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Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:07 pm
by greenslimebiker
Hello all, I have owned my fantastic firestorm since Dec 09 and it is my return to bikes since 00, so an interesting experience. I started off being pretty law abiding but the firestorm has made me revert to the teenage biking tearaway of my youth (RD 250 sort of behaviour). If you see me around the Swindon area, you will quickly get the picture. What is it about driving past the Wiltshire Poice HQ that makes me go faster? Great to have found this site and thanks to all for running it.
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:25 pm
by AMCQ46
Welcome in, and POST SOME PICTURES
Lots of good info in the knowledge base section / workshop, have a good look through that and enjoy your Storm..........riding it like you are a teenager all over agin is fairly normal, the noise and the wheelies are part of the problem!!!!
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:17 pm
by Jbrebel
Welcome to the forum
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:01 pm
by benny hedges
greenslimebiker wrote:driving past the Wiltshire Poice HQ
be sure to flick a killswitch backfire every time you ride past lol! BOOOOM!!!
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:02 pm
by marlbororman
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:07 am
by marravtr
welcome in fella.....
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:00 am
by tony.mon
Hi, mate, welcome in.
Bloody addictive, aren't they?
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:12 am
by benny hedges
marlbororman wrote:i geared it down to slow me down
really???? with a tooth less on the front i found it was faster top end than standard, with better take off, straight to the limiter in every gear - so i went to 2 less on the front and it's fkin bonkers lol, like riding a 2 stroke and virtually impossible to keep the front wheel down!
i found with a 15 on the front it was still chugging a bit in town traffic, having to use the clutch a lot, but 14 is spot on (for me) - it's comfortable at less than walking pace but once you find a gap it's away like an acme rocket sled off roadrunner lol & still hits 140+ on top
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:29 pm
by sirch345
Welcome aboard GSB
Chris.
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:13 pm
by Pete.L
Ah!
A local Gent
Welcome aboard
Don't worry about all these northerners, they're quite harmless once you get to know them
Pete.l
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:10 pm
by Mick B
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:49 pm
by greenslimebiker
Thanks to all for the welcome and I look forward to running into some of you. I am glad I am not alone in being a 'storm' nutter! Roll on the summer.
Re: Hello from a Firestorm virgin from Swindon
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:02 pm
by Whoa Nelly
Welcome to the forum GSB - a font of useful knowledge. Here's some from me: when trying to elicit riotous backfire noises from your Storm, don't mistake the horn for the killswitch - its rubbish
i geared it down to slow me down before, now put standard gearing back on, coz im going to get a ban for wheelieing everywhere otherwise, but it just aint stopped me, now im going faster and wheelieing everywhere 
The guys are great 
...Plenty of talent to keep you right..... 
..Enjoy.