1st Big Bike

Ah, the memories came flooding back. Just seen my lad take delivery of
his 1st big bike. SV650 (he's only 17, did I mention he's 6ft 4in ?).

He's following me and we pull into the petrol station. He gets off and
is shaking as he put petrol in for the 1st time. Cold ? I ask. No!
Fucking crapping myself !!

Prior to this he's been riding a Varadero 125 and now he's out there on
a soon to be restricted SV650S 2001 - NICE !!!!! Reminds me of the
time I took my first big bike out. Locked the back wheel and ended up
diagonal at a roundabout looking a right twat at the traffic I'd just
burnt off.

Anyone know how easy/difficult it is to fit a restrictor kit to an SV
?????

 

emerged from their own little world to say

It will have to be done by a dealer so you get a certificate to satisfy the
insurance bureaucrats.

Of course, in an ideal world you'd get the certificate and the dealer would
forget to fit the restrictor

 

It will have to be done by a dealer so you get a certificate to satisfy the

Oh bollocks !!! they havent asked for a certificate though. I changed
the Varadeo insurance to the SV this afternoon, but I guess when the
paperwork comes throguh they'll need it.

Cheers

 

emerged from their own little world to say

They might only ask for proof in the event of a claim. Is it worth the risk
to save a few quid now?

 

Yep I know. The kit is on order at £57.50 and I think fitting is
about £100, but thought I'd ask how easy/difficult to fit but if they
need a dealer certificate, then best to let them have a go.

 

Personally, I'd have every road user on a low powered bike for the first
year, just to teach them survival amongst all those mongos in cars etc.
Might turn them into better car drivers, the type who use mirrors, and who
have to think about what they are doing, without getting away with it.

 

Where? If online a link please.

 

I know, but wouldn't it be the mutts nutts? Car drivers who thought like
bikers? I can only dream.......

 

Work in progress emerged from their own little world to say

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1604608,00.html
Interview with Kirsty Wark on BBC4, 28 Oct.

It's no longer on the BBC website but UKNova have it

 

17 years old.Bantam 175 to a Norton Dommie 88 500 cafe racer.Same
effect/affect :O

PS
No 4X4 women who can't see over the steering wheel in me old days ;-)

 

Personally I wouldn't let a 17 year-old near a bike of that capability,

Yep. Being a parent isn't easy you can't wrap them in cotton wool but
you want them to be safe. He has a healthy respect for the bike at the
mo but once confidence kicks in...... the restrictor will have been
fitted by that point.

What I'd like to see is a properly enforced CBT. When I did mine we
had an indestuctible 16 year old who was using a scooter with a 50cc
geared bike waiting for him at home. He ran a red light, nearly
killing himself, pulled out in front of a wagon forcing an emergency
stop, didn't know what the national speed limit road sign meant, let
along the mph. And you guessed it - he passed and was sent on his way
now road legal.

Scooter riders seem to have a majority of idiots - perhaps attendance
at an RTA may bring things home a little.

 

Bit of a difference between a 16 year old riding on a CBT and a 17
year old who's riding with the blessing of his father and having had
training and a test.

 

Why ever not? It was good enough for us, why should we stop today's
kids having the same fun as we did?

Oh FFS. This is just _so_ much the wrong way round. After that period
he'll have caused half a dozen SMIDSYs and learnt nothing. At least
falling off a bike he's goinbg to learn that it hurts and it's maybe
something better avoided.

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Jesus, you must be as old as I am...

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Quite. I blame Yamaha for directly causing the 125cc limit by making
the 250LC. Only because I couldn't afford one, mind...

 

My first experiences on a bike [1] went like this:

Couple of goes on a mate's 125 field bike - great fun

Borrowed GS250, got on, started, in gear, full throttle, wheelied up the
road, couldn't let go, front wheel came down when it ran out of puff.
My mates thought it was really cool and I managed not to let on that I'd
been shitting myself.

Bought a car.

[1] in 1977 aged 17

 

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Wobbling down the road on my YB100.....

To be fair, there were fewer cars around then, too.

 

No more so than you got among the Fizzie and AP50 riders of my formative
years.

They're teenagers. Ergo they behave like plonks. Having scooters instead
of sports mopeds makes no difference.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

National Service, that's the answer. Teach them some discipline.

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No more so than you got among the Fizzie and AP50 riders of my formative

Yep. Point taken. But there seems more plonks on scooters than geared
bikes our way.

Cheeky boy !! I did not mis-behave on my C90 ever !!

PS loved the joke on another thread about the old school mate.