Am I ghey?

[Baggyman]

[Polarbear]

[pepperami]

[talkToTheHat]

Are you a poor excuse for a homophobic slur? Yep. Are you going to become desireable to other men? Only hipsters.

You'll want that front fender if you ever ride in the rain, the coils are just above the front cylinder head and are prone to soaking.

Rear fenders that aren't cut up or majorly repaired are really quite rare. I've got one (I think) in need of a minor repair and repainting if you want it.

Pods are not airbox. Frame is airbox. Don't remove airbox, bike will get bendy.

The solenoid reserve is notoriously unreliable. Consider replacing with mechanical reserve, certain grizzly quad parts work well. Expect 80 miles to reserve unless you're riding very gently. Irridium plugs improve cold weather starting and throttle response immensely. Check valve clearences, they wander.

Avon roadrider on the front and i think cobra on the rear was significantly less shit than conti milsestones, brembo make a ceramic pad for the front brake that feels ok but you need to be quite firm. I won a spill counter entry for demonstrating that these do stop.

It's popular to fill front forks with thick oil and extra preload spacers. This stops braking dive but destroys handling. Works much better with stock spacing and 10w oil.
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Bandit. does. everything.

[dydey90]

[oscar777]

[secretagentmo...]

Ghey? Black Widow Exhaust?
These Black Widows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXhl6TOyq3k

[RobinoTyrell]

I don't know. Can we get a picture of how you would look like in a full leather suit and no helmet?

[owl]

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Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

[talkToTheHat]

100 absolutely maxed. But it will do 95+ on gps 2-up with luggage for as long as fuel lasts on as geared short to sit comfortably in 5th at 55
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Bandit. does. everything.

[Pigeon]

[stevo as b4]

That's a very fair point of view that some have. I don't particularly hate bikes with laid back geometry and slow steering and poor ground clearance if they are powerful. I imagine I'd quite enjoy (some of the time) riding a stripped back to the minimum hard tail chopper with an FJ1200 engine or similar?

I'd like a KTM 125exc supermoto too, but again you could argue that the UK has the wrong roads for it, hardly like the twisting Positano coast road that suit an on/off two stroke.

Yet also we are a nation of scream our fireblade's though the first 4gears and sod the law too. Its especially amusing as we don't as a nation have particularly high speed limits compared to some, and we don't have that much space, open roads, or traffic free nice mountain canyons or the Stelvio pass etc.

Its like because we are a little congested island, we have to take every chance we get for half a mile or so of mad thrashing, between congestion and snarled up town traffic?

In the US a Harley that lopes along at 55mph makes sense, but then so would a stretched extended rear end Hayabusa as, there are enough roads to wind every last rpm out of one in top gear, which is more than you can say for most of the UK.

[Pigeon]

[Alex A]

[chickenstrip]