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Oh yes indeedy people, I have got it! My first ever motorcycle! It's a beautiful red XT660 X, year 2005 which has gone some 14500km (~9000miles).

It all started this spring when I thought to myself ''I have postponed getting started with my licence for several years now, I can't wait another one''. That said a cold April day I went to my local MC-dealer and bought the whole safety kit. I contacted several schools but they all had the same message, sorry we are fully booked until August... I was gutted, but to my luck a school contacted me and said they had a spot open and I could begin at the end of May. I have been taking a few lessons now but this fall I'm moving to my hometown some 400 miles away. And I thought to myself it would be better if I could get my own bike when the prices are lower at the end of the season. Why not buy one and do some private lessons and I don't have to spend as much money on MC-school next year. (Plus having my own bike sounded great...)

In late June when I was in my hometown on vacation I visited the local Yamaha Center and saw this beautiful 2013 black XT660X and it was just love at first sight. It was the one model! I had to have it. I started to read up on them and checking out the used market. And I found this wonderful forum and saw all the mods people had done and got even more interested.

Back home again in northern Sweden I found a used one near my hometown some 400 miles away. Stuck up north I could not go to see it. But! The brilliant idea came to me that maybe my sister and her boyfriend could go check it out and he could take it for a testdrive. Said and done they went to see it and he lated phoned me and said it ran great and it would be a fantastic first bike for me. So, I bought it!

It is lowered some 3cm which is great because I'm not so tall and when I sat on an XT660r it felt a bit tall for me. It already has a PCIII installed and it has a 2 in 1 GPR exhaust system. Other than that it's completely stock.

What I will do to it is to change back to the original exhaust to get to know it and later on I will (probably) buy the MTC exhausts with stage 1+2 DNA air filters. I don't like the 2 in 1 exhaust look it has now, I want two pipes!

It did feel a bit scary to buy a bike that I had not seen myself IRL but the owned sent a lot of pictures and a video and he felt very serious. And since my sisters BF could take it for a ride and know more than I do about bikes I felt confident about the deal. And everyone back home who has seen it has said the same thing that it's taken care of really well by the previous owner(s). Can't wait for my next trip home about 3 weeks so I can see it myself!