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Post by Dragonistic on Oct 19, 2008 5:22:38 GMT -5
Well I just got my bike yesterday, and Pat has a thread for his truck, why not a universal thread for vehicles? This can include parents vehicles should you not be old enough to own your own car or bike yet Anyway here's the bike, these pictures are from the website I found it on, the rust has been cleaned and repainted now as well as a general clean . My beautiful Yamaha DTX (or DT 125R SM To give it it's full name), 0-60 in about 8 seconds with all standard parts which mean it is restricted somewhat for legal reasons. This things really pulls when you get it in the revs but cruises great with smooth low end torque and power to allow easy riding, but as stated if you put it in the revs it's like a whole new engine.
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Post by SCS Pat on Oct 19, 2008 9:33:18 GMT -5
Nice phil!! Looks kinda like a street dirt bike lol. Got any plans to customize it? (rims, exhaust, etc.)
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Post by Dazzzzzzzzzzzz on Oct 19, 2008 13:00:20 GMT -5
Nice. Get pics of my bug up when I finish the body work. Get some of my dads too...when it does a wheelie Might put some old pics of it up =]
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Post by Dazzzzzzzzzzzz on Oct 19, 2008 13:48:10 GMT -5
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Post by Dragonistic on Oct 19, 2008 16:26:37 GMT -5
Nice phil!! Looks kinda like a street dirt bike lol. Got any plans to customize it? (rims, exhaust, etc.) It's already got Excel rims as standard on this particular model, the bike pulls plenty as it is, really no need to change a thing as I'd end up spoiling such a high spec engine for the size by either ruining economy, or ruining it's life span. An exhaust I'd consider but there's no real need unless mine breaks. This model is like you said, the road set version of the dirt version (aka a supermoto), so it keeps the super short gears allowing for insane acceleration from such a small motor. Customising a bike isn't like a car, alot of bikes already come with high spec engines that are reliable and fast, exhausts are the general way to really make an improvement. As for customised paint and other visuals, again most come already with a decent colour scheme, specially this kind of bike and sports bikes. It's pretty hardcore as it is and still does 70mpg, I wanna keep it that way so it can last me as long as i want being japanese made. I still rarely use the full potential of it on the road and definately barely using the engines full capacity on the rally stage I use for fun, it's never going to see a track so I'm more then happy keeping it exactly how it is, but I might change the plugs that's all for reliabilitys sake. Nice job on the beetle Daz shame it doesn't look that good though in my opinion. It's one of those, looks like s**t goes like a mother ****** cars by the looks. I bet the fuel bill is nasty though. What numbers is it running?
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Post by Dazzzzzzzzzzzz on Oct 20, 2008 6:11:02 GMT -5
Lol. My dads cars have never looked any good. I never knew this until I was following my dad in another car, but from the back the car looks basically stock, so it's a pretty good sleeper Well with a lower than it should have been compression ratio and foot 1/2 - 2/3 way down it ran 13.1 and spanked an Audi RS4. Now it has new heads which are huge...which are like £1500 (around about $2600 - $2800) worth. Should make the car spank a Bugatti Veyron in the 1/4 mile. So that's 10.5 and lower when running properly. Bugatti Veyron does 10.8 Fuel...hmm we use the more expensive fuel which is 97 octane instead of the usual 95 octane. But because we don't drive long distance or in the wet (for obvious reasons) it's not that bad, but we found before we were doing like 2 MPG I have some pics of my car on a memory card and my phone so I'll put those up soon.
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Post by Dragonistic on Oct 20, 2008 12:28:31 GMT -5
Sounds pretty awesome, 2 MPG is shocking though lol. I use the high octane stuff to generally just because I can really. Had a little race with a Mondeo ST220 on the road, I was following him coming into my local twisty touge style roads and he tried to lose me. Not a chance XD It was quicker in the corners but my acceleration obliterated those 220bhp with my 15bhp lol. Proof that power means nothing if the weight is high. In the wet to so he had a major advantage with 4 tyres and still got pasted. Although I did have a bit more guts then him It's proving to be a very stout machine My first trip to college on it tomorrow to
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