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Members Lounge => Non Bocking Chat => Topic started by: hybrid_hex on July 26, 2008, 07:35:28 PM
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Hey guys and girls, Im getting really tempted to get myself a motor bike, not sure wether to go direct access or the normal route. Do any other bockers on here ride? And If so what do you have? :Straddle5:
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I've got an XV1100 Virago ( just been stood sometime :-\ )
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/Dark-Knight/images.jpg)
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Oooh! I am getting a 125 Virago :D. Sorting out the loan in a few weeks :D
-Carma
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Hey guys and girls, Im getting really tempted to get myself a motor bike, not sure wether to go direct access or the normal route. Do any other bockers on here ride? And If so what do you have? :Straddle5:
I have a Yammy Fazer 600 S2...Been riding motorbikes since I was 15....24 years later and I've still not grown out of them....I'm busted up plenty from getting off the ride while it's still going and lost too many friends already,so,consider this...If you carry a pillion, it's not just your life in your hands,they ALWAYS come off worse. Like any good Bocker,buy the best protective equipment you can afford....Sliding on Tarmac at high speed seems to have a somewhat detrimental effect on human flesh/bone in that it removes at the very least a centimeter for every 100 meters you slide....CBT(Compulsory Basic Training is a legal requirement in Jersey) may well just save your life one day, when they ask you what a "life saver" is, it's a quick look over your shoulder before you overtake or turn at a junction. Get to know your machine, how it works and why it does what it does.Basic maintenance know how is also a requirement as is the highway code...They'll ask you questions about this. As long as you let your common sense prevail, you'll be as safe as you can be on a motorcycle....Trust me, it's a life on a very jagged edge when you're doing 90,boxed in by those tired pilots in their customised metal coffins.....I'm not trying to put anyone off,to me, bikes are the most fun anyone can have with their clothes on,but humans were'nt made to cope with what happens when it goes tits up....The coffin pilots have a metal box around them..... Even with all the leather and armour,a biker is as naked as a streaker at a cricket match....Still wanna ride? Can't say I blame ya....Just grow eyes in your ass and go careful OK? :biggrin: :biggrin: :thumbs:
-Nobby
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Now there was a colourful explenation! I have lost friends the same way, and would take as much training as I could get. I have only really just started to drive a car, and I am going to get used to that 1st before I look into this too much. I love the look and sound of bikes, and would love to be able to learn to control one properly, safely.
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Now there was a colourful explenation! I have lost friends the same way, and would take as much training as I could get. I have only really just started to drive a car, and I am going to get used to that 1st before I look into this too much. I love the look and sound of bikes, and would love to be able to learn to control one properly, safely.
Heh! Your wits will be the key to your survival Hex....By their nature, bikes are life-takers and heart-breakers. I rode for 10 years before I learnt to pilot a coffin, and as a biker, I've seen just how blind these coffin pilots are...."Sorry mate, I did'nt see you" won't cut the mustard when you go over his bonnet....You have to think for them as well as yourself....It's called "defensive riding".... Stay alive....:thumbs:
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At the moment Hex I have a 125 sx MZ (yes I know but they have improved beyond belief :biggrin:)
I agree with the "be careful" speech I have been riding in and out of central london in rush hour for some 15 years now and have lost count of the accidents (lucky none to serious) and all on L plates (I never took my test just kept taking the CBT every few years) the wife recons I'm dangerous enough on a 125 :haha:
Jason :Hoofies2:
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At the moment Hex I have a 125 sx MZ (yes I know but they have improved beyond belief :biggrin:)
I agree with the "be careful" speech I have been riding in and out of central london in rush hour for some 15 years now and have lost count of the accidents (lucky none to serious) and all on L plates (I never took my test just kept taking the CBT every few years) the wife recons I'm dangerous enough on a 125 :haha:
Jason :Hoofies2:
And she lets you on bocks. . . . . hmmmmm
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At the moment Hex I have a 125 sx MZ (yes I know but they have improved beyond belief :biggrin:)
I agree with the "be careful" speech I have been riding in and out of central london in rush hour for some 15 years now and have lost count of the accidents (lucky none to serious) and all on L plates (I never took my test just kept taking the CBT every few years) the wife recons I'm dangerous enough on a 125 :haha:
Jason :Hoofies2:
It's funny ( well not really ) how many car drivers think they can just jump on a 125 and drive without trake any extra test :Dark_Knight:
JASON you may not be legal for the road !
Your CBT only last 2 years and you can't renew for 3 years ! This is to stop people learners not bothering with the road test !? Car drivers only need to take the test once.
I maybe wrong but I do believe that's the fact !
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:haha: :haha: I'd have thought that a man of Reaper's high fibre calibre should be able to pass his bike test with relative ease.... :biggrin: :biggrin:
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you should get one of these
(http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/gallery/733_27_07_08_10_57_18.JPG)
i know i did
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Oooh! I am getting a 125 Virago :D. Sorting out the loan in a few weeks :D
-Carma
So in a few weeks time you'll be Carma the Biking and Bocking rocker!!!! :biggrin: :thumbs:
-Nobby
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So is the bike for transport or 'headrush/lifestyle'? Hve you considered ya 'carbon hoofprint' here?
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Im inb the RAF, one of the most carbon concious companies about "Ahem" :angel: :scool:
I have just always wanted one I love the way they look and sound, I know I cant afford one at the minute, but when I can . . . . .
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Thanks for the concern DK but I take my CBT every 2 years and have checked with three different bike schools that it's OK
Due to the age of my license I am allowed to do this indefinitely (yes I'm really old) also allowed to tow very large trailers without a further test and drive 7 1/2 tonners
And for some strange reason they gave me a tracked vehicle enablement for a while (Weeee I can drive a Tank have you got a spare one Hex :haha: )
The 3 year rule is for newer licences
Hex she puts me on the horse when he is having a bad day :haha: so Bocks are a walk in the park (she also gets good insurance on me :biggrin:)
Jason :Hoofies2:
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:haha: Why don't you just take the test ya big wuss!!!! I'd wager there ain't much you couldn't do, and it'd be a walk in the park on an MZ! Well,more of a ride around some orange cones,an emergency stop an getting up the examiner's nose whilst trying to lose him in the traffic..... Kinda hard to lose anyone on an MZ though, unless they fall off!!! :biggrin: :biggrin: Just yankin' ya stilt Reaper. "It ain't what you ride,it's how you ride it"..... :biggrin: :thumbs:
-Nobby
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This is what I ride. A Black Yamaha DT. Only mine has a slight mod to protect the brake and clutch (and look cooler ;) )
(http://pictures.autotrader.co.uk/ATD_web/servlet/media?id=706537882)
And as soon as I have enough money, I want one of these 2 bikes. A Yamaha R1. Also in Black. ;) I'm not getting on if it's not black! 8)
(http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/2005models/2005-Yamaha-R1a.jpg)
Or the Kawasaki Z1000... in Black. ;D
(http://www.bikez.com/pictures/kawasaki/2007/24357_0_1_2_z1000_Image%20credits%20-%)
My Dad rides a Yamaha V-Max 1200 (Special Edition - extra black! lol)
(http://www.yamaha-motorcycles.org/images/2006VMax.jpg)
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I saw the poshest motor bike ever last week. It is quite geeky. has a CD player, heated seats, the wind sheild moves up and down and cant remember any more but it was cool.
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Tts not a bike, its just someone with too much money and free time on their hands, what the hell sort of use is a cd player?? Come on, we are all on MP3's now!!!
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I don't see the point in Goldwings and such. Half the fun of having a bike is slowly filtering through a traffic jam, smiling and waving at the angry car drivers. ;D Wide bikes can't do that.
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hmm, love the look of that R1, now I just need to decide, wether to save up for a house, or a bike . . . . . .
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Tts not a bike, its just someone with too much money and free time on their hands, what the hell sort of use is a cd player?? Come on, we are all on MP3's now!!!
oh it had that too lol..I admit it was just like a small car..a grandad bike but the gadgets and stuff were quite cool.
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One of these....
(http://www.ixxra.com/picsbb/bigpics/predatorposter.jpg)
Top :banana: and just right for a ground pilot ;D
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That is just too perfect!! I love the SR-71 Blackbird!!!! What a fantastic plane!! (the one in the backround) If I had to choose, the plane would win, hands down!!!
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I personally would seriously advise AGAINST an R1 for your first bike Hex...
-Carma
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NO DUH!!!!!!! :haha:
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The cheek of it Nobby :haha:
There are many red faced couriers that go into and out of london that now wave me past so I don't keep tailgating them :biggrin:
Brendan whats this filtering SLOWLY
If the force of air pressure as you pass don't push their wing mirrors back your not filtering your an obstical to other bikers :haha:
As for passing my test
If I did my first stop would be to buy a KTM lc (not sure what size probably a 250) now how long do you think I would last on one of those :biggrin:
So in the interest of more Bocking Inventions I will stick to my L plates :biggrin:
And this is my chosen bike
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(http://)
My toy...
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Brendan whats this filtering SLOWLY
It's one of my absolute favourite things to do! ;D Being a law obiding citizen, *cough* I don't often break the speed limit. I drive at the speed limit. Yet cars behind me often seem to feel like they have something to prove, so they go speeding past me... ...only to get caught up by traffic in a jam or at a light. ...At which point, I love to ride past them as slowly as possible, with my visor lifted so I can look them in the eye and they can see the rye smile on my face as I crawl past them to the front of the gigantic snake of cars.
I could speed past them, revving, and honking my horn while laughing my head off and giving them some sort of sign language. But the slower I go, the more it really seems to rub their noses in it that their speeding led to little more than wasted fuel. And there's kind of a 'tortoise and hare' justice about it. ;) I love it!
...of course the wheelying past them option is also a good one. ;D
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People ?? Faces ?? Brendan you don't mean that those moving tin obstacales that I have to weave through on the way to work have people in them ??? :haha:
I thought they were just there to make the journey more fun :banana:
I'll slow down and have a look tomorrow (they are normally to blured to make out any detail :haha:) they do make a funny noise sometimes like a goose honking (I wonder why :biggrin:)
Jason :Hoofies2:
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nobby u know u love me an u wnat to giv me your " TOY " :angel:
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lozzi :-*
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nobby u know u love me an u wnat to giv me your " TOY " :angel:
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lozzi :-*
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Behave you little tart :scool:
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hex im talking bout his bike
im not like u an only after one thing lol
* jk *
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lozzi
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:haha: No problem Lozzi....I'll send it to you for xmas! :biggrin: :biggrin:
-Nobby
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lol
:angel: :angel:
luvs ya
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lozzi
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hex im talking bout his bike
im not like u an only after one thing lol
* jk *
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lozzi
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The fact that you put * jk * means that you are only after one thing. My previous comment stands.
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sod off hex
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lozzi
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