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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 26 Mar 2012    Post subject: My first bike Reply with quote
Well the time has eventually turned up... I've officially joined the motorcycling fraternity! I'm sure you've all seen a blue Honda CBR125R before but I don't care, it can't hurt to see another and see somebody jovial about his first bike.

I've named it Bloodwyn (don't ask) and I love it.

And for those of you who were so eager to point out that I'd soon get bored of a 125 and it wouldn't be fast enough... well, three days into owning one and I see what you mean. Once you get over 55mph, it really starts struggling to build speed. And any change in the wind almost definitely results in the need to change a gear. But I'm not bothered. I'm fully loving it. It's a great little machine for getting used to the feel of a bike, getting used to the feel of leaning into corners and all the other bits and pieces one needs to do to ride.

My only regret is that it took me till 24 years old to get one...

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Ayrton
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PostPosted: 22:20 - 26 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice bike, i also have a cbr125. Great machines. Managed to get 75mph out of mine at one point somehow Laughing
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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 22:22 - 26 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ayrton wrote:
Nice bike, i also have a cbr125. Great machines. Managed to get 75mph out of mine at one point somehow Laughing


Down hill with a tailwind?

(And somebody towing you...) Angelic
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kotachi
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 26 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ayrton wrote:
Nice bike


She's a beaut mate. Great quality photos too! Mr. Green

I hope soon to be following in your footsteps and getting my first... only 5 years earlier Wink
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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 26 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
kotachi wrote:

I hope soon to be following in your footsteps and getting my first... only 5 years earlier Wink


Well the CBR125R comes highly recommended while you're riding on CBT! Cheap too
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Alpha-9
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PostPosted: 09:09 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chain the shit out of that bike! Laughing

How you finding the CBR? I heard it small Embarassed
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 11:16 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Re: My first bike Reply with quote
beaslethorpe wrote:
I've named it Bloodwyn (don't ask)


Can I ask why you didn't spell it Blodwyn? Wink

Anyway, it looks ace, I just hope I've got my congratulations in before it gets/got nicked.

I'd suggest putting it beside the post and put the chain around the frame or headstock if there's room, at the moment it'd just need the front wheel and mudguard off to have it.

Motion sensor alarm on it, right? The local scrotes will come sniffing around sooner or later.
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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Re: My first bike Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
beaslethorpe wrote:
I've named it Bloodwyn (don't ask)


Can I ask why you didn't spell it Blodwyn? Wink

Anyway, it looks ace, I just hope I've got my congratulations in before it gets/got nicked.

I'd suggest putting it beside the post and put the chain around the frame or headstock if there's room, at the moment it'd just need the front wheel and mudguard off to have it.

Motion sensor alarm on it, right? The local scrotes will come sniffing around sooner or later.


Will definitely follow that advice! I had hoped I could get it round the back, but unfortunately there are 3 steep steps to tackle and it can't be done... pain.

But yes, the headstock seems a better idea.

And I dunno what Blodwyn is. Bloodwyn is the name I decided I was going to give my first child (no idea why) and then later I decided I'm not going to have kids because I'm way too selfish. So the bike took the name.



MEANWHILE... today I rode home from work only to discover somebody had blue tacked a tiny easter chick to the bike (which amazingly stayed on!)
I found it pretty hilarious.
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Alpha-9
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
lol nice, but, people are already touching your bike, it is pretty exposed there, just hope your neighbourhood aren't cunts, I can see some dickhead pushing it over at the least, just to be a cunt Thumbs Down
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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 18:15 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alpha-9 wrote:
lol nice, but, people are already touching your bike, it is pretty exposed there, just hope your neighbourhood aren't cunts, I can see some dickhead pushing it over at the least, just to be a cunt Thumbs Down


The chick was put on there in the carpark at work, not at home.

This neighbourhood's not bad at all actually. But I am gonna build a ramp for the steps anyway
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Sako
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
nice little bike you got there - as said above, make sure you keep it locked up well!
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice looking bike you have there - not sure that number plate is legal though!
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Ayrton
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
beaslethorpe wrote:
Ayrton wrote:
Nice bike, i also have a cbr125. Great machines. Managed to get 75mph out of mine at one point somehow Laughing


Down hill with a tailwind?

(And somebody towing you...) Angelic

Laughing pretty much. I was pretty much ragging the shit out of it to see how fast i could get it to go. It was probably much less than what the spedo was saying...
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recman
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PostPosted: 22:26 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
janner_10 wrote:
Nice looking bike you have there - not sure that number plate is legal though!


Laughing

Here's hoping you don't live on a busy pub route mate.
I do so mine is getting tucked away when I get it. Wink
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Dilyan
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PostPosted: 22:35 - 27 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Could use something like that, but a few years older. I weigh a ton, so won't do more than 53 mph. Motorway legal and license saved. Oh, not to mention the mpg Smile

Keep safe mate, would be a shame if it gets nicked. Hope you will upgrade to a full license and offer this one at a good price Rolling Eyes
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beaslethorpe
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PostPosted: 11:27 - 28 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd love it to go to a good rider when I'm done with it, so I'll certainly put it out on here when I upgrade!

Live nowhere near a pub route so I'm safe from meddling, drunken hands.

And bloody hell you're right... somebody seems to have stolen the numbers off my plate!!! Those whiley ne'er-do-wells!!!
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Dilyan
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PostPosted: 12:32 - 28 Mar 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
beaslethorpe wrote:
I'd love it to go to a good rider when I'm done with it, so I'll certainly put it out on here when I upgrade!



See, these words should not be in the same sentence lol

Sorry about the numberplate; but it was a matter of when rather than if Confused
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