Nothing special, my suzuki marauder

[MattHirst]

Hey people!

Nothing special but it is my first bike (not including my old moped...don't even go there, its embarassing )

Anyway, totally standard.....don't intend to do anything to it (not worth the hassle, i will only be keeping it 2 years)

Anyway, here goes...

[MarkJ]

Looks good mate, I can't believe those things are only 125cc! Did you get it brand new?

[MattHirst]

Yep, was keeping my eye on a 2nd hand one but when we went in to buy it...it had been sold damnit!

He told us 2 new ones were coming in so we bought one

Not bad at only £2200

[McGee]

Not bad they are okay bikes

I have ridden the Intruder which is the vtwin version they are fun bikes
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[MattHirst]

yeah the intruder looks and sounds nice..but not worth the extra £1100

[Andrewc2oo5zx...]

i had one and all i did was take the panniers off drop bars and the supporting brackets, was good for an extra (indicated) 3-4 mph
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[MattHirst]

Yeah but your forgetting its not a speed machine...its a cruiser

Even out on rides, i have nutters coming flying past me and i might be doing 45-50 (doing the speedlimit) but i could easily do 15-20 more but i don't....i'm just a chilled out rider..

I might change that last sentance in a few years though

But i'm happy with the bike, nice and comfy on long rides, good on fuel and does its job fine (well what i need it to do)

[Icey]

I think thats 3 of us Marauder owners now

It's very nice, not sure I like the hard panniers. Hope you keep the polishing up on it
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[MattHirst]

them pictures were taken after 1 week of going to work, and roughly a 120 mile ride on sunday....without a clean in between so its not that bad...gonna give it a wash tomorrow or later tonight.

I like the hard panniers, for 2 reasons...

1)obviously i can keep things in them (ie locks, cloth to wipe seat etc, sandwich box going to work and stuff like that)

2)they seem to make the bike look a lot bigger and bulkier....the 2nd hand one i was looking at was a 2003 model, looked really small compared to mine (its an 06 plate but not sure if its new for 2006)

[lo_iq2000]

I had a 03 Marauder as m y first bike in black....weekends for cruising and weekdays for polishing...have fun I did

[ram_doom]

Very bling and substantial for a 125 I'm not a cruiser person but thats pretty tasteful
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[Marah]

Very nice,
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[chalky143]

not my style but a kool bike
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[steveh]

i had a 02 model in blue, good bikes, dont take kindly to wheeling eat chaints if you do and wach the head covers, they come loose with vibration ( i ran over mine!)

Steve.
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