One week and nearly 200km later…
…and things with Betty are just peachy.
The Ninja 250 is a wonderful little bike, especially after training on a mammoth Honda CB750 for the last few months. It’s much more forgiving during low speed manouevering, and has enough torque to munch anything off the lights. And it’s just so much fun. As Cam said after giving it a go, “This is the first time since about the age of seventeen that I’ve felt like popping a wheelie!”
Owner’s pride required me to break his leg shortly afterwards.
Annoyances? Well, keeping the tach below 5k is a real bugger, since it means an extra shift up when you really don’t want to, especially when you’re stuck at inner city speeds (50kph max). Also, the mirrors are useless.
Still, I should have broken her in properly by the end of our first month. And to make sure, we’re heading out to Mushashiyama to go and buy some togs later this week, as soon as the fricking rain lets up. A bit of time and I should be able to find some proper mirrors too.
And then I will be naught but a green blur, biatches.
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