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Guys Iam trading in my speedie for a rocket next week, I would like to say thanks for all the help/info I have had from this great forum. I will be taking off some of the trick bits before she goes so I will still be around trying to sell you brits some bits. Thanks again. 
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Nice one Niel. Post some pics once you get the beast.
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Should be Riding
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You getting a Classic or a Touring Rocket?
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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Stickman Yogi
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Can't say I blame you... I'd love a R3 to keep company with my TBA. Enjoy your new girl!
Live to love, love to live.
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its a red/white classic. but got it changed to foot pegs, I hated the runner boards on it.
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Come on in Doug, the water's fine!
It's funny, I thought the America was big(ish) bike but I can't believe how iddy biddy it feels after riding my R3 for 12 months.
It's like getting back on a 125.
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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Thanks guys I need it for two up touring with my bro (vrod muscle) and my best mate (fat bob)The Speedie could keep up alright but was getting hammered all the time. Dont think I will have a problem keeping up with the rocket!!!
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Welcome to the dark side. Get the cat convertion and TORs. Good move on the pegs!
Love my classic
Paul.
"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving."
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i wouldnt call the rocket the dark side. i thought you meant putting a car tire on the speedy as thats what the rocket guys call the dark side
(Former)05 BA tbike pipes, ai removed, Freak, mikuni hsr 42's, 904, ported/polished head, 1mm oversized valves
NOW-2010 silver and black tbird
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sorry for the confusion Frank, have read about this on a rocket forum, it seems a bit mad to me. How can anybody think that a car tyre can make a bike handle properly? Seems to me some are just to miserable with money for their own good. or there really are no corners in the USA.
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Doesn't handle worth a hoot but, going straight ahead you may have more traction because the tread is flatter. There are variations of conditions where more contact area of a wide flat tire or the high unit pressure of a narrower rounder tire will work the best. But, in general, a large contact area with a tire soft enough to grip road surface irregularities usually grabs the best.
Going around corners by heisting the bike up over the tread and balancing on the narrow edge is another matter.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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i had the ME880 on the back of my bike put on backwards (the guy was used to Harleys, I guess) and so she wore flat in the middle, and I remember the ****** of a time I had wrestlin to keep her on the edge of the tread with that. People that fit car tires are just lookin to wreck, and by all rights, should.
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put 275 miles on it so far in two days, crikey its fast lol 
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Oooowiee, that's a good looking bike. 
Arsenalfan. AKA Mark Able
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Oooohh , can't wait for "mid-life" , cheaper than a 'Vette .
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