Just bought my new bike. An aprilia rs250

She's a lil beauty

Picking her up next weekend , well my dad is anyway, Haven't passed my test yet. Click to view attachment

Smokin

Congrats!

Now just make sure you pass your test!

Fast bikes, but would it not be better going for a 4t 400? Just think of the rebuilds that thing is gonna need!

Aisha, im vibrating!

fookin right mate hope i have as much luck as you good choice i reckon it`ll be more fun than the 4stroke never worry about the rebuilds they dont need done every weekend im jelaous now lucky bugger

Best of luck with the new bike, it looks great, take it easy at first until you get used to it's unique characteristics.

Woohoo! Love 2-strokes! That'll cost a bit to keep it up to scratch but what fun!


- bit pointless saying that Steve when he's already bought it!

Nice one mate I bet they are a laugh to ride! They don't half shift too I bet you could have some fun with people thinking it's an rs50!

Nice one mate, looks like you're in for a helluva lot of fun

Lovely little bike, have you found out how much it's going to cost to get it restricted yet? Take real care, it's not a novices bike and at 60 bhp is way over the 33 bhp limit, and I would think that restricting it may well spoil its character. Is going to take a lot of work to keep in good condition.

Those things are fecking dangerous

Enjoy!

Thankyou chaps by the way , Ye i see what your saying because alot of people have said they aren't very good restricted but my heart was set on this bike.

I won't of ridden it before it gets restricted so i won't know how good it is normally and i've never ridden anything that has 33bhp so it will feel really powerful to me, if that makes sense?

Makes sense to me, I am going from a 50cc scooter to a 600cc Bandit (restricted). The 33bhp is going to feel crazy in comparison to my scooter. Ha ha!

It's a very nice bike but it is not suitable for you to learn on, its power delivery is very 'peaky' and it's handling is needle sharp, it's probably moore of a handfull than a full power R6. To be honest with the power delivery it will not be an easy bike to restrict, and when restricted it's likely that it won't be very nice to ride at all. It is a high maintenance bike and best used on a track, it's not really an every day bike. For a novice it will be expensive to keep looking nice, plastic is expensive to repair, if you really have your heart set on the bike then keep it but if you want to learn how to ride properly then also get a bike that is more user friendly for those first couple of years. SORN the bike and put it away till you are able to ride it at full power legally, I feel that with your experience if you pass your test and ride the RS it will not be long before you get involved in an 'off' and wreck your pride and joy. We all make mistakes on the road, I myself had an off at reasonable speed for the first time in 36 years, making a stupid mistake. It matters not who's fault an off is it's always the bike and biker who come off worse, and believe me tarmac hurts.

Lovely bike, take care it's a bike that bites back, keep the brakes in very good order and ride REAL safe

and when you've done your DAS and get to de-restrict then take her on a track day and

it will be fine restricted if done properly. i have riden one restricted and it was fine.
good luck with it

Don't be so hard on the young lad you old git :p

Funny I thought I was being helpfull, however I shall shut up in future and let you people who know everything advise these novices, at least my concience is clear if he kills himself, just like another under 20 did on the A343 recently on the same type of bike.

At least i'll die looking good

I didn't think what Ancientd posted was being hard, merely being truthful and trying to put his knowledge over.

To read and gleam the knowledge these guys post on here is what I personally come on for.

You take it or you leave it but please don't knock them for giving their opinion.

Your Mam will be proud to read that.

If she can identify the body that is.

lol Thanks thats lovely isn't it

Yeah but the thing is he has already bought the bike and I think he is probably finacially unable to keep it in storage and buy another bike and I am sure that he does not want to sell it.

I am going from a scooter to a Bandit.

I know that I am going to have to ride carefully and not be stupid and I will be ok.

Just because we are young it does not mean that we are unable to ride anything over a 125...

'Just because we are young it does not mean that we are unable to ride anything over a 125... '


Cool Calm.

Nobody was saying that, your steed is an excellent 1st bike, the one danny boy is going to ride would appear to be a tad too much for a 1st big bike. For any age.

I am going from a 125 to a 600. I'm 48 all the bike I need to cut my teeth on I reckon. Same bike you have funnily enough.

Bikes with a power delivery like a light switch are a hand full for anybody , it is a lovely bike but there is no harm in someone saying that about it to be fore warned is to be fore armed

I can see what everyone is trying to say. Its not probable a conventional ideal first bike but hes bought it, and is chuffed to bits with it.
It is going to be restricted to 33bh, so that gives him 2 years to get used to the bike. After that i think he should be okay with that amount of power.
Tell him to be carefull , but not that he's going to kill himself.
He can even take it on the track and gain some vital skills( something that i would love to do but i dont think my floorboards would take the cornering).
good luck to him

True. It is a lot easier to calm down and restrict this type of two stroke and not have any detrimental effect on the engine. You just take all of the stress out of it. It won't have suffered at all on de-restriction, just had an easy life for a bit. BUT it has to be done properly to get the power delivery right. If you do it just by restricting the gas flows and fuel delivery it will be a complete dog.

I love two strokes, I spent years designing and devoloping them for a living. It is a real shame they are all but gone. Some countries are banning them from the roads now.

My main concern is that he wil try to ride it before he's taken and passed his test and before it's restricted. I know just how much a temptation it will be, the problem is that novices just do not, in general, have the restraint that a 'Race' bike requires, I wish you well Danny Boy, and my posts are pureley aimed at making you think about it long and hard. It only takes a split second to loose a bike, and as you have only ridden mopeds, legally, there is no way that your instincts are enough to get you out of the sort of trouble that your bike can get you in to. I'm not being miserable, it's simply that I've had to go the the scene of many motorcycle accidents, and had to tell severall mothers that their little boy will not be coming home, and any young life lost is a total waste. I had ridden 250 cc bikes for years before I even took my test, (You could then) but I doubt that any were more than about 20 b.h.p, When I took my DAS I was shocked by the performance of the bike and enen with many years experience it was some time before I could honestly say I was comfortable of a powerfull bike.

I wish you the best of luck, and hope that you have enough common sense to think about what you do and ride safely.

Ok. Fair comment.