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probably worth more than your D1R's

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i kinda want one. name him al pacacino.

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You laugh now, but when I'm at a formal occasion with a shitty DJ and they need someone to drop Dre beats...I have something up my sleeve.

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Just... Try not to ride the tank, sit halfway back on the seat. This way you are better positioned for anything control related, it also looks better.

Really?

Thought it was better to have your legs tight on the tank and control the bike that way?

Rimspec, haven't ridden on the freeway yet, but doing 100km/h on the roads around me with paddocks either side, blows your head around a fair bit lol

Also doesn't feel right that it's revving at like 7-8000rpm at 100 in 6th, but I guess I'll get used to it..

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Really?

Thought it was better to have your legs tight on the tank and control the bike that way?

Yah grip the tanks with your legs... I just mean don't get too homo with the tank. You can still grip the tank comfortably if you're halfway back on the seat and it tends to keep your upper body at a better distance from the handle bars with your core strength supporting your upper body rather than your arms. It's harder than just leaning on the tank and your wrists so of course you're probably not going to want to bother, but it's the correct technique, is good to get into the habit of and in the end with give you a safer faster surer ride :)

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Yeah birds cruised around the streets near my house til I got used to it then rode to my parents and girlfriends (subtle) house.

Don't know what I look like on it but it doesn't feel small so it's good.

Slow to anyone with a 'real' bike but feels fast to me, was in 6th gear doing 80, opened it up without gearing down and it had no trouble going past 100.

Meh don't worry about perception of speed, the first time even the most "hardcore" of riders got on a bike it would have felt fast. You're still quicker than 95% of vehicles on the road and, as you now know, it's a totally different world to cars. How good's the field of vision lol...no blind spots!

And yeah as Charmander said, sitting back further gives the bike a better weight distribution, you better control (brings you down lower to the bike) and looks better. Doesn't have to be all the way back, but enough that you can still hold the tank with your legs. In the end whatever is most comfortable is probably going to be the safest, but no harm in practicing good habits early on. Give us a yell when you wanna go for a ride!

Rimon throw up some pics of your bike?

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It's a Fkn scam mechanics can do whatever they want sure they have guidelines but they are so open to interpretation it's a joke only vicroads should be allowed to do the inspection not some crook who wants to weasel $$$ out of ya

I'm sure a car rolls in for a rwc and they just rub there hands together for easy money

The first one was my regular mechanic who I thought would be more leniant, I was wrong. Apparently a couple of nicks out of the very outer edge of the rim and some more marks on the sidewall are considered unroadworthy. Hilarious. If either posed any threat I think they would have reared their head in the 4 years they were driven on in that condition. And apparently you can't have cosmetic foglights, they have to be connected and working or not there at all. Oh, and I got told my windscreen needed replacing - it had tree sap on it FFS, I cleaned it off in two minutes with some metho. There were some genuine things that needed attention but there were some absolutely ridiculous things. The shell cost me $2,500 to get running and some paintwork fixed up on, $1,100 for RWC, $650 for rego...yeah I made next to nothing back and the time and stress it caused certainly weren't worth it. I know next time I'll really reconsider offering a RWC on a low value car.

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half a tank disappears.

Yeah ended up being 3/4 of a tank after driving to Phillip Island, race track + beach run and then back home.

The first one was my regular mechanic who I thought would be more leniant, I was wrong. Apparently a couple of nicks out of the very outer edge of the rim and some more marks on the sidewall are considered unroadworthy. Hilarious. If either posed any threat I think they would have reared their head in the 4 years they were driven on in that condition. And apparently you can't have cosmetic foglights, they have to be connected and working or not there at all. Oh, and I got told my windscreen needed replacing - it had tree sap on it FFS, I cleaned it off in two minutes with some metho. There were some genuine things that needed attention but there were some absolutely ridiculous things. The shell cost me $2,500 to get running and some paintwork fixed up on, $1,100 for RWC, $650 for rego...yeah I made next to nothing back and the time and stress it caused certainly weren't worth it. I know next time I'll really reconsider offering a RWC on a low value car.

So damn true, should definitely have some sort of Vicroads backing.

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Rimspec, haven't ridden on the freeway yet, but doing 100km/h on the roads around me with paddocks either side, blows your head around a fair bit lol

Also doesn't feel right that it's revving at like 7-8000rpm at 100 in 6th, but I guess I'll get used to it..

already doing 100ks? havent even gone past 60 yet lol

my red line is at 19-20k so im guessing it'll be sitting at 10k+ on freeways

Rimon throw up some pics of your bike?

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