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[SPLAM]

nice to see you've kinda cleaned it

Just the wheels left to do, although I used it today in the pi55ing down rain and it's filthy again.


Note the almost absence of chicken strip.

[2GOOD]

The last two times I've thought of showing my bike daylight it's snowed.Need to pop up to Worcester in a mo,thought I'd beat the Cheltenham races traffic & take the bike... ...nah,too cold & it's trying too snow

[Richy]

Well i braved the cold and went out to fit me new tail tidy

Had it from a company called EVO-TEC, it was at my front door within 24hrs

Awsome quality and less than half the weight of the standard one

[Richy]

[Richy]

picking to snow now .. another weekend comming up off two wheels

Edited by R1CHY, 16 March 2006 - 04:56 PM.

[Shep]

My GSX-R 250, now gone

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[JaceyBoy]

This is my present beast

[Richy]

Nice piccys lads, are those marcheini wheels jacey Heres my fat ass at devils pit - Resolven, last summer.

Edited by R1CHY, 20 March 2006 - 09:34 PM.

[Richy]

And my current pitbike

[JaceyBoy]

No Richy they are not, well dont think so

Some of my bikes from the past...

[Richiemouse]

Seeing those pictures got me thinking about bikes I've owned. My list, in chronological order but in the early days I had a few at the same time, is: Suzuki TS50ER (first bike bouht new at 16 after a couple of years saving every penny ) Honda XL125 Honda CB100N Honda CX500EC Yamaha RD350LC Suzuki GSXR1100 Katana (bored out to 1200cc ) Yamaha DT175 Honda CBR400RR (cruelly killed by some myopic bitch) Suzuki GSXR600 (Er, I killed this one at the Ring) Suzuki GSXR600 Yamaha XT350 Suzuki DRZ400S Honda CBR900RR Honda CBR600FV Seems like a shorter list that I thought it would be. As I've never been without a bike since being 16 it appears on average I keep my bikes for 1.7 years each, although in reality a few came and went quite quickly and some stuck around for years.

[2GOOD]

Hmmm, my go at a list - again some owned together - 76 Suzuki AP50 81 Yamaha RD250LC bought new 5 days after my 17th birthday on 'L' plates ( 25 years ago this week) 83 Honda CBX550 83 Yamaha RD350 YPVS 84 Honda VF750F 81 Suzuki GT200X5 (passed car test so had car aswell ) 89 Kawasaki ZXR750H1 91 Kawasaki ZXR750K1 92/93 Honda CBR600F 93 Honda CBR900RR FireBlade 94 Ducati 916S secondhand in 95 paid than new price, spent a fortune on bits & w/o in 2000 96 Honda CBR900RR FireBlade 98 Yamaha YZF R1 01 Suzuki GSXR1000K1 00 Honda CBR900RR FireBlade 04 Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade

Edited by 2GOOD, 21 March 2006 - 10:46 AM.

[Richiemouse]

Nice list Steve. Was the X5 that nutty 2 stroke evil handling death trap?

[2GOOD]

Nice list Steve. Was the X5 that nutty 2 stroke evil handling death trap?

Didn't think it was that bad! It was the X7's* little brother(which is what I'd set out to buy), because of the 125 law it was cheap & it kept me on two wheels whilst I got my first couple of cars.

*For those of you that have a vague idea what an RD250LC was to a teenager in the early eighties( ), the Suzuki GT250 X7 was the 'one' to have immediately beforehand. A little Suzuki dealer in Newport (Wales) has nearly finished restoring one, it was the first 250 claimed to crack the the 100mph barrier. Although it didn't in any of the tests I read! It did quite well in proddy racing, so I assume it handled OK at the time.

[Richiemouse]

Ah yes, the X7, that was what I was thinking of. I'd like to get an old 350LC to tinker with. I'll never forget one they featured in an early 80's issue of Bike magazine. It was a Stan Stephens tuned cafe racer stylee 350LC, God, how much did I want that bike

[Ollie_VXT]

Richy - cracking looking bike - had a good look at them at a Yam dealer on the weekend!

But what is up with the exhaust on these new R6's?? looks a bit weird - i suppose its function over form though? better perforrmance or something? anyone know?

[Ollie_VXT]

This is my present beast

Loving that too - looks a right animal!

Bet it sounds tasty too

[JaceyBoy]

This is my present beast

Loving that too - looks a right animal!

Bet it sounds tasty too

Sounds amazing, like a Ducati

[2GOOD]

Ah yes, the X7, that was what I was thinking of. I'd like to get an old 350LC to tinker with. I'll never forget one they featured in an early 80's issue of Bike magazine. It was a Stan Stephens tuned cafe racer stylee 350LC, God, how much did I want that bike

My RD350 YPVS was Stan Stephens tuned, It used to go off the 120mph clock in fourth with 2 more gears to go! Full Formula III Allspeeds, Reed Valves (Can't remember the brand), LEDAR jet kit (The days before dynojet), very little of the original airbox & a couple of K&Ns on the end of some bellmouths. The sound was incredible

Used to scare the living daylights out of me with some of it's antics, so I got rid of it after a year or so.
Unbeknown to me I got spotted um, mono wheeling through a packed town centre by my Mum & Gran, couldn't understand why I wasn't getting any sympathy from home when I rang up later to be collected because I'd come off it again *

*Think this is another reason why I didn't want to be a parent myself.

[Richy]

Richy - cracking looking bike - had a good look at them at a Yam dealer on the weekend!

But what is up with the exhaust on these new R6's?? looks a bit weird - i suppose its function over form though? better perforrmance or something? anyone know?

Gives a better centre of gravity or sumfin..

The zorst is abit funny looking but looks don't bother me, how it performs does.. over the moon with it so far.. it revs like a two-stroke on acid

Ive said it before... i still cant believe how unbelievably loud it is for a standard system .. im amazed it passed the sound test

Im having the Akra zorst, power-command and ecu chip fitted on the first service, so it should rev and sound even better..

Steve i may buy a Digi gear indicator of you if the price is right PM or phone me

Out on one of these tomorrow... will post piccies..



Can't wait.

Edited by R1CHY, 22 March 2006 - 08:28 PM.