Ah I want to try some off-roading this year to.

Looks like proper fun mate!

What f#cking tool trying to hide from responsibility.

I hope his pockets get nice and and empty.

You could have just posted the picture.......

I might have no idea who he is.
Which might be due to the fact that I am slow, and therefore not fast enough for any of these pro lfs championships.

But a sad story nonetheless.
R.I.P. my fellow simracer.

My learner bike had a bout 75hp and 44ft-lb. It was an XJ6.

Quote from Gills4life :

The Bandit is far superior if you're commuting. It has way more top end to give. The SV is decent to 60 because of the torque from the V twin but the power fizzles out much quicker than the Bandit. The Bandit is also much more comfortable and is more economical, and due to it's extra weight is much more stable.

If you could afford it I'd say go for the Bandit 650 like mine, it has more torque lower down than the old 600 and it comes with ABS.

getting to about 3.000 euros would take a long time sadly by June/July I'm at about 2.000 euros.

And that is if I finally manage to get a bit of luck coming my way.
I think a budget of about 1.600 will be more realistic.

Wait what happened to the mighty 95hp fazer?
My learner bike made more power than that bandit.

Looking at that the seating position on thesv650s is indeed far to extreme for me.

What I do see however is that on allot of bikes I would barely be able to get my toes to touch the ground when standing still.
Not that I use 2 legs allot when standing still, but still could get quite scary when moments of instability occur.

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Mon 13 Jan 2014, 20:21.

Quote from Forbin :

SV650 (aka SV650N, for naked) is less so, but it has no windscreen.

FWIW, I commuted on an SV1000S for a couple years and it wasn't bad, but then I was only on the bike for ~25 minutes at a time. That said, I have heard the SVS's seating position compared to a Ducati superbike.

At one point I had plain aftermarket no-rise clipons on my SV650S race bike. I found I had trouble with my body position, not being able to get my upper body off the bike as much as I wanted. I eventually got aftermarket clipons with a 1.5" rise, the same as stock. It felt a lot better. I'm only 170cm (5'7"), though.

I'm also quite vertically challenged at 5,7 feet same height as you although my legs are what makes me short.
My upper body is normal while my legs are quite short.

Already tried a ZZR600 without a super-bike handlebar kit and it wasn't that bad, certainly miles better then the stock clip-ons on the GPX600.

Quote from Forbin :

What about an SV650/SV650S? All 2003+ models are fuel injected and can be had for fairly cheap, at least here in the US. Power-wise, they're on par with a Bandit 600 and weigh a whole lot less. Fazer 600 has a fair bit more power but is still fairly heavy compared to the SV650.

SV650S
650cc V-twin
52kw (70HP)
170kg dry

Bandit 600 (GSF600)
600cc I4
57kw (78HP)
208kg dry

Fazer 600 (FZS600)
600cc I4
70kw (95HP)
189kg dry

I am fairly knowledgeable when it comes to bikes.
Know all the things you posted, but the problem with the SV650s is the rather extreme seating position.

Quote from Gills4life :

Fantastic bikes! Would love one for a bit of fun at the weekends. At the moment I just continue using my Bandit 650 which I use for my commute into London for work. I still have a lot of fun on it though and is pretty quick for a heavy-ish bike! Gets to 60 in about 3.5 and has the GSX engine so can comfortably hang with the 600 sports bikes.


Also got a gopro for Christmas from my girlfriend which has been cool, got a few videos up on youtube.

Here's one of my rides out of London from where I work for those interested, the guy I'm riding with is on a Honda CBR 600.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8UhZBXJoxA

Dam that's a dam side better than what I ride.
I ride an old 80's pile of crap known as GPX600R


My plan is to actually upgrade to a newer 90's early 2000's bike somewhere near July in time for summer holidays.
I'm leaning strongly towards a Fazer600 or a Bandit 600. It will be one of those or a ZZR600 with a super-bike handlebar kit.

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Mon 13 Jan 2014, 17:43. Reason : aded a picture of my own bike

Whatever you do don't go down south, that my 2 cents.

I was chased by a bunch of weird hill-billy's, they asked me if I had time for Jesus.
I said no, after which they probably chased me trough half of the state of Missouri.

Note of honesty replace me with my aunt.

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Sun 12 Jan 2014, 23:30.

For good sake get the Mazda.

You don't want to be put in the same group as pensioners do you?
Aka Toyota econobox drivers.

For old time sake, a old lfs mock comic I made back in 2008.

Quote from Gills4life :

It's quite mild where I am for this time of year, but fuarrrk the wind is mental and the rain is doing my head in. I commute into London by motorbike from about 40 miles outside of it and it's pretty dangerous at the mo!

Same here to.

On my commute today the wind was blowing me from one side of the road to the other at one point.
But then again I was riding along a road on top of a dam, in the middle of a lake.

To anyone who is doubting about buying gt6, please don't.
It is a huge step forward, and you al know me not easy to please overly critical, which is an understatement.

But the way it feels trough the wheel is just so much better.
I can finally feel the weird of the car. And the best thing is that whatever I do to the car that feeling does not go away.

Here are some of my pics:
First race I believe,
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/ ... 64964013_7944355784_o.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 65497676_da368e61a9_o.jpg

Goodwood:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/ ... 64987683_4c9f526745_o.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 65519426_80bae48038_o.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 65521926_766b683709_o.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/ ... 64735255_ef81ef9bf9_o.jpg
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/ ... 64989943_507f690b97_o.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 65526786_1c6e62cdbe_o.jpg

Photo mode:
Yes I wanted my own premium Spoon Civic Ek9, instead of the non premium model.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/ ... 64995923_0e10d712ec_o.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/ ... 64994173_3834c1faca_o.jpg

Has a Ford Falcon?

Probably has a name which a western European citizen could never pronounce.

Quote from CoolColJ :

While the SLS GT3 is sexy on the inside, it doesn't sound all that special on the outside - I came across this vid
Quite a metallic zing ring sound at full throttle upper revs

http://youtu.be/Ck23f6Gs7Gg?t=55s

I think PD only record exhausts and not much intake sound....
And have the mic too close to the car, so you hear all the air rush and zing

I do not care in the slightest. The video clearly shows us what it should sound like.

It does not even come close to that in Gt6, so PD failed end of story.

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Sat 7 Dec 2013, 12:11.

Enough has been said by using this video.


http://youtu.be/f4w17uKTOQw
My god, this sound is so bad it just baffles me.

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Wed 4 Dec 2013, 21:34.

Let's just hope the lazy buggers also fixed it on standard cars.

Luckily allot less weird, and actually a really funny commercial, props to the one who came up with that what.

Quote from Bose321 :

Yeah, makes perfect sense now.

Well to the Japanese it does, since we have all seen some of their commercials.

For the one among us who are less informed of everything on the internet.
Typical Japanese commercial

Last edited by Chrisuu01, Mon 25 Nov 2013, 08:55.

The first one made my day.