Thread: Big Bikes For Sale

Originally Posted by peterpan

They saw ya coming TM, why do you pay 17 k for a set? should be about 13/14 k max

Maybe I was too quick off the mark. Just checked the last lot I bought 4 sets at TB43,000. Therefore that makes it TB10,750 per set. So no, nobody saw me coming. I guess they saw you coming and charged you 3 to 4 grand extra.
Pirrelli Diablo Supercorsa Pro.
You can buy off the shop floor Dragons [at] TB13,000.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Originally Posted by peterpan

a rear tire bout 9,000 of yer Thai bahts worth will last me 5,000 Kms. (Rigger about 2,000kms)

That is good mileage for tyres. I change mine every other weekend. 17 grand for a set everytime.

I think you might be full of Crap TM, first you tell us you change tires every other weekend, how many riders do that ?
Then you say they "are 17 K a set every time", now you have changed the price to only 10,750 a set. FOS mate

Originally Posted by peterpan

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Originally Posted by peterpan

a rear tire bout 9,000 of yer Thai bahts worth will last me 5,000 Kms. (Rigger about 2,000kms)

That is good mileage for tyres. I change mine every other weekend. 17 grand for a set everytime.

I think you might be full of Crap TM, first you tell us you change tires every other weekend, how many riders do that ?
Then you say they "are 17 K a set every time", now you have changed the price to only 10,750 a set. FOS mate

Sorry you feel that way. It was expected coming from you. Given your dialogue.
Yes I do change mine every other weekend. Longest I have ever managed is three wekends. I buy in bulk. Not 1 set at a time. That would be a pain in the ass. As a regular buyer of these products I get them cheaper than most.

I'm mystified how you can get through a set of tires every other weekend, that's all, even using for track days, one set should last 6 x half day sessions at least.

Originally Posted by peterpan

one set should last 6 x half day sessions at least.

I wish. Guessing you are judging wear on amount of rubber left on tyre. Track tyres lose grip after a certain amount of heat cycles. I change mine when they lose grip. I have done four track days on one set and it is not pleasant at all on the fourth track day. The grip is not there. And I value my life. So therefore I stay on the safe side and change rubbers when I decide it due.

WHOA !!! I said coming off a traffic light, not a drag strip. And certainly not a 1000. I haven't seen anything bigger than a 750 around KK and there so dressed up and loaded with H-D look-a-like gizmo's there too damn heavy to beat a 125 Wave off a light.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound so uppity. I had H-D's in the States so I know what speed vs. weight is. My point was why do so many riders think bigger is better when most of their riding is at normal highway speeds ?
Now, someone give me some idea's on how to turn my little 400 Springer/Steed into a small trike... please..!!

Originally Posted by xlineshooter

Now, someone give me some idea's on how to turn my little 400 Springer/Steed into a small trike... please..!!

Go see Anan or the chopper guys down the road as they do at lot of custom work chopping frames and stuf.

I don't know who those guys are, but I bought my Steed from the big bike shop 9in downtown KK. The owner I think is the President of the KK motorcycle club. I see the young guys there working on choppers, but also i found out who is making the frames, fenders etc, so i went to see him. The kids at the big bike shop just put the pieces together. The guy I saw makes those body parts. He showed me a pic in a magazine of a remake of a vintage bike with a sidecar, so I think the trike idea will work. If not, then its a chopper.
Thanks for your reply.

Originally Posted by xlineshooter

I see the young guys there working on choppers, but also i found out who is making the frames, fenders etc, so i went to see him

Well then he is your best bet
I am building a Mutant buell chopper at the moment

Originally Posted by Rigger

Originally Posted by xlineshooter

I see the young guys there working on choppers, but also i found out who is making the frames, fenders etc, so i went to see him

Well then he is your best bet
I am a Mutant building buell chopper at the moment

Just moved a word for you Bud, getting it in the correct order.

Originally Posted by xlineshooter

I don't know who those guys are, but I bought my Steed from the big bike shop 9in downtown KK. The owner I think is the President of the KK motorcycle club. I see the young guys there working on choppers, but also i found out who is making the frames, fenders etc, so i went to see him. The kids at the big bike shop just put the pieces together. The guy I saw makes those body parts. He showed me a pic in a magazine of a remake of a vintage bike with a sidecar, so I think the trike idea will work. If not, then its a chopper.
Thanks for your reply.

Don't waste your money, why not buy a proper bike ? even one of those VFR 400's like Rigger brought, little crotch rockets they are and they go around corners FAST.
If you bugger around with those girly baby choppers you will end up turning homosexual, then you will start wearing earrings and grow a pony tail.
You will be embarrassed when you are dragged off the stop lights by Mum taking the kids to school in her Honda City.
You can't even park them outside a bar because dogs will piss on it & people will take a dump on it, complete waste of time they are.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Pirrelli Diablo Supercorsa Pro.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

I change mine when they lose grip

Any chance of begging some of your cast offs?

I bet they have enought grip for a few thousand K's of normal road use on them?

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Pirrelli Diablo Supercorsa Pro.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

I change mine when they lose grip

Any chance of begging some of your cast offs?

I bet they have enought grip for a few thousand K's of normal road use on them?

Only if you keep leaning to the left. The right side of the tyre is completely shagged out.

^ fair enough, gonna need to go round right hand corners otherwise you just end up back where you started.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Only if you keep leaning to the left. The right side of the tyre is completely shagged out.

No problem for Spin, he only drive on straight roads....

Originally Posted by Dalton

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Only if you keep leaning to the left. The right side of the tyre is completely shagged out.

No problem for Spin, he only drive on straight roads....

True, the centre of the tyre is still brand new. While the right side is shagged and the left side you could say worn.
If I was drag racing at the strip. These will have a new lease of life there.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

If I was drag racing at the strip. These will have a new lease of life there.

how many do you have as my bottle gets filled next week

Originally Posted by Rigger

Originally Posted by Travelmate

If I was drag racing at the strip. These will have a new lease of life there.

how many do you have as my bottle gets filled next week

How big is your bottle? How many hits you get out of it?
Have you melted a piston or bent a valve yet?
Do you race for pinks? or should it be green? (Green book)

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Have you melted a piston or bent a valve yet

No reason for this to happen as long as you dont run lean or run into the rev limiter. I will probably end up putting on the quick shift and the little thing that stops you from hitting the rev limit with the bottle open

Originally Posted by Travelmate

How big is your bottle? How many hits you get out of it?

Should get between 7 -10 runs from 3rd to 6th gear. Going on what the other guys get on the net

Originally Posted by Rigger

putting on the quick shift

Having a quickshifter, is brilliant. I don't know how I managed without one. Just pin throttle to stop, wait for shiftlight to start flashing, click up a gear while still keeping throttle pinned hard to the stop. And never touching the clutch.
Sheer pure bliss.

Originally Posted by Rigger

you dont run lean

May need to run a dyno tune. There is one in Bkk.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

May need to run a dyno tune. There is one in Bkk.

I would like it but dont really need it, I just have a rich map as a #2 and and have also in riched it again by 10% from 5K to 11K rpm using the touch screen. Alot of the guys are just spraying one jet onto the AIT sensor and are getting away with 20 Hp shots so with the MPS and Dynojet set up I will be good for the 36 Hp shot.

Originally Posted by Rigger

Going on what the other guys get on the net

Originally Posted by Rigger

I will be good for the 36 Hp shot.

I am presuming you have yet to try it out. Correct?
At what RPM will you hit the fun button?

Originally Posted by Travelmate

I am presuming you have yet to try it out. Correct? At what RPM will you hit the fun button?

Yea just got my Power commander back, They say never use under 5K for the TLR

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Originally Posted by Rigger

you dont run lean

May need to run a dyno tune. There is one in Bkk.

The only one I know thats operating apart from the old clunker at red baron is an inertia Dyno, and they ain't worth a knob of goat shit