Good, Cheap Winter Hacks?

[Mej]

Thinking about getting one for the winter, lay up the KTM.

Want something fairly reliable, and also something i wont have to do much to.

£1000-1500 max.

So far:

Old Naked SV650
Thundercat/ace
KLR650
RF900 or 600

Any suggestions or recommendations??

cheers

[mikerj]

A Honda, just for it's ability to resist dissolving. You could do worse than a VFR750. Or perhaps an NTV650 - no chain to lube/replace and they go on forever.

The KLR might be more useful if it snows though (and you have knobblies)

[yorkie_chris]

Any of the above really... depends how many miles you do

A faired curvy SV to keep the cold wind off?

Or even a higher mileage pointy?

[Mej]

hmmm, like the idea of the VFR

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/bi...R-NXGN-7551598

this one dont look too bad.

Enduro for the winter.
If you drop it, you can replace all plastics for about £100 and you can use it on the lanes etc too.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by speedplay

Enduro for the winter.

Definite winner - if I was going to commute in the winter thats the way I would go

chituma CTM125-c

Bought it for £100, did me a whole winter , it did like 600,000mpg aswell

sitting in my garage now with a bent swingarm....not entirely sure how it happened as it was never crashed or dropped

950SM surely?

[Jayneflakes]

I bought a Yamaha XJ for the daily commute, however now that the weather has turned chilly, the little ****er wont ****ing Start!

The battery seems a little short of charge too!

It left me stranded in the car park outside work the other day, which was most embarrassing because it was only my second day working there! After giving it a good kicking, it started again! so I now know how to fix a Yamaha XJ, give it a damn good shoeing!