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Jayy Mr. Ponzi
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Posted: 01:15 - 02 Apr 2018 Post subject: This weekend I did do, new bike. 701 Husqvarna |
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It's a pretty tall bike and I'm on the balls of my feet sitting on it. Absolutely incredible bike, really smooth, catapults you round corners like they are nothing and wheelies all over the gaff. End can incoming in the next 10 days as the stock is pants.
https://i.imgur.com/cxMqQEd.jpg
Also just got the ape back after it munching 3rd gear (fixed under warranty) and a 6,000 mile service. The husky makes the ape look small.
https://i.imgur.com/j1KaKQw.jpg
Thought I'd grab a new lid too and retire the old carbon bandit with a Scorpion EXO 1400 carbon.
https://i.imgur.com/L8iaTwz.jpg
Mega impressed with the lid so far. |
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Posted: 07:34 - 02 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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That looks absolutely nuts! It must be great fun.
I obviously don't need to remind you not to park it where the local scumbags can see it. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Posted: 09:26 - 02 Apr 2018 Post subject: Re: This weekend I did do, new bike. 701 Husqvarna |
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Jayy wrote: | I'm on the balls of my feet |
Looks more like the balls of one foot.
Do want, and I am miffed that they are too racist to make them for Scotches, wamen, or most of humanity for that matter. 890mm is only 20mm shorter than the big-wheel enduro. Does it really need all that ground clearance? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Jayy Mr. Ponzi
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Posted: 13:47 - 02 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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Polarbear wrote: | I obviously don't need to remind you not to park it where the local scumbags can see it. |
They never get parked up anywhere other than my garage or where I can see it
Rogerborg wrote: | Jayy wrote: | I'm on the balls of my feet |
Looks more like the balls of one foot.
Do want, and I am miffed that they are too racist to make them for Scotches, wamen, or most of humanity for that matter. 890mm is only 20mm shorter than the big-wheel enduro. Does it really need all that ground clearance? |
I had the other foot up but I can get both balls of my feet down, which is jusssst enough to be stable on it. Soon as the mrs sits on it, it compresses another 1 inch so I can flat foot, which is handy.
Unless I was taking this off some sweet jumps, I don't think it needs hardly any of that ground clearance. You could probably shave a few inches off the suspension / seat if you needed it. The enduro is a fair bit taller again, probably too much for me.
Copycat73 wrote: | But It does make for a good view in urban traffic .. .
Have you fitted the mirror extentions ? |
Not yet, just removed the stock mirrors and it kind of has a tail tidy built in if you remove the plastic hangar bit that comes stock and drill some new holes in the plate. I only picked it up Friday afternoon, so haven't had a chance to get hold of any trick bits.
Will be putting at least one mirror on there, a bash plate for the engine , an exhaust and some crash bungs and on the advice of a pal who has a 17 model, a 15t front sprocket. |
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Looks like just the thing with state of the roads these days. ____________________ CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
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Nice. ____________________ My Flickr |
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Well done dude!
Glad you bought a silly bike that has full Stevo approval and is a fun and laugh your cock off machine with none of this silly daily practically business.
Im trying to resist a new bike purchase of a similar machine, but I was thinking a slightly smaller engined orange bike maybe? I've got to give it a bit of thought as my old clunkers need some spending on too. |
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Posted: 14:46 - 03 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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Did ride a husky once, was much scared. Would do again |
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Posted: 17:24 - 03 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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Nice bike, I'm a big fan of upright bikes. It's like sitting up in a van. That's roughly how the Spacker fits me inside leg
wise. I'm a whisker under 6ft with 31inch inside leg (long torso and really long arms.) For some reason the Sport Tracker
variant is taller than a stock MT09 of the same model year. I think the saddle is a little bit thicker? Same as you once I
have a pillion on the back I can flat foot with ease. It's nice sitting up there in traffic but the wind at 100plus is a bit much.
I hope your security arrangements are all on point. Good luck! ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Jayy Mr. Ponzi
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Posted: 03:39 - 04 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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grr666 wrote: | Nice bike, I'm a big fan of upright bikes. It's like sitting up in a van. That's roughly how the Spacker fits me inside leg
wise. I'm a whisker under 6ft with 31inch inside leg (long torso and really long arms.) For some reason the Sport Tracker
variant is taller than a stock MT09 of the same model year. I think the saddle is a little bit thicker? Same as you once I
have a pillion on the back I can flat foot with ease. It's nice sitting up there in traffic but the wind at 100plus is a bit much.
I hope your security arrangements are all on point. Good luck! |
Having done just over 250 miles on it this past 4 days or so, it is a brilliant bit of kit. Thank fuck for my decent inside leg length, my brother in law and sister are both so short that they can hardly ride any good bikes between them.
Wind hitting you at 100mph is also a thing I have not experienced for a long time... it's not great but realistically, these things are the most fun when either on one wheel or catapulting you round twisties.
Security wise... I have CCTV with motion detection setup on the outside and motion detectors on the inside rigged to an alarm inside the garage and the house, as well as much physical security inside too. Dogs also go ape shit should anyone even be in the proximity. Aside from sleeping in there with the bikes, I don't think there's much more to be doing. |
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Posted: 02:59 - 06 Apr 2018 Post subject: |
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This bike is not for motorway miles though mate, it's just for a bit of light hooliganism and smacking about B roads.
https://i.imgur.com/OCAqrDx.jpg
So last night was interesting... met up with the lads, few of us got 18 plate 701s last week and one got one end of last year on a 17 plate, so there's actually 4 of us with these bikes.
Met up with a couple more of the lads on various bikes, from KTM 690's to a Husaberg 6 something. First ride of the new bikes for some of them, first ride of the year for others.
One lad hadn't been out for a long time and put about £1.50's worth of diesel in his bike before realising and diluting it with unleaded for the rest of the tank...
He should have got a van and fucked the bike off but he carried on riding it and about an hour later, the engine seized on him, flung him off , cracked a few ribs, put a hole in his elbow and wrote the bike off.
Other than that, we had a belting ride out. Got loads of trick bits coming now too:-
Wings Exhaust
Carbon fiber clutch / engine covers
Frame / swing arm sliders
Carbon exhaust guard
Some clip on bar mirrors
15t front sprocket for more dank whoolies
Small plate
Power Commander V
Suspension Setup
Waiting on my mate doing rotweiller intake / pcv and something else tune and see how he gets on with that and I'll probably follow suit. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 358 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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