london
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Re: london
Steve_D yes i was - but got fired from the job i was in at the time and monye went the way of the stoneage , i am in employment and looking into it again but trying to keep it quite lol

Solo West Yorkshire Leeds! Wacht out for killer taxi drivers!
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c4aok
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Re: london
I find it hard to resist the challenges of the boy racers at traffic lights. Leaving them half a mile behind you on a clear stretch is very satisfying apart from when I twist the throttle and the bike cuts out. Maybe the gp800 has a boy racer sensor hidden inside to prevent penis waving 
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Re: london
Hasn't stopped you trying though, has it? 
Paddle harder. I can hear banjo music!
Honda SH300i
Honda SH300i
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c4aok
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Re: london
Apart from when it cuts out nothing has beaten me off the lights in the gp800 when I have been trying. A geared honda rider almost fell off he was trying so hard to beat me. I chickened out at 70 he kept going! Racing off lights on a bike is somewhat less in your face than doing it in a car with rear wheels spinning to draw attention to the public display of stupidity.
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c4aok
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Re: london
I would never do 70 in town Meldrew I always stick to limits if only because of cameras
This is on dual carriageways where I can clearly see what is ahead of me and only in dry. It is a short burst of acceleration and then back to normal riding with the cars well behind me up to the next set of lights.
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MrGrumpy
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Re: london
Yeah...I had a Porsche 911 race me at some lights once - I wondered what this odd sound was and it was his wheels spinning! Obviously a 911 has enough grunt to make a Tmax seem slow, but the chump in it didn't seem to realise that there's no way of getting in front of me if he stayed in the same lane as me!c4aok wrote:Apart from when it cuts out nothing has beaten me off the lights in the gp800 when I have been trying. Racing off lights on a bike is somewhat less in your face than doing it in a car with rear wheels spinning to draw attention to the public display of stupidity.
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c4aok
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Re: london
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2009/05/ ... leragp800/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This was one of the reviews that sold me on the gp800. Any of the reviewers seem to have the same addiction to driving like a knob off the lights
This was one of the reviews that sold me on the gp800. Any of the reviewers seem to have the same addiction to driving like a knob off the lights
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MrGrumpy
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Re: london
Sounds like I've missed my vocation as a reviewer then! The chief joy of the SH300 was an apparent little pizza scooter wanging past a 'real' bike in the outside lane of dual carriageway!c4aok wrote:http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2009/05/ ... leragp800/
This was one of the reviews that sold me on the gp800. Any of the reviewers seem to have the same addiction to driving like a knob off the lights
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Re: london
There's nothing quite like leaving 'fast' cars in your wake on a step-thruMrGrumpy wrote:Sounds like I've missed my vocation as a reviewer then! The chief joy of the SH300 was an apparent little pizza scooter wanging past a 'real' bike in the outside lane of dual carriageway!c4aok wrote:http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2009/05/ ... leragp800/
This was one of the reviews that sold me on the gp800. Any of the reviewers seem to have the same addiction to driving like a knob off the lights