How fast does Darwin work?

Gavsta wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:11:31 +0000, Sean Hamerton wittered
> (in article
> <2686e5ba-de43-4341-b8db-7d7a299d0d47.TakeThisOut@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
>> riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
>> May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
>> think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
>> deposit, is a good idea.
>>
>> Furthermore, when I suggested he get something sensible - something
>> UKRM would recommend - he claimed that a brand new R6 is the only bike
>> he'll be able to get on with, as 'when you've wanted something for so
>> long, you just know it's going to be right'.
>>
>> As an aside, he's currently using NCB he gathered from his 2 years on
>> a 50cc scooter to insure his CBR, which is fair enough, but should
>> insurance companies really accept this on a policy for what is
>> essentially a track bike with lights and a plate?
>>
>> What say you?
>>
>
> My 1st bike was a 600 - nowt wrong there - in fact I know of 2 others that
> got 600's after their test.
>

Ditto, though TBF mine was a Monster, hardly in the same league as an R6.

> We are all still alive.

Reckon so.


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Sean Hamerton wrote:

> I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
> riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
> May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
> think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
> deposit, is a good idea.

> What say you?

That you're trying to screw with natural selection and no good can come
of it.
Let him find out for himself, but keep a video camera handy.

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In communiqué <ta8nq39pofiaov74je8isvc42ubub58ef1.DeleteThis@4ax.com>, Colin Irvine
<Colin.Irvine.DeleteThis@seebottomof.home.page> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:11:31 -0800 (PST), Sean Hamerton
><sean.hamerton.DeleteThis@gmail.com> squeezed out the following:
>
>>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
>>riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
>>May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
>>think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
>>deposit, is a good idea.
>
>Sound fine to me. At that age I was on my second Big Healey.
>

A T100SS[1] for me though I did progress from a Matchless 250 via a
Triumph 21 350 in fairly rapid succession. The AJS 31CSR 650 followed a
couple of years later.

[1] Not exactly the R6 of its day seeing as how there were only Vincents
and Square Fours that were near the magic 1000.


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Andy Bonwick wrote:
>
> Alex Ferrier wrote:
>
>>Gyp wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought you were dead..?
>>
>>Not by a long way, they tried (a high court judge, no less) but failed.
>>You'll see for yourself, if your current 'negotiations' go well.
>
> You're going then?

That's the plan.

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Andy Bonwick <nospam DeleteThis @bonwick.me.uk> wrote:
>
> If he crashes then maybe someone will have another look at the whole
> DAS thing and alter it a bit to try and make sure riders are a bit
> more prepared for the road when they're allowed to buy whatever they
> want.

When I were a lad you could buy a Dominator on your 17th birthday so long
as you stuck L plates on it.
Rumour has it that I am still alive.
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:26:31 -0700, vulgarandmischevious
<vulgarandmischevious.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:26:00 +0000 Colin Irvine wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:11:31 -0800 (PST), Sean Hamerton
>><sean.hamerton.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> squeezed out the following:
>>
>>>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
>>>riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
>>>May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
>>>think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
>>>deposit, is a good idea.
>>
>>Sound fine to me. At that age I was on my second Big Healey.
>
>21? Toyota Supra Twin turbo.
>
>Oh, and a 500bhp 40 tonne articulated lorry.

heh.

I bought my 750 turbo when I was 21.
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Gyp wrote:
> In message <fog3lo$67a$7@registered.motzarella.org>, prawn
> <sean.prawn.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> writes
>>> No. About the same.
>>
>> What was about the same as what?
>>
> The other thing
>
> That was about the same

Count Arthur Strong?

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:11:31 -0800 (PST), in
<2686e5ba-de43-4341-b8db-7d7a299d0d47.DeleteThis@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Sean Hamerton <sean.hamerton.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
>riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
>May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
>think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
>deposit, is a good idea.

It is. Most certainly.

>Furthermore, when I suggested he get something sensible - something
>UKRM would recommend - he claimed that a brand new R6 is the only bike
>he'll be able to get on with, as 'when you've wanted something for so
>long, you just know it's going to be right'.

Yupp.

>As an aside, he's currently using NCB he gathered from his 2 years on
>a 50cc scooter to insure his CBR, which is fair enough, but should
>insurance companies really accept this on a policy for what is
>essentially a track bike with lights and a plate?
>
>What say you?

I think he's clearly got a lot more experience riding than you give
him credit for, but that in any case there's nowt wrong with his
approach at all. Guy I worked with 7-8 years ago went straight from
DAS, with _no_ previous experience except a run out as pillion on my
Sprint ST, to a coupla years old CBR6 which he used as a daily 100
mile commute for 2-3 months before trading up to a ZZR11.

I rode out with him a couple of times, and he was perfectly competent,
if a bit slow. What exactly would you see as a problem in the above
scenario?

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Sean Hamerton wrote:
> I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
> riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
> May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
> think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
> deposit, is a good idea.
>
> Furthermore, when I suggested he get something sensible - something
> UKRM would recommend - he claimed that a brand new R6 is the only bike
> he'll be able to get on with, as 'when you've wanted something for so
> long, you just know it's going to be right'.
>
> As an aside, he's currently using NCB he gathered from his 2 years on
> a 50cc scooter to insure his CBR, which is fair enough, but should
> insurance companies really accept this on a policy for what is
> essentially a track bike with lights and a plate?
>
> What say you?

I did my DAS on a CB500 over a few weeks, passed and bought a TL1000S then a
gixxer thou, then another...

Still breathing.

Let him get on the learning curve

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"Sean Hamerton" <sean.hamerton.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2686e5ba-de43-4341-b8db-7d7a299d0d47@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
> riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
> May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
> think getting a brand new R6 in May,
<snip>
> What say you?

When I passed my test I had a GS550M in the garage waiting, within 1 month I
was riding a GSX1100F, but I'm a clever cunt!
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"Sean Hamerton" <sean.hamerton DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2686e5ba-de43-4341-b8db-7d7a299d0d47@c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
> riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
> May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
> think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
> deposit, is a good idea.
>
> Furthermore, when I suggested he get something sensible - something
> UKRM would recommend - he claimed that a brand new R6 is the only bike
> he'll be able to get on with, as 'when you've wanted something for so
> long, you just know it's going to be right'.
>
> As an aside, he's currently using NCB he gathered from his 2 years on
> a 50cc scooter to insure his CBR, which is fair enough, but should
> insurance companies really accept this on a policy for what is
> essentially a track bike with lights and a plate?
>
> What say you?

I say he'll spend a few weeks amazed at how fast it is, then get used to it.
He'll probably also be driving around 2 gears higher than usual by accident.
The biggest problem, IMO with something with a lot more power than you're
used to is going for silly overtaking gaps because you think it goes like a
rocket. Then you find out it's not quite as rocket like as it could be.
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:26:31 -0700, in
<lemnq3pnnuq15e08alats2r97u628b3p9n.RemoveThis@4ax.com>, vulgarandmischevious
<vulgarandmischevious.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:26:00 +0000 Colin Irvine wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:11:31 -0800 (PST), Sean Hamerton
>><sean.hamerton.RemoveThis@gmail.com> squeezed out the following:
>>
>>>I ask because a person I know, I won't call him a friend, currently
>>>riding a CBR125 on which he's managed less than 2000 miles on since
>>>May 2006. He's recently passed his DAS at the age of 21, and seems to
>>>think getting a brand new R6 in May, once he's fleeced his dad for the
>>>deposit, is a good idea.
>>
>>Sound fine to me. At that age I was on my second Big Healey.
>
>21? Toyota Supra Twin turbo.
>
>Oh, and a 500bhp 40 tonne articulated lorry.

Hah. I was driving a 270000 tonne, 5000bhp ship aged 19.

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