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Hullo there
« on: January 12, 2018, 05:11:08 pm »
Been lurking for a bit, as you do, so I could get the feel of the place. Seems a good active forum and plenty knowledge being shared along with a decent amount of humour and banter. So thought I'd tak the plunge and join yeh!

I'm John, I'm nearing 50, been riding legally since passing my test in 2005 on a Chinese 125, lol. Bike history since then is as follows.

Suzuki Freewind XF650, gone John. 2001 Honda VFR800 Fi-1, which I still own as you just can't part with 'em once you've been smitten. V-4s R Speshul! My next bike was the first & only new bike I've ever bought, a 2012 Kawasaki KLZ1000 (Versys). I owned and even tuned the Kwak until I began lusting after a K1600 of all things - help ma Boab.

Wee trip to Dundee where I clapped eyes on ma current ride - 2013 K1300s 30th Anniversary. Did the deal there and then without even taking a test-ride. #Braveman.

That was May last year and I'm still happy with the deal done with Clarks and the bike. Not done any mods yet but keeping that under review for this year. Loving the engine! leccy suspenders, brakes, 'andling & quickshifter! I didn't really 'need' a hyperbike? But owning one is a lot of fun.

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2018, 05:25:09 pm »
P.S. I'm a very lucky man as my wife rides (better than me) too. She's currently coveting a Suzuki V-Strom 650, which is a stoater of a wee bike, if just a wee bit heavy.... I really enjoy taking it out every now and then and thrashing the nuts off it - don't tell the wife that, natch.  ;D Here we're enjoying the back roads hame from Berwick-Upon-Tweed last summer. Are they still at war with Russia?

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 05:27:25 pm »
And here we're enjoying a Clarks tracknight @ Knockhill. Woohoo, look at me maw, I'm a racer.  ::)

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2018, 06:16:59 pm »
Seems like you are talking to yourself John, welcome in  :o

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2018, 06:22:31 pm »
Seems like you are talking to yourself John, welcome in  :o

Yes, it's all about - me! Thanks for joining in fella.  ;D
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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2018, 06:31:14 pm »
Maybe you should wait for others to join in to give you a bit of stimulation  ;)
Whilst most of us are bilingual, ie: speaking gibberish and rubbish with a smattering of English, and sometimes a bit of common sense.

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2018, 06:53:42 pm »
Welcome John.

Stoater - fine word!

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2018, 06:54:19 pm »
Indeed, Rae. In my defense. It's FRIDAY! I'm full of the joys and pinching myself that I'm lucky enough to have been born just in time for what could well be the peak of the internal combustion engine? All I know is that I'm lucky enough to own a peach of a motorbike and I really don't mind sharing that fact with the World/Internet of things.   8)

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2018, 06:58:41 pm »
Let's hope it stays that way  ;D

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2018, 08:27:51 pm »
Shyte! Totally forgot about the VFR Vtec which I owned before I bought the KLZ.

Here's me giving it laldy at Crail. Fecking Datsun beat me in the end but it was a close run thing!



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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2018, 10:23:59 pm »
And is this...

https://youtu.be/ISz8Mvs7GcE

...you sticking it to Rossi?

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2018, 11:22:21 pm »
And is this...

https://youtu.be/ISz8Mvs7GcE

...you sticking it to Rossi?

Welcome to the madhouse that is EuroKClub.

Thanks, but think that's best left to #93 on ra Honda!
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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2018, 04:41:51 am »
I'm in the same boat as you got myself a K1300,but the old man GT version.
That S of yours is mean bike isn't it?175BHP treat it with respect man!
Mine's only got 165 and I won't be using all of them. Let us know how you get on with it. I think it will be easier to man handle than your Versy 1000.
Ride your bike until it hurts-and then-err ride it a bit more.

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Re: Hullo there
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2018, 11:37:57 am »
I wouldn't call the GT an 'old man version'.

I have seen some indecently quickly ridden GT's and in the real world where most of us ride the biggest difference is in the comfort and pillion stakes; maybe that's what makes it an old man's version  ;D