# New guy with his first bike

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-guy-with-his-first-bike/252174
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [May 19, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-guy-with-his-first-bike/252174 "2010-05-19T12:12:53Z")
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### Author: ![Upstate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Upstate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Upstate)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-guy-with-his-first-bike/252174/11 "2010-05-20T06:16:27Z")

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> [@\*\*Official Grand Prix Toronto '07 thread\*\* OMG now with sexy newman pictures!!!!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-grand-prix-toronto-07-thread-omg-now-with-sexy-newman-pictures/31939/35):
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> Very nice, and welcome.
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> Get your flame suit on for not picking a Ninja 250 for your first bike though. Got some professional motorcyclists up in here.:sHa\_hehe:

Thank you. I had originally looked at smaller and older bikes, but like I said this was a friends, so I already knew the history on it and I got a deal I just couldn’t pass up.

> [@got the new exhaust on(w/vids)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/got-the-new-exhaust-on-w-vids/32060/11):
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> Welcome!! :clap
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> Nice bike! Thinking of doing trackdays yet?? :ninja :lol
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> Anyway, ride safe and wear gear! :thumbup

Thanks, but no track days for me just yet! I haven’t even ventured out onto the highway yet. 😛

> [@So I just bought....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-just-bought/32061/24):
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> Cute exhaust

Thanks, I think.

> [@offroadzj"](#):
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> Do yourself a favor and take the MSF course. It will teach you a lot about riding and throttle control (which will be the key with starting off on a higher power bike). Oh yea and you should talk to someone on here :ninja about powdercoating your pegs/rearsets… lol

I definitely plan on taking the course this summer, as soon as June ends and work settles down. I’ve heard nothing but fantastic things about it.

And maybe in the fall or winter I’ll look at powdercoating the pegs. I was contemplating respraying it a black over the winter as it is.

> [@\*\*Official Grand Prix Toronto '07 thread\*\* OMG now with sexy newman pictures!!!!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-grand-prix-toronto-07-thread-omg-now-with-sexy-newman-pictures/31939/60):
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> Bike looks nice. Welcome dood

Thanks, man.

> [@booze cruise](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/booze-cruise/32078/2):
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> welcome bro! always liked the kawi’s

Thank you, I do as well.

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