welcome to our new stable mate

[dizzyblonde]

We have just added this SRX600 to our stable as a winter run around. We already have two, but they are in a bad state, so Chris went to pick it up today as I'm on nights. Its a peach, a little rusty,but elbow grease should see her riight. Seeing as though we've an abundance of spares from the others, we should get a cracking bike to do up in the summer too. So provided I can kick it over, Suzy will finally get her face lift in January

Welcome to the ultimate in comedy bikes

http://i21.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/c7/6b/af7e_1.JPG

[dizzyblonde]

As I expected, she is an acquired taste. Nobody seen one of these then?? check out the original 1980's stubby. These are a rarity these days, and apparently attract quite good money when they're blinged..............................
well if you lot don't like her we do, so ner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


ere mods, wheres all my posts gone??? i were a mega poster last week

[Blue_SV650S]

So it ONLY* has a kickstart!?!?!? ... suppose it'll keep you warm on a frozen morning when it refuses to start!! :D Its not even got any fairing to keep the cold off in the winter ... What an antiquated nail you have purchased!! :smt116


*or is that a backup and has an electric foot too?

[yorkie_chris]

No electric boot on them.

Lovely bike though, I want one!

[carlos]

And everyone thought the new supersport bikes were trying something new with the exhaust? Must admit never seen one before but with the exhaust and twin disks up front it looks quite ahead of its 80s era.

BTW I'm liking the new avatar, the pink streaks in the hair and all - 'im indoors is a lucky, lucky boy.

[dizzyblonde]

So it ONLY* has a kickstart!?!?!? ... suppose it'll keep you warm on a frozen morning when it refuses to start!! :D Its not even got any fairing to keep the cold off in the winter ... What an antiquated nail you have purchased!! :smt116


*or is that a backup and has an electric foot too?
yes its kicker only, a knack that needs to be learned. If the engines on these are sound they are quite easy( probably why the other two are in bits and are dogs to start. seeing as though my sv's are very unrelaible at the mo I'll give owt a try. Last night when i went to work I ended up pushing Suze home as she conked n refused to start. I really felt like ramming her down a chav's neck when he asked if she were for sale and told me where i lived.....really creepy and dodgy. late for work and ****ed wet through, not a happy bunny

[dizzyblonde]

And everyone thought the new supersport bikes were trying something new with the exhaust? Must admit never seen one before but with the exhaust and twin disks up front it looks quite ahead of its 80s era.

BTW I'm liking the new avatar, the pink streaks in the hair and all - 'im indoors is a lucky, lucky boy.
They were produced to give the massess what they were asking for at the time in the 80's. We're to rob the braided hoses off the other one we have to give it better braking. There aren't many about, mostly are electric start, that came later, and a blinged version attract decent money. As for the exhaust the original( which this one is) are quite hard to come by, Yamaha never did a patent version or owt so you can't get em as they usually fall to bits in time( like the 2nd one we got, that blew the baffles out at me)
33bhp is going to be hard to adjust to as me and IM are used to about 170 between us) but they really handle well and are really fun, I learned to ride a bike on the first one that we had.
And as for the Avatar......must have been caught on my better side, Im indoors usually has to put up with one of papa lazaroo's wives

[Lozzo]

I like the SRX, they handled really nicely on back roads. A mate of mine in North Wales has one and won't part with it.

[Fizzy Fish]

my second bike was an SRX400, it was the newer design (with monoshock & eleccy start) that the one you have, and a grey import.

that little bike rocks, it is as light as a feather so turns really easily on twisty roads, and can squeeze through the narrowest of gaps round town. very simple to work on too. despite the eleccy start i did have to kick it over a few time though - bugger isn't it?!

btw you mentionded 33bhp - if you're on a restricted licence i would check that, as i know the 400 puts out 33bhp so i'd expect the 600 (albeit the earlier model) to be doing more. as i recall it uses the old XT600 motor so if you can't find stats on the SRX600 then try for the XT

[Stig]

I like it. It's crying out to be 'pimped' though. :)

[yorkie_chris]

33bhp claimed at the crank, the SRX6 only gets about 33 true bhp to the back wheel, which is the measurement that matters.

[dizzyblonde]

no not on a restrictd license. I know they use the xt motor. As previously said we already have two of them, i keep asking Im indoors about the bhp and he swears they arearound 33. We have one import and one Brit one, oh n this ones a brit one too. Think its a G plate. How olds that? cool as fooook, they really are a funny little thing, not a good idea on the Mway but IM Indoors throws em round our twistie roads like mad, and they go like poo off a stick too


And yes, after the winter it will be pimped, I have already given strict orders when I promised to buy it. They are a whole lot tastier when they get painted other than factory grey

[Fizzy Fish]

And yes, after the winter it will be pimped, I have already given strict orders when I promised to buy it. They are a whole lot tastier when they get painted other than factory grey

cool, hope you enjoy it and make sure you post up the pics when you've pimped it!!

[dizzyblonde]

maybe in yelow!!!
http://www.srx600.f2s.com/srx600/photographs/images/srx600greggoodman4.jpg
orhttp://www.srx600.f2s.com/srx600/photographs/images/yellowjacket.jpg

apurple one without sidecar
http://www.srx600.f2s.com/srx600/photographs/images/peterheinrich5.jpg

[drefraser]

I'm glad it's not just me. I've put a bid in for a nail of an NTV 650 that I have no earthly use for on Ebay.
At my worst I've had 5 bikes in the garage but it's not an addiction. I could give up at any time. If I wanted to...

[Fizzy Fish]

maybe in yelow!!!
...


or maybe not!!!

dunno if this pic will work - it's shamelessly stolen from Facebook (since I don't have any electronic pics of my actual SRX), but this was what it looked like

http://photos-036.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/genericv2/1313/96/01AwcAXz5nGSQAAAABAAAAAAAAAAA:.jpg

[dizzyblonde]

I'm glad it's not just me. I've put a bid in for a nail of an NTV 650 that I have no earthly use for on Ebay.
At my worst I've had 5 bikes in the garage but it's not an addiction. I could give up at any time. If I wanted to...
its not that really weird looking greeny blue thing is it

[drefraser]

its not that really weird looking greeny blue thing is it

Yup. But on the up side I didn't win it.
OK maybe I do have a problem. Is there a C**p Bikes Anonymous meeting I could go to?:smt030

[dizzyblonde]

that ntv looked different to what I thought. our boss has a purple 650 revere. they are the same?? and the BROS?? I do like the odd exhaust set up. MAybe we do have a problem, crap bikes anonymous.....better join, i'm already in the wacky racers fanciers club so why not them too :-)

[yorkie_chris]

our boss has a purple 650 revere.

crap bikes anonymous.

Not crap! Just interesting :p, all the sportsbikes are so similar its boring.

I thought the revere was the previous 600cc one that they made the NTV out of?

[drefraser]

I'm fairly sure that the Revere was also known as an NTV600. I had one for all of a week in 1994. I thought it would be rubbish so I was happy with anything it did really. I was very unhappy when a courier beat me away from the lights on one when I was riding a YZF 750 though.
I'm blaming a grabby clutch and he's probably still laughing now.

[STRAMASHER]

SRX are cool. Mate of mine had the XBR500 Honda equivelant(leccy boot so a bit "soft";) ) and could really make it go.

The SRX mark2 version is real looker though.:cool:

I doff-doff-doff my cap to your new steed.:salut:


Had a BROS650 for 30k+. Tracked,commuted and despatched. Great bike. :smt045

Need to get some pics up for these ol'****ter threads......................

[GMS]

Never had an SRX but I did have an SR500 ( giving away my age now ) Big singles are cool
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee233/GMS650/yam_500.jpg