50 twist and hope it goes then got a real bike
now i've got a kwaker vn 800 and ride it all year round. getting to work by car\bus took 35 mins on the bike now only takes 15 mins
what i have might not be motorbikes/scooters but the are gopeds
a goped bigfoot 23cc , bigboy v1 23cc, bigboy v3 with an active 55cc engine and a blata blatino 33cc.
the 55cc active k&n , hp exhaust,carb etc gets over 100 to the gallon and does over 40 +mph scarrey when your standing about 6 inches of the ground and with wheels which are 10 " tall.
dont use them as much now the police dont like them in ayr and in the summer theres to many other idiots about on the roads and down the shore to really have fun .
this is one hobby that cost me way to much money .
Emissary
21-01-2003, 18:10
Was riding a Honda CBR400R till we both got crunched (me and the bike). Going to Ally Pally to look for cheap kit next week, then think about finding a job and going after a full power Mito EVO or something
i like the smaller bikes it makes a change from the over weight bikes had a test ride on a sachs xtc that had been tuned there a very nice bike and quick for a 125 4 stroke also handle well something diffrent form the run of mill minto, rs125 or nsr
have look
http://www.sachs-bikes.com/Site_eng/xtc_4.php
so, are there no real bikers in here? :p not really susprising since everyone is so young! There are benefites to being an old fart :D
doesn't make the spelling any better though!
My last bike was an R100 RS. If you are a biker I don't have to name the maker!
The best thing about it apart from the loud twin horns and the very bright headlight, was that I felt safe in traffic. With the size and shape of the fairing a car punter seeing me getting bigger in his rear view mirror behaved himself. There was no way he didn't see me.
Haha :) I got a reply! Well done that man. Yes, those car drivers need all they help they can get spotting us bikers. It would seem a bike headlight is invisible to most myopic car drivers. Never tried a "boxer" myself but I am partial to a twin - had a Firestorm which was great (except the tank range) and still have a 350LC :D
Thing about the Boxer was that it ran better the longer the journey. I was coming back from the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard and we'd already done about 150 miles and I was going flat out, two up, tank bag and panniers and I came upon a green meanie (this was many years ago) the Kawasaki Z1, head down crouched and giving it wellie. I flew past him!
Now I know that's not supposed to happen but long journey, the Boxer gets better.
Mind, the best I saw was also on the French auto-route. A guy on a R100RT which had a really high front fairing, wearing a soft WWII type pilot's helmet, with goggles, smoking a cigar!! He was doing 60 at least.
The best bike sound I ever heard was also on the Auto Route du sol.
Picture the scene, a nice motorway service area, not like ours, with picnic benches and the like. The motorway beside you has a central reservation of tall trees, the mountains are beside you and the motorway is running long and low into a valley and there are mountains on the far side of the valley as well. Sunny day.
Suddenly building up, a wail that would curdle milk at twenty paces and made the hair on the back of your neck stand up - everyone who was with me was the same. It had depth, bass, roundness, high in pitch as well, and LOUD. Could you imagine a racing two stroke 2 cylinder mixed up with a racing 4 stroke 4 cylinder?
The sound quickly receded but because it started so loud, we heard it for another minute or so... and no one saw the damned thing. There were about twenty bikes in the car park and nothing but heads twisting round up the road and down, trying to see this thing - and it's speed.
And I've never heard anything like it since.
Alan, you proved mo wrong on two counts - there are real bikers on here........... and I'm not the only old fart (although talk of Z1's dates you a touch !) :) Any non-biker reading this just won't appreciate a thing..... too many boom boom Corsa/Nova boys I fear. The sound of any Duke ever made, or even a 4 cylinder with a race can at full chat........ it's a lot more than just speed isn 't it? :p
You bet!
I've been many years bikeless now (children and finances!) That noise was probably enhanced by reverberation within the valley - I'll never hear anything like it again - but someone was riding the whirlwind.
One last memory is at the Ulster road Grand Prix about 1980. The late great Joey Dunlop was racing and half way through the race was well down the field. Now the roads it's raced on are country roads and I've driven these roads often. To be sitting at the side of the road, sticking your head through a gap in the hedge watching the bikes go by was quite an experience. Also frightening. I'd watched plenty of track races - Donnngton, Snetterton etc. but, your ears are much closer to the action. The rumble of the bikes tyres - not the engine noise, is what I remember. As they went by close on 200mph, the road shook and it felt like 40 tonne artics were approaching at great speed!
Lord Joey won the race of course, much to the satisfaction of everyone watching!
Ive been to the Grand Prix on the Isle of Man a couple of times, have a cracking week there with the races and shows on. :)
Kynoch? I'm (slightly) suprised! Hey, join the club, this is definitely an underused section (so far). Wait until the sun comes out :D The Isle Of Man TT (or Manx) is the best holiday going. Lots of bike, lots of beer and lots of women. Okay, the women was an exaggeration, but they are there! Looks like this section is going to be reserved for the older brethren?
Why are you slighty surprised?
Im thinking of going again with my mate this year, but this time were legal. so were gonna be pished everynight from the pubs instead of drink back in the tent, suppose i might go into a hotel instead this year. :)
I think you answered your own question there :) Most people on here seem to be teenagers which is slightly disconcerting to us old timers:D
Ah you mean surprised that i aint a boy racer?
Well i aint coz i aint passed my driving test, ive had nearly a year to get it done it but because i live next to college i havnt had a need to pass, money went on better things.:D
Hope to be driving by the time im 18 in May.:)
Originally posted by smeld
so, are there no real bikers in here? :p not really susprising since everyone is so young! There are benefites to being an old fart :D
real bikers :mad:
I ride vn 800 all year around is that not classed as real biker :cool: or just talking about plastic rocket merchants who rap thier bikes up in cotton wool for the winter.
signed NOT AN OLD FART
garycooper
26-01-2003, 22:51
Best sounding bike I have ever heard was this.
http://www.garycooper.fsnet.co.uk/four.jpg
It was blasting around Elvington Air Museum near York at a Gilera meeting. It's a replica of a Gilera 'Four'.
I don't have a 'real bike' as I find twist & go's much cheaper to run. However I'm hoping to change to a 500cc twist & go this June.
:eek: Take a pill, it was just a gentle wind-up, as you might have noticed if you'd read my follow-up post:
Haha I got a reply! Well done that man.
Actually, my jibe was more to do with the number of (teenage) scooter-riders :p
I know how difficult it is to get insurance for anything on two wheels so I'm actually glad to see people getting out there in whatever shape or form suits them or their circumstances.
just talking about plastic rocket merchants who rap thier bikes up in cotton wool for the winter.
I'll take it you were on the wind-up too, Flash?
btw, I don't consider riding around in freezing temperatures, on roads covered in crap in the middle of winter to make someone any more of a "real biker" but that's a very old argument ;)
Gary, that Gilera rep is a "real bike" alright :D
don't drive a real bike, just a tuned Italjet Dragster 125, great fun to thrash about round town. bit pants on open roads. still am having a load more parts fitted next week so it will be faster still! will post some pics then.
garycooper: was that at an NSA meet at elvington? I go to a lot of those.
not posted here for a while, but I saw an old post of mine while browsing through!
http://www.divuk83.com/mybike.htm pics of my scoot as promised! bit later than I planned but nevermind!:D
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