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Excellent work!
Any mods to your brakes?
Throughout my 125k mile 172 Cup ownership I always maintained that with just tyres and brakes you could keep in touch with just about anything.
Nice to see someone doing similar instead of going the predictable full on from the ground up turn it into a...
Here's one that highlights that bikes have their weak points...as has already been stated above, in a straightline they're almost invincible.
Throw braking, corners, and crests into the mix though, along with some dodgy road surfaces, and they're most definitely not...
There's a nice looking one just surfaced on RenaultSport.co.uk, Silver, Lux, leather chairs, 12,500 miles, £17k...I'm strangely being drawn towards it!
I've had a couple of 'plays' with bikes recently. On country roads with very limited visibility and poor surfaces they're more than fair game unless they ride with a death-wish.
I have no hate for them at all. As a way of moving along, as a piece of engineering, they're almost second to none.
But as with plenty of others they do as much for me as any other white good.
Why does how much power it's got have any relevance at all to this? And size???
Seems to me you have an inferiority complex because you run around in a 'tiny hatch' yourself LOL
I responded over on STOC...not loud at all. If I had no badge on the back I'd challenge any normal person to even get the slightest hint from the noise alone that the car is modified.
...and a very very effective one at that. Effective at getting down the road. Effective at getting you around corners. Just not effective enough at making you 'fizz'.
Yep. In exactly the same way that my 200 on non-Cup suspension was much more suited to my commute on broken country roads than one with Cup springs/dampers could ever hope to be.
I love the brand myself. I love what they've created in the past. I just don't love what they created recently.
Mine's just an ST.
They come with 200bhp from Ford so if you do need to put a power figure on it for differentiation, it's an ST200.
Calling it an ST180 is like calling a Clio 182 a Clio 150.