Oh yer Baby!!!!

[Nige]

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   )

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

[Jacknife]

I spoke to a traffic cop on Thursday and he said "in all the years he's worked, he would not know what he's looking at on a bike" and he's a good copper. They have a team of "Know It All's" how look at bikes but there so busy looking at stolen bikes they dont look at road side stops.

Get the cert and take them out! and dont crash or your mom will come looking for me!

[AndyK]

Hi there,

I am new to the board, Bandits and England come to think of it!

I moved here from New Zealand at the start of your bloody cold winter and I have only just bought myself a '98 B6. I have got it in the nice red/gold colour that I had never seen before and it only has 7000 miles on the clock. How could anyone have such a nice bike and only do 1000 miles a year?! Thank god my NZ licence transfers over to a full UK licence so I can ride whatever I want unlike some unlucky people here :)

I am based in Wisbech (Little hick town near Peterborough with lots of bloody tractors driving around) If anyone wants to go out for a ride in the area just give me a yell

[Robbieukb12]

Andy
 to sunny,rainy,snowy old England
You've moved from N.Z. to here what a bummer, never mind keep a watch out for cow shit on the back roads as well as tractors.
When you see 1 you normally see the other


Robbie

[Jacknife]

AndyK

Well I dont live in Peterborough but would be passing thru to a place called Huntingdon which is close, so I would be up for a small blast around the back roads, Watching for tractor and cow shit. Will post a time and date when im going down.

Will also pass thru Leeds if any ones intrested?

[Bandit Jap]

Well another Brit to the list!

Hello everyone, Just passed my test last week and the owner of a N reg Bandit 600gsf.

I only have 7 months experience on a 125cc so i am at the bottom of the learning curve :(

If any one lives near Birmingham and is up for a ride give us a shout, Im 33 years old with 3 kids and want to reflect that in my riding.

At the moment I have not pushed passed 4 thousand revs in any gear as I have had no need to, but as I get my confidence up im sure I will want to see what the bike can do.

What speed can this bike do in different gears?  Im to scared to find out at the moment:) I think the power kicks in between 6 and 8 thousand, is this true?

All the best

Andy

[Jacknife]

Balls to the Wall. Go on flat out. The learning curve is not that bad I only passed on the 28th of Feb. And the Bandit is very forgiven. It seems to be people in there 30th's who are buying the Bandit, I'm 31 and this is my first bike, no kidds but working on it!

[Robbieukb12]

Andy
Dont know much about the 600 i have a 1200 been riding for 10 years married aged 34 with 3 kids myself.
Take your time and go at your own pace if you go out in a group and they blast off let em go, confidence and "The need for speed" will and may come later.
I have been out with guys with much more experience and balls than me and have found the harder you try and keep up the more you make mistakes. Don't get me wrong i'm no slouch i'll happily scratch the back roads with the sportsbikes and have took my Bandito to 160 on the clock but confidence comes with time.
Take your time and above all ENJOY it.

Shit  i sound just like my dad.....Heeeellllp  :blahblah:


Robbie

[AndyK]

Andy: all the advide the others have given is sensible stuff. I had only ever ridden a 250cc bike back in NZ so my new bandit 600S is my first "big" bike too. I have pushed the limits a bit more than you, but then I am only 25 with no kids and a girlfriend so I can get away with a bit more crazy stuff. I have not done much in the way of windy roads because it is so bloody flat where I am but I have managed 120mph early one morning before I chickened out.  

I have found that the bike pulls well from as low as 2000, as the revs rise it does pull harder but there is no big spike in the power like on a 2 stroke. Just take your time and get there bit by bit, no point throwing the new toy down the road just because some other rider decides to use the road like a racetrack. I have only been riding it for about 3 weeks now so I would be interested to see what you think of it.

Jacknife: I go through Huntingdon all the time, my job means that I have to fly from Heathrow all the time so I have done a lot of Late night runs to London in the last few months. Whenever youy are in the area just drop me a line and ill see if the girlfriend will let me off the leash  

[Jacknife]

Nice one, should be down in a few weeks to see an old friend so i'll let you know so you can get a day pass. I have to do the same at home.

[Nige]

I am based in Wisbech (Little hick town near Peterborough with lots of bloody tractors driving around) If anyone wants to go out for a ride in the area just give me a yell

Well ya not that far from me, I'm in Dereham (otherwise known as the crackhole of Norfolk) and i'm up and about peterborough now and again to see friends. I'm only on a baby B400 but it would be great to go out for a ride sometime. You should head down my way, then up to the coast, some great roads with less tractors (more oldies in reliant robins though)
But through the windy country roads my B400 would keep up with ya a treat.

Only problem is my bike is in the garage atm for a complete overhaul...suspected blown head gasket...oh joy!!
Hopefully it'll be sorted in the next few weeks, untill then, maybe i'll be the one driving a reliant robin! Or on a bus, i don't know which is worse  

Nigel

[Jacknife]

It started off with who was in the UK, and then it turned in to what you have read. I dont know neither

[wyntrblue]

just another point on removing the restriction prior to having the licence for riding a bike over 33bhp, if (and i hope this doesnt happen) you have an accident, the police and insurance company will check to see if the restriction is still there, if its not, your insurance wont be valid and neither will your licence, so you will be arrested for riding without a licenece or insurance....

not worth the risk imho

oh im in the uk too, south leicestershire, i have a bandit 400 (import) and a 125, as i havent passed my das yet :'(

[blackbandit]

i have come all the way from leeds

[Jacknife]

Leeds, thats not far for Newcastle (well I would'nt want to be drag by my balls that distance), you ever get up here?