Max724
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I have owned a plethora of bikes in my life, some sensible, some not so much - my old KTM Duke II being the most questionable of my choices, top end of 90 but holy hell, it got there quickly!!!
I turned 40 this year and thought "tits to it, I have earned a mid-life crisis". So I decided to buy another bike, my wife is incredibly supportive and as I already have 3 projects in the garage, she was more than happy for me to purchase another, had to get on with that before she changed her mind....so it was a toss up between a Hypermotard 950 and an MT-10SP...and I'm afraid the Jap Crap won the argument.
I found one which was up for sale from Superbike Factory, without realising how much mental anguish I would go through with those bunch of assclowns, but that's a story for another day. Going through the MOT history, it took 4 years to do it's first 1000 miles, then was sold, then it looks like someone who actually wanted to ride it put 5500 miles on it from 2021-2025. On top of a few modifications including cat delete, O2 delete, AIS delete and remap to 159 at the wheel (understandable, these things run so lean now!) But the thing I don't understand is the shocking tail light they put on it!
Maybe I'm just being old, I like modding bikes but I just don't get it. They even had a switch put on it to flick between normal use, and the weird disco spearmint rhinos **** mode. Link to YouTube because the video I took is too large to share on here, but can anyone answer me, why on earth would you do this? Is this a track day thing (track days aren't my forte) or is it just a personal choice type of mod...
Anyway, it has failed a previous MOT for it's lighting, where bikes should have at least 180mm distance between the lighting surfaces of mandatory direction indicators at the rear. SBF had the decency to give it a however many point inspection and MOT before they released it to me, which included some extra parts which needed to be purchased, they also serviced it for me for the ripe old sum of £150...
However, the inspection was carried out by Stevie Wonder, the service was just an oil and filter change, and the parts were Temu's finest indicators attached to the bike with glue and copious amounts of willpower. Plus the battery was knackered even though it always "started on the button" - lesson learned, never use those chimps at SBF again. (Plus they failed to deliver it when they said they would and didn't tell me).
The tail light was something special, to the point where it had to be programmed to flash in that pattern by flicking a rocker switch. Anyway, I've chinned off all the bad works from SBF, replaced the tail light with a genuine one, new tail tidy and added some decent indicators which are nice and legal. Thankfully all is good now and I didn't purchase a lemon.
The funky tail light is up for grabs by anyone who wants it btw - you can take it off my hands for nothing +P&P...
Lessons learned, don't use SBF and don't buy a motorcycle online after 10 beers
Rant over. Stay shiny side up people
I turned 40 this year and thought "tits to it, I have earned a mid-life crisis". So I decided to buy another bike, my wife is incredibly supportive and as I already have 3 projects in the garage, she was more than happy for me to purchase another, had to get on with that before she changed her mind....so it was a toss up between a Hypermotard 950 and an MT-10SP...and I'm afraid the Jap Crap won the argument.
I found one which was up for sale from Superbike Factory, without realising how much mental anguish I would go through with those bunch of assclowns, but that's a story for another day. Going through the MOT history, it took 4 years to do it's first 1000 miles, then was sold, then it looks like someone who actually wanted to ride it put 5500 miles on it from 2021-2025. On top of a few modifications including cat delete, O2 delete, AIS delete and remap to 159 at the wheel (understandable, these things run so lean now!) But the thing I don't understand is the shocking tail light they put on it!
Maybe I'm just being old, I like modding bikes but I just don't get it. They even had a switch put on it to flick between normal use, and the weird disco spearmint rhinos **** mode. Link to YouTube because the video I took is too large to share on here, but can anyone answer me, why on earth would you do this? Is this a track day thing (track days aren't my forte) or is it just a personal choice type of mod...
Anyway, it has failed a previous MOT for it's lighting, where bikes should have at least 180mm distance between the lighting surfaces of mandatory direction indicators at the rear. SBF had the decency to give it a however many point inspection and MOT before they released it to me, which included some extra parts which needed to be purchased, they also serviced it for me for the ripe old sum of £150...
However, the inspection was carried out by Stevie Wonder, the service was just an oil and filter change, and the parts were Temu's finest indicators attached to the bike with glue and copious amounts of willpower. Plus the battery was knackered even though it always "started on the button" - lesson learned, never use those chimps at SBF again. (Plus they failed to deliver it when they said they would and didn't tell me).
The tail light was something special, to the point where it had to be programmed to flash in that pattern by flicking a rocker switch. Anyway, I've chinned off all the bad works from SBF, replaced the tail light with a genuine one, new tail tidy and added some decent indicators which are nice and legal. Thankfully all is good now and I didn't purchase a lemon.
The funky tail light is up for grabs by anyone who wants it btw - you can take it off my hands for nothing +P&P...
Lessons learned, don't use SBF and don't buy a motorcycle online after 10 beers
Rant over. Stay shiny side up people
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Midrange torque is amazing and you're right with comfort and speed, it's the most stupidest thing I've ever bought.
