My first litre bike :)

COH

2013 z1000sx and a minter at that - got it yesterday and blasted back up to Dublin last night. Some difference from the sv650! Also a big f*ck you to MCE who wanted to quote me 5 grand for insurance :lbhbh

bladespin

Well wear

mamax

Nice keep her upright

Wonda-Boy

Congratulations m8, looks totally different in the non kwacker green. Hope you have thousands of happy miles take it easy until you get to know the bike, as you said much more bike then the 650 and less forgiving.

Enjoy.

Richard tea

Very nice. Looks well looked after.

CoolHandBandit

Sweet as a nut man. Insurance is a joke. Im 44 with full no claims never a claim in my life and after paying 280 last year for two bikes with CN they wanted 620 for the same when i renewed last week. Told them im going looking for business elsewhere and they dropped it to 310. :pac: I think they just see what they can get away with. Anywho savage machine enjoy every minute.

COH

Just headin out for my third spin of the day now... grinning ear to ear

stewygriffin

Get rid of them exhausts and get her mapped too.

You will think its a different bike.


Happy riding.:)

Fireblade77

Congrats, very nice , It takes time to get used to the thousand.

BKtje

Welcome to the club. Great bikes. I've never raised the screen though, really changes the look of it. Must try it sometime

CaptainR

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

Sweet as a nut man. Insurance is a joke. Im 44 with full no claims never a claim in my life and after paying 280 last year for two bikes with CN they wanted 620 for the same when i renewed last week. Told them im going looking for business elsewhere and they dropped it to 310. :pac: I think they just see what they can get away with. Anywho savage machine enjoy every minute.

CN seem to be really bad for ridiculous quotes. I rang around in my first year and went with liberty for €800 for a 125. CN still had my details and rang me a week before my renewal with a quote of 1400, I told them to get lost. Then they rang me two days before and eventually they gave me a quote of 670 for a 500 and the 125. If that kind of price disparity happened in any other industry they'd be called out for defrauding their customers.

I wish there was a LinkedIn for insurance, where you put all your details in and then request a quote from all the insurers. It'd save the 40 minute phonecalls focusing on what type of materials your garage is constructed of.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Brilliant bike.

The jump from a beginner class bike to your first litre bike is a milestone for everyone riding a motorbike.

You've probably gathered by now that things are happening much, much quicker ~ and crack open the gas and it gets almost violent compared to your SV650 so it does no harm to ease yourself into this class before going mad on the gas.

Best of luck with her.

Pugzilla

http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=237971

You posted the exact same thing here....

listermint

Pugzilla wrote: »

http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=237971

You posted the exact same thing here....

So...
Is a different forum..

Wonda-Boy

Yeah its a new bike he wants as much ohhh's and ahhh's as he can get....every one does with a new bike!

And its a stunner let him have his 5 mins of fame until someone else posts up a newer bike.

Wildsurfer

Pugzilla wrote: »

http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=237971

You posted the exact same thing here....

Ok... and your point is....

arybvtcw0eolkf

Well that blew up in Pugs face LOL.

COH

Thaddeus Black Vanilla wrote: »

Brilliant bike.

The jump from a beginner class bike to your first litre bike is a milestone for everyone riding a motorbike.

You've probably gathered by now that things are happening much, much quicker ~ and crack open the gas and it gets almost violent compared to your SV650 so it does no harm to ease yourself into this class before going mad on the gas.

Best of luck with her.

Thanks mate - yeah different game altogether... don't even know where to start comparing riding it to the sv. Much prefer the riding position on the z, it feels like it holds the road infinitely better and just has power on tap if you want it but yeah taking it very handy for the time being.

Getting her back up to Dublin from Clonmel was actually my longest blast to date but after the couple hours felt like could have kept going where after an hour or more on the sv I'd have been pulling over for a break.

Coming backup the M8 and took a while to cop the new speedometer was in mph though not kph :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf

COH wrote: »

Thanks mate - yeah different game altogether... don't even know where to start comparing riding it to the sv. Much prefer the riding position on the z, it feels like it holds the road infinitely better and just has power on tap if you want it but yeah taking it very handy for the time being.

Getting her back up to Dublin from Clonmel was actually my longest blast to date but after the couple hours felt like could have kept going where after an hour or more on the sv I'd have been pulling over for a break.

Coming backup the M8 and took a while to cop the new speedometer was in mph though not kph :pac:

Its a really beautiful bike you got there.

My son had an SV, then got rid of it and got a DRZ400sm for his commute (and I played on it occasionally). Now he's on the way back up again.

He's thinking of another SV, a Fazer 6, ER6 or XJ6 (or an MT-07 if his funds stretch to it) ~ but I know that he's got his eyes set on his first ltr bike in a few years.

I'm on my way back down again and on a DL650 Vstrom, but I'd be lying if I said I don't miss the power of a litre bike.

Wonda-Boy

COH wrote: »

Thanks mate - yeah different game altogether... don't even know where to start comparing riding it to the sv. Much prefer the riding position on the z, it feels like it holds the road infinitely better and just has power on tap if you want it but yeah taking it very handy for the time being.

Getting her back up to Dublin from Clonmel was actually my longest blast to date but after the couple hours felt like could have kept going where after an hour or more on the sv I'd have been pulling over for a break.

Coming backup the M8 and took a while to cop the new speedometer was in mph though not kph :pac:

You should be deffo able to change that display from mph to kph via the buttons on the speedo m8.

zubair

Very nice. Well wear.

Check the manual should be able to change the clocks.

BKtje

Think it's the top button for three seconds followed by the bottom one. It changes to kph Celsius, kph Fahrenheit, mph Fahrenheit and mph Celsius. Don't recall in what order though.

Been a while since I did it but something like that. Just rtfm

COH

Don't have the manual just yet .... but am sure its an easy one to figure out Fella I bought it off is posting it with the rest of the paperwork this week

zubair

http://bfy.tw/BXuQ

COH

zubair wrote: »

http://bfy.tw/BXuQ

I switched the display last night ye bollocks :P well played though I did laugh, haven't seen someone get LMGTFY'd in years

zubair

COH wrote: »

I switched the display last night ye bollocks :P well played though I did laugh, haven't seen someone get LMGTFY'd in years

HAHA! Raging I didn't rickroll you too now

Hotblack Desiato

By the time my son can afford to insure a bike, I'll probably be in a home. They'll be forcing catholic prayers on us and assuming we're all Liverpool fans :mad:

Hotblack Desiato

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

By the time my son can afford to insure a bike, I'll probably be in a home. They'll be forcing catholic prayers on us and assuming we're all Liverpool fans :mad:

Hotblack Desiato

It's the popular path for Irish people born at a certain time. Glory hunters or conformists I suppose. Most of them are conformist fiuckwits without an original thought in their head.

But some of us took the road less travelled. Choosing to become a biker is also a road less travelled.

Hotblack Desiato

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

It's the popular path for Irish people born at a certain time. Glory hunters or conformists I suppose. Most of them are conformist fiuckwits without an original thought in their head.

But some of us took the road less travelled. Choosing to become a biker is also a road less travelled.

What are you on about you drunk animal ? Cause some people dont get the bike you got as your first they are different?

Stop talking rubbish and explain yourself properly. My first road bike was a 600, I await your wrath

This man has bought himself a nice litre bike, he says nothing about it being his first. cool your jets

Pugzilla

Should have got a K5

Pugzilla

Pugzilla wrote: »

Should have got a K5

Should have saved a bit more

Bushmanpm

Nice bike, just take plenty of time getting used to it.
I had been off bikes for a few years as I'd got into off roading Land Rovers so when I did get back onto two wheels I started with a CM250 then after a couple of years went to a Speed Triple 955. The 'Learning Curve' was more vertical than curve!

Hotblack Desiato

First proper sunny spin of the year yesterday on near empty roads. Pull into my drive and my bike springs a major oil leak :mad:

Then get inside and the insurance renewal for the wife's shopping trolley is waiting for me. 1250 FFS :mad: it was 450 two years ago

Bad day.

This would be a great country if it wasn't for the wnakers running it and their thugs-in-suits legal eagle chums raping our wallets

Sorry for p***ing on your thread OP, enjoy the bike

Pugzilla

My cage insurance renewal quote has gone up by 25%.

Wonda-Boy

Pugzilla wrote: »

Should have got a K5

Jaysus have you a locker full of K5's for sale or summink???

:rolleyes: