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have fun getting used to the bike, and stay safe ____________________ current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either. |
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gt alex wrote: | It's great you riding again but hell, a bandit 1200. |
Bandit 1200s are big bikes, and that engine has a chunky spread of torque, but in many ways it's like a big armchair. As long as you can handle wheeling the thing round at low speed, they're actually pretty friendly.
Above about 600cc, the engine capacity alone doesn't really tell you how fast/scary a bike will be. My 675cc street triple has more power (107bhp) than a bandit 1200 (100bhp), but you really need to rev it to get that power, you can be a lot lazier with the bandit. To take a couple of even more extreme examples, a Harley Sportster 1200cc is 66bhp, and a Ducati Panigale V4 1100cc is 213bhp. ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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ThunderGuts wrote: | I know it's stating the obvious, but it's all about being smooth and progressive with your inputs. A 1200 Bandit is more than capable of highsiding you or wheelieing away with clumsy inputs. A torquier engine actually exacerbates that issue as low revs aren't as lethargic as they are on a peakier bike like a striple. |
You're totally right, but I suppose I was looking at it the other way round. Peakier bikes need a good handful of throttle to pull off without stalling, and giving it just a little too much will have you catapulting down the road. But you'll always need to give it a fair bit, and working out just how much that "fair bit" is when you're new can be challenging. Whereas you realise quite quickly on torquey big engines that just a whiff of throttle will do, so you can afford to be much more gentle on pulling off without worrying about stalling. One of my mates has a Sprint GT and you can happily pull off from a standstill without touching the throttle at all. ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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ThunderGuts wrote: | To be fair, if you're heavy handed with the gear lever, it's possible for my C90 to throw you off the back from a standstill. |
Haha, I've seen this exact thing happen on a C90 style bike. A woman I was travelling with (first day on a moped to be fair) gave it a handful to pull off, but the bike was in neutral, so still revving, she just knocked it into first. The bike wheelied out from between her legs, but she held onto the bars, so she ended up chasing it down the road with the bike on the back wheel...
In fact, I even found the pic of us pissing ourselves laughing once she'd got it under control.
https://zendog888.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/ss104149-custom.jpg ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 324 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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