Regal Raptor DD250G-2N (2011)

[felix]

Photos are never boring! You got yourself a nice lookin bike!

[soberpete]

Photos are never boring! You got yourself a nice lookin bike!

Yeah. The more the merrier! It's a handsome bike and will be a big part of your life if you take bikes even the slightest bit seriously so bring on the photos!
Dewsnap. What's the millage on it so far? I don't blame you for not going to fast on it (the screaming sound) but after it's done a 1000km or so you should do a speed test somewhere open and safe. A few of us would like to know what speed you can get it up to .

[dewsnap]

Only done 500km's so far. Still bedding her in gently. The bike'll do 100kmph at 5000rpm, she still has more to go but she's screaming at that speed.

Can't wait to push her upto 7000rpm. I don't reckon the top speed will be very high, possibly 130kmph flat out. Guess i'll have to wait and see. I'll let you know as soon as i do.

I think this bike is set up more for low end, 5000rpm in 2nd and 3rd gear is unbelievable. Really takes your breath, and the look of horror on peoples faces as she's roaring by is a treat.

The mechanic fixed the leaking cooling fluid today with loctite. Really shouldn't be having problems like that on a new bike but it seems ok now. No more problems finding neutral either. She's getting better with each trip to the mechanic. (I have been there 4 times in 8 days however )

[moilami]

the two horns i added look pretty cool under the headlight. It also covers up the cheap looking Raptor badge.
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I'm sure all the photo's are getting boring now so i'll stop adding them for a while.

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I like this bike.

[dewsnap]

I'm starting to enjoy this whole 'motography' concept. I've never really been interested in taking photo's until getting a motorbike.

This week i've used my lunch (2)hours to head out in search of places to take decent photo's. As with riding motorbikes i'm also new to photography. I own a crappy little pocket digital camera but it's still fun tryin to take a 'quality' picutre. I've had a fair bit of practice taking photo's recently with the birth of my daugther, and now i'm thinking it might be time to blag the wife to dip into the savings again for a better camera. I could be pushin my luck though.

I thought i might add to this thread any decent pictures i manage to capture.
(Which hasn't been easy with no knowledge of photography and a cheapo camera)

Maybe people will look anyway....

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My bike centre court..

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[soberpete]

Very nice photos indeed! I'm going to take another load when ZMC888 and I have a ride out somewhere nice this weekend or maybe next.
How do you upload your photos on here? I only have another 9 free days on smugmug and I can't pay for it after that =(.
How old is your daughter mate?
My lady isn't preggers yet but when she is I'll be hoping for a daughter. The wife's 'hu-kou' is considered as a village residence so if the first baby is a girl then we'll be entitled to have a second.

[dewsnap]

I just use the basic uploader thing that's on here. It only lets you upload 4 at a time though and it isn't very fast. I'll keep an eye out for your pics.

Little Chloe is 8 months now. (there's some photo's on my profile page if you're interesed) And my wife and i have been married 14 months. Time flies, i remember our first date nearlly 4 years ago like it was yesterday. She was throwing up after 2 bacardi breezers. Haha. Classy! I knew she was the one there and then.

Congratuations to you are also in order Pete, tomorrow's the big day? Best of luck to you.

[euphonius]

Very nice photos indeed! I'm going to take another load when ZMC888 and I have a ride out somewhere nice this weekend or maybe next.
How do you upload your photos on here? I only have another 9 free days on smugmug and I can't pay for it after that =(.

Dear Pete, smugmug is a great service -- very user friendly and upload compatible with many different photo editors, etc. I use Aperture, which has a nice third-party uploader. But you do need to fork out $40 a year for smugmug. There are lots of free hosting alternatives, including flickr, which felix and others are using inside the GFW, and imgur.com, which slabo uses. Not sure how easy these are, but the price is right.

by the way, once your smugmug trial ends, you'll probably need to edit your posts to move those pix to your new pix host. otherwise, your excellent thread will appear with dead links. hope you find one you like.

cheers

[ChinaV]

My lady isn't preggers yet but when she is I'll be hoping for a daughter. The wife's 'hu-kou' is considered as a village residence so if the first baby is a girl then we'll be entitled to have a second.

What? Who told you that? You're a foreigner dude, 1 child policy does not apply to you and your wife. Go make babies

Cheers!
ChinaV

[soberpete]

Thanks for the heads up Euphonius. I uploaded every photo onto Facebook but then realised that I couldn't find any URL to copy so can't get them onto MCM from there. After that I simply used MCM's uploading program and I've made my way through replacing a few of this threads photos so far.

ChinaV. Can you please tell me where you got the information about how many kids we can have with a Chinese wife? I've been told so many different stories by different people and I just don't know. I've never seen anything written on paper; it's always word of mouth.