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76.8 % of $1000 = Garmin Zumo 550 .........

Wow maybe i didnt ask the question correct or some of you have bad comprehension skills I was just bored and curious what other people would like to do to their bikes thats all.


But i do believe rider training is very important, you can ride all day everyday doesn't necessarily mean you doing it right.

smithy5 wrote:Window Tinting and a Air Con regas on the car

sigh.............. i would still have around 600$ left?

6maniac wrote:75% of $1000 = Garmin Zumo 550 .........

Cool but pretty expensive GPS, would come in handy dunno about the bling factor hehehe

kevindinho wrote:
But i do believe rider training is very important, you can ride all day everyday doesn't necessarily mean you doing it right.

Fair point, but what exactly is *right*??

what a superbike school teacher says is right?
What do you want to learn? track or road?

Time in the saddle is the best way to get comfortable with a bike. i can also highly recommend dirt riding. you don't have to spend alot of cash to get an old clunker dirt bike and learn about slides, wheelspinning, and the bike losing traction. Some of these things some people will not experience on the road until its all too late.

Hoffyland ?

Fuel and tyres

Wattie wrote:

kevindinho wrote:
But i do believe rider training is very important, you can ride all day everyday doesn't necessarily mean you doing it right.

Fair point, but what exactly is *right*??

what a superbike school teacher says is right?
What do you want to learn? track or road?

Time in the saddle is the best way to get comfortable with a bike. i can also highly recommend dirt riding. you don't have to spend alot of cash to get an old clunker dirt bike and learn about slides, wheelspinning, and the bike losing traction. Some of these things some people will not experience on the road until its all too late.

+1

Bourbon dude....

And when you're straight spend it on tyres and fuel and just ride the thing.

Super bike school is masturbation marketing at it's finest. If you're fast you'll be fast. If you want to learn skills that will make you a better rider for the road do one of the other courses that aren't run by wannabe race gods.

Glen wrote:Bourbon dude....

And when you're straight spend it on tyres and fuel and just ride the thing.

Super bike school is masturbation marketing at it's finest. If you're fast you'll be fast. If you want to learn skills that will make you a better rider for the road do one of the other courses that aren't run by wannabe race gods.

but they make racers like Chris Vermulan They told me that themselves

Donate to the poor!!

Get my track bike going again and replace the throttle cable

Wattie wrote:Agree with Hoffy, modern suspenders are good, to get the most out of suspension work you need to tell them what you want.

Yeh +1 to this, but if it's a road bike and you want it best set up for you there's a guy down here who charges $50 and he'll adjust the preload, sag, damping, everything that's adjustable on your forks and rear shock. Tell him you want it for scratching he'll do his best for that, tell him you commute on it he'll do something for that. Then he'll recommend any spring/valving changes you might want to make it better (e.g. the RGV which is set up for Japanese jockey types, which I'm not one of). Adjusting your suspension so it's best for you with the given hardware for $50 is money well spent I'd think.

Sell the Yammy - put that money and the $1000 towards a Kwaka. Easy

I got bored of readin' all that; but response is same:

I would if I were starting afresh and young again and all that, probably still do it the same - sit sown, read a book or 10 if you have time, as books are usually free, or just think about it a lot, most physical things can be thought about and with some careful "acquired learning" skills be nutted out. Regardless of what people will think of that, it still kept me alive in a professional riding role for a long long time.

Then ride, ride and more riding.

However, a lot of people will know what I do for my crusty sandwiches - and whilst it is almost true that a lot of bikes are good enough to ride on from the factory floor, it hasn't always been the case and having no idea what you have I cannot comment further.

But will agree that learning mad skills on pieces of shit was what we all did (even if not so mad or so kool anymore as we get slower with age).

So yeah, fracking ride and try to survive - I will not say nada else cause when I consider how my CX500's were not set up at all, nor all the other bikes and yet how we caned them - why is this rite of passage OK for us and not for you?

So, probably not what people thought I would say - but 2011 is going to be different for me, I am fucking tired of being nice and then some no-experience goal-hanging parasite undermining my 2 decades of suspenders fiddling and 36 yrs of fanging about on bikes all over the World - it seems like experience is worth shit these days, so why not just talk how i want and fuck how many "friends" are lost or not.

1K is a lot of fuel, see ya

zenodamper wrote: .. and whilst it is almost true that a lot of bikes are good enough to ride on from the factory floor, it hasn't always been the case and having no idea what you have I cannot comment further.

Kev's got a 2008 R6 with a slip-on and chicken strips