Hey, another brit here, starting to think I'm the only brit with a 400 Bandit though
It's a proper UK version aswell (rare...but the worst one
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Down in oh so not very sunny Norfolk, lots of great windy roads round here, joy on a bike..until you run into a giant Tractor with enormous spikey things the other side of a blind corner at 60...but who needs to live to 21 eh??
Oh and blueorgreen, on the restricting your bike part:
My full liscence doesnt kick in until May '06 but from experience and talking to friendly police officers in my area, it's really not something that can be enforced.
There are so many ways a bikes bhp can be restricted, something which the police can not check on the roadside if they pull you over. The worst that can happen is that they'll ask for you to produce your papers, including the restriction cert at a police station within 7 days.
Soooo..you have the garage fit the rediculously expensive washers (lots of people give the kits away for free, or cheap on ebay) and get the certificate, then take them off as soon as you get home using the handy manual. So now you have the certificate, restriction kit at home in the VERY unlikely case that they book you in for a garage inspection and a lovely unrestricted bike.
Freedom and joy
Just make sure they dont catch you getting up to 140mph in 9 seconds...makes it a bit obvious
Anyone seen any of those new police Subaru 'bike catchers' about, Norfolk police force have just bought 4
bugger.
Nigel