Originally Posted by cartwrim

Well, I went in to my local Suzi dealer yesterday after work and sat on the beast (the gixxer 600). First thing I noticed was how different it felt to pick up off the side stand -absolutely amazing! It feels like there is nothing to it even though it is not really that much lighter than the SV. It also felt rock solid!

The dealer offered me £1800 for my SV which I was pleasantly surprised with, that was against an OTR price of £6100 for the gixxer (no alarm or other extras). A £300 deposit would mean taking £4000 finance to cover the difference so I went home to discuss that with SWMBO.

Didn't go well. 'We' have now decided that now is not the time to take out (another) loan for a motorbike and thus I will not be getting one Nor any other bike costing more than I could sell my SV for by the sounds of it!

Oh well, back to dreaming for me!

In fairness we are getting married in 2 weeks time (which is costing a fortune!) and we need to buy a house later in the year so it probably is wise to leave it for the time being and wait a year or two until I can really afford it. But I do really want a black gixxer after sitting on one!