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##Paddy## wrote: | The YZF does not have the power to hit the limiter in 6th.
I've ridden one, full speed, down a hill. |
Oh right, I see what you meant. Well, yes it does bud. I had the bike for 18 months and hit 84 on the speedo fairly regularly on the flat and downhill, and like I say that's when the rev limiter kicks in. I'm 13 stone in all my gear, tucking in was of course a necessity, as was full use of the gears in every gear. In particular 4th and 5th needed to be rinsed, otherwise 6th can't get up to full speed. You have to have the momentum there to make it easy on her, lol. You'll just have to take my word for it mate, I've no reason to lie, I haven't owned the bike for a long while now
Alpha, the YBR is a very different bike to the R125 mate. A few of the guys that ride with us had YBRs and they could never keep up in both acceleration and top speed. |
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I know they're not the same, I was just saying
If you want fast 125 go 2stroke else you look like a tit regardless, unless you've at least got no L plates
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##Paddy## wrote: | I regularly saw 90 on my CBR speedo.
It never did more than 72-75. Speedos are wildly inaccurate, GPS still isn't bang on. |
Lol, I'm not here to argue with you about it mate, just informing you of my experience with the bike. I had satnav mounted on the bars, and on a steady flat on the A31 got the bike up to 84mph on the speedo, which read 81mph on the Sat Nav. GPS is accurate across a certain distance and constant speed.
Alpha-9 wrote: | I know they're not the same, I was just saying
If you want fast 125 go 2stroke else you look like a tit regardless, unless you've at least got no L plates
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Yeah Alpha part of me always wished I'd gone with my first choice, the Aprillia RS125, which would've had more poke! I chose reliability over the extra performance, and the R125 was still a great little learner |
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Why does everyone rave about these R125s? Reckon we need to see what all the fuss is about. ____________________ My Flickr
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They are about the only 4 stroke 125s that use the full 15 horsepower available without LC20, that's about it really
YBR only makes 10hp bear in mind and is supposed to see 70mph
But, on my new bike, I lol at you caring about 1 or 2 mph over 80, I can corner faster than that ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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RS125's still knocking around, or RS4 125? ____________________ My Flickr |
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Carvel wrote: | Alpha-9 wrote: | But, on my new bike, I lol at you caring about 1 or 2 mph over 80, I can corner faster than that |
No you cant, its a diversion. |
No it's not., it's an XJ600-N
Diversions have big heads
And I can, I only ended up on the wrong side of the road once
Honestly having a big bike is new realms, there's a lot more learning and a lot more to think about compared to the 125, amount of throttle has never been important before, now I have to hold a neutral speed and it's important not to chop it else i'll fuck the corner up
Lots of learning to do anyway
Bike is heavy and underpowered apparently but I wouldn't know, 190kg + engine bars + 90kg of rider makes for a heavy ride though
Plenty enough bike for me, way more fun than the boring ER5 too ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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Ah to be honest, I could not give a rats arse of how fast it goes. It gets me to work and back, I can go out for a decent ride and in a comfortable manor, and it looks the part despite being a 125. (and if I crash, well I get back up and the bike starts again and so do I, which has been proven....Right paddy, ian and lama and pyro )
Couple years time you WILL see a bigger bike from me, and a decent once I can assure you all
For now, I will upload some new pictures soon of what changes I have done to my bike since my last post. so keep watching.
BTW it was great to see all them pics of past R125s. Pretty nice all of them. ____________________ Current: Suzuki Gladius 650cc ABS |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 10 years, 364 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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