The Krusty 2007 'what to buy' thread.

Scared of riding a litre class sports bike and then realising your MV
is actually a 600 in disguise?

 

My god but you're a fussy bugger. Having read the requirements and
suggestions offered it has become quite apparent that your requirements
cannot be wholly satisfied.

That bing the case, I offer my Sprint ST

 

It's a lardy sports tourer, the fact you're on the big side as well
isn't really going to make that much difference on something that big.

 

Heh, I'll have you know my MV's more powerful than any other 750 tyvm.
And even if it wasn't, I still would've bought it.

<swims away with bleeding, shredded lips>

Besides, I don't want another sports bike (unless it's a Muzzy turbo
ZX10R).

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

I know - isn't that always the case? What I need is a Goldwing that
turns into an MV that turns into a KTM EXC that turns into a CR500 SM,
all at the flick of a switch.

<fails to think of Crosby joke>

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

So easy. I thought you might have resisted for an hour or two.

I've given serious consideration to a nitrous oxide kit for mine.
They're dirt cheap to buy but I'm too lazy to keep getting refills. I
suppose I could just buy a couple of spare bottles and then do a batch
at a time. It's cheap performance and not as obvious as a turbo.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, typed:

Nige is tall but not all that heavy IIRC from the one time we met, so he has
a lot of leverage but not much mass, IYSIM. Now I am more used to the
Bandit's weight and lardiness, I find it quite easy to throw about in the
twisty bits, but it does need a lot of shifting my own weight and bullying
it about somewhat. I'm shorter than Nige (who is a lanky ****, really) but
I probably weigh more.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Nige typed:

That's lanky in my book

 

<slaps forehead>

Of course! Why the hell didn't I think of that?!

P.S. You may want to upgrade your standard reply to 'a Triumph 1050',
just to keep with the times 'n' all. Unless you're addressing pikeys,
natch.

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

Champ says...

Mine may well be for sale soon.

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE
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Honda CBR600 F-W
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka

 

You're obviously riding it incorrectly. When pushing a B12 on a bit,
the only weight transferring I've indulged in is that involved in
clinging to the bars and avoiding my weight disappearing off the seat
backwards.

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Pip typed:

Well, obviously

I'm not talking about hanging my arse off it or any circus-type manoeuvres.
But it does seem to need wrestling to get the weight on the inside for rapid
changes of direction more than other bikes I have had. I put it down to the
mass of the thing. Normal brisk riding, no problem.

Or have I been whooshed?

 

The only time I ragged Adies old B12 it took a fair old bit of weight
shifting to keep the thing going something like where I wanted.

 

Yeah, I heard that Adie shifted a bit of weight once you'd let her off
it.

 

Bugger - rumbled.

Big wide Renthals help then, apparently. I allegedly countersteer
very hard when cracking on, which tends to make me lead into the
corner with my inside shoulder, which obviously pulls my upper body
along with it. I'm not conscious of doing any real weight shifting
though, not like I used to with the RF900 for example, which would
lead me onto the verge at the merest hint of laziness.

Only a little bit. How do you keep the front end down?

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Pip typed:

Possibly, but if I modified it at all it would be to go narrower, lower and
further forward rather than wider. The fairing rather inhibits this,
though.

I guess I do something similar. It's hard to describe when you're not
actually doing it (like a lot of things, fnarr) but I think I countersteer
fairly positively, put a fair bit of weight on the inside bar, shoulder down
and persuade it a bit more with the outside knee. I then relax and feed in
the throttle on the exit.

Pies. Lots of.

 

You don't appear to have much weight to shift, however. Maybe lardy
old bikes suit lardy old riders better?

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, DR typed:

Oi!

 

Even my 11 stone is enough to influence a bike as to where it wants to
go.

I can drag my lardy old beemer through the bends fairly fast though
so your second point is probably about 50% correct.

 

I speak only from personal experience.