Another Newbie

Retsyn · L Plate Warrior Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Karma :

Just found this forum and thought I should introduce myself. I'm in the US, but my husband's a Brit, so I thought I might be able to relate to people in here somewhat.

I'm 36, female and been having Ninja fantasies for years. Two weeks ago I bought a Ninja EX500-now I need to learn to drive it. There are 3 day training courses here that I'm going to sign up for. Already bought an awesome Suomy helmet. Wink

So basically I'm new to this board, new to owning a bike and new to driving. Fun eh?

There's a couple pics of the bike here https://photos.yahoo.com/bootiques Please ignore the dirty Jeep in the background-hey it's the middle of winter!

Hope to chat/meet some of you soon!

New York Doll · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Karma :

Hello,

Welcome to the forum, I too am new here and have found it to be a great source of knowledge and a good laugh, wonderful people to boot Smile

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Nice Ninja by the way, hope learning to use it is a much of a thrill as sitting there staring at it. Looks like your well on your way to being able to ride it. I am also new to motorcycling, myself. It seems well daunting, but worth the effort.

Welcome, btw Laughing

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mchaggis · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 May 2004 Karma :

Greetings and salutations! Thumbs Up

Be careful of the wildlife, some of it bites! Smile

And take care not to step on the grass...

Nice bike, even without its bottom fairing. Wink

I'm after one once I've passed my test, hopefully in the summer.
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Retsyn · L Plate Warrior Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Karma :

Thanks for the welcome Smile

mchaggis, I paid $1000 (that's dollars, not pounds)-it's a 95 w/14,000 miles...I figured I could live without the fairing. Who knows...I may find one around. Wink

Barker-CBR 600 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Karma :

So thats around £750 for a Ninja only done 14K miles.

Not too shabby at all!

Now something i wanna ask an american, its pretty much every British Bikers dream at some point or another to ride coast to coast across the US on their own bike.

What about those actually already there? Is it as popular?

I couldnt exactly see them shipping a bike across to sunny ol' England an riding few times round the M25.
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TomC · Trackday Trickster Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Karma :

More like £520. It annoys me how much things are cheaper over there Razz

Welcome to the forum. Smile

Retsyn · L Plate Warrior Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Karma :

Well I got a great deal on the bike. It was a friend of a friend thing who really needed the cash-so I got lucky. It would normally sell for more-maybe $1800-$2000?

As far as riding across the US-it's a pretty big place you know. Wink

I would think that would be more of a Harley biker's dream....

Dan 4RR · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Karma :

Bit late, But Hi!.
Nice Bike! Thumbs Up