First Bandit from Brisbane

G'day all,

After the last 2 and a half years and 60,000klm on my lams V-Star 650 I picked up my first big bike a few days ago and have become the proud owner of a 2010 GSF 1250s

I have a 130klm a day commute (sold both my cars in the last year and have committed to being a bike only bloke till arthritis or some similar problem sends me back to cars for a sad tale end to my days...  ), and thought the Bandit would fit the bill perfectly to eat 1000klm every week (including my weekend recreational riding ranging along every twisty road i can find between Noosa and Lismore for as long each day as my ass can take!  ).

From the first twist of the throttle to the note of the Yoshi, the reassuring heft of her (same weight as my cruiser was but superior in every way including comfort), the samurai looks, commanding riding position and 'i win' button pull of the motor in every gear it's going to be a love affair that lasts as long as she will .

A relaxed run out to Binna Burra today showed me that it'll be a little while before i can throw her into the corners with as much confidence as i did the V-Star, but i have no doubt that within a few thousand kilometers we'll be linked at the hips - can't wait for Sunday to put in a few hundred clicks on some of my favourite roads around the scenic rim.

Photo link (if it works) of the Bandit and my V-Star together at Binna Burra (second bike travelled courtesy of my moto-girlfriend the always up for adventure Triple B  ). (oops, new members can't post external links for a week - you'll all have to wait to see them... lol  )

See you out on the road

pSiN

pSiN wrote:G'day all,

After the last 2 and a half years and 60,000klm on my lams V-Star 650 I picked up my first big bike a few days ago and have become the proud owner of a 2010 GSF 1250s

I have a 130klm a day commute (sold both my cars in the last year and have committed to being a bike only bloke till arthritis or some similar problem sends me back to cars for a sad tale end to my days...  ), and thought the Bandit would fit the bill perfectly to eat 1000klm every week (including my weekend recreational riding ranging along every twisty road i can find between Noosa and Lismore for as long each day as my ass can take!  ).

From the first twist of the throttle to the note of the Yoshi, the reassuring heft of her (same weight as my cruiser was but superior in every way including comfort), the samurai looks, commanding riding position and 'i win' button pull of the motor in every gear it's going to be a love affair that lasts as long as she will .

A relaxed run out to Binna Burra today showed me that it'll be a little while before i can throw her into the corners with as much confidence as i did the V-Star, but i have no doubt that within a few thousand kilometers we'll be linked at the hips - can't wait for Sunday to put in a few hundred clicks on some of my favourite roads around the scenic rim.

Photo link (if it works) of the Bandit and my V-Star together at Binna Burra (second bike travelled courtesy of my moto-girlfriend the always up for adventure Triple B  ). (oops, new members can't post external links for a week - you'll all have to wait to see them... lol  )

See you out on the road

pSiN

Welcome to the forum pSiN glad to hear your loving your new ride, they are awesome in their own way.
That restriction we put on new members is to stop them jumping on the forum just to sell shit.

Welcome, pSiN. 
That's quite a commute each day. 
Look forward to the pics.

Welcome aboard. 
I saw you register the other day and almost deleted the account as i was expecting spam
You're safe now 

The Bandit is sensitive to tyre pressures and loves new fronts so if cornering feels difficult check the round black bits.

Welcome to the forum pSiN (is that a chemical formula?) 

Welcome to the forum pSiN 

Nah, it's cos he's pSin himself laffin everytime he gets on the bike.

#Tag wrote:Nah, it's cos he's pSin himself laffin everytime he gets on the bike.

Welcome pSiN

Hi pSin and welcome to the house of FUN.  The Bandit is a great bike (for the $$$s). With a little tweek here and there it can be made even better. Lots of good advise here, and some of the guys n gals are OK as well   

Enjoy.

Bosco15 wrote:Astute question, Dave. 


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I'm still none the wiser. 

I think your over analysing it some what

Welcome to the board! 

I'll have to keep an eye out for you the the mountain roads around SEQ.

G'day all, and thanks to everyone that shouted out on this introduction thread.

My first weekend with the bandit gave us a pretty good getting to know each other run, some 800klm done between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon with two decent 'rides' that are old favourites of mine - the run to Binna Burra via Canungra coming from Tambourine on Saturday - which is when i learnt that i still have to consider weight when throwing the bandit into tight low speed bends ..... hehehehe. Then out to Ipswich, Brisbane Valley, up the back of Mt Glorious and through to Somerset looping back on the Kilcoy Road on Sunday, which is when i learnt that a Bandit can fly..... if you hit a ripply bridge under hard acceleration at approx 180klm..... xD.

Definitely getting to know each other.... lol.

Thanks for the advice regarding her sensitivity to front rubber pressure and condition, it felt a little floaty coming home from work today and sure enough, front tyre pressures weren't where they should have been.

Running Pirelli Angel ST's on here at the moment, but I'm already thinking that I'll give the GT's a run when these are ready to be switched out, they'll do for now.

At 6 foot smack on I find her pretty good size wise compared to some of the other bikes on offer that have similar capabilities, but even so, I've watched a video this afternoon, then pulled the seat and moved it from lowest to highest setting to see how that feels on the run to work and back tomorrow.

Seeing as it isn't going to rain for a few days (yep, it rained 4 days in a row after i bought her, though of course all that meant was i couldn't really push her much for the four days as i ride regardless of what sun, moon, cloud and wind have in store for me), so I'll be giving her a wash tomorrow and taking some fresh pictures - hope to be posting those in the near future and keeping everyone abreast of my progress with the big galut of brute

Have a good one all.

pSiN (and yeh, it's an old 'hack' handle from back in the day when i was a baaaad boy, lol - unplugged and reformed now of course.... cough cough... )