You guys have made me do it!

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Alkydale · #1 Post by **Alkydale** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:52 pm

Thanks for all the advice and enthusiasm you've shown

about the Falco, I've done a deal and pick one up tomorrow!!!!!

Yeeehaaaaa!!!!!!

Firestarter · #2 Post by **Firestarter** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:07 pm

Nice one! Hope to see it in the flesh (or at least some pics) in the near future.

FlyingKiwi · #3 Post by **FlyingKiwi** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:08 pm

Congratulations, you won't regret it.... well you might when we start spending your money.
Don't forget some pics.
FK

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:39 pm

Wish we were on commission

Yep - just get on and enjoy it now .....

k1w1boy · #5 Post by **k1w1boy** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:42 pm

... forget commission, just sing the praises of the thing and enjoy it one mile (mille?) at a time.

Nooj · #6 Post by **Nooj** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:01 pm

Oooh no, you won't like it. You should have gone for the ER-5.

And monkeys will fly out of my butt

falcomunky · #7 Post by **falcomunky** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:48 pm

Good choice of new bike that man! You wont regret it matey!

Colour?...

Nooj · #8 Post by **Nooj** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:01 am

Arrrgh! It's the 21st century! You can't ask someone's colour now, you have to ask them their ethnicitittiy!

minime · #9 Post by **minime** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:55 am

Congrats m8!

Now start pimping....

Alkydale · #10 Post by **Alkydale** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:30 pm

Well,well, had to ride 90 miles home on the beast and it was a very enlightening event! Feels like an automatic with so much torque and hardly having to change gear, in fact on several ocasssions I was tootling along at 70 and not even moving out of 3rd. Unfortunaterly the route home was all motorway so I didn't get a chance to do much on it. Few things I noticed, gear change very easy compared to my '05 Z1000 which was very notchy in comparison, riding position felt fairly comfortable after 2.5 hours, just a bit of an ache in the right shoulder but I haven't ridden for nearly 6 months so that was probably the reason. I think somebody has stolen the back brake................

All in all very impressed and can't wait to get out on a proper ride, though due to work and holiday this won't be for at least 2 weeks. One thing though, it has Leo Vince Titanium cans fitted and they are bloody noisy, could hardly hear when I got off, what are the standard cans like? BTW, it's a lovely red one and very groovy looking indeed, pictures to follow when the sun shines.

Thanks guys, I think I'm going to love it!!!!

beckh · #11 Post by **beckh** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:12 pm

Get ear plugs, dont change the cans

Sounds like a maxi scooter with the standard efforts on. My renegades are louder that my road rat neighbours harley

Luv it !!

minime · #12 Post by **minime** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:33 pm

If you change the cans back to stock we will ignore you for the rest of your life...

Just kidding, stockers really arn't that bad, at least in my case when I bought the bike. (some how I have the idea the previous Italian owner has modified the stock ones).

Falcopops · #13 Post by **Falcopops** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:07 am

Top banana, the onlyhting that will wipe the grin off your fance now is your Visa bill

johny_q · #14 Post by **johny_q** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:09 am

Standards are worse...trust me, 'cause me right side fighter can tore to bits (too much power =P) and had to put the silencers back on =/

BTW welcome to the falco side!

HowardQ · #15 Post by **HowardQ** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:46 am

Great choice of bike, I think you will find you like it!
Get some decent earplugs and you will be fine. You will need them anyway sooner or later. If not already done, you'll need to play with the induction next. You can go for a full airbox mod or simply fit a K&N like me, which works very well with the cans.
The BIG PROBLEM ????

is that it gets even noisier still, right under your face. Just enjoy the bike and the noise, this is a real bike engine not a screaming Jap car engine, you really will get to like it.