Yamaha R3

[weeksy]

Why not buy a 1000?

I did

But you'll never comprehend the lower power fun. I had as much fun out on my 690 even at Silverstone as anyone on a 1000, it was ace. It was great locally too. There's a lot to be said for hustling a lower power bike round.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

To be fair to Yorick I think he's questioning why bother tuning a 400 to 68bhp when it would cost less to just buy a more powerful bike. He used to race a power valve so I think he gets that riding a low powered bike is fun

[Yorick]

Why not buy a 1000?

I did

But you'll never comprehend the lower power fun. I had as much fun out on my 690 even at Silverstone as anyone on a 1000, it was ace. It was great locally too. There's a lot to be said for hustling a lower power bike round.

If you like that sort of thing.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've sat on one, the riding position is more RD350F than RGV250

[Tricky]

You'll get Barry Boi in his chavved up Corsa / Fiesta trying to race you -Seriously, I did when I had my 390, I was riding it just about every day on the road for 6 months or so and it happened quite a bit

Also kids on 125s , usually with hideously loud Chinese exhausts, that was often funny, as I guess they thought it was a 125 too, or probably more likely as at that age you just want to try and race everything you see (as we did on our mopeds/250s/125s etc eh )

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I thought that might be the case, though I rarely ride a bike when there are people about, I like to go out early for a 100 miles and be back by 09:00