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Oh my god, that rider is a giant!!! ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor |
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If you are wanting to enjoy the experience, I would go DAS. Most people decide the want to go bigger fairly quick, but with yourself, I think you would enjoy the whole 2 wheeled thing alot more on a bigger bike. So my is DAS DAS DAS. ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
Used to ride: 2015 Yamaha MT-09 Tracer (smidsy) 09 Triumph Street Triple (P/X'd) 08 Yamaha YBR (Sold)
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Well I don't miss anything smaller that a 600. Can't stand little underpowered bikes despite what verbal diarrhea Tef will come up with on how good they are.
Do your DAS and you will be able to pick up a 500cc+ bike cheaper than a 125. You will feel comfier and safer on it than any 125 ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Posted: 11:12 - 27 Jun 2017 Post subject: Re: New rider, weight and bike advice? |
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Barnastoby wrote: | I'm just worried about my weight, although I do have a push bike ... |
No licence required; no road tax, no MOT, no insurance, no PETROL even.. A-N-D it saves you gym fees, so you can stop worrying about your weight.... tackles so many problems all in one...
Anyway CBT sn't a licence, its a first lesson; unsupervised L-Plating is so folk can go learn to be able to pass tests, not dodge'em.
125's can be very useful cheap wheels; but they are at best barely adequate transport; they aren't fast, they aren't wonderfully comfy, and like any bike, you get wet when it rains, whilst trying to dodge all the twits, warm ad dry in cars who seem to need an eye-test 'cos they ever see bikes!
As to how big you are and whether you'd look like a sumo wrestler on a donkey... forget it! As quip, you are lucky if any one who SHOULD be looking takes any ruddy notice! Besides that, its a way to work, not a fashion show, and helmet hair and the drowned dog 'look' dont have too much atheistic appeal regardless!
Yup.. bike will probably be a little lathargic tryig to haul 25stone about, but, you know what, they are designed to! Yor weight IS a little i the upper percntile; I'm about your height and told I've got a bit of a belly at around 14 stone! But hey; I ride a 125, for fun, and eve stick the O/H or daughter on the back.. daughter makes a half full packet of crisps look rather porky, but still, our combined wights aren't much over yours, and I take my life in my own hands, to comment how far over it may be for O/H + me!!!!! But point is 125's are designed to carry two people; you aren't THAT heavy.. so should still do the job...
Bit of pizzicks for you; "Power = Force x Speed" as far as a motorbike goes, the 'force' in question is wind resistance; big chap will tend to give a bigger frontal area for wind resistance to work against. but, difference as the rider gets heavier doesn't go up that much; cos weight gets spread about three dimensions, so twice the weight doesn't mean twice the drag; so needn't knock so much off your top speed, and if you duck down a 'crouch' over the bars, your frotal area is lkely not much bgger than ay-one elses; no reason you shouldn;t be able to go pretty much as quick as any-one else on the same bike. Basically Speed isn't proportional to weight..
Next up; Force = Mass x Acceleration; now force is a facet of power, so now weight does come into the quation, and it will make the bike rather less inclined to accelerate.. its a 125.. it will be anyway.. small difference! As said, I can 2up on a 125, it tales a little more thrashig to get it shifting, and give a bit more time for braking, but, no huge handicap, bike can still make progress.
Likely you will be more comfy on a bigger bike; but they tend to be more expensive to run, as well as get licences up for... your call.
Start with CBT, remember its not a licece just a first lesson; if you are over 17 absolutely no reason they should make you do it on a 50, but stop thinking, start ridng.. go do the course, find out for yourself, what its like, whether you can do it, whether you';ll like it and IF you want to take t any further... whether persng 'cheaps' with a 125 or looking at higher licences for something a bit bigger and less cheap.
CBT is a pretty comprehesive course, intended for absolute beginers; to aswer all your questions; if it dont open yur mouth and ASK! Thats what its for; and will get you far ore clued up than nattering on the net.
Call about; chck the T&C's ask what kit they provide ad what they recommend you have before turning up, and most important what the catering arrangements for lunch are.. the get on and do. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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You'd have disc valves for tea coasters, and battered old microns and allspeeds hanging up with the pots and pans on the kitchen ceiling I reckon! I dare say they'd be a few holey pistons being used as pen holders and ash trays by now too.
At least the engines wouldn't take long to build, and everyone knows that burning two stroke oil smells sweeter than four stroke oil too! |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 301 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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