Bear, I am not sure if I had told you bu there is a girl called lady p in this forum who has a pink XTR and she lives in Peterborough, get in touch with her by pm, I am sure her and her husband would love to get together for a ride with you. They're a nice young couple.

Yes you did tell me about lady p I did look in on their site but it seams very short on posts shame really! I can hardly wait now and seeing Tecno King Kevs bike with the stainless cans has got me thinking a bit more over time is on the cards lol.
I think I may be able to run mine in in about the 1st week cos I got some holidays to use up

It shows how slow your local plod are :mblah05: Turkish bobbys on the south coast have had blue xtr's (with Akras!!!) for quite some time now :smilies0243:

I reckon 2 days.

I don't want to get your hopes up much more but.....

Excitement about getting a new bike only goes so far. The excitement when you get the bike and experience low down torque without having to rev the nuts out of the thing will blow ya socks off. blowup

But will the public ever see these bikes??? I've heard of the police buying so many different types of bikes and never seen half of them. Lisburn police station is about 10miles from me and they are suppose to own a fireblade but it never goes out even when they put the NW200 on, they just bring all the St1100, Deauvilles, Transalps and the odd blackbird over from england.

We do have something special thought, weve got a Buell Uyuless thingy, very nice and noisey, but again doesnt get seen/ridden that much.

I cant see why the police have not changed there bikes yet as so many are soo out of date that even a 60bhp bike or 1.5 ltr + car could out run them.

Hi ManicMic I hear what you are saying but im planing to stay close to home for the first couple of days just to get a feel for it Ive no riding time since I past my test in November so im a bit worried about it at the moment!
Ive booked up a ride with my instructor on the friday pm on the 29th just to calm me down a bit.

Well I'm looking for ones with a metal bar inside, cos I reckon that they'll protect the levers better? Hence, they're more expensive than regular plastic hand guards...

After reading the replies, I think I'm gonna order me the original Yamaha hand guards :) This way I'm sure that they will fit right.

At first, I thought about buying those Polisport hand guards, but they don't have a metal bar inside, so I guess they might brake in a crash (which I don't want to happen :icon_wink:)

:signthankspin:Thanks for the replies to all!

The police around here have changed their bikes.

http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/res/35.$plit/C_...A25%3A43%3A465
http://www.lawinabox.net/images/b2police.jpg

ManicMic,,, are these on ebay the ones like your Yamaha ones? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ACERBIS-RALLY-...QQcmdZViewItem And I take it the standard bars are the 7/8 bars?
Cheers.

They are the same as mine as far as they do their job but I've no idea if they would be the right size or clearance from your levers. If it's blue ones your after then ask Tony660x. I think he had blue ones.