Any Motörbike riders here?

Myranda

randomhandclaps said: You have a fuel gauge on your bike?  What dark magic is this?
  Ran out of fuel on mine because I'd forgotten to flip the reserve tap up, and people kept saying "but how can you run out of petrol?!" all incredulously ... and snotty - till you explain that there's no fuel guage

snakemanStoo

Got my Yamaha yesterday, been zipping around getting used to it.  Great fun if a little scary

BenSirAmos

This thread could do with some photos. I like looking at 125s. 

snakemanStoo

The dealership took a pic of me getting mine, I'll see if I can post it up

octatonic

Here are a few of mine:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/q71/1505218_434192696710517_1710857171_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q71/1467472_434192900043830_2050976019_n.jpg

https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1476263_434193013377152_286639414_n.jpg

https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1463999_434192846710502_631994623_n.jpg

It would look much better without the top box but it is SOOOO useful.

BenSirAmos

Nice and clean. I'm thinking of getting one of these for the missus.

Misterg

BenSirAmos said:

Nice and clean. I'm thinking of getting one of these for the missus.

Nice swap if you can swing it....

snakemanStoo

Me and my Christmas/birthday prezzie.

cruxiform

Congrats! Welcome to the biker fraternity. Nice bike. Trust me, you'll be hooked for life.

octatonic

snakemanStoo said:

Me and my Christmas/birthday prezzie.

Well done Stoo.

Now get yourself a Haynes service manual.

I did my first service on my YBR today.

It is exceptionally easy to do.

I'd suggest we go riding except you are up in Blackburn, right?

octatonic

cruxiform said:

Congrats! Welcome to the biker fraternity. Nice bike. Trust me, you'll be hooked for life.

Truth.

cruxiform

BenSirAmos said:

This thread could do with some photos. I like looking at 125s. 

Will my old Fireblade do? :P

snakemanStoo

Octatonic said:

Well done Stoo.

Now get yourself a Haynes service manual.

I did my first service on my YBR today.

It is exceptionally easy to do.

I'd suggest we go riding except you are up in Blackburn, right?

Nearish Blackburn.

And while I'm good at being tall and goofy, I'm terrible at the mechanicy stuff

octatonic

snakemanStoo said:

Octatonic said:

Well done Stoo.

Now get yourself a Haynes service manual.

I did my first service on my YBR today.

It is exceptionally easy to do.

I'd suggest we go riding except you are up in Blackburn, right?

Nearish Blackburn.

And while I'm good at being tall and goofy, I'm terrible at the mechanicy stuff

Seriously, it is a piece of piss.

For instance- I cleaned my air filter today- you take of one panel by undoing a screw, pulling the panel off, then undoing 5 screws.

Clean the filter with a vacuum cleaner, replace it, put the acres back in and the panel back on.

Took 5 minutes.

It isn't like working on a car- which takes more work and effort.

Working on bikes is dead easy- at least the regular maintenance stuff.

I don't think I'd try an engine rebuild just yet.

BenSirAmos

More pics needed - even Blades.

Excellent prezzie Stu - shame you can't join the FB chapter of London Bikers - but more pics welcome. 

I want a 125, just for laughs (even though I have a Bandit) but I do need to keep the missus too, @Misterg. Who else would keep the Bandit clean?

octatonic

I've been tossing up whether to keep the 125 or not when I get the big bike.

I don't think I will- it is a nice bike but I can see myself getting something like a Bandit for winter use and keeping the big bike as a Sunday ride.

I change my mind a lot though.

cruxiform

octatonic said:

I've been tossing up whether to keep the 125 or not when I get the big bike.

I don't think I will- it is a nice bike but I can see myself getting something like a Bandit for winter use and keeping the big bike as a Sunday ride.

I change my mind a lot though.

I'd keep the 125 if you ride in London, you don't need anything bigger IMO

BenSirAmos

BenSirAmos said:

More pics needed - even Blades.

Duh. Need to put up some myself
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y58/Ben_Sir_Amos/DSCN5695a.jpg

octatonic

cruxiform said:

octatonic said:

I've been tossing up whether to keep the 125 or not when I get the big bike.

I don't think I will- it is a nice bike but I can see myself getting something like a Bandit for winter use and keeping the big bike as a Sunday ride.

I change my mind a lot though.

I'd keep the 125 if you ride in London, you don't need anything bigger IMO

Thing is though that I'm 6ft 2 so it feels like a physically small bike for me.

I was looking at a Varadero as well as the YBR and that feels like a better sized bike for me (but more money for a learner).

cruxiform

As I like these sort of things I was thinking that maybe if there's enough of us maybe a meet could be arranged for the summer. We could collect a list of attendess and centralise the location so nobody is going out of their way. Chat, have a coffee, go for a ride out. Just a thought.