# new bike soon a few questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [February 27, 2012, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807 "2012-02-27T10:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/21 "2012-02-27T13:21:29Z")
Googled the bike. Is it one of these? ![http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/200911/2009-yamaha-tw200-1_460x0w.jpg](http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/200911/2009-yamaha-tw200-1_460x0w.jpg) If so, thats awesome! :excited I’d ride that. ---
**Author:** ![McBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/22 "2012-02-27T13:31:13Z")
Yes its one of those! Looks fun as hell right?! ---
**Author:** ![negawsklov](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/negawsklov/32/6689_2.png) [@negawsklov](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/negawsklov)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/23 "2012-02-27T13:39:57Z")
one of my first on/off road bike when i was preteen was a tw 200 im sure there way better now! (best post ) The sooner you take it the more valuable it is. Instead of being a boring review for the first day of basics it will allow you to get good habits from the getgo. my wife took the hudson valley course she has a ninja 250 and she learnd very quick and did great after the course. i tryed teaching her because i have been riding for years but not much success they they did a great job and you get your licence when you complete the course ---
**Author:** ![Gundamzeppelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/24 "2012-02-28T16:54:40Z")
Welcome to the world of finding any excuse you can to never drive a car again. > [@Lambo hotness](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lambo-hotness/48381/4): > > I would also recommand taking the MSF courses; well that is until may be other people started posting how that MSF is for pussies or for like really old people and a f’ing waste of time and money and how riding a motorcycle is so f’ing easy and only retards can’t do it on their own, and if you respect the bike you will NEVER crash…:rofl Don’t forget warm weather means you don’t need to wear leathers. And Icon helmets are just as good as a Shoei or AGV & Two Bro’s is a great exhaust.:rofl Riding street is easy, In fact it’s so easy it makes you think your fast! Till you set foot on a race track & have all your delusions of being fast are broken :lol A lot of local guys need to remember the bike is fast, they are not. ---
**Author:** ![Gundamzeppelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Gundamzeppelin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gundamzeppelin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/25 "2012-02-28T17:13:56Z")
Double post ---
**Author:** ![McBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/26 "2012-03-16T17:09:41Z")
Just bought a klx250sf for my first bike, il upload some pics tomorrow when im not at work. Love riding it even though traffic is a bit sketchy and im real slow in the corners :lol ---
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/27 "2012-03-16T17:30:11Z")
On/offs and motards always feel uneasy in corners. Ive scrapped pegs on Sv, dragged knee on GSXR, but still don’t dare to back it in or lay the motard low. Something about high position an softer suspension. :ponder Get pics! ---
**Author:** ![McBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/28 "2012-03-16T17:35:33Z")
Yeah I meant to get pics before I went in to work,but it took me a while to get it from troy city to colonie since I wont drive it on the highway yet. il be riding it downtown tomorrow for kegs and eggs il be sure to get some pics, its a blue 2010. ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/29 "2012-03-19T08:34:22Z")
> [@FS:2002 TDI](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2002-tdi/48647/25): > > On/offs and motards always feel uneasy in corners. > > Ive scrapped pegs on Sv, dragged knee on GSXR, but still don’t dare to back it in or lay the motard low. Something about high position an softer suspension. :ponder > > Get pics! Turn in the compression a bunch and the rebound a touch. Warm up the tires and toss the gear on. That DRZ will hang a turn like your other bikes do… its all in your head I think. Just hunker down a bit on the DRZ and get your body lower… poor mans knee dragging but it gets the CG lower. The bike will stick. You have street tires on it right? My KTM was about 5 inches taller seat height than my friends DRZ’s and it carved a turn great, the bike had more but the rider didnt. Still no stripe on that 160 rear. The DRZ with my light ass on it, the middle of the road comp/rebound was soft. But crank them in and it stiffened right up. > [@SOLD: Frontmount Intercooler](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold-frontmount-intercooler/48659/8): > > Yeah I meant to get pics before I went in to work,but it took me a while to get it from troy city to colonie since I wont drive it on the highway yet. il be riding it downtown tomorrow for kegs and eggs il be sure to get some pics, its a blue 2010. Dont take that thing on a highway man. If you are not comfertable on city streets yet, you will shit yourself at 75mph, that thing pegged, and catching drafts/gusts off the back of trucks and semi’s. Its NOT fun at all on a non-aero bike like a motard or a dual sport like you have. it blows you all over the place, and there isnt anything to tuck your body into. On my motard, I used to hunker down, tuck into the little ass headlight faring (just enough air would deflect over it to go over my helmet) and put my feet back on the swing arm axle sliders like little pegs to get in my low stance when I was on the highway. Even then it was gusty and would blow me all over the road. I hated it. Longest ride on that bike was amsterdam rt29 to the northway all the way to scroon river or what ever it is up there… it sucked ass, boring ride, ass was numb from the rock hard seat… but the back roads up there were worth the trouble! ---
**Author:** ![McBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@McBitchin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/McBitchin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/30 "2012-03-19T08:39:03Z")
I hit 87n for a few exits yesterday and it was terrifying :haha It does get blown around a little, that didnt bother me as much as the traffic did though. Here’s a pic in my buddies garage where I’m storing it, he also has a klx250sf :lol mine is the one in the back next to the blaster. ![http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s240/ijibgoremtn/Mobile%20Uploads/facebook_1468228378.jpg](http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s240/ijibgoremtn/Mobile%20Uploads/_facebook_1468228378_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RocketPunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rocketpunch/32/6429_2.png) [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/31 "2012-03-19T08:55:01Z")
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