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Hennessy
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PostPosted: 23:06 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: A Very Proud Owner!!! Reply with quote

Very Happy I just bought myself a 2004 Yamaha YZF-R6!!! FINALLY! The painful side of it is that I can't ride it yet as I've not passed my test (booked for the 9th pass date) and I had to leave it in the showroom as it may tempt me being in the garage Twisted Evil

The wait is going to be long, but well worth it! And here's a pic!!!

Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

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PostPosted: 23:14 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Congrats on the bike Thumbs Up

Good luck for your test - bet time will seem to pass sooo slowly now. Just make sure you don't fcuk up the test Wink

When you have passed get down to Boxhill for one of the rides
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PostPosted: 23:15 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

cracking looking bike mate Cool , good luck with the test mate Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 23:15 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take it easy when you ride it for the first time! Thats a serious bit of machinery.
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PostPosted: 23:20 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice, good luck with the test Thumbs Up Thumbs Up Thumbs Up Cool



Serious suggestion - while you're waiting to take your test, get yourself over to R & G and buy some engine-mount crash bungs.

I've got them fitted on my bike and they will likely save you a fortune in the event of a low-speed off. Just in case, you know? Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

But you will have to take a hack saw to the fairings to fit them. Same with the Yamaha ones.

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PostPosted: 23:43 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

VTR SP1 wrote:
But you will have to take a hack saw to the fairings to fit them. Same with the Yamaha ones.

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A Dremel or similar rotary tool (try Machine Mart) makes that sort of job piss-easy. Or get the dealer to fit 'em seeing as the bike's in the shop still.
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 18 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, thanx guys! Yep Joe, me and a couple of mates r riding down to Boxhill soon enuff, maybe c u there! Ill be the one wif an SV650S, CBR600F Sport and a Ninja ZX-6R!

I rode a CBR6 a while back so I know the power of this lovely machinery and hope everything goes well with the test Laughing

Unless I have to saw the fairing I will put some crash bungs on. I realise the cost of some repairs and replacement panels as I replaced the whole fairing on my RS! However, the whole set only cost me £40... off my m8, lol! Selling the Aprilia RS125 in July if any1 is interested!

Oh Yea, NEVER buy Suzuki SV crash bungs, the bracket is curved, and when u fall off, the bracket just bends and then the road scratches up half your fairing anyway, my m8 has gone through about 4 crash bungs costing £100... and it has not saved his bike in any way. Indictors all smashed and so on! Waste of money if u ask me, and HIM, lol!

-Hennessy
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PostPosted: 00:01 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hennessy wrote:

Oh Yea, NEVER buy Suzuki SV crash bungs, the bracket is curved, and when u fall off, the bracket just bends and then the road scratches up half your fairing anyway, my m8 has gone through about 4 crash bungs costing £100... and it has not saved his bike in any way. Indictors all smashed and so on! Waste of money if u ask me, and HIM, lol!




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Question Do you mean the bungs weren't directly bolted to the mounting point, but instead bolted onto a bracket which bolted to the bike at the other end (of the bracket)?

If so, I'm not surpried they didn't perform well.

PS - even decent bungs aren't there primarily to save your indicators, or even the fairing really (although they can save fairings as long as you don't slide far.)

They're there to keep the engine off the ground. Hole that and you're looking at an expensive repair bill.
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PostPosted: 00:38 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea that kind of bracket, well obviously the main objective is to save the engine more so then the fairing! However, most of the people I know with crash bungs mounted sercurely to the frame hasnt had as extensive damage to their fairing as what my m8 has had with his SV. It seems that this curved bracket idea seems pretty useless, because it bends and therefore exposing the engine to damage anyway! I just thought that Suzuki could had come up with a better way to mount the CBs on the SV (with the side fairings)

I'll just try and not to fall off Mr. Green (famous last words)

PS - I'm paying ten times more attention to this lovely R6 then any girl... If a girl says to me, wana go out and have fun Wink I'll say, nah going to look at my R6, lol... Is this WRONG?

-Hennessy
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PostPosted: 08:38 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hennessy wrote:

PS - I'm paying ten times more attention to this lovely R6 then any girl... If a girl says to me, wana go out and have fun Wink I'll say, nah going to look at my R6, lol... Is this WRONG?


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PostPosted: 09:26 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

def get crash bungs!! i needed to and know i crashed the RS so it sucks, the typical type of low speed crash that would have be 90% less damage if i had them...and those panels look well expensive to replace!
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PostPosted: 09:37 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice ! How much is the insurance ?
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PostPosted: 09:58 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

DO/PASS YA BLOODY TEST!!!!!!!

oh, and v. nice bike:)
but ill still have ya when the road starts to bend:) Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:23 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got an SV with R&G bungs on and they just bolt straight to the frame, although I suppose it could be different on the newer models, as mine's the 2000 curvey.
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep your R6 is a bit of a stunner alright! But id be getting quite worked up now, thinking that i have to pass my test first time asap, and knowing i had got that sat in me garage waiting to be ridden hard, it would be starting to piss me off not being able to get on it and give it some! Smile
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PostPosted: 21:01 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

v4forlife wrote:
DO/PASS YA BLOODY TEST!!!!!!!

oh, and v. nice bike:)
but ill still have ya when the road starts to bend:) Thumbs Up


Hmmm, Is that a challenge I hear! lol, Im pretty good when it comes to bends too! Twisted Evil

my insurance is £1300 TPFT, im mad i know!

Yea it is quite frustrating and thats why im leaving it in the showroom at the moment so I won't be tempted by the voices when its in my garage!

Most crash bungs on the SV range bolt to the frame, but however, if u have the lower side fairing put on so u cant see the engine, the bungs attach in a different way, the use some crappy bracket!

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PostPosted: 21:30 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hennessy wrote:
but however, if u have the lower side fairing put on so u cant see the engine, the bungs attach in a different way, the use some crappy bracket!




Drill the fairing; it's not hard to do, I managed to do mine no bother Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

OOOOOOO very nice Very Happy its about time you got the test over and done with, lol if you had had it sooner you could have come to scotland with me and adam.

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Question Do you mean the bungs weren't directly bolted to the mounting point, but instead bolted onto a bracket which bolted to the bike at the other end (of the bracket)?


On the SV in question, he has the crash bungs mounted on the bracket that also holds the lowers. So any drop will result in the bracket being bent. Really it should be on the frame, but it was the dealer who fitted them.
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PostPosted: 22:50 - 19 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea I know m8, quite disappointed about the Scotland trip, but I'm sure theres guna be a heck of a lot of other trips Very Happy Im not goin out wif u if u buy that BMW GS1200 tho Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: 13:46 - 20 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Liono wrote:
I've got an SV with R&G bungs on and they just bolt straight to the frame, although I suppose it could be different on the newer models, as mine's the 2000 curvey.


Same here, they replace the engine mounting bolts. I'm using DHMs.
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 20 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Oh Yea, NEVER buy Suzuki SV crash bungs, the bracket is curved, and when u fall off, the bracket just bends and then the road scratches up half your fairing anyway, my m8 has gone through about 4 crash bungs costing £100... and it has not saved his bike in any way. Indictors all smashed and so on! Waste of money if u ask me, and HIM, lol!

-Hennessy


so wher did you get that from Confused

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cant see this bedning, can you?
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PostPosted: 17:04 - 20 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think he means that if there is a lower fairing fitted, it covers the mount point, and so a bracket is used somewhere else. Why not drill the fairing if the bracket has bent 4 times?
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 20 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea, as Fuzz says, Ive been saying only with the SV when you buy the FAIRINGS aswell! TBH unless you get it done professionally I wouldn't wana start drilling holes in my fairing Rolling Eyes and I don't think he wants to either, but its a solution!

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PostPosted: 18:15 - 20 Jun 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cracking looking bike mate.

Because i love the look of these and im only 16 i tried my hardest to get a TZR50 but there were none at all when i was looking, but the next week after i got the motorhispania there were heaps!!

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