[Other Sport] Motorbikes

OzMike

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Oct 2, 2006

13,165

Perth Australia

• Jun 2, 2024

• #301

I used to ride a lot and have had quite a few over the years, but now veiw them as noise machines.
May be it is because now I live in a hills country back water.
I plug my ears when they roar past and curse the bloody row they make.
So damned noisey !!

 

ozzygull

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Oct 6, 2003

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• Sep 9, 2024

• #302

My daughter passed her CBT a couple of weeks ago,

Really cool looking Kawasaki z125 is her first bike.

 

Audax

Boing boing boing...

Aug 3, 2015

3,205

Uckfield

• Sep 9, 2024

• #303

ozzygull said:

My daughter passed her CBT a couple of weeks ago,

Really cool looking Kawasaki z125 is her first bike.

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Nice! 'Grats to her .

Hadn't seen that they've brought the "z" back. My first bike was a 1983 Kawasaki z250 according to the rego documents, but it'd been through a few owners before me and I'm pretty sure a lot of the parts had been replaced over the years with bits from other model years. 1995, so it was 12 years old by the time I got my hands on it and it showed. Nifty little bike, though - easy to ride, good handler. It chewed up its crankshaft bearings just outside Bathurst later that year (we lived in Canberra at the time) and I had to finish the trip home wedged into my dad's sidecar with my brother. At which point we switched to the car, with trailer, and went back to pick it up.

Couple of days later my dad came home with the workshop manual for the bike and told me to let him know when I'd figured out what was wrong with it (he knew already). Set me up for a few years of self-maintaining that bike and thus minimal maintenance costs.

That z125 looks a good bit more complicated though!

 

The Clamp

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Jan 11, 2016

25,546

West is BEST

• Sep 9, 2024

• #304

ozzygull said:

My daughter passed her CBT a couple of weeks ago,

Really cool looking Kawasaki z125 is her first bike.

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Awesome. Congrats to your daughter.

Learner legal 125’s are so much better looking these days.

 

BN9 BHA

DOCKERS

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Jul 14, 2013

22,206

Newhaven

• Sep 9, 2024

• #305

OzMike said:

I used to ride a lot and have had quite a few over the years, but now veiw them as noise machines.
May be it is because now I live in a hills country back water.
I plug my ears when they roar past and curse the bloody row they make.
So damned noisey !!

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Seems to be compulsory in Newhaven for any motorcyclists riding through to have a very loud exhaust.

 

ozzygull

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Oct 6, 2003

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• Sep 10, 2024

• #306

The Clamp said:

Awesome. Congrats to your daughter.

Learner legal 125’s are so much better looking these days.

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They certainly are. I am really impressed with the quality of it. Kawasaki make some great bikes. If she decides to do her test later, it probably it will not lose much value either, if she trades it in for a bigger bike.