RE: Harris buys a Ducati: PH Blog
Discussion
Nice first bike, new monster does look lovely and rather purposeful (although my choice would have been the 848 streetfighter in yellow).
as for testing nowadays, its 24 to do DA (direct access) which you do by lessons (if needed) and 2 test. at 19 you can do your A2 test (restricted at 33bhp for 2 years), this is the route i took so now at 22 i can ride whatever i desire which currently is nothing due to theft =(
as for testing nowadays, its 24 to do DA (direct access) which you do by lessons (if needed) and 2 test. at 19 you can do your A2 test (restricted at 33bhp for 2 years), this is the route i took so now at 22 i can ride whatever i desire which currently is nothing due to theft =(
Its good to see you enjoying bikes Chris.
I often wonder if I had access to any number of fast cars and empty tracks if I'd bother with a bike but I think the answer is yes. Its a different thrill. Fast cars for you are about driving on / over the limit. Bikes will always be about smooth riding and staying (broadly) within the limits.
I predict when the running in is done you'll be on the red line immediately.
Enjoy.
I often wonder if I had access to any number of fast cars and empty tracks if I'd bother with a bike but I think the answer is yes. Its a different thrill. Fast cars for you are about driving on / over the limit. Bikes will always be about smooth riding and staying (broadly) within the limits.
I predict when the running in is done you'll be on the red line immediately.
Enjoy.
trickywoo said:
Its good to see you enjoying bikes Chris.
I often wonder if I had access to any number of fast cars and empty tracks if I'd bother with a bike but I think the answer is yes. Its a different thrill. Fast cars for you are about driving on / over the limit. Bikes will always be about smooth riding and staying (broadly) within the limits.
I predict when the running in is done you'll be on the red line immediately.
Enjoy.
I've always considered biking to be the Bluray 3D version of travelling with hidden extras and unseen footage. I mean, the standard DVD version of travelling is good and you get to see the same stuff, it's just not as an immersive sensory assault as the other.I often wonder if I had access to any number of fast cars and empty tracks if I'd bother with a bike but I think the answer is yes. Its a different thrill. Fast cars for you are about driving on / over the limit. Bikes will always be about smooth riding and staying (broadly) within the limits.
I predict when the running in is done you'll be on the red line immediately.
Enjoy.
Rawwr said:
The rate at which you get used to power on bikes seems to be significantly greater than the rate at which you get used to it in cars. After a year of riding a Fireblade, I swapped bikes with a friend for a little jaunt out into the countryside. Swinging my leg over his new GSX-R600 was quite an eye-opener. To me, it felt dangerously slow and that such slow things shouldn't be allowed out on the road as it's not safe to pull out into traffic. Five years previous to that, the day I collected my first ever bike, a lovely GSX-R600, I was on that unnerving brink of spontaneous bowel evacuation the first time I gave it full-throttle in 2nd gear.
I know you've driven many, many cars over the years so I'd love to hear your reaction to a test ride on a full-blown, hairy-chested, nuts-out 1000cc supersport of some description. I confidently predict that even the weedy underpowered Fireblade will make you want to raise more eyebrows than you have.
I know what you mean, in a way. I've not ridden a litre bike but I've been on my GSX-R600 SRAD, throttle wide open, firing gears at it and giving it everything it had, and my mate on his 2010 Fireblade overtook me like I wasn't even there. But in the grand scheme of things, 600 sports bikes aren't slow, they do 0-100 in 7 seconds-ish, which by the standards of most vehicles on the road is ludicrously fast. However, I can completely see how litre bikes, with the warp drive of the Millenium Falcon powering the back wheel could warp perceptions and set the bar for "fast" impossibly high. I'll have to get myself a go on one some time.I know you've driven many, many cars over the years so I'd love to hear your reaction to a test ride on a full-blown, hairy-chested, nuts-out 1000cc supersport of some description. I confidently predict that even the weedy underpowered Fireblade will make you want to raise more eyebrows than you have.
I did something similar, in 2008. walked in to the ducati shop and put a deposit on a baby monster 695... Then I went out and did my test.
I keep thinking of changing and almost pulled the trigger on a delivery miles M1100 evo last month but then i rode my baby monster again..
have fun, and yes defo get some termis on it..
I keep thinking of changing and almost pulled the trigger on a delivery miles M1100 evo last month but then i rode my baby monster again..
have fun, and yes defo get some termis on it..
Mastodon2 said:
I know what you mean, in a way. I've not ridden a litre bike but I've been on my GSX-R600 SRAD, throttle wide open, firing gears at it and giving it everything it had, and my mate on his 2010 Fireblade overtook me like I wasn't even there. But in the grand scheme of things, 600 sports bikes aren't slow, they do 0-100 in 7 seconds-ish, which by the standards of most vehicles on the road is ludicrously fast. However, I can completely see how litre bikes, with the warp drive of the Millenium Falcon powering the back wheel could warp perceptions and set the bar for "fast" impossibly high. I'll have to get myself a go on one some time.
There's only one word you can use to describe it: unrelenting.I can really see (and hear!) the appeal of a Ducati, but I think that is one ugly machine (sorry Chris!). I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Now a nice 916 on the other hand...
I remember getting my first performance bike (an R6) and being quite disappointed with the lack of pace, but once I got used to the bike and finally took it past 10,000rpm it was like a whole other world.
Now a nice 916 on the other hand...
I remember getting my first performance bike (an R6) and being quite disappointed with the lack of pace, but once I got used to the bike and finally took it past 10,000rpm it was like a whole other world.
Mastodon2 said:
Rawwr said:
The rate at which you get used to power on bikes seems to be significantly greater than the rate at which you get used to it in cars. After a year of riding a Fireblade, I swapped bikes with a friend for a little jaunt out into the countryside. Swinging my leg over his new GSX-R600 was quite an eye-opener. To me, it felt dangerously slow and that such slow things shouldn't be allowed out on the road as it's not safe to pull out into traffic. Five years previous to that, the day I collected my first ever bike, a lovely GSX-R600, I was on that unnerving brink of spontaneous bowel evacuation the first time I gave it full-throttle in 2nd gear.
I know you've driven many, many cars over the years so I'd love to hear your reaction to a test ride on a full-blown, hairy-chested, nuts-out 1000cc supersport of some description. I confidently predict that even the weedy underpowered Fireblade will make you want to raise more eyebrows than you have.
I know what you mean, in a way. I've not ridden a litre bike but I've been on my GSX-R600 SRAD, throttle wide open, firing gears at it and giving it everything it had, and my mate on his 2010 Fireblade overtook me like I wasn't even there. But in the grand scheme of things, 600 sports bikes aren't slow, they do 0-100 in 7 seconds-ish, which by the standards of most vehicles on the road is ludicrously fast. However, I can completely see how litre bikes, with the warp drive of the Millenium Falcon powering the back wheel could warp perceptions and set the bar for "fast" impossibly high. I'll have to get myself a go on one some time.I know you've driven many, many cars over the years so I'd love to hear your reaction to a test ride on a full-blown, hairy-chested, nuts-out 1000cc supersport of some description. I confidently predict that even the weedy underpowered Fireblade will make you want to raise more eyebrows than you have.
Ecosseven said:
Properly fast bikes such as 1000cc sportsbikes sound great on paper but I think I would get frustrated riding one in the UK with the volume of traffic and our speed limits. I do like v-twins though and would happily have another 600-800cc bike as a fun machine.
Depends on the bike. Some litre sportsbikes are happy to plod through town at 30mph in 6th, some of them sulk if you try to do less than 100mph.
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