do i or dont i???

[woll]

ride a drz 400 sm without a restrictor in? I'm mainly using the bike for commuting with the odd bit off fun riding lol. I live about 5 miles from cheshre police hq aswell so im not sure
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[Paulington]

The chance of you getting caught are incredibly remote.

Unless you have a serious accident, then you'd better grab the KY for the Police.
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[drzsta]

Honestly even if the risk of getting caught is like 1%, its still worht keeping it in just in case!

I mean honestly, I've rode the DRZ with the restrictor in AND out! there isn't much of a difference at all.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

It's up to you.

Since I've been on the forum, I've heard of two people being done for it.
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[hmmmnz]

don't i,
48hp at the crank = not much more than 33 at the back wheel,
if ever asked just say, that the bike isnt more than 33hp at the wheel straight from the factory,
no one is going to dyno test it after you have crashed the bike,
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Paulington]

[Andy C]

Yourll be fine unless your crash, I crashed and the police were all over it like a rash.

Its up to you but if it was me know I wouldnt do it. 33bhp is a lot of power up untill 90mph.
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[temeluchus]

I got away with it, but YMMV. Depends alot on luck and your own discipline.
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[Ditto]

[hmmmnz]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[hmmmnz]

[Damon]

[Irezumi aka Reuben]

You'll be lucky for a stock DRZ400sm to make 35bhp at the wheel. It may actually come up as 33 in stock trim depending on the individual bike
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[ms51ves3]

[That_Hornet]

I've always wanted to see if they will make a bike restrict to 33bhp through the computer. Like the gay button you get on all the new bikes.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Paulington]

[FURBAR]

I think maybe the old bill are catching up on this restrcition thing, i was going to do it, but not now it's been coming up more and more about dyno checks etc ..


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[ms51ves3]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Thom]

on the note of restriction i rode around for my restriction period restricted for all of two months before i was clipped by a car that moved into my lane on the motorway.

I saw him coming, moved over as far to my right as i could and throttled on, however there was a 4x4 in my right hand lane so had nowhere to go. I tried to out accelerate the car coming into my lane and almost made it but he caught the end of my exhaust making the rear wheel skip.

If i hadn't been restricted i'd have easily been off in the distance, if not slightly aggited, hwoever the bike wouldnt have been hit.

Having extra power isn't necceserily a bad thing, but i dare say 33bhp is the absolute minimum you should have on a motorway - and that doesnt necceserily allow you to be as safe as possible.

Although my bike was just a diversion 600 with a claimed 60bhp at the crank the bike was a hell of alot nicer to ride without the washers in the manifolds, the engine breathed better, it revved more nicely and it actually had a little power.

Restircted i struggled to get beyond 80mph, unrestricted i struggled to get much more than 105mph so a bit of difference but i found taking a pillion restricted was hard work.

0-60 would be 8-10 seconds and thats just 20 stone between us, top speed of 75. unrestricted top speed of 90 but 0-60 in about 5-6 seconds.

i didnt get caught and didnt have any run ins so i dont know if it would have been checked, and county durham is quite a nice county due to its lack of traffic policing hwoever i did get away with it and covered about 10,000miles in that time through many different counties and police 'hot-spots'.

make what you want of that - saying that i dont ride aggressively or particularly fast, the bike was a sports tourer and i regularly had panniers so im unsure i was a target for police!
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[Ditto]

Attitude is a big part of it aswell. Dont ride around like a twat, dont have a small numberplate or loud exhaust which will draw attention to yourself, and if doing long motorway journeys or riding at night wear high-vis. Give as little reason to pull you over as possible and give out a good impression.
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[woll]

still no closer to making a decision, as for the loud exhaust and small plates, well it comes with an arrow exhaust on and im not bothered by plate sizes, i just stick to standard and maybe change the hanger ( the drz hanger is hideous) but i use legal carriers ( E marked and all that jazz)


Thom did the rozzers not check your bike when you got knocked off, that hit and run jobby?
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