My Jap has an Italian suit...

Congrats Dizz!

Congrats and I hope you enjoy every moment of it.Only problem for you will be the waiting---------------such a loooooonng time.
Perchance is silver now the "Pratt Family" colours?

Good luck Lou

Enjoy, they really are fun bikes I loved my raptor when I had one

looks good.

i was expecting a bigger bump

get yc to mod that sidestand for ya. just cut a bit off and weld it back. theres loads of stuff on the raptorchapter. ive got a workshop manual here if you fancy (pdf)

still prefer the nakked one tho

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

Chuffed for you Lou... you`ve been in love with them so long. Excuse my ignorance but what are the black things that join the tank to the fairing?

They're to make the bike look horny! Really?? Dunno, do absolutely nowt AFAIK! Maybe Mr Galluzzi was smoking some serious schhtuff when he designed it!

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

Congrats and I hope you enjoy every moment of it.Only problem for you will be the waiting---------------such a loooooonng time.
Perchance is silver now the "Pratt Family" colours?

Good luck Lou

Well, I had a long chat with Rictus and Carnivore before committing to buying, Carnivore thought it would be better to go on ebay and buy one with all the little probs ironed out and cans etc bolted on to save money, but Rictus said he knows how much pleasure I take in doing a bike up, so he thought it was perfect to keep me off the road, opposed to buying a minter, as that would tempt and frustrate me far too much ending up with me going out on it in secret! I suppose I have enough time to have a completely standard bike(which is very rare for these) and have it to my spec rather than someone elses.

Originally Posted by AndyBrad

looks good.

i was expecting a bigger bump

get yc to mod that sidestand for ya. just cut a bit off and weld it back. theres loads of stuff on the raptorchapter. ive got a workshop manual here if you fancy (pdf)

still prefer the nakked one tho

Believe me bump is there! Yeah peep on the Raptor Chapter often, been a backseat viewer for years.
The sidestand is an issue, Matt overcame that by adding a jack up kit, but that alters the handling, I'm not comfortable about YC butchering the sidestand, its an expensive and time consuming task to find a new one if it goes wrong. I do have a Raptor manual on my broken screened laptop, accessing it is errr a tad difficult, and its in German If you have one in English that would be most helpful!

whats wrong with the side stand?

Ah congrats!

You'll be selling the SV now I take it

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by kitkat

whats wrong with the side stand?

Like all Italian sidestands, way tooooo upright, and with extra indicator housings and plastics to think of I don't like the idea of it wobbling in a breeze and falling over. I was always frightened to death of the other wobbling over and crashing through the side of the shed if I touched handlebars when I was moving any of mine!

Originally Posted by falc

Ah congrats!

You'll be selling the SV now I take it

Yes, going to get it out of the shed next week when Pegs off work, and give it a good scrub and going over with the polishing cloth. Have to wait for YC to come off holiday and find some time amongst his final project time at uni, so he can go over some stuff, as its been stood since Novemeber then when I'm happy it'll be ready to go....I hope!

yea its an english manual. give us an email address and ill send it over. its big tho 20 meg plus!!! might be better popping it over on a cd?

i know what you meana bout the sidestand. its really upright on theflat and it makes the bike look good. however on a slope its lethal and you want to get it looked at asap. can matt help? i could get somone to modify it at work for you but imo yc could do it just as well so long as hes not distracted with tea and such


glad to hear the bumps comming along ok.

[dizzyblonde]

CD would be perfect, where the hell did you find an English version?? I'll PM ya.

Exactomondo about the sidestand! Meh, I'll just get it home first, then decide what to do.
I just found a set of Mivv cans amongst a classified add for a Raptor, its wether the seller will sell seperate. Although carbon sleeved they are a bit special