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 Ste Not Work Safe

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What do you hope to achieve by spending £500 on tuning? Presumably you're not happy with the speed of the bike if you're wanting to spend £500 tuning it?
If you want more power then by far the easiest and cheapest way of doing that is to buy a faster bike.
I seriously doubt you need (or will use) the slight power gains a race can and K&N filter might give you so don't kid yourself. If you want a noisy exhaust then get whichever one you like the look and sound of. |
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Initially I thought this dude was a troll, maybe not.
I only say that as we all agree it's rather futile trying to tune a 250R, it's knocking out a certain amount of power, that's what it's designed to do. There's no obvious restriction, no easy ways of extracting much more that it's doing already (you can only piss with the cock you've got, etc etc!).
However I've spent money on tuning a 125 - not even a 2 stroke one, but a Chinese Honda copy, complete with 80s(?) pushrods engine technology.
Why did I do it? I'd three other bikes available, all much quicker. I found it amusing, and enjoyed making mine different to Ms 1198s similar bike. I enjoyed spending time researching the 'best' (read most appropriate) gear. New carb. New air filter. Big bore kit. Gearing mods. Fitting them.
Was the money spent on my little 125 worth it? On a £ per power ratio, no. It raised the top speed by 5mph.
Did I enjoy myself? Certainly. Would I do it again? Probably, were Ms 1198 not now known as NinjaGirl and the proud owner (ironically) of a 250R and so hopefully soon to outgrow (not literally!) her 125.
So, TL,DR,
Maybe he's tuning it for his own satisfaction, to make it different, to make HIS?
Ps if anybody wants to buy a cheap Chinese '125' give me a shout! |
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Which part of that does he get for his five hundred ponds?  |
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[Patient Sigh]... I hear there's a new Dumb & Dumber movie out....have you seen it yet? Was it your inspiration for these threads?
Oh-Kay... R125 thread.. you were told quite explicitly what you might possibly achieve trying to tune a tiddler; how much it would cost, and the 'real world' difference t just WOULDN'T make...
You were also told, if you want a faster bike.. fit a better rider...
And I seem to Recall, you had barely had the R125 legally on the road a week then, little more than a fortnight ago....
SO..... you actually GOT your A2 licence since we last spoke?
Or is this this Ninja-Plan just more fantasy finking?
But to continue pissing on your parade.. your sums don't stack up..
You dont want to buy the Ninja 300 that is minutely faster than the Ninja 250, cos they cost £500-£1000 more.. so reckon to buy the cheaper 250 and spend the difference NOT managing to make it even as fast as the 300? AND paying a mechanic to do mods, which if declared will probably make it MORE expensive to insure than the 300, while reducing reliability and resale.... that makes sense dunnit?
EVEN if you were to follow the path of the CZ Turbo-Ninja-Twin...I think they only just got the sort of power, 60bhp or so (outside A2 licence limits) of an 'old' ZXR400..
You could pick up one of them, or any umber of 50+ bhp bikes for a few hundred quid, no mods required.... and ride it other than in accordance with your licence if you so wish..
And you could even slap a Tyga fairing kit on it to make it look more 'Ninjarish' if you REALLY have to fuck about with the thing AND your dedication to following fashion IS the over riding impulse here....
BUT till you learn to ride, and ride well; you would STILL be better off spending your money on petrol, just riding, getting miles under your belt, 'cos if you want a faster bike... fit a better rider ....and you are STILL a two week wonder barely out of CBT.
RideOrDie... as before, either will do, carry on! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 4 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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