R3 as a first Bike ?

[Evil Mitch]

A Deserted Highway In India??????????????

ok a busy highway with him and his family of 60 pinned under it

 

[TriumPhil]

All you Ozzies is nukkin' futs.

 

[Ryeboy]

To Canberra R3

hahahaha I love your quote because it's THE TRUTH


"I've never seen a situation so miserable that it can't be made worse by the presence of a police officer."
Brendan Behan

 

[CanberraR3]

probally right there to half the ol jag's i'v seen were only runing on 3 cylinders

 

[TOMCAT]

All you Ozzies is nukkin' futs.

Not all Aussies mate ... there are some painfully sane and boring ones too. Find the best way to deal with them is ' back away slowly and don't make eye contact '

 

[Evil Mitch]

Not all Aussies mate ... there are some painfully sane and boring ones too. Find the best way to deal with them is ' back away slowly and don't make eye contact '

so when are you gonna post that pic of GI Jane that u emailed me TC
I think everyone else deserves to see it

 

[Jaspz]

I've ridden dozens of bikes over the years and I find the Roadster one of the easiest, I'm 6'4" though and often wonder how smaller people react as the bike is physically so very large. The power comes in huge gobs when you wind the throttle but I still max the throttle everywhere, it's well planted, comfortable and gives good enough power in all gears to make it surprisingly easy to ride. I hopped on to my friends 2010 ZX10r the other day, felt like I was balancing on a cheese wire and was going to fall of the front at first, after folding myself up into a tiny and worryingly painful ball I then proceeded to frighten myself silly. What got me was how easy it is to ride fast and on the edge, far more dangerous in my opinion- bet the salesman wouldn't laugh at that choice.. The rocket is quick, for about 2 seconds then these litre supersports leave it dead. My biggest concern as a newbie would be wheeling the bike in and out of the garage and handling below 10mph, it's super well balanced though so I say do it! (Provided your 6'4" and bristling with muscle)

 

[Evil Mitch]

I've ridden dozens of bikes over the years and I find the Roadster one of the easiest, I'm 6'4" though and often wonder how smaller people react as the bike is physically so very large. The power comes in huge gobs when you wind the throttle but I still max the throttle everywhere, it's well planted, comfortable and gives good enough power in all gears to make it surprisingly easy to ride. I hopped on to my friends 2010 ZX10r the other day, felt like I was balancing on a cheese wire and was going to fall of the front at first, after folding myself up into a tiny and worryingly painful ball I then proceeded to frighten myself silly. What got me was how easy it is to ride fast and on the edge, far more dangerous in my opinion- bet the salesman wouldn't laugh at that choice.. The rocket is quick, for about 2 seconds then these litre supersports leave it dead. My biggest concern as a newbie would be wheeling the bike in and out of the garage and handling below 10mph, it's super well balanced though so I say do it! (Provided your 6'4" and bristling with muscle)

I'm 76 kg and 5foot 11 and I have no problem with the bikes weight even reversing it out of my steep driveway . I often watch much bigger people struggle with the rocket and wonder what their problem is. I think it's because they try to fight the bikes weight I don't know either that or they are just soft and clumsy lol

 

[CanberraR3]

Mate of mine went from a scooter to a harley. He'd been riding for a couple of years but nothing bigger than 250. It was freakin' awful riding with him because he had more near misses than anyone should survive. He felt confident that he could handle a big bike, wore all the Harley gear and somehow believed he was a rider - but it was obvious to everyone except him that he couldn't handle it. He dropped it a dozen times when hardly moving and had no capacity to take evasive action. I saw him run into the side of a car in a car park just because he could turn the thing.

Absolutely fine down the highway as long as nothing unexpected happened.

He then had a stack at about 45km/h. Hit a bump in the road that was on full view and easy to miss - I was riding in front of him and saw him go straight into it. Fact was he couldn't turn the thing. Not only did it cost him $,000s, he smashed his elbow and now has 3 cables, 2 plates and 17 screws in his arm. He can't straighten it and never will be able to. 2 years on he's thinking about try a push bike.

It is irresponsible to be recommending a Rocket to anyone who is inexperienced no matter how confident they think they are or how cool you think that makes you look.

 

[Evil Mitch]

Mate of mine went from a scooter to a harley. He'd been riding for a couple of years but nothing bigger than 250. It was freakin' awful riding with him because he had more near misses than anyone should survive. He felt confident that he could handle a big bike, wore all the Harley gear and somehow believed he was a rider - but it was obvious to everyone except him that he couldn't handle it. He dropped it a dozen times when hardly moving and had no capacity to take evasive action. I saw him run into the side of a car in a car park just because he could turn the thing.

Absolutely fine down the highway as long as nothing unexpected happened.

He then had a stack at about 45km/h. Hit a bump in the road that was on full view and easy to miss - I was riding in front of him and saw him go straight into it. Fact was he couldn't turn the thing. Not only did it cost him $,000s, he smashed his elbow and now has 3 cables, 2 plates and 17 screws in his arm. He can't straighten it and never will be able to. 2 years on he's thinking about try a push bike.

It is irresponsible to be recommending a Rocket to anyone who is inexperienced no matter how confident they think they are or how cool you think that makes you look.

Sounds like this bloke shouldn't have been riding anything full stop including a push bike