Doing my DAS - use of rear brake pls

Passed yesterday

Now need a bike...

 

First you have to decide what you are going to use it for, a good
commuting bike would be useless for long distance touring etc.....
Unless, of course, you are gay in which case you need a Hardly with
lots of tassels and leather.

 

What colour?

 

Indeed. Welcome, as they say, to the dark side - which brings me on to
....

... there's only one true colour.

And it isn't pink, Krusty.

 

Just realised something - the old Tig is blue on the reg doc but black
in reality, the new(er) Tig is black on the reg doc but pink in
reality, & the MV is black on/in both. So 50% of my bikes are
officially black, & a different 50% are actually black. What an
enthralling fact.

 

Confused? You will be ....

 

Jessica Tate - the original MILF.

Errr...possibly.

 

Ewwww! You're sick.

 

Top man, well done

Standard response: CB500 ;-)
Or, whatever the hell takes your fancy

 

Really? This...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/987853/Bandit/IMG_8322.jpg

....was fucking brilliant for commuting and touring.

 

It's crn, he's doing his usual talking shite again.

This...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4232948151_c49b4cda7f_b.jpg

Does everything bloody well. I use it daily for commuting, at weekends
I go back lane scratching on it, I use it for longer trips which it
does conmfortably and in September I'm riding it to Malta. When I get
back from Malta I am booked onto a trackday on it.

In short it does everything you can ask of it and gives 220 miles at
least to a tankful (19 litres) if you use it normally... plus they are
cheap, insurable for a first timer and dead reliable.

 

Two things I learnt very quickly, but was never taught:

* Hitting the front brakes mid-corner is a bad idea.
* Drain covers are very slippery in the wet.

 

RGV250. Perfect little bike for a new rider, plenty cheapness, etc.

 

The meme has mutated.

 

Such is the way of the meme.

I think "Rocket III" should be the standard reccommendation, but that's
me just being a voice in the wilderness.

 

Ah, this must be the JKAZXCD variant.

Hmm. Is a Rocket III really sufficiently inappropriate though?

 

[of recco to newbies]

<shrug>

It was the most ludicrous bike I could think of at that moment.
Stupidly fast, stupidly heavy, uncomfortably expensive and as
manoeuvrable as a supertanker on downers. Covers a lot of the bases as
far as what I'd see as anathema to a newly-qualified rider.

 

Diesel on a bend is a ****.

 

It's only a matter of time before a wasp gets into your helmet.

 

This: http://bit.ly/ACcH1

I actually met someone on one of these in Austria a couple of years ago.