Been out most of the day with a mate who is looking for a bike after passing his test last week. NOT the same one who bought a Gixxer two days after his test...........Anyway this guy is 5ft 1ins and it didn't matter what bike he sat on he couldn't get both feet on the deck. He passed his test on an 500 something or other and even then he struggled but was passed by the bloke who told him he had done very well with no advisories!!!. It looks as if it could be an SV 650 Suzuki with a lowering kit fitted but he keeps asking me what I think and I don't want to be the one to advise him then something happens........ Any serious replies would be appreciated....................
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Flashter: Any serious replies would be appreciated....................
I have thought long and hard and I have decided.......
No serious reply available.........................
Tell your mate either grow up or stay out of the big boys playground.
STU!!!
Those bikes might well be near the ground for old short arse but I bet his little feet still won't reach the pedals
Platform Sidi's it is. I am quite adept to converting Sidi boots having had to convert one into foil due to heat problems!!!
It can't be that difficult sticking a couple of old empty baked bean tins to the heels!!!
These boots have a raised heel but within the carcass of the boot.... forget the name, they work I know a couple of lasses that have them and TBH if they work who cares....!
Flashter - nowt much wrong with an SV650 as a first bike. I had one as a loaner for a while and it was good fun, but they're a bit short of power so you have to completely cane them to get a move on. Easy to ride though, nice and light, and not at all intimidating.
Same goes for Bandits, etc.
BUT... (and I AM being serious here)... The GSXR K7/K8 does have a low seat, and can be converted to a 600 or 750 at the flick of a switch.
Make the most of top handling, brakes, etc., keep it in 600 mode until confidence and skill grows, then up it to 750, and so on.
Tell him to take a look at the BMW range they do a cut down seat that take's the seat on some of there bikes to 760mm
A bloke who rides with us is the same height he had a Street Triple lowered by Hagon, worked very well, it's a good choice because it's so light up until then he had ridden Hardley's
Triumph Legend if he's looking at a retro bike 750mm seat height
You get used to it and make it work. Flash, Tell you're mate to stop being a girl and get what he wants.
He'll work out how to live with it (eventually)
What about my mate, he's shorter than that and has just bought himself a Triumph Street Triple - had the dealer fit a lowering kit and he's absolutely sorted! I made him feel bad cos I'm a 6' lady and ride a 955i Daytona! Ooooor, what about an Apprilla - they're quite dinky - what about an R1 or a Blade - is he too small for one of them?
We got this short arse guy at work and he's given up riding bikes at the min. To get on his old bike a Suzuki SV650 he had to push it into the road at home then use the kerb height to get on. Thats not the best bit though. On his first trip to work he got off the wrong side and couldn't put the stand down. He had to wait for a member of the public to come along before he could ask them to hold his bike for him while he walked round to put the stand down.
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