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can you scrape the mufflers on the pavement with a GPX250?

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:24 pm
by WRT_GPX
YES!... hah i found these from some japanese GPX250 page...

pretty impressive... im not like that yet :(... i still have 1-2cm of chicken strippage

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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:29 pm
by jmuzz
With the centerstand off you can (though peg will have to fold up).
Try it with the stand on and you will did a trench in the road :lol: Also crash.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:35 pm
by kellz
jmuzz wrote:With the centerstand off you can (though peg will have to fold up).
Try it with the stand on and you will did a trench in the road :lol: Also crash.
joel is speaking form experience here...

i can only scrape on one side theoretically, one of my mufflers fell off. oops. :lol: 8) 8)

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:40 pm
by Ratmick
...might want to ditch the crappy stock Dunlops tyres as well, they are truly shite :shock:.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:58 pm
by Burky
Crap he must be going down hill :shock:
:idea: or is it on the bottle, i didn;t these things went fast enough to lean over that far.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:10 pm
by Dark_Angel
jmuzz wrote:With the centerstand off you can (though peg will have to fold up).
Try it with the stand on and you will did a trench in the road :lol: Also crash.
.. wen i had my zzr250 i used to get scrapage with my centre stand.. not good at all...

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:54 pm
by RG
Shifty will tell u all about scraping everything on the GPX250.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:02 am
by Strika
Dark_Angel wrote:
jmuzz wrote:With the centerstand off you can (though peg will have to fold up).
Try it with the stand on and you will did a trench in the road :lol: Also crash.
.. wen i had my zzr250 i used to get scrapage with my centre stand.. not good at all...
You're a nutbag then Dark Angel :lol: Scraping a ZZR250 really is a commendable effort you know!!!!! :shock: Those things actually lean a fair way over before they start dragging stuff! I kept a 1996 ZX6R behind me going up Reefton Spur riding a ZZR250 many years ago. And it was the fairing which ground away more so than the pegs or centre stand. :lol:

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:13 am
by FrogZ
The ZZR has less ground clearance than the GPX and niether had the clearance of a GPz250R (the first on the watercooled twins). Apparently (as in never actually DONE it) you can get higher profile tyres on your ZZR to give them more ground clearance, anyone ??
The front corner of pipes on ex's ZZR did get ground off :wink:

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:38 pm
by I-K
Strika wrote:Scraping a ZZR250 really is a commendable effort you know!!!!! :shock:
...unless you're over 100kg.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:53 pm
by WRT_GPX
when im going to uni i usually get lazy and let my feet relax... and with 12/13 size feet, im slowly wearing away the tip of my boot around roundabouts.... damn being too lazy to get my legs up ...

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:01 pm
by wazza1234
WRT_GPX wrote:when im going to uni i usually get lazy and let my feet relax... and with 12/13 size feet, im slowly wearing away the tip of my boot around roundabouts.... damn being too lazy to get my legs up ...
Screw that man, wouldnt take much for your boot to catch on a small hole in the road or something and you could kiss an unbroken ankle goodbye...

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:57 pm
by Neka79
WRT_GPX wrote:when im going to uni i usually get lazy and let my feet relax... and with 12/13 size feet, im slowly wearing away the tip of my boot around roundabouts.... damn being too lazy to get my legs up ...
toes on the pegs mate....dont hang ur foot off the front....

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:13 pm
by WRT_GPX
Neka79 wrote:
WRT_GPX wrote:when im going to uni i usually get lazy and let my feet relax... and with 12/13 size feet, im slowly wearing away the tip of my boot around roundabouts.... damn being too lazy to get my legs up ...
toes on the pegs mate....dont hang ur foot off the front....
is that just for sport bikes or all bikes? im just asking because our learner course enforced the fact that we should hang em off and to the outside a bit... but i know where your coming from, and when im serious about moving along other than just commuting i usually do toes on it... brings the knees up nicer too.

Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:25 pm
by Neka79
WRT_GPX wrote:
Neka79 wrote:
WRT_GPX wrote:when im going to uni i usually get lazy and let my feet relax... and with 12/13 size feet, im slowly wearing away the tip of my boot around roundabouts.... damn being too lazy to get my legs up ...
toes on the pegs mate....dont hang ur foot off the front....
is that just for sport bikes or all bikes? im just asking because our learner course enforced the fact that we should hang em off and to the outside a bit... but i know where your coming from, and when im serious about moving along other than just commuting i usually do toes on it... brings the knees up nicer too.
umm i dont remember my training...but i ussually drag my feet off too, but everyone tells me to get tje ball of my feet on the peg.....this allows for balance/weight transfer...

i do wen scratching or at the track..