Can they tell it's not restricted?

SV400ROB proves that you can have maturity at a young age. But I suspect he's an exception and not the rule. If we all had proved to be that mature at his age the 33 BHP restriction would not have been brought in.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by BanditPat

Because they're the people that have no choice. Maybe a lass is happy with what they have. Or maybe they just take it on their own initiative instead of asking on a forum. I would bet that if you were stuck to 33bhp after a few months you wouldn't have the same view on it that you would now.

I couldn't give a monkeys how much BHP I have to be perfectly frank. I had a 12.5 BHP cruiser for a year, and was more than happy with it. Fair enough I decided to go the step further to bigger bikedom, and got the SV, which was there on a plate anyway, as it belonged to Carnivore. I love the SRX at 33BHP its a fecking scream, and blows a lot of things out of the water, its just a shame i need to jump off the top board of the Halifax swimming pool to start the damn thing(still haven't got the knack ). If the SV hadn't been there I'd have gone for an electric start SRX, I pondered over a lot of them before i passed my test.
To me its not what power you have got. BHP comes down the bottom of the list for choosing a bike.

SO in a nutshell, i would still have the same view as I have now.
Plus I don't feel the need to willy wave either

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by SV400Rob

I see where your coming from but whos gona clean up the mess if you get it wrong and kill yourself?

Unfortunatly there are people who haven't got what it takes, not sure if thats the right wording, to be able to control the power that mayb you have.

If I was squeamish and unprepared to accept the risk of scraping up some corpses, then I would not take the money such an occupation would be paid.

Never said I have, chances are I will hurt myself at some point, maybe through excess of throttle, maybe something else. I say it doesn't matter who's got what. It's about the right to chose.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by SV400Rob

IMO it doesn't matter whether anyone wishes to have their bike restricted or not bother, but the rules are there for a reason, if you respect your licence and have a passion for bikes then two years is naff all.

ahmen to that from a very mature young man

[SV400Rob]

[quote=BanditPat;1833869]

Originally Posted by SV400Rob

Thats what i thought when I did my test, did it at the beginning of September and by December i was bored of the bike, bored of the 30mpg that i get because the bike has to sit at at least 10k revs to keep up with the traffic when im out on my own never mind what its like when im out with my dad tap dancing on the gear lever and geting a sore right wrist

What bike have you got again a 400bandit? Cos Iv only got a 400sv and that seems to keep up with what Iv needed to keep up with without have to change gear much.

Originally Posted by madness

SV400ROB proves that you can have maturity at a young age. But I suspect he's an exception and not the rule. If we all had proved to be that mature at his age the 33 BHP restriction would not have been brought in.

Then we have your generation to thank for that don't we then? The people that caused the rule arent affected by it, brilliant something else backwards to add to the countries list

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Not in the average bike crash there isn't.


NHS contributions yadda yadda, traumatising people who scrape your sorry ars off the road. People who participate in extreme sports don't get the same whinges

Trust me they do. I've had far too many lectures about rock climbing and pot-holing and climbing aerial masts and a host of other things

[quote=SV400Rob;1833875]

Originally Posted by BanditPat

What bike have you got again a 400bandit? Cos Iv only got a 400sv and that seems to keep up with what Iv needed to keep up with without have to change gear much.

A crappy 250 bandit that if you let the revs drop because some **** hole decides that they want to go 30 in a 50 or overtake some ne on a dual carriageway doing the exact same speed as the person they are trying to overtake you have to start again with your getting speed up

[yorkie_chris]

I've done bits of SCUBA, bits of rock climbing and never has a "member of the community" said "oooooh won't somebody think of the children".
In fact, neither has anyone on any of the other biking forums I frequent. Where's the hooligan in this place, where's the FUN?

One of the most rabid posts I've ever read on here about "following the rules", was from a member who weeks previously had bragged about doing some seriously nickable speeds on his plastic projectile on the public road...
Ironic eh.

[SV400Rob]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

If I was squeamish and unprepared to accept the risk of scraping up some corpses, then I would not take the money such an occupation would be paid.

Well obviously if you weren't that kind of person you wouldn't be scraping people up for living by choice, but someone has still got to be paid to clean the mess up, which their wage could possibly come from the gov. which comes from the tax payer! Hows that, potentially your paying the gov. via taxes, who then pays someone to clean up the mess you've just created by killing yourself on a bike you can't propperly handle because you've rebelled against the gov. for wanting your rights to choose what you want to do. Doesn't make sense to me.

I bet GeneticBubble regreats asking now lol