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Stevo Kifaru
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............Thought I'd take the plunge after skulking around as a guest for a month or two. First came here whilst looking for new tyres for my Storm. Ended up spending hours reading about the CCTs instead......

So to the important stuff........Mines a 97, bought it in about 2002, fell in love with a Repsol liveried one in my local dealers when they first came out but the 8k+ price tag put me off. That & the fact I'd just bought a brand new GPz500. Years of fun on the Kawa (75mpg!) finally saw a candy apple one in the same local dealers for £4600, went about on wanting one so much the wife said just buy it will you.......so I went in the next day & it had gone :cry: but they had just got another in for £3300 so that was that...
It's basically bog standard, although it came with MiG exhausts on (beautiful sound....) and was shod with Dragon Super Corsas, which seeing as I bought the bike in October, were lethal. After two days of sliding, skidding & just no general feel of control I gave up & put it away & got back on the GPz. I didn't feel brave enough until the next April to get back on it, after a couple of weeks I gave in & got some BT020s on it. Completely different bike. Haven't been back on the GPz since......

It's not in the best of nick at the moment unfortunately, just put a 2nd hand starter motor on, £12.50 from ebay (inc P&P!)...., exhaust is blowing (clamp has come of) & needs new tyres (Diablo Stradas to go on now I've sorted the starter motor). I live out in the wilds of Warwickshire so getting parts & it fixed can be a time consuming problem, but sh1t, 200 yards from front door I have miles of countryside to, ahem, cruise sedately around.......













Oh and as it is important & at the risk of alienating 80% of you, mines yellow :wink:
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lloydie
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Yellow ha ha ha .
Hello and welcome .
Your not to far away from me (Coventry)
It's good you have found the info needed for these bikes .
Might see you around :-)
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Stevo Kifaru
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I am from Cov, I just moved out near Brinklow once I had kids, lived in HIllfields so was a no brainer.......And for £1300 less, I'd have bought a blue one. Well maybe.
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lloydie
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Stevo Kifaru wrote:I am from Cov, I just moved out near Brinklow once I had kids, lived in HIllfields so was a no brainer.......And for £1300 less, I'd have bought a blue one. Well maybe.
you wouldnt of liked the blue one as thay are slower than a yellow :lol: .
its always a good move getting out of hillfields 8) i lived there for a year or two when i first left home .
join here to for local ride outs http://www.coventrybikers.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php their a good bunch :D
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agentpineapple
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at least you didn't get a boring black one....... :lol:
welcome aboard fella...... :thumbup:
HEY YOU GUYS!!!!!!
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Nice to see owners of Black & Yellow bikes getting along so well!
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lloydie
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I have been known to mount a yellow one lol
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AMCQ46
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Welcome to the fun house mate. I'm not to far away between Solihull and Stratford.

Brinklow must be famous for having two 90deg bend on the straightest roman road in england :lol: Fosse way :thumbup:

See you out on the roads some time, or at the workshop day
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Stevo Kifaru
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When's the workshop day?
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Stevo Kifaru wrote:When's the workshop day?
Have a look here http://www.haymouth.co.uk/phpBB3/viewto ... 60#p211902
AMcQ
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Welcome to the forum. Stick around here and you can't go wrong, plenty of advice and guidance and members willing to help out and piss take.

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Welcome aboard Stevo :thumbup:

Chris.
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