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What does DBT know about the Triumph Daytona 600's

Good or bade
Things to watch out for?

bottom right corner, it's an american in NZ.

bade

>No fairing

Dont buy a shitty clased bike m8

Bad, the early Daytona 600s were kinda shit. Just get a 675 I guarantee you won't regret it.

Target fixation and failure to lean, in addition to locking up at least the rear wheel. Also, it can't be American since damned near everyone here can't into blinkers.

That said, I have noticed that Iowans use their blinkers far more often than Californians, Georgians, Texans, New Mexicans, Floridians, and Missourans. The usage rate seems to decline in inverse relation to income, however.
>pass Lexus driven by business-casual office man
>blinker back into lane with appropriate spacing
>traffic slows
>new Lexus man merges into onramp lane that ends in 1/5 mile without using blinker
>attempts to get ahead and merge back in front of me again without blinker
>not happening m8
Apparently my V-Strom is tall enough and I look imposing/outlandish enough in my riding gear that he didn't try to nose in in front of me. Some asshole in an AMG Merc did a last-second three-lane exit bomb without blinker about a mile later, which then proceeded to take the turn at the green light at about 3.5 MPH. I got alongside it a little later and found that it was driven by an early-40s blonde woman. No surprises there.

>Bad, the early Daytona 600s were kinda shit.

Explain why they were shit. How many Daytona 600/650 have you owned?

One on the street, untold millions on dirt.

>Target fixation and failure to lean, in addition to locking up at least the rear wheel

Yea, that'll do it. I couldn't really tell what happened since the video instantly starts with the beginning of the crash.

Not him but i had one and it was shit..

Had a ride on a 2016 ktm 300 and a 2015 sherco 300 today, both thoroughly disappointing.
i was expecting them both to be more powerful than my bike and handle better but got the opposite, guess thats where bike set up comes into play.

>i had one and it was shit.

public transportation user detected

I have never heard anything good about them, and they were discontinued after like two years, all signs point to a shit bike.

Please elaborate what was shit.

Stay mad cuckboi. The best part is that you dont even own the bike and you keep sperging like a good cuckboi.

What kind of bike do you have? Just curious what you're comparing them to.

>I have never heard
>HEARD

>they were discontinued after like two years

try 3 years. Enjoy dreaming about motorcycles, bus rider.

2009 ktm 300

FI was pretty bad. It almost made the bike unrideble in the city. Also the forks were kinda harsh. Sold it in like a month and i only paid $1100 for it.

They made better bikes then that thing is all.

ur gey

...

you should get the 2003. it's even more exciting

Been into way to much inbred road raging trucker lately, most of the time they push my bike then it's fight.
I usually won because I only ride on full protective gear but there is only so much a preventive sucker "Shoei" Headbutt can do.
I plan on adding a pepper spray on my helmet. Already got 2 camera there and it looks like a mic anyway.
Surprise pepper spray + sucker Headbutt would be much better than only the latter.
I just need to figure out how I can activate that bastard without touching it.

in what way?
last i checked they only make around 45bhp and they weigh more

put it on the inside of your face shield instead, so it's more hidden

wtf its such a weird and slow crash

the triple clamps could snap at any moment so you're always on your toes
...or your face

How much power is the 2009 supposed to make stock? And how much do you think the power actually matters?

the engine stayed revved up after he crashed so it seems the throttle might have stuck slightly open. Still no good cause for a crash as he could have grabbed the clutch

I hide mine under the seat, as in I glued a pocket between the exhaust and the seat on my 701.
I do need 2 second to take it off but you got plenty of time while they go out of the truck.
the bonus is that you can spray that shit on them when they are raging trought the window.

It's such a precious moment. if he doesn't have any water he'll melt for like 30 fucking minute.

>not carrying a self defense grinder
youtube.com/watch?v=P3plT7qSIsU

1 from braking on wet, oily pavement and lost traction. Low-side at very low speed when it went down, no damage.
1 from old lady pulling out in front of me in a round-a-bout. Low-sided and spun sideways, came to a stop with my tires sticking under the edge of her suv but didn't actually make contact. Only damage was a slightly bent shifter peg and a scraped up transmission cover.

around 55 stock iirc, mine is making somewhere around 60 at the moment.
and depends how good you are at riding i guess, shit rider on a powerful bike is still going to be shit, probably going to be slower than they would on a less powerful bike too.

I'm a shit rider :)))))

Are we counting stationary drops or full-on wrecks?

me too :))))

4chins broken?
the posts go through but any time i reload the page its still at 1584760

oh there we go it fixed itself

Just get a ccw you raging faggots

How are Avon road riders? Looking for new tires for my gs500.

Nah m8 get the Avon cuckolds there better for the gs500

>Friend gets motorcycle and rides for 3 months
>Gets in one minor accident
>No damage to him, some scuffs on the bike
>Sells bike and keeps preaching to me that it's not worth it
>goes on and on about him wanting to buy a nice car now
>Keeps talking about the dangers of motorcycles and how he 'just had to sell it to avoid hurting himself'
>His only accident is because he applied too much brake in a corner and lost the front
>mfw

but guns kill people dude!

arent we taught to not brake in the corner for this very reason...

what

>implying it is one user

Do you even into filenames, it used to be a guaranteed replies post. But bot so much now.

eh. it's probably not for him then. which is fine, sounds like he was a shitty rider and the last thing we need is yet ANOTHER statistic.
kind of shitty that he's trying to talk you out of it, though.

yeah, I don't really care that he is getting out of it if he thinks it's unsafe, but being all preachy is just annoying.

Literally 60% of what he talks about is trying to get me to sell my motorcycle and get a shitty car to drive around. I fucking hate driving any car and I want a truck before a car anyways. This happened 2 months ago and it still hasn't waned.

What type of truck?

I prefer a nice older Freightliner Cascadia than the newer Coronados.

Did he try to trail brake like the pros? Alot of my friends have came and went on riding from accidents keeping the rubber side down seems to be an issue with beginners.

No, he was trying to take a racing line so was driving too close to the left and an oncoming car scared him so he locked up the front and slid out at like 20 km/h
I want an i4 4WD. Something small to tow around my toys and some light offroading. Not looking to measure my peen with other trucks.

I bought a sv650
fuck all you lying cunts

what happened user

Had a shitty 300 for two years and everything was dandy.

Buy a sv650, and i swear to god the next day a nigger stole it.

Now I have no bike :(

How did we lie to you? Your fault for not locking it up and not having theft insurance.

Only nigger here to blame is yourself.

Did you really fall for the meme ?

I'm sorry you wasted your money, please now, dodge the drz 400sm and hayabusa meme.

Was in garage user
pls kill me

Should still be locked up and have theft insurance.

All 3 of my motorcycles that have been stolen were taken out of my garage.

Riding at a level he doesnt have the skill for oh well maybe its the best for him. It is alot more dangerous then a card but hell of alot more fun.

why wasnt the garage locked?
why wasnt the steering lock on the bike?
why don't you own a large dog that lives in your garage? (niggers are scared of dogs mate.)
these are questions you need to ask yourself.

Garage was locked.
Niggers unhinged it while I was out of the house sorting out insurance.
My girlfriend is allergic to dogs.

>didnt cover up bike so niggers dont know what its is.
If its a really bad place a locking cover solves everything. Not to many people will go up and start ripping of the cover to see the type of bike.

>why wasnt the steering lock on the bike?
>why didn't you put a $40 disc lock on it?
these are questions you need to ask yourself.

>dodge the drz 400sm
what are the other small cc watercooled sumo's?

There's none, and it's a good thing. you know why ? it's 15 years old.
The DRZ400-SM is outperformed in every-way by even a simple WR250R

Where do you live? Where was it parked when it was stolen? What security measures did you have?

>outperformed in every way

ok sure lmao

>WR250R
>Less horsepower
>Less torque
>Aircooled
>Only ~20lb lighter
idk, drz is still providing a pretty good case.

> Friday
> look at forecast
> 0% chance of rain
> but weather warning: thunderstorms, hailstorms
> weekend supposed to be miserable weather
> don't take chances and take the train
It still hasn't rained or hailed AT ALL.
It's fucking 2016 and we still can't figure out the weather forecast for the coming 3 days, what the fuck?!

Had that today too
>Supposed to pour rain all day
>Rains until 1pm, then starts to break up
>Blue sky at 3pm
>Figured I didn't need to rush to fix my bike for a few days
>Couldn't ride it
FUCK you, meteorologist.

thats not really a problem with the bike though

Probably the same guy you bought it from. He installed a gps on the bike and used a spare key to ride it back.

c o n e f a g g i n g

drive.google.com/open?id=0BzY3VEy-TGy3VjdHUVRWMENzTXM

so i went on /r/ motorcycles to see if they really are the normiest people and this was the first thing i find
youtube.com/watch?v=uLS8N6bbUqU

Fuck off reditcuck

Why do people sell used DRZ's with 30 000km's for $5000 when new ones are $7000?

Because supermoto

Because americans can't into decimal

even the dual sport ones are expensive. Do they actually sell for that much?

I don't get why people wouldn't just get a brand new one with a warranty for that a bit more.

One. Hugged concrete barriers at speed. Didn't feel so good

Yeah they got the supermoto tax. Much like the cafe racer tax on old honda cb's but before that they sold for $300-800 and now they want $1500

Something like 12.

Forecasts are even getting worse here. They used to be 80% near the actual weather. Now its 50/50, either completely wrong or almost right.

What app do you use?

chinese levers isntalled, only installed the brake because i like the long stock clutch lever and it wasn't snapped in half

the lever does not rest against the master cyllinder plunger cold or at speed with the bike warmed up. it's all clear. lever moves smoothly and returns to the right position every time. brakes not locking up.

based china.

if i die i will come back here and tell you to spend hundreds on pazzos, but until then, why would a lever need to cost more than $50 at the most fuck

>0-4 go for 2 am ride to the touge
>5-9 jerk off to tranny porn
my old bike had chinesium levers, current bike has Pazzo's. They're pretty much the exact same but the Pazzo's are a bit thicker.

weeronline.nl, buienradar.nl and google

Never heard of those two first one but i use weather underground and its pretty accurate

Sea Climate senpai, intrinsically some what unpredictable. Move to the congo, it's always warm there.

it would be a good idea to file them a little so they snap in the middle if damaged, because i know these tend to snap in random places because the metal is a little cheap, just not cheap enough to be broken by hand

the ebay photo showed a notch for that reason. there is no notch.