Advice please

This looks nice, seems cheap too.
http://www.premierbikes.co.uk/motoguzzi_v11_sport_naked.htm

 

What a lucky chap.
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Yeah, but will they do 0% finance?

Actually, after the endless trouble that one of my friends had with his V11
I wouldn't touch one even at that price.


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*sigh* Let me rephrase what I wrote.

On this group it is often said that 600's have no go. This is what I think
is complete tosh.
A (my) 600 can pull off in second gear, can accelerate fairly well from 4k
RPM and generally does not feel like a lardy old shed.

Yes, a 1000 will be MUCH faster, can pull off in 9th and will overtake the
world in an instant - but it's relative - the 600 is hardly an old bus - and
it's that reference that I was taking an issue with.

With regards Pip's comments about finding the power band, let me rephrase
that too - I've had the bike 2 years now - I KNOW where it makes power, very
very well - when I want to make good progress (it happens) I know to keep it
above 10k rpm - immediate throttle response - fun

In fact, Elly has seen me ride the bike in a manner where full power was
required

For general riding, you can happily poodle along at 7 000 rpm (below the
power band) and then, with decent planning, stay within that gear to
overtake - completing without any need to change up or down a gear at an odd
moment. Obviously it can also be done by changing down a gear and caning the
tits off it, but it doesn't NEED to be.

The point is that it's not necessary because, as I said up there, the bike
DOES pull from low revs.
I don't worry about what gear I'm in, because I'm usually in a gear that I
know has the power I need at that moment - it might be 12500rpm in second,
or it might be 5500 rpm in 6th - the point here being that I don't worry
about it.

And finally, Christofire, FOYRNB

 

FINISH HIM!

 

dwb says...

<snip a load of bigging up the Gixxer 600>

But it's still chickwheels.

 

That's gorgeous, and talk about affordable!

 

Never disputed

 

ogden says...

I would if I could, but I can't, he's fucked off for the day. Maybe when
he gets back, if I'm in the mood for a slaughter.

 

dwb wrote

There is summat fundamentally wrong about a bike that sings Castrato.

Gimme Basso Profundo any day.

 

Or if it's raining, or if you're using it for a really urgent journey,
or if the wind isn't blowing from Hammamatsu, or if you haven't revved
it over 7000rpm to clear the plugs in the last 5 minutes, or if it's a
Tuesday, or if it feels like it, or if you're more than 50 miles away
from civilisation, or if youre trying to sell it to a keen mug punter,
or if you haven't filled it up in the last 70 miles, or.....

 

Hmm, so you can make the comparison of a 600 to a 1000, but similarly
comparing something with less power to your 600 is not on?

F(ing)O right now, sah!

 

Their testers can't ride for toffee obviously. Perhaps they need some
training. i know just the folk as it happens.

 

26562.news.uni-berlin.de:

Ain't that the truth. I took mine out for a first proper ride last week.
Left it in third in the twisties which was good for anything between 30mph
and 125.

 

What, getting seconds and hand me downs....

 

[of ben] Do you? You're not a member of that world famous IAM group are
you?

I agree. Some people actually like using the gearbox. OTOH, I can totally
understand why some people hate it.

 

Yes. I'm making a comparison between 4 bikes I've owned over the last
8 years and the differing qualities of ride they provided.

 

But you've never owned a 600 cc sports bike. Your original comment was that
a litre bike was easier to ride than a 600, wasn't it.

 

I thought you were saying the GSXR was completely the same to ride as the
SV - hence the reaction

So I'm just a thicko really.

 

Yes and I felt I made a reasonable extrapolation given I've owned a
high-revving 400cc in-line 4 and a high-revving 750cc in-line 4. Both
of which exhibit almost the same riding characteristics as a
high-revving 600cc in-line 4. Particularly the 400 which was a
sleeved down 600cc engine.