This bike is just TOO much fun!!!

AMTFGH · 05-18-2006, 1:39 AM

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Originally Posted by bwhip

A new bike was added to bwhip's stable today.

It's an '05 DR-Z400SM, that I picked up locally. Only 1,600 miles, FMF exhaust, jetting, etc. It's a kick.

Got a chance to take it for a nice ride in the twisties tonight. What a blast! Just what I was looking for. Fun, flickable, affordable, great handling, controlled slide-able, and without so much power that I'd surely get myself in trouble.

I'm going to have so much fun on this badboy!

Nice bike. Congrats. You are sure to enjoy it.
That's a very cool photo, I especially like the two bikes rounding the left-hander way off in the distance

Have fun.

bwhip · 09-10-2006, 8:47 PM

I think this bike takes the prize for most-fun-per-dollar. I put an FCR-MX carb on it recently, and it really opens things up. Much better low-end grunt, better sound, and even more fun than before.

Even just riding the thing around the neighborhood, it's just a little fun, light, sliding, flickable wheelie machine.

Sure, I'd love a more serious supermoto machine, like the Husky, KTM, or Aprilia, but you just can't beat the fun for the price that this little toy provides. I highly recommend them, especially with the few mods mine has.

evl_twn · 09-10-2006, 8:59 PM

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Sure, I'd love a more serious supermoto machine, like the Husky, KTM, or Aprilia, but you just can't beat the fun for the price that this little toy provides. I highly recommend them, especially with the few mods mine has.

What about an XR650R? They work great until you run them at redline continuously

Hozer · 09-20-2006, 11:54 AM

You'd better watch out, BWhip. I've got big plans to get motarded this winter. As soon as I sell my wife's car, I'll have some $ to get started. I'm probably gonna pick up a dirt bike to convert so that I can have both street and dirt setups. It should be interesting considering that I've ridden an enduro once and a true dirt bike never.

bwhip · 09-20-2006, 4:15 PM

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You'd better watch out, BWhip. I've got big plans to get motarded this winter. As soon as I sell my wife's car, I'll have some $ to get started. I'm probably gonna pick up a dirt bike to convert so that I can have both street and dirt setups. It should be interesting considering that I've ridden an enduro once and a true dirt bike never.

Is your wife gonna let you ride it? I know mine would be kind of pissed if I sold her car and bought myself a bike...

Hozer · 09-22-2006, 10:34 AM

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Is your wife gonna let you ride it? I know mine would be kind of pissed if I sold her car and bought myself a bike...

I bought her a Chevy Trailblazer during the first week of September (and then used it to tow bikes to MMP!!) and now we just need to get rid of the car because we lack a place to park it and I don't feel like insuring three automobiles and a motorcycle for two adults.

Purpdust · 09-22-2006, 10:51 AM

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I don't feel like insuring three automobiles and a motorcycle for two adults.

Try a Car, Truck, Trailer and Two Bikes for One Adult.

BDA116 · 09-22-2006, 12:12 PM

Yeah, three autos and one moto aren't all that off the hizzy to insure for two adults.

clutchslip · 09-22-2006, 1:23 PM

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Try a Car, Truck, Trailer and Two Bikes for One Adult.

That's pretty good, but "I got that beat." - Jaws, Richard Dreyfus.

3 cars, 2 SUVs, 2 Bikes. Only 2 adults. Well, maybe only one adult - my wife.

bwhip · 09-22-2006, 2:46 PM

Four autos, two motorcycles, two trailers here (not including my company truck). One of the trailers is my wife's horse trailer, and two of the cars are kids in college.

Pete · 09-22-2006, 4:42 PM

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...and two of the cars are kids in college.

You win!

Hozer · 09-22-2006, 6:41 PM

Okay, so other people have more vehicles than I do but I'm not TRYING to accumulate them.
I've been out of college for ALMOST two years and my wife is now a stay at home mom so I don't have the $$ to have a lot of vehicles that we're not driving. Don't get me wrong, I'm really into cars and sport trucks but when a car with NO PERSONALITY can be sold to fund a bike purchase, how can I do anything else?

BDA116 · 09-22-2006, 6:51 PM

Nobody is laying into you, we all rib each other around here all the time.
No offense meant, just havin' fun at the expense of others as usual.

JBODIE · 09-22-2006, 8:26 PM

Sweet ride!!

bwhip · 09-22-2006, 9:10 PM

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Sweet ride!!

Thanks. I rode it to the office this afternoon, as the season is drawing to a close up this way and I know I won't be able to enjoy it much longer this year!

Hozer · 09-22-2006, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by BDA116

Nobody is laying into you, we all rib each other around here all the time.
No offense meant, just havin' fun at the expense of others as usual.

Believe me, you can't get to me with a little internet harassment (or even a lot of it). I was a little pre-occupied when I wrote my response so I failed to interject any humor.

On another note, ITS ON BABY!!!

I sold my wife's car tonight for $3000. Too bad she claimed $500 of it!!!! Now I've got some seed money though and can pick up a dirt bike in the next month or so and then begin the conversion (which will take more money that she doesn't have to know about).