I have a bike!
November 17, 2007 at 10:56 am | Bike | No comment
Well, I decided to buy the F650GS Dakar from the place 3 hours away.
It was about £600 cheaper than the equivilent ones (which were scarce at best anyway) and I decided to take the risk.
On tuesday I took a half day and went down to Hein Gericke to kit myself out with gear and ended up spending £830 without even getting a helmet or gloves!
Still, it’s very good kit and I did find the helmet I wanted, I just figured I could get it cheaper online.
And I did! A good £100 cheaper at that!
It was due to arrive on Thursday (the day before my bike arrived) but apparently the Lynx courier didn’t get to me before his shift finished and thought “fuck it” and just took it back to the depot.
So Friday rolled around and 11am was the scheduled delivery time for my bike.
I was hoping the helmet would arrive before then so I could take it out for a brief spin!
But of course sods law was on perfect form and it arrived at work 2 minutes after I’d gone home to meet the guy and my bike!
.. Still took it out for 2 minutes without a helmet though…
Anyway, of course this being winter, by the time I get home after work it’s pitch black and I can’t take the bike out even though I’m happily geared up, so I wait impatiently for the morning.
And WOOHOO, why the hell didn’t I get a bike before? (Other than the fact that my dad would/will disown me of course!)
This is ridiculously fun.
To start off with I’m a little dissapointed by performance, then I look down and notice that even though the engine is screaming (by my Ford Mondeo standards) I have another 3,500 revs to play with.
I line up nice and straight and twist the throttle.
Holy mother of god I thought my eyeballs were going through the back of my head.
And this is SLOWER to accelerate than my Elise, how does that one work?
For the most part I took it nice and steady though, a good bit of practice for my DAS over the next few weeks!