Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on September 25, 2009, 04:49:55 PM
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(http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photos/prototype-spy-concept/Yamaha-2003-MT03b-small.jpg)
Anyone here got one or ridden one?
I'm harbouring a strange desire to sell all my shite bikes and buy one of these. I will probably never act on it, but I'd be interested to know how they go.
GC
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You have been out of the loop for a while GC !
Check out 'new bike on the horizon' and 'Engine warning light' threads a couple of pages back - Hacksbridge Cossack has just bought one! ;D
PS
Also check out 'Have you got deep pockets?' - not an MT03 but I think you may appreciate it! :'(
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Hi GC, please read my reply to Cossacks thread. You will def need a Power Commander on one if you are going to buy one. I fell out with my local bike dealer over this bike. BUT you take as you find...you may like the bike entirely without a PC. Just make sure you go for a GOOD test ride on one through all sorts of traffic conditions, then make your mind up...better still try 2 different bikes at different dealers
Good Luck
Ian
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I'm not sure how an action figure of a martial arts superhero dressed in lycra will help... oops, sorry, confusing it with power rangers. ;)
What (excuse my ignorance) is a Power Commander? If it's a big sensible rack to strap your bacon sarnies and waterproofs to then yes, of course, the bike is crying out for just such an item... and an umbrella rack. :D
I can see that I'm going to have to trawl through old posts aren't I. I'll get back to this subject later after doing my homework.
GC
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Hi tech ignition/ fuel injection system
Power Commander (http://www.powercommander.com/powercommander_iii_usb/powercommander_ignition_module.aspx)
Fuel injection Power Commander V (http://www.powercommander.com/powercommander/Products/PowerCommanderV/powercommander_v.aspx)
(http://www.orientexpress.com/images//PowerCommander/PWR-IgnMod1-SF.jpg)
(http://www.fuelmotousa.com/PowercommanderV_Alone.jpg)
Apparently you can tune the engine mapping/ fueling using your laptop :-\
...electrickery...black magic....far too technical for a humble XBR jockey! ( what wrong with CDI?)
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Graham,
I've got one!! Come down to sunny Hackbridge in Souff Lundon and you can have a go on it. It's interesting to say the least. I think its a bit of a wild wild beast still after 3 weeks, though my adrenaline glands had been sterilised by my previous bike, the YBR125. :o
It's high in the seat. In fact I think its very high and I'm 5' 11''. Bars are very wide and mine are made worse as the previous owner fitted hand guards. However, it leaps off the start line (traffic lights) like a cat with its tail on fire. Bearing in mind how high it sits and the lesser impression of speed you get compared to a lower bike like me birds old CBR600, I feel that it accelerates faster than the CBR! Awesome. :D
Read my other thread on the nonsense 3-4k steady throttle built-in feature of this fuel injected 660 lump. :-\
I do plan to do a decent write-up on my wild beast (wilderbeast ;D) at some conjecture. Hey, if its sunny tomorrow, then I will do some pictures and submit them.
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Sounds like a hoot then ;)
I'd take you up on your offer, but honestly, have you seen me ride ;)
Steve C - thanks for the power commander details.
GC
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Pictures taken and submitted for display of my Wilderbeast 8)
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Father in law has got one about a year old- doesn't look like that thing you've shown a piccy of. He loves it n has done about 6000 miles in less than a year.
I am a bit sad on the reg plates and "MT03 GGO" was still available last time i looked
http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/home/en/Search/new?searched=yes&prefix1=M&prefix2=T&numbers=03&letter1=G&letter2=G&letter3=O&x=42&y=9
MT03 660 lovely reg for £245 !!
Cheers
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:D :D £245 for lots of MT03xxx style plates!! Just need to find £50 more and I could get a power commander.... :o
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Pictures taken and submitted for display of my Wilderbeast 8)
Pictures now on site HERE (http://www.thumperclub.com/photogallery.php?PHPSESSID=fd14cd1525b2ac14618f24bce5ad4419&set=currentmembers&group=Members%20Gallery&menu=Photographs&direction=r)
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Niiiiice bike! A test ride you say? hmmmm....
No!NO! NO! Be sensible Carrick :D
GC
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Wildebeast is not sensible, and it would annoy you when you tried to put luggage on and go on the pish... erm go on a sociable weekend with the fine gentlemen of this club ;)
'tis not a bike that would suit you Sir, besides, if you want mentalist put an mot on your supermono!!
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You're probably right, the ape hangers would have to go, all the blood would drain out of my arms with bars that high :D
GC
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Seen one parked outside The Plough !
Jethro
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'The Plough' is a Cardiff pub, it's RobG's local (mine too as it happens). By some strange geographical quirk it has a large number of hardcore bikers in its clientele. Various TCers will know it from beer-sodden nights out in Cardiff in our company.
Just thought I'd add that for the benefit of the other forum users who might have wondered what that post was about.
Cheers
GC
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The bars are big and exacerbated by the hand guards. Nearly trashed a door mirror yesterday as they stick out so much! Methinks I will take the guards off and make the whole plot at least 4 inches narrower :o Just need to find out what size balance/anti-vibration weights need to go on instead, if any. The bike came with them fitted by a previous owner.
It also came with a luggage rack, so there is lots of space for my tent, sleeping bag, kitchen sink....perfect camping vehicle. 8)
Any long trip will be a pain as it goes onto 'reserve' after 80 miles! How poor is that. Realistic tank range before you need to start pushing it is about 120 miles. Oh the horror of it, my traded-in YBR125 did 120 to the gallon with at least 260 miles before starting to worry me. Having said that though, 80 miles and the plank has numbed our posterior so a break is needed!!
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'The Plough' is a Cardiff pub, it's RobG's local (mine too as it happens). By some strange geographical quirk it has a large number of hardcore bikers in its clientele. Various TCers will know it from beer-sodden nights out in Cardiff in our company.
Just thought I'd add that for the benefit of the other forum users who might have wondered what that post was about.
Cheers
GC
Sorry ! Bit too cryptic ! Or should that be Craptic ?
Jethro
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I was drinking in the Plough last night as it happens... Very jolly it was, one bloke turned up on his pristine recently restored and tuned Ducati Mach 1. It was a delight watching him paddle start it at the end of the night, he doesn't have a kick-start.
GC
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http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=11765
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http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=11765
Not visible for non XT forum members :(
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I just got an MT03 in May. Standard exhaust, no Power Commander etc.
It's MUCH more civilised than styling suggests, being hyped to new bikers, (apparently it just gets under the 44HP limit for just-passed-test...then the kidz put race cans/Power Commanders on!). I'm really enjoying it as an old-fashioned gentlemanly ride, but with smashing agility and good brakes. Maybe I got a good one: no carburation probs at all.
BUT....
rock-hard seat, sore after 30 miles. Have spent big bucks on an Airhawk seat, otherwise would have sold it.
Try (a long ride) before you buy.
Brendan
(CX500, CB250RS broke, Dads XBR)