Passed! - bike choices

Heh, not from my perspective, no.

Anyway size isn't really the problem, it's more to do with
under-utilisation. :/

 

Lemmiwinks, The Gerbil King wrote

Tell me about it.

 

ZZR400? ;o)

 

Gears. Lots of 'em. And quite a lot of plastic to hide the big empty
spaces (my bike weighs 146Kg).

It's interesting riding behind someone on a bigger-engined bike, they've
barely snicked it up into 3rd by the time I'm in 6th, throttle WFO,
gritting my teeth for all I'm worth.

I keep meaning to take a handheld GPS out on the bike and measure the
0-60. I am absolutely certain it would be under 10 seconds, which isn't
too shabby for such a tiny engine. 0-70 would be in the region of 20-30
seconds though - it really starts to run out of go at around 65.

 

Pikey Joe wrote

Like the man said - gearing.

I ridded one of those a little while back, the one with the sails on the
front, sides and back. Green it was. I agree with you.

 

Or you can get a ZZR250 import.

 

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'Hog

 

Interesting. Let us know what happens when/if you do this, because my
guess is it'll be over 10 seconds.

Might be OK up to 50, but in my experience, msot four-stroke 125s start
running out of puff once you get past 55mph and then just gather speed,
rather than accelerate.

The late lamented CB125T - the full-power 17bhp predecessor of the
horrible Super Dream - was an exception. That bike was *amazingly* fast.

 

I always liked the look of the SRX600 and it was a fun thing to ride,
one of those 400's would be nice if it was available locally. Thanks,
I didn't know it came in the smaller engine size.

'Hog

 

message

What's the scoop with the Bros type thing. Decent or crap?

'Hog

 

Because they make more than 33bhp, whereas the VTR appears to make
32bhp?

and you don't get them for a grand

'Hog

 

What a sweet looking bike!

'Hog

 

LOL. It's got great brakes and slight cosmetic damage ;o). Nice first
bike!

 

It was actually an official import way back when, before the 600 bandit. I
have ridden one and they are no worse then any other 400 , ie very revvy and
not that powerful. I'm guessing its uses most of the same parts as the 600
but I could be wrong.

 

I didn't know such a thing existed until recently. Any idea what it's
like to ride, looks ok.

'Hog

 

message

Do you mean the 1990's CB250, an overgrown Benly engine? is that an
ok bike?

'Hog

 

Only with your posts! strange but true

'Hog

 

flash says...

I think they are significantly different. The frame and lots of the
running gear/bodywork certainly are. Engine-wise I'm not so sure if they
use a Gixer 400 engine, of which there are many types, or a unique
design.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

No probs.
Wish I'd had the space and money to be able to keep mine as it was a lovely
looking (and sounding) bike.
--
Alex

Hermes: "We can't afford that! Especially not Zoidberg!"
Zoidberg: "They took away my credit cards!"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

 

Excellent - a challenge! That's given me just the motivation I need.
I'll have a go later in the week. I think I'll need to write a little
program to interpret the raw GPS data and turn it into a 0-60 time, but
that shouldn't take too long.

Well, I'm quietly confident - I know exactly what you mean about
gathering speed rather than accelerating, but I reckon it will be good
up to 60. Dunno how much of a bearing it has, but I *think* Hyosung
changed the gearing from 5 speed to 6 at some point (at least, lots of
the specs I've seen list it as only having 5 gears), without affecting
the published top speed, so as long as I can change up quick enough I
reckon I'm in with a shout.