Just had test ride on a 900.
Much better than I had expected, pulls like a train, eats traffic for breakfast. A lot slimmer than it looks (feels very small) I just had to get used to keeping the revs up as I am used to I4's, that reminds me NO tingle in the hands like an I4. Grunt at hand all the time! makes you want to just give it a handfull out of the corners all the time to feel the instant throttle responce and hear the twin noise as the revs climb.
Well did I get the bike? You bet I did! Pick it up next week. I just hope it lives up to the high expectations that you lot have given it?
Endo
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#1
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Posted 15 July 2006 - 02:03 pm
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is it Jizzy Rascal time yet.....?
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Posted 15 July 2006 - 02:11 pm
QUOTE(endo @ Sat 15th Jul 2006, 02:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just had test ride on a 900.
Much better than I had expected, pulls like a train, eats traffic for breakfast. A lot slimmer than it looks (feels very small) I just had to get used to keeping the revs up as I am used to I4's, that reminds me NO tingle in the hands like an I4. Grunt at hand all the time! makes you want to just give it a handfull out of the corners all the time to feel the instant throttle responce and hear the twin noise as the revs climb.
Well did I get the bike? You bet I did! Pick it up next week. I just hope it lives up to the high expectations that you lot have given it?
Endo
Much better than I had expected, pulls like a train, eats traffic for breakfast. A lot slimmer than it looks (feels very small) I just had to get used to keeping the revs up as I am used to I4's, that reminds me NO tingle in the hands like an I4. Grunt at hand all the time! makes you want to just give it a handfull out of the corners all the time to feel the instant throttle responce and hear the twin noise as the revs climb.
Well did I get the bike? You bet I did! Pick it up next week. I just hope it lives up to the high expectations that you lot have given it?
Endo
ahhhhh like meself.......... well tell us more Endo, like what colour, year, mileage, spec etc etc ??? well done by the way
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Posted 15 July 2006 - 04:59 pm
Was it from Chorley Yamaha ??
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Posted 15 July 2006 - 05:39 pm
wicklamulla
Well the colour? err its light grey/dark grey (in the gallery its stone blue but it does not look blue), its got 8000 miles on the clock, i expect to put a lot more miles on it when i get it as I always go abroad on my bikes (I put 14000 miles on the diversion in just over 12 months) and one lady owner, everything else is bog standard. I like my bikes standard and not messed with.
edit "its on an 05 plate"
Nosaj
Got the bike from Rochdale (Robinsons if anyone knows it, not a bad place, let me test it 1.5 hours, no hard sell at all) They took my diversion in part ex plus 2k. So happy days pick it up next week as I cant get there any sooner or I would, now watch it p*ss down on saturday!!
Lots of luv Endo
Well the colour? err its light grey/dark grey (in the gallery its stone blue but it does not look blue), its got 8000 miles on the clock, i expect to put a lot more miles on it when i get it as I always go abroad on my bikes (I put 14000 miles on the diversion in just over 12 months) and one lady owner, everything else is bog standard. I like my bikes standard and not messed with.
edit "its on an 05 plate"
Nosaj
Got the bike from Rochdale (Robinsons if anyone knows it, not a bad place, let me test it 1.5 hours, no hard sell at all) They took my diversion in part ex plus 2k. So happy days pick it up next week as I cant get there any sooner or I would, now watch it p*ss down on saturday!!
Lots of luv Endo
Edited by endo, 15 July 2006 - 06:03 pm.
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Posted 15 July 2006 - 05:48 pm
QUOTE(endo @ Sat 15th Jul 2006, 02:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just hope it lives up to the high expectations that you lot have given it?
Endo
Endo
they're crap really, this site was developed for those of us that bought TDM's and are too afraid to admit to the world what a mistake we made, a kind of place of consolation
.have fun
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the last thing I want is for my family to cry
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Posted 16 July 2006 - 07:09 am
QUOTE(endo @ Sat 15th Jul 2006, 04:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So happy days pick it up next week as I cant get there any sooner or I would, now watch it p*ss down on saturday!!
New toy just sitting there???????????
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Posted 16 July 2006 - 04:13 pm
QUOTE(laughin in a windstorm @ Sat 15th Jul 2006, 01:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
they're crap really, this site was developed for those of us that bought TDM's and are too afraid to admit to the world what a mistake we made, a kind of place of consolation .
have fun
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 10:57 am
Hi, come tarry awhile and enjoy the view its great.
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Posted 18 July 2006 - 04:13 pm
Fantastic.
Hope you have loadsa fun on the big twin.
That's what I love, the low down pull with power everywhere
Lots'a nice pics please when you get it......
Hope you have loadsa fun on the big twin.
That's what I love, the low down pull with power everywhere
Lots'a nice pics please when you get it......
Oink & Be Happy.
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 01:32 pm
Starting to get excited now!!
I have organised the insurance to start at miday, all the stuff thats not going with the divvy is off the bike. Guess what the weather forcast said we are looking at tomorrow? Yep!! you guessed it f**ing rain. So out comes the wet gear for the first time in ages and it has to be when I pick up my new bike, sods law at work here because sunday is supposed to be sunny and dry and I cant ride because its my girls B/Day and i have been promissing her we would go for a meal with her twin sister and family and sunday afternoon!
Arr well!! at least I canride it to work for the next few weeks (I work in a school and they are now on summer hols).
Endo
I have organised the insurance to start at miday, all the stuff thats not going with the divvy is off the bike. Guess what the weather forcast said we are looking at tomorrow? Yep!! you guessed it f**ing rain. So out comes the wet gear for the first time in ages and it has to be when I pick up my new bike, sods law at work here because sunday is supposed to be sunny and dry and I cant ride because its my girls B/Day and i have been promissing her we would go for a meal with her twin sister and family and sunday afternoon!
Arr well!! at least I canride it to work for the next few weeks (I work in a school and they are now on summer hols).
Endo
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 06:31 pm
Endo, you might make it Diane (gordons bird on bbc local news) says its gonna be thundery but you should be able to dodge em failing that take your brolley
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 07:58 pm
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Posted 22 July 2006 - 09:17 pm
QUOTE(endo @ Fri 21st Jul 2006, 01:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Starting to get excited now!!
I have organised the insurance to start at miday, all the stuff thats not going with the divvy is off the bike. Guess what the weather forcast said we are looking at tomorrow? Yep!! you guessed it f**ing rain. So out comes the wet gear for the first time in ages and it has to be when I pick up my new bike, sods law at work here because sunday is supposed to be sunny and dry and I cant ride because its my girls B/Day and i have been promissing her we would go for a meal with her twin sister and family and sunday afternoon!
Arr well!! at least I canride it to work for the next few weeks (I work in a school and they are now on summer hols).
Endo
I have organised the insurance to start at miday, all the stuff thats not going with the divvy is off the bike. Guess what the weather forcast said we are looking at tomorrow? Yep!! you guessed it f**ing rain. So out comes the wet gear for the first time in ages and it has to be when I pick up my new bike, sods law at work here because sunday is supposed to be sunny and dry and I cant ride because its my girls B/Day and i have been promissing her we would go for a meal with her twin sister and family and sunday afternoon!
Arr well!! at least I canride it to work for the next few weeks (I work in a school and they are now on summer hols).
Endo
so we are all waiting here with baited breath
how was the ride today then ???or are you still out there
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 07:07 am
Rode home the long way, 150 miles instead of 40, there is a few questions I would like to ask about the bike but I will start another thread for that.
The bike performed brilliantly, instant grunt for overtaking (you dont have to plan your overtake, see a gap in the trafic twist throttle and go). Looks like its good on fuel like everybody says, but I wont know until I fillup again. Bike feels like a lightweight compared to the diversion and I'm missing my topbox already ( does that mean I'm getting old) so wil have to look at options to fit a box.
This bike is loads of fun!! had little play with what i call the Knee Slider Group (fireblade, gsxr owners) and considering I have only just got the bike the could not shake me off through the bends but alas left me on the straights.
Anyway as you can tell by the time i am replying I've got up early to go for a ride before I go for that meal this afternoon.
Endo
The bike performed brilliantly, instant grunt for overtaking (you dont have to plan your overtake, see a gap in the trafic twist throttle and go). Looks like its good on fuel like everybody says, but I wont know until I fillup again. Bike feels like a lightweight compared to the diversion and I'm missing my topbox already ( does that mean I'm getting old) so wil have to look at options to fit a box.
This bike is loads of fun!! had little play with what i call the Knee Slider Group (fireblade, gsxr owners) and considering I have only just got the bike the could not shake me off through the bends but alas left me on the straights.
Anyway as you can tell by the time i am replying I've got up early to go for a ride before I go for that meal this afternoon.
Endo
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 11:54 pm
QUOTE(endo @ Sun 23rd Jul 2006, 06:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Bike feels like a lightweight compared to the diversion and I'm missing my topbox already ( does that mean I'm getting old) so wil have to look at options to fit a box.
Endo
Endo
i found i could do the box thing in a cheap way , brand new box off ebay for 80 quid , used the included plastic plate and found a way to fit it to the existing grabrail, minimal cost , and it's been there for over a year now with no issues at all
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I have a Ghost S and i'm not afraid to use it !
A Beast in Orange Called KaTie eM
"Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul".
"So you just ride somewhere, eat cake and then ride back".
"Normal people believe that if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broken, it doesn't have enough features yet."
" I We're Ridin so Fast , I we're sucking Rabbits from the Hedges " {Guy Martin}
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