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Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / July 2007Part 1 test Pass! What next
So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is restricted to 38bhp. What recommendations do the group have for a bike for her? She doesn't like big bikes (is scared by my 600 Hornet), not interested in going fast but will want a new bike that looks OK. So group, what would you go for? Thanks in advance Tom > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is > restricted to 38bhp. > > What recommendations do the group have for a bike for her? She > doesn't like big bikes (is scared by my 600 Hornet), not interested > in going fast but will want a new bike that looks OK. Why would she want a new bike?  SignatureMorini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar >So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is restricted >to 38bhp. Changed the rules have they? To think it was set at 33bhp for safety reasons, odd they should change it really. >What recommendations do the group have for a bike for her? She should buy a bike that has 33bhp as it's natural limit. 33 in a 250 stroker will scare the willies off her but a restricted 600 is just so much slow as f.ck shite. > She doesn't like >big bikes (is scared by my 600 Hornet), not interested in going fast but >will want a new bike that looks OK. > >So group, what would you go for? A new burd. Slow has it's place but not on a bike. Signaturesteve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is > restricted to 38bhp. 38BHP? You mean 33BHP. > What recommendations do the group have for a bike for her? She doesn't > like big bikes (is scared by my 600 Hornet), not interested in going fast > but will want a new bike that looks OK. SV650, they respond really well to restricting. SignatureMolly Carlsberg don't do motorcycles BUT if they did it would be a Kawasaki www.MollyG.net www.smartmotorcycles.co.uk/ ZX10R; GS500E, GSX600F, GSXR750.. GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://www.Sportsbike.org > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is > restricted to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So group, what would you go for? SV650. Most bikes are physically a similar size IMO, it's all in the head. I had an SV650S restricted to 33bhp and it was a very user-friendly, confidence inspiring, easy to ride machine. It was even better when it was put back to how Suzuki intended. Failing that, anything that allows you to see her leather-clad arse when following. I recommend a sportsbike for this as she'll have to lean forward somewhat to get to the bars. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R >> So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is >> restricted to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >SV650. Most bikes are physically a similar size IMO balls. Signatured. > >> So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is > >> restricted to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > balls. Considering the models that this bird will be looking at, I don't think there'll be a great difference in size. A 10R isn't massively different from a 6R, R1/R6, and I don't think an SV650 is massively different to a 400. If you walk into a dealer showroom with all the bikes shoehorned into neat rows you have to look at the stickers to see what they are. In the OPs context, a bike is big if it's got a big engine. As a newbie I thought of bikes being physically bigger and much heavier if they had a bigger engine. I now know it doesn't really make as much difference as I originally thought. Obviously, a goldwing is a larger bit of kit and there's the odd thing like the latest "BMW fugly-bastard", but they fall outside of "most". SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f99ybb1yw69000 @news.motzarella.org: >> > SV650. Most bikes are physically a similar size IMO >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > from a 6R, R1/R6, and I don't think an SV650 is massively different to > a 400. I'm with darsy on this. Even if a pair of bikes have a similar silhouette the ergonomics can make one uncomfortable or even unrideable IME. Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f99ybb1yw69000 > @news.motzarella.org: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > silhouette the ergonomics can make one uncomfortable or even > unrideable IME. How can a pair of bikes have similar silhouettes yet be considerably different in physical size (other than the silhouettes being taken side on, for example, and one bike being literally a mile wide)? SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R >> "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f99ybb1yw69000 >> @news.motzarella.org: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > different in physical size (other than the silhouettes being taken side > on, for example, and one bike being literally a mile wide)? A change in handlebar position needn't make a significant difference to the silhouette but could make the world of difference to the riding position. SignatureRick NT650V (still) TWA#11 BREast#6 BOTAFOT#139 Badger <spam@housemartin.f9.co.uk> wrote in news:46ac7fec$0$1598 $ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net: >>> I'm with darsy on this. Even if a pair of bikes have a similar >>> silhouette the ergonomics can make one uncomfortable or even [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the silhouette but could make the world of difference to the riding > position. *ding* The mid 1990s 900cc Triumph Daytona being an example. Similar silhouette to the universal Jap sports bike of the day but *I* could not get comfortable on it. The bar position did not suit my relatively short upper body. Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > >>"christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f99ybb1yw69000 > > > @news.motzarella.org: [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > to the silhouette but could make the world of difference to the > riding position. However, the original statement was about the size of bikes and not wanting a big bike (like his big 600), not riding positions. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f9a48i9y4qh002 @news.motzarella.org: > However, the original statement was about the size of bikes and not > wanting a big bike (like his big 600), not riding positions. Uh-huh, so why did you introduce 10Rs into the thread? Also, to be even pickier, you took the OP's ambiguous use of the word big [1] and assigned it to a specific attribute, the physical size. Then you went on to make a generalisation about "most bikes" which was, as darsy succintly stated, "bollocks". [1] IMV he was referring to engine size/power as the Hornet is a dinky little bike, physically. Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f9a48i9y4qh002 > @news.motzarella.org: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > [1] IMV he was referring to engine size/power as the Hornet is a > dinky little bike, physically. <writes post, deletes> Yep, you win. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f9a697cqk9m004 @news.motzarella.org: >> "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f9a48i9y4qh002 >> @news.motzarella.org: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Yep, you win. you're no fun Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > you're no fun I've got my mind on other things. Primarily, my first two ebay auctions as the seller. Less than an hour to go, one has 8 bids and plenty watchers, the other has no bids and some watchers. I'll try harder next time. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R >> you're no fun > >I've got my mind on other things. Primarily, my first two ebay auctions >as the seller. Less than an hour to go, one has 8 bids and plenty >watchers, the other has no bids and some watchers. C'mon, lets have the item numbers. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. > >> you're no fun > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > C'mon, lets have the item numbers. 130136696132 and 130136715875 Both ended now though. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R >> >> you're no fun >> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >130136696132 Dull >130136715875 Duller. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. > >> >> you're no fun > >> > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Duller. You did ask. However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, I'd be glad to hear them. I've a collection of green zx10r fairings to out in the near future. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R >However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, >I'd be glad to hear them. I've no idea. Apparently, starting an auction with the words "you are bidding on" gets certain wicked uncle's hot under the collar. Good job he hasn't noticed that all my auctions have started like that. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> typed >>However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, >>I'd be glad to hear them. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Apparently, starting an auction with the words "you are bidding on" >gets certain wicked uncle's hot under the collar. Qué? I do not recall ever complaining about that. Please don't make me look up "traduce" in the dictionary. SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando >Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ ><neal@champ.org.uk> typed [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Please don't make me look up "traduce" in the dictionary. <googles> How odd. I have a distinct memory of this, but not only do you not appear to have ever said it, no one has. Not this year, anyway. SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> typed >>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ >><neal@champ.org.uk> typed [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >How odd. I have a distinct memory of this, but not only do you not >appear to have ever said it, no one has. Not this year, anyway. You'll be hearing from my lawyers. SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando >>>>>However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, >>>>>I'd be glad to hear them. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >You'll be hearing from my lawyers. That's ok - your lawyers are crap. Thank goodness you're not using your ex-wife's lawyers SignatureChamp ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work. Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> typed >>>>>>However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, >>>>>>I'd be glad to hear them. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > >Thank goodness you're not using your ex-wife's lawyers Pah! f.cking Google... <wanders off in search of new material> Ooh look! Mike Reid's Joke Book is on Ebay, that was quick. SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando >> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ >> <neal@champ.org.uk> typed [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > How odd. I have a distinct memory of this, but not only do you not > appear to have ever said it, no one has. Not this year, anyway. It definitely has been said here but I don't recall by whom. I am, however, happy to back you up and blame Nigel. > > However, if there's any tips on making a "good" listing, > > I'd be glad to hear them. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > gets certain wicked uncle's hot under the collar. Good job he hasn't > noticed that all my auctions have started like that. Heh. I'll remember that. I've got a week or so with the offline auction builder to come up with a few more. I didn't want to put them on this weekend as it'd be just right that Pipex, in a last ditch effort to f.ck things up, will somehow stop the switch to the new lot from happening. The cover went well - the guy lived not too far away, so I went to meet him. He got out of his van, I pulled the seat cover out of a bag and his face dropped. I thought "oh bollocks - here we go - I'm not paying for that, that's not what I bid on, etc etc". Another guy who'd been bidding (and winning) most of the time had two crap feedbacks along the lines of "didn't pay and rude, avoid at all costs", so I was set up for something to go wrong. He opened his mouth and said "Oh no! It's *perfect*! I can't repaint that! I was hoping it'd be scratched and marked. I'll have to paint the bike red now." We had a good laugh, a chat for about 20 mins and we both left happy, richer to the tune of what we both wanted. I also managed to ride my bike for a couple of miles without it hurting quite as much as the first time, so it looks like that's improving too. SignatureChristofire DIAABTCOD#1 DS#9 ZX-10R "christofire" <chris@ukrm.org> wrote in news:xn0f9a95xgo9nn000 @news.motzarella.org: > >> you're no fun [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I'll try harder next time. well at least give the auction numbers as they might provide a little entertainment Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > > > you're no fun [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I'll try harder next time. Git yor luverly blake's seven videos 'ere: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZsimian60QQhtZ-1 The only ebay item I've ever put up that's had no bids and no watchers with only a day to go. Mind you, I bought a GPz550 the other week, and paid for it with about 1/3rd of the junk in the garage; I've got at least another grands worth of crap to get rid of. > > > > > you're no fun [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZsimian60QQhtZ-1 You should have emailed Snowy :) SignatureBear > A change in handlebar position needn't make a significant difference to > the silhouette but could make the world of difference to the riding > position. Here's one of them damn fool questions: How come (on the assumption that they don't; because I've never looked or seen) manufacturers don't publish the shape of the rider they designed around? After all they do consider the rider, right? I've not got a clue what I want next. I want little and fun and sporty but I have no idea what I'll fit on. I should meet up with some of you lot and smile at you till you let me sit on what you brung I suppose. > I should meet up with some of you lot and > smile at you till you let me sit on what you brung I suppose. Fnaar, fnaar. SignatureEddie eddie@deguello.org http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm >> A change in handlebar position needn't make a significant difference >> to the silhouette but could make the world of difference to the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > but I have no idea what I'll fit on. I should meet up with some of you > lot and smile at you till you let me sit on what you brung I suppose. Get to an *OSM and you will be inundated with offers to sit on the things gentlemen brought with them. http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/c84c0625262e37cf has the date of the next one Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney >> I've not got a clue what I want next. I want little and fun and sporty >> but I have no idea what I'll fit on. I should meet up with some of you [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/c84c0625262e37cf has > the date of the next one That's physically possible to attend, and logically probable. Hurrah. I'm sorry about the feed lines. I'll try and improve. >I've not got a clue what I want next. I want little and fun and sporty but >I have no idea what I'll fit on. I should meet up with some of you lot and >smile at you till you let me sit on what you brung I suppose. Look, if you're going to give feedlines that are that obvious, then you'll take all the fun out of it. SignatureChamp I don't know, but I been told, you never slow down, you never get old ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R600 (race) neal at champ dot org dot uk > will want a new bike that looks OK. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Tom a nice pink honda 50 ..... >> will want a new bike that looks OK. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >a nice pink honda 50 ..... ebay# 230155169817 SignatureRoger Hunt > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is restricted > to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So group, what would you go for? Angle grinder. <Checks> Bugger, wrong thread. SignatureK1100LT 955i 750SS CB400F CD250 CM200 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 The bells, the bells..... > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is > restricted to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Tom Yamaha MT-03, look good & once restricted, it makes no difference at all. Easy to ride, fast enough to kill you & they handle very well for that kind of bike. Signature'World, my finger is on the button' Nige Land Rover Discovery (1995) Honda CBR900RR Fireblade (1997) Yamaha MT-03 (2006) Kawasaki ZZR-1100 (1994) > So, my girlfriend has just passed her Part 1 test and as such is restricted > to 38bhp. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > So group, what would you go for? if not interested in going fast, a 250 crosser might be a good plan. it should take well to being dropped a couple of times and the visibility afforded by the height would help to build confidence. Signaturedog sl1000 two#5 |
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