Go all out, or not at all...

[WolfAir]

BobSaunders said:

I live about a mile away from you wolfair, but on princess parkway.

I have the 08reg P9F 600cc zx6r - The smaller cc version 600 rather than 636. The rev range as discussed is sedate lower down, but once you hit 12k it comes into it's own - great in my opinion for me as a new biker. The clutch can be trigger hair when pulling away, but you easily get used to it.

Let me know if you want a ride out at some point into the peaks.

Cheers for the offer Bob, will definitely give you a shout and arrange something.
Well heres a couple of official pics of my bike,
you may notice the right hand side mirror being on the bike in one and mysteriously disappeared in the next... well that was due to my smart ass brother dropping my bike...
I took it to mr pigs who was great, gave the bike a nice safety check over, made sure nothing was too bad, ordered new mirror and apparently the foot brake lever has a crack in it so I need a new one of them.
Apart from them joys, my gosh what a machine,
p.s sorry to anyone who may have been behind me, I did try and stay over the left side and plus I'm not one to be screaming the engine everywhere.

Edited by WolfAir on Tuesday 25th August 22:08

Edited by WolfAir on Tuesday 25th August 22:50

[jjones]

WolfAir said:

that wind will throw u off the bike at that acceleration. [/footnote]

words fail me.

[WolfAir]

jjones said:

WolfAir said:

that wind will throw u off the bike at that acceleration. [/footnote]

words fail me.

no idea what you mean

[WolfAir]

Anybody recommend good wet/dry tyres? It seems pilots are the way to go but i'm not going to be doing any track riding for a while. Are there any others?
The ones i have on at the moment are apparently not very good in the wet

[black-k1]

anonymous said:

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[BlackPrince]

WolfAir - I'm confused - you said you have been riding since you were 12 but then managed to convince your mum to let you get a bike? Am guessing you just recently got your road license then?

[Thou]

To be perfectly honest, judging from his comments and questions so far, it would seem he's very new to bikes. I got the impression he had a dirt bike when he was 12, and this is the first time he's had a 'proper' bike.

Nice bike anyway OP, definitely the better choice for starting out than a Fireblade!

[WolfAir]

BlackPrince said:

WolfAir - I'm confused - you said you have been riding since you were 12 but then managed to convince your mum to let you get a bike? Am guessing you just recently got your road license then?

Thou said:

To be perfectly honest, judging from his comments and questions so far, it would seem he's very new to bikes. I got the impression he had a dirt bike when he was 12, and this is the first time he's had a 'proper' bike.

Nice bike anyway OP, definitely the better choice for starting out than a Fireblade!

Hey fellas sorry for the late reply I have been away.
I basically learnt to ride in Pakistan, where as you may know licencing and insurance laws are a bit relaxed. It was my granddad's (God rest his soul) Yamaha cd 70 which was pretty much a supped up moped. My brother and I went every year during the summer holidays (one of which he upgraded to the Honda 125 which was a big thing in Pakistan at the time, 125 being maximum cc allowed) and rode around the streets and roads. The irony being my mother never stopped me from riding a bike in one of the most craziest places to drive never mind ride a motorbike, with no protection but back in the UK she flat refused to allow me my own motorbike.
So I saved up for the DAS, did my bike licence and bought a 125 piaggio liberty (got a clout around the ear hole), insured it for a couple of years and when my dear old ma saw I hadn't spontaneously combusted into flames whilst riding she said ok to a bigger bike, hence the ninja .
Thou is right though, the 600 more than enough at this time.
cheers

[neelyp]

WolfAir said:

Anybody recommend good wet/dry tyres? It seems pilots are the way to go but i'm not going to be doing any track riding for a while. Are there any others?
The ones i have on at the moment are apparently not very good in the wet

Metzeler M7RR is the road tyre of choice at the moment.

[julian64]

Prof Prolapse said:

neelyp said:

Or GSX-R750

You see that would be my thinking too.

Quicker than some of the older litre bikes, and easy to handle.

Not likely. A GSXR750 is a fast bike in its own right, but even a 2000 model R1 was a clean getaway in any sort of straight line. Thats a fifteen year old bike. Not sure how old youre talking there but my feeling is that when I swapped from a 200o model R1 to a 2010 S1000RR, and recently tried a 2014 S1000RR, there was bugger all power wise difference between them in the real world.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to go back to pre R1 times to find a litre bike actually slower than a gsxr750.

[Prof Prolapse]

julian64 said:

Not likely. A GSXR750 is a fast bike in its own right, but even a 2000 model R1 was a clean getaway in any sort of straight line. Thats a fifteen year old bike. Not sure how old youre talking there but my feeling is that when I swapped from a 200o model R1 to a 2010 S1000RR, and recently tried a 2014 S1000RR, there was bugger all power wise difference between them in the real world.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to go back to pre R1 times to find a litre bike actually slower than a gsxr750.

I wasn't meaning in long straight lines.

I wouldn't expect any power difference between the 2010 and 2014 S1000RR, the engine is the same.