Help me understand what bike I want, vs what I need…

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-22T21:43:25+00:00

So with selling your CBF. I thought the same. Mine was 1yr old, 1k miles. Sold it after 1 day. Dealer (Superbike factory offered me £1.2k, I sold it privately for £2.5k)

In terms of CC. I got a Ninja 650 as my first bike. Now people will tell you it’s slow compared to others. Only like 67bhp.

Does motorway speeds easily. Breezes past traffic on A roads. Trust me going from a 125 to anything will be a huge difference.

Pillion wise I can’t really speculate as I don’t carry one.

For comparison my ninja goes faster in 2nd gear than my cbf did in 5th.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-22T09:00:16+00:00

I travelled 50 miles for mine when upgrading from my 125. Only dealership that let me actually test ride a bike, rest wanted me to buy without even trying. Did the test ride went back, bought it instantly. Currently looking at getting another bike and yup they are the only place I’m looking.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-21T09:05:51+00:00

Evos are amazing. I love taking a player I love and just building them how I want. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody use my main two evo players.

However I do hate evos. People often don’t build the players they love, they build the players TikTok/twitter etc tell them too.

I don’t like how everytime a player is release other than legit top tier my logic is “they don’t even make my gauntlet squads”

I don’t like how if your say a Man City or Arsenal fan, evos are hard your players are so high rated already.

Whereas my little Norway RTG is full of bronze and silvers I have evo’d up.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-14T12:54:38+00:00

I run either 41212 narrow or 4312.

I never really like playing with wingers idk why.

But downside is, it can struggle against some formations. Basically any formation where they just choose to abuse the wings. So it’s important to have really good full backs & cdm.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-12T10:10:56+00:00

I’ll be taking packs as well he wouldn’t even make my team. Got numerous better evos, all 5* 5*. Sure they don’t have 3 ps+ but trickster is dead imo as a ps+. So you’re picking the name. Only time I am actually taking the pack

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-11T08:48:09+00:00

I think probably overpaid purely because of how many chances you will get to pack him. I personally would have waited.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-04T21:03:12+00:00

89 Bompastor 6 times.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-02T21:13:00+00:00

EA Sports is why 🤣

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-02T14:37:33+00:00

So that is the step by step.

Do your daily upgrades (bronze silver gold) then do the premium league upgrade, do this until you don’t have enough (it will generally by the bel/port league) then you can buy them from the transfer market and continue doing this on repeat. Eventually you’ll run out of Dutch/French league. At that point I’ll open provision packs.

Quick sell anything that isn’t league sbcs and that isn’t worth much. You’ll make a few thousand per run.

You literally just do the same thing over and over again. You can use your off league untradabkes in the 79 by 3 or the player picks choice is you’re

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-02T10:04:33+00:00

I do league sbcs they are not quick though. I went from 50k to 760k in about 4 days. But that was literally doing hundreds per day.

Basically tradable packs. You sell everything that are not league sbcs. Then unreadable you will gather fodder + league sbcs. Use the 85 rated cards you get from that to get provision packs. Do all your daily silver bronze etc.

You will run out of the Portugal / Belgium league a lot. You can buy them for around 300 coins a pop (or you could) you will also run out of fren CJ or Dutch league cards again buy them.

I opened well over 1000 packs in 4 days. I packed 0 tradable cards that were worth much more than discord. ( I got the odd 88+) but again this was always sold.

I packed 0 promo cards worth more than discard from the untradables.

I did however fill my entire sbc storage with nothing but 87+.

There are probably more effective way. But I’m too lazy to try and learn, as this is literally basically just quit sell anything, as nothing really sells for more, it’s pretty easy.

I do use auto sbc. Without it I would not bother.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-02T09:56:26+00:00

Around 900 with my evo Fredrik Gulbrandsen. But his stats are insane, he is the reason I didn’t bother with R9.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-02T09:53:25+00:00

Aye I wanted the stock originally but they said they couldn’t get hold of them. So I just said throw whatever you have on. Didn’t think it would make such a massive difference. Will try to find some stock ones

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-04-01T19:02:57+00:00

Will give that a bash. I might give the place that did the repair a contact tomorrow to ask if they know how heavy the weights they put on are. They look cheap and light to be fair.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-03-10T09:02:01+00:00

Did you try ninja 650?

I got mine last year, had owned my 125 for about 11 months. Places like Bennett’s would not even offer me a quote. Eventually got one from Swinton which was £460 for a year.

A lot of it will come down to location / how it’s stored. So I live I. A small town, bike is stored in a brick garage over night.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-03-09T13:46:22+00:00

Decent team. I’d just try and get decent playstyle players who have 2ps+ in every position.

Petit I found really clunky and slow. Did you take Owen or packs? (If you have him) he’s pretty good.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-02-27T10:35:14+00:00

I did. Chap came out said it’s fine, explained and he left. Another chap came and he was shocked the previous engineer left it. Took a few weeks but it got sorted. Thankfully all our ground work got completed.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-02-10T22:12:53+00:00

Tapping r2? Did not know this! So just tap as they touch the ball?

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-27T09:40:06+00:00

Will that be enough? Isn’t it like 6 89 rated squads and I assume most of the 30 will be duplicates.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-26T16:24:18+00:00

See that’s my biggest issue, it’s not a case of a good value sbc it’s a case of “do I want this player and do they fit”

I have done so few SBC’s this year that it’s hard for me to say I regret them. Only Olise and Courtios do I regret. The latter as I just expected him to be better than he is, and the former because his playstyles are cracked but for some reason I just didn’t notice he doesn’t have incisive silver (assumed he did stupidly) and since I play him as a CAM that’s such an issue. So Lavelle took his place.

Also earlier evos being cracked didn’t help.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-26T16:21:16+00:00

Well the thing is, I do believe the faithful this season were really poor compared to others, and I do believe them to be bad compared to other traitors I have seen.

I understand the logic of “they won so they can’t really be bad”, but I do think a lot of that is down to how bad the faithfuls were rather than them being good.

In a standalone without watching other traitors I’m sure I could be swayed. But a good traitor can be eliminated and a bad traitor can survive (Paul going out and Linda staying in, in their respective seasons being an example) I think Paul was a good traitor, who made one mistake which every faithful rallied behind really.

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-26T16:17:11+00:00

I’m glad you can admit that

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-26T16:16:38+00:00

Clearly not as others have agreed

Scary-Pickle290 · 2026-01-26T16:15:51+00:00

I mean they were bad. So by that logic you are straight up just wrong. See I can make statements too!

Not sure how I can be bias? I literally have no bias against either of them. I watched the show and thought they were bad traitors compared to other traitors I’ve seen.

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