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randomsquid · #46 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:07 pm

I used to have an XS400.
It was black.
It was ever so loud.
It was also a steaming pile of badger droppings.

bigearsbilly · #47 Post by **bigearsbilly** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:16 am

I used to have an XS250.
God what an awful bike.

Mind you the self-cancelling indicators were excellent.

Falcorob · #48 Post by **Falcorob** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:29 pm

And I've had 4 (yes four) Z250 Scorpions. They were all atrocious.

I have often asked myself, usually just before buying something else completely worthless/useless, why I kept buying the damn things and have yet to come up with a sensible answer.

Amongst the many and varied 'issues' were their propensity for turning camshafts into swarfe. They would have inexplicable electrical issues, such as the lights failing for 10 seconds as I negotiated a corner on an unlit country road at silly o'clock am. Or they would fail to start for the next 11 or 30 pushes of the starter. And would then burst into life as if nothing was wrong. One of them liked spark plugs. It liked them so much I had to replace them every few weeks. Another liked covering people in petrol if they went near it. But then would stoically refuse to show any sign of having done so for weeks on end. Another had a thirst for oil. But you'd never find a leak, and it didn't smoke at all.

Of course this is all on top of their shocking finish, piss poor brakes, flexible handling, and the tendency to run on one if it rained. I must have been mad.

dalerogers · #49 Post by **dalerogers** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:13 pm

mmmm i did have a husky 610 which had a knack of knowing where i was going and just as i got there to my furthest point from home.... fricking thing would stop

im 100% certain i pushed it further than i rode it!

paddyz1 · #50 Post by **paddyz1** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 8:28 pm

I had an XS250

It got me (and the tart i was with at the time) from Liverpool to the Bulldog Bash and from there it got me to Tiverton, Devon, a week of riding round Devon and then back to Liverpool. With the exception of riding round Devon it was fully loaded with all our camping gear.

It was a reliable rat bike that did not miss a beat on that journey.

randomsquid · #51 Post by **randomsquid** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:38 pm

The xs was the first bike I tried counter steering on.
It wouldn't, bars flapped about on the crap rubber bushes and the wheel wiggled about as normal in a vaguely straight line.

D-Rider · #52 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:23 pm

randomsquid wrote:The xs was the first bike I tried counter steering on.

You never had a pushbike?
They steer in just the same way as a motorbike and, of course, you need to destabilise the bike to initiate any turn ... almost always the result of countersteering unless you just happen to encounter some external destabilising force from the appropriate direction at the moment you need it

flatlander · #53 Post by **flatlander** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:33 pm

some more cans

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Akrapovi ... 2316ba8352

D-Rider · #54 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:40 pm

flatlander wrote:some more cans

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Akrapovi ... 2316ba8352

Even more cans:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Akrapovic-Titanium-exhausts-Aprilia-RSV-1000-RSVR-Mille-Tuono-Factory-/150705177426?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2316ba8352

blinkey501 · #55 Post by **blinkey501** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:58 am

flatlander wrote:some more cans

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Akrapovi ... 2316ba8352

Geoff i am almost certain that the tuono gen2 and rsvr gen2 cans will not fit falco has the bore size is bigger

flatlander · #56 Post by **flatlander** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:32 am

Yeah but Jay it's an excuse for another mod lol

Aladinsaneuk · #57 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:43 am

also has different mounting to the heads but.....

D-Rider · #58 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:53 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:also has different mounting to the heads but.....

Wot he said

The can's inlet diameter is different

randomsquid · #59 Post by **randomsquid** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:52 pm

D-Rider wrote:
randomsquid wrote:The xs was the first bike I tried counter steering on.
You never had a pushbike?
They steer in just the same way as a motorbike and, of course, you need to destabilise the bike to initiate any turn ... almost always the result of countersteering unless you just happen to encounter some external destabilising force from the appropriate direction at the moment you need it

Aye I had a pushbike, most of them inherited. I don't want to talk about it. Especially the huge trike thing with bell crank brakes.

So the xs was the first concious effort I made at counter steering. I was usually a bit behind the tech curve so all the tricks in the glossies only worked if you liked dragging things out of fields afterwards.

Aladinsaneuk · #60 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:14 pm

some of samray's favourite girlfriends have been dragged out of fields....