Got myself a Hand Grenade.... Oh wait!!! I mean.....

[Devilish]

RC8!!

WOOHOO!!

I didn't go with the RC8-R model because most of the upgrades I would be playing with and modifying anyways. 1240cc kit here we come!! soon haha

Bought a Black one from work and I pick it up on Tuesday. The Akropovic is on, just waiting for some other bits to arrive on Monday...

http://www.ktm.com.au/files/grabdoc.php?type=img&id=2547

Got a few road rides coming up to put the K's on it before I track it :)


WOOHOO!!!! :mod_smilie_rockwoot :mod_smilie_rockwoot :mod_smilie_rockwoot

[ottospunkmeister]

Niiiiiice! I'm jealous

[Marshy]

Congrats!!!!! That's a sweet ride :D

[Bigdog]

More pics!!

[Skywalker]

Definitely one of the better looking bikes getting around at the moment. I agree with Bigdog more pics and possibly a you tube link with akro's on it?

[Devilish]

I will take more pics when I get it... I am thinking about copying the Akropovic race colours on the race glass...

Something like this:

http://www.biker.ie/gallery/albums/userpics/18307/HockIDM12Sept140a.jpg

[Devilish]

Your tube vid with the exhaust differences....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNQE5ALfco

[*Oggy*]

Should bring a grin to your dial on the track..... Are the race fairings easy to get here or do you need to get a set from Europe ??

[Devilish]

Wetty's got some in stock, UK has loads but I am currently lookin at a second hand set on offer (Cheaper and painted) but they are in Brisbane with 'Scratches' which doesn't sound good... will wait and see when the close up pics comes through...

[Bigdog]

I heard one last weekend at EC. The bike looked and sounded like a weapon. Congrats on the new buy.

[Foghorn]

Got a few road rides coming up to put the K's on it before I track it :)


WOOHOO!!!! :mod_smilie_rockwoot :mod_smilie_rockwoot :mod_smilie_rockwoot
Road Rides........since when????
You spent to much time in shed's starting with 5

[stetto]

Awesome ride

[Falco]

Thats wicked Devil!
Congrats.

The RC8 would definitly be on my short list if I was shopping at that end of the market.

Very nice. :drool:

[1notop]

+1 too right Falco

[Dunno]

Flippin awesome bit of kit. Congrats on the new toy :ayyy:

[Irish]

I heard one last weekend at EC. The bike looked and sounded like a weapon. Congrats on the new buy.

Yeah I agree with ya Bigdog (clumsily typed Bigdong first attempt :lmao:) - IMO they were by far the best looking and sounding bike at PI WSBK (actually in the ASBK races).

[Mr.Ed]

Nice!! Don't know how it handles but it's definitely the best looking liter bike (or over that in this case) out there. The tail on that bike should be in a museum for public appreciation...
I'd say it's time to change the pic on your signature now! ;)

[Devilish]

Nice!! Don't know how it handles but it's definitely the best looking liter bike (or over that in this case) out there. The tail on that bike should be in a museum for public appreciation...
I'd say it's time to change the pic on your signature now! ;)

Zeno is going to play with the handling part! haha

I had a customer tell me that a Policeman followed him over gladesville bridge, the guy was doing 180+ on his RC8 and the cop couldn't get a radar hit on his ducktail because of the triangular shape!! haha at night of course...

I will change the pic when I take some photo's. Can't find a descent pic of a black one on the net...

[Devilish]

Road Rides........since when????
You spent to much time in shed's starting with 5

You HAVENT spent enough time in the sheds, period!!! haha

Do you want to go for a short run up the old road sometime next weekend? yes I know it will be double demerits, but I am just wearing the engine in so I won't be giving it a hard time...

[Bigdog]

Yeah I agree with ya Bigdog (clumsily typed Bigdong first attempt :lmao:) - IMO they were by far the best looking and sounding bike at PI WSBK (actually in the ASBK races).
you would have been right the first time lol

[Big Lunt]

As borat would IZ VERY NIZE

[Devilish]

is second most famous prostitute in Kazakstan, everybody like to ride!! haha

[1down5up]

sweet bike mate sounds great too almost as good as a 1098s down the main straight :lmao::ayyy:( i am a bit byest ) cant wait to do some laps with ya/ behind ya at the creek and enjoy the tunes

[Devilish]

sweet bike mate sounds great too almost as good as a 1098s down the main straight :lmao::ayyy:

Sounds like a challenge James!! :bum1smiley:

:pisslaugh: :mod_smilie_rockwoot

[1down5up]

sure why not youll prob smoke me but ill give it a good go :ayyy:

[Devilish]

are you out there on the 5th?? It will still be in road trim and I'll be riding it very timidly till after the 1000km's service

[1down5up]

i should be out there on the 5th if you wanna go for a few laps im still running road gearing and out of the box suspension and the tyers have seen better days so it sould be fun ..........if i was you i would still wait till ya have about 3,000 to 5,000 on the clock before ya give it the full berries ........also it will give me a chance of keeping up with ya :lmao: /or smoke ya :lmao: anyway it should be heeps of fun looking forward to it mate see ya there :ayyy:

[Dean93]

The Hand Grenade is the title usually reserved for the berg 650s.

Welcome to the orange club!

[Devilish]

People keep asking me do they pull the pin at the first service, or does it fall out by itself? Haha...

[Devilish]

My bike preparation got 'Put back' due to customer bikes getting in the way.... apparently my money isn't worth as much as customers... :BangHead:

Not happy :cursing: .... I'd better get it tomorrow.... :rules:

[Mr.Ed]

You know most of us (i.e. me myself and I) blame you for this weather, right?:lmao:

[Devilish]

yep, it's always the way... When I picked up the 954 off clarkey it had rained that day.... when I bought my 08 Blade it was pissing down!! Same with the Hyosung and both FZ1's!! haha

[WET4URacing]

mr devil . did u finally offload the blade?

[zenodamper]

mr devil . did u finally offload the blade?

I believe so, as it is booked in for a re-spring... :p

[WET4URacing]

i went to the original 4 sale thread and it was locked. better get this thread upto at least 75 posts then.

[Devilish]

Yes old blade went to a good home and to a rider about half my size!!

[Nero1]

[QUOTE=Devilish;277399 to a rider about half my size!![/QUOTE]

That would not be hard!!!
Nice bike too mate.

[Devilish]

Just got given the bike, will post some piccies tonight!!!

[zRoYz]

Congrats on the new bike, but just wondering why you didn't buy the R as your main purpose is track use so lighter wheels etc would have been worth while.

Because you sell them your reasoning for not buying the R may help others make there minds up.

[Devilish]

Good Question zRoYz. Alot of people have asked this.

Main differences between RC8 and RC8-R is the Engine size, Upgraded Suspension, adjustable steering head angle. Price, at the moment a RC8R is 5k more. 2009 Standard RC8's are cheap as chips compared to $29500 ride away normally.

I am a big guy 136kgs, therefore no matter what I do, I have to get the whole suspension redone by Zeno. So not worth paying the extra when he is going to change most things for me anyways. Maybe even swap out rear shock?? not sure yet, seeing Zeno tomorrow.

Engine size: The Standard is 1148cc and the R is 1195cc, it R lets you rev 500revs more before hitting redline. Yes the power makes a difference, but having 155bhp on the standard as opposed to the 170bhp on the R, I am sure I will not be able to use the full amount of power that even the R has. If you want to upgrade the engine on the RC8-R's the only option you have is the KTM superbike kits, readily available at $15k a pop, plus about 3 days labour. On the standard you can get aftermarket big bore 1240cc kit for about 2grand and labour is only around a day.

So everything that the RC8R has over the standard I was pretty much going to change. I would have been paying the extra 7k for an orange frame, adjustable steering head angle and black swingarm(as opposed to Silver)

Bang for Buck the standard has got it covered at the moment. If was going to buy a sportsbike for the road and not modify it, I would have the RC8R in a second, but for what I am going to do, it wasn't worth it...

[Corporate Impostor]

K, congrats on your new bike man

[Devilish]

Corporate Imposter, do I know you?

Welcome to the site anyways!!

[Captain]

Only just noticed this thread (too much on). Congrats mate, i loooooovr this bike too :ayyy:

[Devilish]

Piccies of it at work... Finally picked it up!!

[Marshy]

Beautiful.....

[slow bro]

Very very nice. Congradulations

[-72-]

Very nice bike, congrats.
The swingarm (boot) protector is sweet. I want one for my bike.

[holdontight]

Very very nice. Love the all black look.

[Foghorn]

Are you guys kidding....wipe the crap out of your eyes, it looks so gay.
I hope you have brought the replica Batman suit to wear with it!!! lol
3 Beers Ride......maybe you should do the 3 Queers Ride (you don't even need a bike for that one)

[Devilish]

Are you guys kidding....wipe the crap out of your eyes, it looks so gay.
I hope you have brought the replica Batman suit to wear with it!!! lol
3 Beers Ride......maybe you should do the 3 Queers Ride (you don't even need a bike for that one)

3 Queers?? But I've only got 2 seats honey, maybe you can sit on the tank backwards and hold me while I ride!! DAMNIT!! WE MISSED MARDI GRA!!! :P

haha

[1down5up]

hay devilish pics look great i like the one with remove before flight .........only thing is if ya remove the key and tag you wont be flying too far .......it should be remove after flight / fright :lmao: ........enjoy the new balistic missle mate :ayyy:

[Foghorn]

3 Queers?? But I've only got 2 seats honey, maybe you can sit on the tank backwards and hold me while I ride!! DAMNIT!! WE MISSED MARDI GRA!!! :P

haha
I'm way too much man for you to handle, I rather have Dazz as my bitch.....at least his V-twin is a Suzi plus its a better colour orange than the KTM's
His colour is exotic tangello!!!!

[Devilish]

I'm way too much man for you to handle, I rather have Dazz as my bitch.....at least his V-twin is a Suzi plus its a better colour orange than the KTM's
His colour is exotic tangello!!!!

:lmao: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh: :lmao: :pisslaugh:

Dazz always comes out as the bitch :tfg:

hha

[Devilish]

hay devilish pics look great i like the one with remove before flight .........only thing is if ya remove the key and tag you wont be flying too far .......it should be remove after flight / fright :lmao: ........enjoy the new balistic missle mate :ayyy:

Zeno saw it today and played with some settings and now it's actually very Agile... the factory settings were shocking... It will go back to Jim later to have springs changed etc... Can't wait to unleash it at the track!!

[1down5up]

yeah i bet it was a bit shocking (usualy set up for a 80 kg rider out of the box ) would of been riding way low on the sags /used a lot suspension travel ( as you are a big bloke ) did he set it up for the track or road or best he could working with what ya got (standard springs valveing ) he should have you in the ball park now and you can refine it on monday if ya have any problems with breaking or T 5 wollow like my duke had

[Devilish]

it was just a quick tweek today to get things moving like they should. When I drop it in, in a few weeks, it will have the full set up done and it will be for Track only then :)

[1down5up]

are you going to fit a new shock if ya do a lot of guys are fitting the ohlins ttx 2 with high and low speed ajustment only thing is its about 2 grand but they work very well ....well worth the cash i have heard

[Devilish]

Jim said that.... but the cashola isn't flowing enough now I've paid for the bike, so I will rework what it's got and when I'm a shit hot rider and this won't do :lmao:, I'll upgrade :P haha

[zRoYz]

Jim said that.... but the cashola isn't flowing enough now I've paid for the bike, so I will rework what it's got and when I'm a shit hot rider and this won't do :lmao:, I'll upgrade :P haha

Honestly I know money isn't flowing after purchase but the few hundred you will throw at the standard rear shock is better spent on an aftermarket because in the end the money you spend on the standard shock goes down the drain. Your probably better to do forks & play with standard shock adjustment due to brand new & saving till time to upgrade. That way the few hundred to redo standard shock is already in the kitty for the new shock instead of starting saving from scratch.

[Devilish]

I see your Point zRoYz, but I am not the best racer out there and I don't think I need the Ohlins... I just need the shock and spring set up for my weight and were all good :)

[WET4URacing]

roy it has WP in it std and that will be far beyond ok after the Z man has ha=d his way with it. devil isnt gridding up with SJ

[zRoYz]

roy it has WP in it std and that will be far beyond ok after the Z man has ha=d his way with it. devil isnt gridding up with SJ

doh very true forgot KTM used WP standard. is the only difference between the R the rear shock has high/low compression?

[WET4URacing]

i dont know . only looked at the devils new ride at the Z mans shop. the devil can answer this as he has the sales jargin.

[Devilish]

All my sales jargin says that the suspension is the same, but the KTM techie's say it's an 'upgraded rear shock'... next time I'm in the shop I will crawl over the rear shock to see if model numbers are the same or not... Had a quick side by side look the other day and the look to be the same. Internals not sure about so I will check the numbers and see....


I think Zeno has talked me into Ohlins front and rear.... well, I'll blame him for it anyways.. haha

[zenodamper]

I guess you can blame me if you like :D

- but seriously, I really am happy to do either; though there are benefits from going Swedish as previously mentioned... ;)

[Devilish]

I guess you can blame me if you like :D

though there are benefits from going Swedish as previously mentioned... ;)

See! There he goes again, forcing me into it!!! :p :lmao: :pisslaugh:

:stirthepot:

haha

[nickn]

What did you end up doing with the suspension?? Happy with results?

[Devilish]

Zeno did a custom front end jobby for me, really happy with that!!! Just put an Ohlins TTX in the Rear, will finally be testing that at the 30th and 31st trackdays at the end of this month :)

had 2.5 months off with a skrewed knee and a brand new TTX sitting in the bike waiting to be played with!!

[Devilish]

there is a thread in the piccies section that has everything I have done to the RC8 in it.

[nickn]

Thanks for the reply, I will check out the Piccy section.

[Lets Torque]

That is one lovely piece of machinery.... congrats on the new ride..

Shit hot..:ayyy:

[Devilish]

Thanks man!

Now if only the ride was as 'shit hot'

bwahahahahaha!!

[Foghorn]

Zeno did a custom front end jobby for me, really happy with that!!! Just put an Ohlins TTX in the Rear, will finally be testing that at the 30th and 31st trackdays at the end of this month :)

You replaced the WP Rear
What did you do with it?

[Devilish]

I put it in the ohlins box for safe keeping :)

[Foghorn]

I put it in the ohlins box for safe keeping :)

The Swedish massage obsession continues..........

[DAVID]

Very nice