Popped my TDM cherry

[amarko5]

<!--quoteo(post=23384:date=Fri 1st Dec 2006, 03:57 PM:name=twinrider)-->QUOTE(twinrider @ Fri 1st Dec 2006, 03:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->There's a stepped license system here. The most popular class for bike riders (as opposed to small scoots) is the middle class license, which lets you ride anything up to 400cc once you do 10 hours of training and pass a riding test. Next step is the big bike license, which once you pass the more difficult test, allows you to ride any size bike. The test used to be quite hard and you had to take it at the motor vehicle dept, but nowadays you can just fork out about 500 quid and get your license through a school after 12 hours of riding classes and a riding test. So more and more people here are riding bigger bikes. A lot of these bikes are reimports since the big 4 only sell a limited number of models made specifically for the domestic market and they are restricted to meet voluntary HP limits. Reimports are excluded from these voluntary HP limits. It's a really dumb system that inflates prices a couple grand or so but that's how it works for now. Like a lot of other Japanese bikes, the TDM isn't offered domestically, so even though it's made here, it's sent off somewhere, then reimported.

Thanks again for the warm welcome all, off to beddy bye now to get my rest for tomorrow's debut ride <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


hope you thouroughly enjoy your new steed take it easy and enjoy the torque curve

report back immediately upon finishing your ride it's compulsory on this forum