Motorbikes + Back Pain

dwb emerged from their own little world to say

[snip Suzuki cheaper than BMW to insure]

Really? I just ran a quote through the Bennetts website. Only a couple of
quid in it. Full comp on the GS: £195, Suzuki £200. That's a 42 yo, with 9+
NCB, NP7 postcode and nil point.

Perhaps your postcode is high risk for the GS? It is quite popular with
thieving scum. Ask MarcD. The high purchase cost & spares prices will fuel
this.

 

Lol I wouldn't let that put you off. He also recently bought a Morini
500, & I don't think they're a typical 'old man' bike.

I see in your other post you can flat-foot both feet, which surprised
me. They must be pretty dinky things. I'm 5'9 with long legs for my
body & can't flat-foot the Tiger when its at the factory settings.

I doubt the 2cm will be an issue - you should at least be able to get
both yer balls down as it were. It might be a problem if the seat on
the 1000's wider though.

I can't see it being a mistake really, unless your favourite riding is
triple digit speeds on fast 'A' roads, & that's what you want to stick
to.

 

Test ride isn't enough though Rob - it's an hour of 'must not crash'.

The VFR I had on loan took me 150 miles before I worked out how to ride it -
I would never have bought one just off a test ride (I still wouldn't buy one
, but that's due to cost) as I would have thought it was shit.

 

It surprised me too TBH. It does have a fair bit of give in the suspension
but even then I'm not exactly pushing the scales...

As Tog says, financially buying one would potentially be a disaster - but
who the hell buys bikes based on financial reasons

 

I've joined this a bit late but it seems to me that you've considered a
lot of the same bikes as I was last year. I considered an SV1000, VFR,
GS1150 and Tiger. For some reason I didn't think of the V-Strom at all
but I think that had more to do with not liking the looks.

I hate to be one who plugs his own bike but have you considered a Fazer.
To be honest in the past I wasn't that sold by the looks but it's
growing on me a lot. It makes so much more sense for me than the Gixer
as well. If your back is the *main* issue you should at least bear it in
mind as the riding position is very much big trailie.

Just my 2p.

 

I really don't understand this - how on earth can it take 90 mins to
"work out how to ride" a bike?

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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Images of Dan being thrown around- Cpt Ahab style- as the VFR disappears
into the sunset....

 

It just did. You're a natural, I'm not.

 

I'm not a natural, not at anything I've tried, so far. When I first
got on a bike I was *useless* - I crashed within an hour, and spent
the first 3~4 days stalling 2 out of every 3 attempts to pull away.

What I'm asking is - what was it about the VFR that seemed so
different from your own bike.
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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

You've never been caught out by the kill switch being "off"?

 

The power delivery, the responsiveness, the way it felt going round corners.
How much effort was required to do one thing, but not another and so forth.

 

Funnily enough, no. I do recall a time when I first got into biking -
the Kawasakis I'd owned (er, both of them, at that point) were wired
such that the starter motor didn't work if the kill switch was off. My
mate's Honda 400 Four, however, would happily spin the motor over,
with no sparks, if you weren't paying attention. He had the tank off,
plugs out, points cover off, etc, before this was pointed out to him.
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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Or the side stand immobilizing the old dear?

 

MikeH says...

A female UKRMer with whom I have a close acquaintance with once phoned
her dad to come and collect her along with her 'broken' bike after
spending half an hour trying to start it...

 

Would this be a ukrmer whose name begins with S?
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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Champ says...

I might be... In her defence she was blonde at the time.

 

Champ says...

It might be... In her defence she was blonde at the time.

 

It will cost me £35 to change to a DL 1000 (of which £15 is the brokers
fee!)

It's £200 to change to a GS - but that's mainly because of the list price
being £3.5k higher!

Would that be more popular than GSX-R's with thieving scum?

 

The bike was wheeled up via a plank onto the back of a landrover and
driven home from college. Dad got the bike off the lanny on to the
drive, flicked the kill switch and of course it started first time
<ooops>. In my defence, I was blonde, it was dark outside college, and
I'd only owned the bike 4 days.

 

<dons wig>
You are to be commended for your frankness about the incident, and for
not quibling. The court gives particular weight to the mitigating
circumstance of "being blonde". Therefore, I am minded to be lenient.
The penalty shall be 48 hours of community service, working with the,
ahem, less advantaged members of ukrm at the BoSM.

Court adjourned.

<bangs gavel>
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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com