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IC3 said:
You pretty much answered your own question right there. :p

The biggest downsides are
-Heavy
-Underpowered
-Dull
-Expensive
-Cheaply made, quality comparable to 125's
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The Jap import 400's are extremely well built and specced - dual 4 pot calipers up front, IL4 engine that rev to 15k rpm, light (170kg dry) etc.

Parts can be very hard to find but that just makes it more a challenge.

They can be thrashed around on b roads and you never do much more that 80-90mph, great fun!
 
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IC3 said:
You pretty much answered your own question right there. :p

The biggest downsides are
-Heavy
-Underpowered
-Dull
-Expensive
-Cheaply made, quality comparable to 125's
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Eh? The KTM390's are incredibly light and excellent bikes. Tempted by one as a second bike :p

It's a way better choice than the grom that all the YouTubers seem to have these days.
 
I really do dislike groms. They look terrible, sound terrible and make the person riding it look like a right douche. Hopefully once the youtubers stop advertising them (you would have thought they're sponsored by Honda!) they'll disappear forever!

The only time they'll ever look ok is if a kid (~10-15) rides them and that's not going to happen.
 
It always makes me laugh when you're pulling an overtake that the driver on the other side decides is unacceptable they then think the most sensible way to make this known is by banging their horn and flashing their lights.

If they already think it's dangerous then surely trying to completely distract me is pretty flipping daft!

I don't make a habit of annoying everyone around me it just popped into my head while I was pootling through traffic this morning.
 
Yeah you get the occasional flasher/hand gesture when filtering - it's like they think we haven't seen the 2 tones of metal coming towards us at 30mph...

Thank you love, 1 - I've already seen you waaaaay before you saw me, 2 - I've already planned my route into the nearest gap and 3 - if you weren't driving 6 inches from the middle white line then you wouldn't be in the way, now would you!? :p
 
TallPaul_S said:
The Jap import 400's are extremely well built and specced - dual 4 pot calipers up front, IL4 engine that rev to 15k rpm, light (170kg dry) etc.

Parts can be very hard to find but that just makes it more a challenge.

They can be thrashed around on b roads and you never do much more that 80-90mph, great fun!
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Not the Japanese 400cc's, I mean the new junk that's out there...

Rossi~ said:
I had a CBR400RR, this one: http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_cbr400rr 87.htm

Great fun! If i had a choice of 4 bikes to have, it would be one of them.
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One of the guys from the local group has this, he restored it before getting his license. Its so clean :cool:
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Kreeeee said:
Eh? The KTM390's are incredibly light and excellent bikes. Tempted by one as a second bike :p

It's a way better choice than the grom that all the YouTubers seem to have these days.
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A girl I know has it, at first I thought it was a 125. :p But the quality is the same as my 125 was, the gap between the seat and the tank is starting to appear...

The only thing that felt better quality were the tyres, I think. They felt softer than the ones I had, those MRF things were death traps. :eek: :rolleyes:
 
Freeman said:
I really do dislike groms. They look terrible, sound terrible and make the person riding it look like a right douche. Hopefully once the youtubers stop advertising them (you would have thought they're sponsored by Honda!) they'll disappear forever!

The only time they'll ever look ok is if a kid (~10-15) rides them and that's not going to happen.
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I've seen a grom at Southport on the weekend parked up with all the other bikes and he'd fitted an extended swingarm I *** you not :p

Must be hard controlling all that power :p
 
IC3 said:
Not the Japanese 400cc's, I mean the new junk that's out there...
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I was agreeing, the current A2 bikes are (mostly) cheaply built - single discs with twin pot calipers, cheap single cylinder engines, and so on.

The Jap 400cc's bikes were built and specced as good as the 600's of the time, because there was no market in japan for anything over 400cc, so they built 399cc bikes instead.
 
I would love to have one of those little 400cc's, they're so nimble around tight corners.

'When a little girl rides better than you...' :p
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I want to add USB charging ports on my bike, any kits worth looking at?
 
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I want to add USB charging ports on my bike, any kits worth looking at?
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Pick one from ebay you like the look of, then either straight to the battery if you're lazy and can remember to switch stuff off when you stop riding, or wire in a relay to turn off power when the bike is off. Wiring in a relay isn't hard at all, it's just a couple of extra wires.
 
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TallPaul_S said:
Yeah you get the occasional flasher/hand gesture when filtering - it's like they think we haven't seen the 2 tones of metal coming towards us at 30mph...

Thank you love, 1 - I've already seen you waaaaay before you saw me, 2 - I've already planned my route into the nearest gap and 3 - if you weren't driving 6 inches from the middle white line then you wouldn't be in the way, now would you!? :p
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Point 3 can also be that they don't feel you should be filtering and move to that position
 
Clov!s said:
Yeah, I think we should meet up before Christmas, what bike have you got, always forget!
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Sv650s (The better looking Curvy one, it has class ;)), I have put quite a few things on it recently as well.

The next on the list is a GSXR front end, but that needs to wait until after I move. :( But on the plus side I can rachet strap the bike up to raise it without a centre stand.

The triples look to be hard to source, I would need an Srad setup (96-99), as I want to retain the steering lock. Might put some k5 on wards forks in though - depends what works out cheaper. Costly, but will look, and feel much better in the long run.

Whereabouts are you based roughly?
 
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