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Welcome - Getting started & FAQs - Read Here First... => Introduce Yourself & Your Bike => Topic started by: Arthur on September 10, 2013, 08:30:14 PM
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Hi, My name is Arthur and I'm from Blacktown in Sydney's west. I've been riding road bikes most of my life, with my last bike (I know some are going to hate me for it) being a Harley. I was sick of my Harley breaking down and decided to make a change. I was tossing up between the FJR, BMW, Triumph and the ST. I test road them all, and the ST suited me the best. I ended up getting a 2004 ST1300A with only 12000k's on the clock. I am 6'3" and was worried that the screen would be too low, but how wrong I was. I can't believe how nice it is behind the screen and the biggest shock, coming from a Harley, I actually have brakes. I know I'm only preaching to the converted, but I'm loving this bike. My Wife usually rides with me, and we look forward to going on one of the organised rides.
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G'day & Welcome from WA
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Welcome Arthur and your lovely bride,
Check out the "Member map" who's near you.
Cheers
Dave
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A warm welcome Arthur from Western Australia and to OZSTOC :hatwave :hatwave
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Welcome Arthur from down south in Melbourne. It is nice to know you finally saw the light and jumped ship from the dark side. Enjoy your new ride and your time here with us.
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Welcome Arthur, nice bike but I'm biased. If you haven't got a set of Helibar handlebar risers on yet, I would get some. I'm about the same height as you and they make a world of difference.
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Welcome Arthur from Toowoomba in sunny Queensland :thumb
Enjoy the bike :thumb Enjoy the Forum :thumbs
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Hi Arthur & a Warm Welcome from the Wild West :hatwave :runyay
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Welcome On In Arthur :clap
Cheers
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Welcome Arthur! you will fit right in by the sound of it!
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Hi Arthur from the ACT. A blue one will balance the number of red ones that seem to be taking over.
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Welcome Arthur and Pillion..........enjoy the ride :thumbsup
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What a sweet ride you have there !
Does that happen to be Pearl Corrinado Blue ?
Welcome also
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Welcome from Perth :hatwave
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Hi Arthur and welcome to OzSTOC from the SA crew. :hatwave
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G'day Arthur, welcome to the forum :hatwave
Congratulations on the new beast, she's a beaut :thumb and in the best color too :grin
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:thumbsup :dred11 Welcome Aurther and missus enjoy ur STeed and the forum,, from Leumeah NSW :beer
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My Wife usually rides with me, and we look forward to going on one of the organised rides.
Hi Arthur. It's not too late to plan ride up to Inverell this coming Saturday. You'll need to stay in a motel for the night and let Streak know for catering.
No one here is surprised that the Hardley let you down. What is surprising is that people think they're a great bike. Apart from the "look at me" and "I'm tough" image, there's not a lot to like.
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Hi Arthur. Good to see a local bloke in here AND with a bike just like mine, same year, same colour too :grin
You'll enjoy your time here, we're not a bad bunch and if you need to know anything, someone's bound to know...
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welcome Arther, enjoy your time on the forum :beer
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Hello Arthur, welcome and enjoy the ride :grin
Pockey :wink1
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Welcome Arthur, from Harrington Park. :hatwave
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Hi everyone, and thanks for the great welcome. It's good to see riders not far from me, and with the same colour bike aswell. Hi Gavo, I'm not sure what colour blue it is but I know the pearl comes out nice in the sun. Thanks Biggles for the invite to Inverell, unfortunately I'm working this weekend. Sean, you mentioned Helibar risers, being new to this bike, I'm not sure how much difference they would make, and how it would effect the wind behind the screen. My Wife and I are hoping to meet many of you in the future.
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Hi Arthur. Welcome. Sounds like you have a lovely bike. I am in the Hawkesbury and work in Penrith, maybe we can put a ride or two together.
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Arthur the helibars basically bring the handgrips back about 2 inches and also lifts them around 1 1/2 to 2 inches. If you can imagine where your arms are now with helibars yours hand would back behind where your wrists are. It takes a bit of strain of your wrists and better still off your lower back.
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.... Sean, you mentioned Helibar risers, being new to this bike, I'm not sure how much difference they would make, and how it would effect the wind behind the screen. My Wife and I are hoping to meet many of you in the future.
Hi Arthur,
If you would like to see some before and after pictures of how much difference the riser makes have a look at the pictures in the following link...
Shiney HeliBars Riser (http://ozstoc.com/index.php?topic=2334.0)
As for how it'll affect wind and such, go for a ride as the bike is now :think1
Sit up straight and hold the hand grips with just your fingertips :wink1
That will be more or less the position your hands would be with the riser.
Hope this is of some help mate :thumbsup
Cheers
Shiney
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Arthur the helibars basically bring the handgrips back about 2 inches and also lifts them around 1 1/2 to 2 inches. If you can imagine where your arms are now with helibars yours hand would back behind where your wrists are. It takes a bit of strain of your wrists and better still off your lower back.
The down side of them for me was that they also move your arms about 2 inches further apart did not like them at all
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Welcome Arthur from Emerald,(today Kingaroy)glad you are saving your shoe leather .You'll never regret turning from the dark side.
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Welcome to the site. Full of lots of info and a great buch of people
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Welcome Arthur, great to see you purchased the best colour...
As for the riser, I put one on mine and I wouldn't take t off for anything, I just love it and I'm a smidgen under 6oot.
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Thanks all for the welcome. I can hopefully have a sit on a bike that has the risers fitted and see how it feels before I purchase them for myself. I don't seem to have any problem yet with sore wrists or back, but the longest ride I've done so far on the ST has been approx 500K's. So time will tell.