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Old 22-08-11, 06:20 PM   #1
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Wink How to keep your bike clean.


Being off work for a couple of weeks I spent yesterday cleaning my pride and joy. Today I thought I'd go for a spin and trundled off to get petrol. Whilst there I thought 'I really want to go for a ride, but don't want to get the bike covered in bugs after spending hours polishing it'. (I do ride all year and it's not often the bike is so clean). So I had a brain wave and rode to the nearest dealer (2 miles) and enquired about a new Triumph 675. The dealer was great and handed me the keys to a pristine new machine and said 'please don't be longer than an hour'. Perfect.

I had an hour blast on a great bike and kept mine nice and clean.

The problem is now I'm very tempted. 0% finance, £2500 trade in for my SK6, and only £166 per month......Next stop Suzuki to try the GSXR.
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Old 22-08-11, 06:24 PM   #2
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... I thought you was going to say " put cling film over the nose of the bike .." then just peel off with the bugs later
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Old 22-08-11, 06:40 PM   #3
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Old 22-08-11, 06:48 PM   #4
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cough, 750 cough
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Old 22-08-11, 06:50 PM   #5
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Old 22-08-11, 07:11 PM   #6
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I was looking at the gsxr 750 earlier on the Suzuki website. Yum.

Nearly 10k tho brand new, bit much!
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Old 22-08-11, 07:12 PM   #7
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Maybe the duc 848. Sounds fab.
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Old 22-08-11, 07:46 PM   #8
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Triumph are offering 0% now ?
Trade has always been too good for them to need to.
The trouble with test riding bikes, you always want one of them
Thats why i dont test bikes for the hell of it, id be changing my bike all the time.
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Old 22-08-11, 08:01 PM   #9
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I sat on the gsxr600 and 750 today. Offered 2k trade in for mine, they're doing £1 off the price per cc during september and there's two years 0% finance. That was just from walking in and having a look. Said I could test ride the 600 and they could talk to their insurance company to see if I could get on the 750 too (have to be 25 or over to ride above 600cc, which means I can't test an sv, but I can the gixxer?!). Triumph are offering three years 0% compared to suzukis two however.
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Old 22-08-11, 08:29 PM   #10
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Sv Mad - Don't you dare. Keep your pride and joy as it gives me ideas of parts i want. Plus SV's are just amazing.

Need to go for a ride if your off!
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