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March 30th, 2009, 08:30 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I am a defector
Please have mercy on my soul, ye 250 gods of ole.
 The answer to the question I'm sure you're wanting to know is yes I still have my 250. How much longer, don't know yet. |
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March 30th, 2009, 08:32 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: zartan
Location: spam la
Join Date: Oct 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 250 R Posts: A lot.
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wow!
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March 30th, 2009, 08:53 PM
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ninjette.org member
Name: Tim
Location: O*C California
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 2505 Posts: 98
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hell yea honda cbr 600rr...... they spend the most on aerodynamics
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March 30th, 2009, 08:56 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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March 30th, 2009, 08:58 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Matt
Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914
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Sweet ride
You gunna end up tracking that one too im guessing right?
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March 30th, 2009, 09:02 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Rick
Location: Alexandria, Louisiana
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 Blue Ninja 250 Posts: Too much.
MOTY - 2017, MOTM - Jan '19, Oct '16, May '14
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Good looking ride.
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March 30th, 2009, 09:12 PM
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FORMER MOTORCYCLE RIDER
Name: Steve
Location: On a Trek SU200 or in my CRX
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): Rode an 08 250r then rode an 08 ZX-6R until i totaled it on 7/10/10 Posts: 758
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The only problem i see... is it's not black.
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March 30th, 2009, 09:14 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Matt
Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914
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If your looking to sell your pipe by any chance PM me
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March 30th, 2009, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: Too much.
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good move... that would be my choice IF I were "moving up" to a 600.
don't they make those in green?  congrats!
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March 30th, 2009, 09:17 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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Like 100 dollars... I'll get some pictures of the exhaust off my bike when I get a chance. |
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March 30th, 2009, 09:18 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Matt
Location: South East Florida/Rutgers University
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 250r (Fastest Color) Posts: 914
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Lemme know
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March 30th, 2009, 09:19 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I may end up keeping the 250 and just relegating it to track ho status but we'll see... |
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March 30th, 2009, 09:21 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I'm in no rush to track this one. I plan to keep it for awhile. |
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March 30th, 2009, 09:59 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Michael
Location: Southern NM
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '91 Honda CBR600 F2 Posts: A lot.
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Nice ride! Love the paint job! (Just 'cause I'm nitpicky about this sort of stuff, don't forget to update your owned motorcycles spot on your little info thing. Still only shows the 250!
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March 30th, 2009, 10:06 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Howard
Location: Cypress, So. Cal.
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Candy Thunder Blue Ninja 250R Posts: 618
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nice bike, but I think it looks kinda mad, maybe because I am not its owner =)
I always had an infatuation with cbrs. will be my next bike in a couple of years or so. (I hope) |
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March 30th, 2009, 10:07 PM
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Curiosity is a Killer
Name: CG
Location: So Cal
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250 Posts: 102
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Sexy bike!!!
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March 30th, 2009, 10:55 PM
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I'm lovin' it.
Name: Mike
Location: Melb, Australia
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Black 250R Posts: A lot.
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Hope you keep the 250r.
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March 30th, 2009, 11:03 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Tim
Location: Portland, OR
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2009 SE Ninja 250R Posts: 796
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Nice ride! Now off with yer head! Didn't like the zx6r?
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March 30th, 2009, 11:38 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I was interested in the 6R and CBR. Kawasaki said NO to me. So that made it an easy choice to pick the CBR. Honda needed some elbow ribbing to get them to cough up the loan but I got it eventually.
It would have been easier and lower interest if I had a cosigner but I was determined to do this on my own. I got it for 9799 OTD which is MSRP. Not the best deal but far from the worst too. |
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March 31st, 2009, 12:28 AM
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Fighting Texas Aggie '05
Name: Neil
Location: Hutto, TX
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '07 ZX6R, '08 Versys, '09 250R Track, '93 F2/F3 Track Posts: A lot.
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^^ nice - I had the opposite experience (got approved for any bike in the store) but they would not budge on the price of the cbr (wanted 11,000 OTD) and came down a bit on the 6R (9500 OTD)
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March 31st, 2009, 05:18 AM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Joe
Location: Buffalo NY
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250 "Wasabi", 82 Yamaha xj650j Posts: A lot.
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That beast has a snout!!
Im a fan of the cbrs aswell. Very sexy...how bout a better pic for us to drool over. Does it have a name yet? "Swift" "Red Baron" "Francis" Zooooom
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March 31st, 2009, 06:35 AM
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ninjette.org member
Name: Alvin
Location: Yorba Linda CA - SoCal
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 09 ZX6R, previous bike owned 08 Ninja 250R Blue Posts: 133
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Congrats Joseph! Did you sell your 250?
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March 31st, 2009, 09:11 AM
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Track Junkie
Name: Jon
Location: Dallas
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 Ninja 250r Track Bike, DR350 commuter, KDX220 woods bike Posts: 602
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nice bike... i remember passing one of those on the track last week
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March 31st, 2009, 01:26 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Kim
Location: mundo de ensueño
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 250 Posts: A lot.
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Congrats! I have second dibs on the exhaust!
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March 31st, 2009, 01:30 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Steve
Location: Kekaha, Kauai HI
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 GSX-R 600 2003 EX250: Woodcraft Bars, Levers, Mirrors, Shim'd Mixture, Synthetic, '08 Rear Shock Posts: A lot.
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cool kuro..congrats
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March 31st, 2009, 03:38 PM
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one disaster at a time
Name: Jody
Location: West Georgia
Join Date: Aug 2008 Motorcycle(s): EX250J9 Posts: 411
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If it didn't cost twice as much to buy, with higher insurance, and increased chance of going to jail for exceeding the speed limit by 100 mph... that's the bike I'd get too. That's nice.
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March 31st, 2009, 07:35 PM
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Some weird Canuck!
Name: Greg
Location: Ontario - Canada
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '92 CBR250RR "Babyblade", 2008 Ninja 250R, 2001 CBR600F4i Posts: 209
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Hondas for the win! Looks great, post more pics!
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April 1st, 2009, 06:09 AM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Joe
Location: Buffalo NY
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250 "Wasabi", 82 Yamaha xj650j Posts: A lot.
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If chuck Norris had that leather the joke would be: Chuck Norris leather jacket is so tough it fights with-out him even wearing it! Quote:
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April 1st, 2009, 08:23 AM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I'll get some better pics this weekend. Kinda busy until then with work and exams at school.
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April 1st, 2009, 08:20 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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The bike is a great pleasure to ride so far. Smooth as silk. At cruising speed/RPM, the vibration is almost gone. Well at least compared to my 250. Guess that's the difference between a 4cyl and a twin. I know some people hate to have stock exhausts but I'm really enjoying the way the bike hums as is. We'll see how I feel about that later on but any mods are on the bottom of the priority list right now. The engine and exhaust howl is so refined and sweet sounding. unlike the 250 which is kinda rough and abrasive if you know what I mean.
The bike gets up and goes effortlessly. I know the 09 is down on power to the other bikes and the 07-08 CBR but what do I care coming from a 250? It's still much more power everywhere. And the engine is so silky smooth like the entire crank and rods assembly are rolling on ball bearings. Transmission is smooth too. I thought it would be harsher since it's a much more powerful bike but the transmission on my 250 is noticeably notchier than this. Not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes I'm not even sure I shifted up a gear because the gears are so close and the transmission is so smooth. If you get the clutch/throttle work just right, you don't even feel the gear change. I have to get used to rev matching while braking with much less input on the throttle. All it takes is a little twitch and the engine jumps. I have to really yank on the 250 grip to get it to rev match quickly. I was a little timid with downshifting because I know the bike doesn't have a slipper clutch but I'm mostly over that so far with slipping the lever and blipping. Shouldn't be a problem once I build up more muscle memory. Need to build up some stamina in my clutch hand too. Oh, and FI is nice. Bike is already ready to go by the time I finish gearing up and finding a song on my ipod. Haven't taken it to any roads with respectable twisties to judge its turning manners yet but no rush. Still trying to build up more skill into automatic muscle memory. I'm sure I'll enjoy the bike a lot more once I put it in the environment it was intended for. I just appreciate both bikes so much after sampling the other side of the spectrum from the bare bones 250 to the leading edge CBR. I don't know about older supersports but this bike is just so nice and refined it's like an extreme privilege to be able to own something with so much tech and refinement in it for a "nominal" 10k. This kind of fit and finish and performance in a car would cost tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands. It's also nice to feel the pride and be apart of something bigger like the Honda domination of the World Supersport championship.
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April 1st, 2009, 08:25 PM
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Track Junkie
Name: Jon
Location: Dallas
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 Ninja 250r Track Bike, DR350 commuter, KDX220 woods bike Posts: 602
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cool man... glad you like it. i've been wanting one of those new 600s for a long time.... somehow i've managed to stay away from them aside from my old yzf600r.
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April 1st, 2009, 08:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: Too much.
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yep, kuro... Honda builds very high quality products!
enjoy, man!
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April 1st, 2009, 08:34 PM
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ninjette.org sage
Name: Chris
Location: Norcross, GA
Join Date: Mar 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2006 250R Posts: 772
Blog Entries: 14
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yep. Below happened on a mountain run and the owner was able to ride it home after some duct tape. 
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April 1st, 2009, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: Too much.
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April 1st, 2009, 08:48 PM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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I rode a couple onramps today to get a feel for my body positioning while turning. I appreciate the higher rearsets and lower clipons so much. It's such a chore to get your weight low on the 250. I know sometimes on the 250, if I try to get my upper body any lower, I'd be eating my knuckles! But doing that on the CBR feels really natural. Then it zips ahead so quick. I think I'm in love. 
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April 1st, 2009, 09:00 PM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Steve
Location: Kekaha, Kauai HI
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 GSX-R 600 2003 EX250: Woodcraft Bars, Levers, Mirrors, Shim'd Mixture, Synthetic, '08 Rear Shock Posts: A lot.
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 ...note to self: duct-tape...duck-tape for toolkit...
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April 2nd, 2009, 06:31 AM
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ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Ryan
Location: Carlisle, PA
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 WR250R, 2006 Ural Raven (Sold), 2009 Versys Green (Sold), 2008 Ninja 250R Green (Sold) Posts: A lot.
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Kuro did you get the ABS model?
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April 2nd, 2009, 08:17 AM
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Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Name: Joseph
Location: socal
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Kurosaki 250, 09 Honda 600RawrRawr Posts: 540
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nope! standard one
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