Bandit Alley
REGIONAL FORUMS => UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND => Topic started by: Jacknife on March 08, 2005, 05:15:13 AM
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We have are own forum. Anybody else thats UK here, or is it just me?
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Me too
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Another one here too.
Glad to see some more Brit's on here
All the best
Robbie
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Where you at Robbieukb12? Anywhere north?
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In the Midlands, Coventry
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another one here.
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Where you at then Butcherbloke? :?:
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Hey guys.
Another one to the boards.
From N.Oxfordshire meself - kinda in the middle of Coventry and Oxford.
:wink:
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Well are numbers are going up that can't be a bad thing!
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Hey Gnome
Welcome to the show
Robbie
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And mee ,, leeds
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OK throw us a bone, How are you riding a B6 and only 18? Have you not got to be 21? and if not do you have it restricted? :blahblah:
Any how Nice to have more UK members :banana:
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LOL well i passed my CBT at 16 ,, Passed full test at 17 witch means i have a 33bhp limet :sad: this week im taking the bandet for restriction (castration) as i have seen some one say.
Cant wait till next year coz the restriction is lifted :banana:
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Oh and what a ripp off :sad: £180 to get some bloody washers put in and a certificate :?: lol just had to get that of ma chest. :wtf:
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But officer, I don't know how those washers fell out... :beers:
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lol yeh. Cant take n e risks now. Dont rly matter tho ma friends just got a sv650 restricted, how will the bandit compare wiv that?
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Let me get this right your going to sit with 33bhp when the bike is rated at 79bhp? just Ride on the back wheel every where and that will cut down to half the normal BHP! :bigok:
What a shitter! Dam i'm lucky im 31. only held my ticket for 28days and I can ride any bike! :stickpoke:
Must watch out for a slow 600 around Leeds!
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make that a slow bandit 600 and a slow sv 650. lol bad things always come in pairs
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More money that sense! What you got a rich Daddy or did you rob a bank :monkeymoon: 2 bikes you got it made and your 18!
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Lol nah saved up for ma bross, And ma dad got a good deal on bandit last year so b coz he aint rly using it i got it for a good price also. £1500 lol i no its cheap
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Oh and no bank just got a job lol
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BTW who thinks its blue and who thinks green?
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its Turquoise, so nither really think its called teal! :bigok:
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hey,
Im from Leeds!!!
SPeeeeDY
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Well you can hang around with sail :monkeymoon: Just kidding He wont be that slow. I learnt on a 500 33bhp and all it lacked was fast get away. but top end was there!
So Danny you not going to be slow just under powered! :stickpoke:
Did'nt you have a football team once. :boohoo:
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Did'nt you have a football team once. :boohoo:
U asking me that or speedy? Or niether lol :duh:
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BTW who thinks its blue and who thinks green?
I'd call it teal, too... but IIRC, Suzuki calls it Marine Bluish-Green (Color code Y0V).
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BOTH! :monkeymoon:
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Ah i get ya now lol. U will find that both me and speedy aint um on football much :?: its all :blahblah: to us :grin:
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Yea, kicking a bag of air around, whats all that about. Now using skill to put 200BHP and 160 KG around a race track the fastest is a real sport. :motorsmile: :rant2:
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Hey, another brit here, starting to think I'm the only brit with a 400 Bandit though :sad: It's a proper UK version aswell (rare...but the worst one :duh: )
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 :grin:
Just make sure they dont catch you getting up to 140mph in 9 seconds...makes it a bit obvious :sad:
Anyone seen any of those new police Subaru 'bike catchers' about, Norfolk police force have just bought 4 :boohoo: bugger.
Nigel
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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! :beers:
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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
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:welcome: Andy
to sunny,rainy,snowy old England :banana:
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 :rant2:
Robbie
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:welcome: 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?
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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
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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! :beers:
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:welcome: 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. :motorsmile:
Shit :stop: i sound just like my dad.....Heeeellllp :blahblah:
Robbie
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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 :motorsmile:
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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. :beers:
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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 :roll:
Nigel
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It started off with who was in the UK, and then it turned in to what you have read. I dont know neither :bigok:
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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 :'(
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i have come all the way from leeds
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Leeds, thats not far for Newcastle (well I would'nt want to be drag by my balls that distance), you ever get up here?
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hello mate havent been that way for a while
im at squires at sherban when weather good
only 10 mins ride away
have you ever been ???
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Yer, Sherban is real close, do work every now and then in Hetton-le-hole, must meet up some time when the weather is good. You doing the easter egg run with the Durham Cops?
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New UK user here. :)
Robbie - i'm from Tamworth, so very local. Small world, eh?!
Oh, and Bandit Jap, pretty local to you too.
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Allways good to find riders in the same area, must meet up some time over the summer. :bigok:
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Yeah definately, maybe a rally would be good. :beers:
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i'm in ellesmere port nr chester :shock:
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hehe heya! From Bristol myself, 19 and just got my Bandit 400 2 weeks ago and loving it!
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add another northener to the list just down the road in stockton
b4 and a hon*a cbr400rrj
oh and a bandit 250 in bits (now being broken for spares)
Andy
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Why the b400 or the 250 for that matter, not want more power, yes I only have a b6 but would like a b12 only once i have sold my bike.
where do you get to from Teeside? any good biking spots?
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the b4 will be the girlfriends bike when she gets off her but and passes her test untill then its my playtoy. well it will be when i finish rebuilding it!
Ive just got a thing about 400's
the cbr can be ridden all day at the limit and i know if i tried that on a 6 i'd die.
from teesside we usually head over to scarbrough or down to sherburn
then ive got some mates in derby so it's a weekend blast down there ( usually end up heading out to wales from derby)
there are some evil 4's about one of the lads i know rides a rvg 250 with a rg400 engine in it now thats fun to ride
cheers
Andy
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Newbie who's just bought a 1200 from Notts.
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Alright folks, Just found the brit bit. a wee intro. Andrew 27 student nurse in dundee, have a 99 B12. Once the damn thing get's back on the road that is. Mildly customised going for it proper this winter.
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me too, i'm in ellesmere port nr chester :banana: