Best Comunting bike?

also how tall are you as this will effect ideas for certain bikes eg i look like a pleb on the wifes gz 125 (shut it speedplay)





ps rob change that avatar its freaky and off putting

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by speedplay

In the OP he mentions selling his car.

So the maintainance/insurance is already there.

The insurance would probably be cheaper if you add it to an existing bike policy anyway.

Theres always the option of selling both the car and the sv and getting a VFR or GS etc...

Agreed, but if the run is all of 20 miles then why not the SV650S...and save a lot on no car or other bike...

Like the idea of a VFR or similar (shaft drive maybe) or as edited in my above post what about a riser bar kit for the sv the OP has already?

Originally Posted by davepreston

i look like a pleb on the wifes gz 125

Was about to answer...

Originally Posted by davepreston

(shut it speedplay)

Bugger

Originally Posted by davepreston

ps rob change that avatar its freaky and off putting

You love it

[Nick_69]

Originally Posted by kaivalagi

Agreed, but if the run is all of 20 miles then why not the SV650S...and save a lot on no car or other bike...

Like the idea of a VFR or similar (shaft drive maybe) or as edited in my above post what about a riser bar kit for the sv the OP has already?

Well ive got a SV650S k9 and i rele to keep it looking nice still and its not that comfy.

Im 5ft 11in ive been looking at kawaski versys

if its just a hack your looking for a er6 possibly or as said the blandit or a dullsville ,

[yorkie_chris]

How far is the commute?

As a tool I would consider a Maxi scooter, either the Burgman

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...es?logcode=flp

or a silverwing

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...91bn?logcode=p

Very comfortable, good visibility, excellent weather protection, low body maintenance, good storage, decent residuals, brisk enough etc etc...

My FIL has a '09 silverwing and my instructor had x2 '01 silverwings one of which has over 100k miles and is still going strong. It has even been stolen and recovered twice and found in a stream the second time. He never really services it properly as and when it 'feels' like it needs one it goes in and still it strides on...

Dullsville. Had one myself as a winter hack. It gets you to and from work, it still stops you getting stuck in traffic. It's shaft drive (virtually no maintenance). Has built in panniers for your sandwiches and work clothes. Does over 200 miles on a tank easy, tyres last for ever. Has good protection and if you get one with a touring screen, no wind blast at all. Has a rock solid engine. Get a topbox for it and your good to go.

I've gone to distant meetings on it. Had my suit in the topbox and other bits and pieces in the panniers (shoes n'stuff). Did a quick change in the carpark when I got there. All my bike gear went in the panniers and topbox and no one would have known I had just driven a motorcycle there.

Originally Posted by Andrew's

As a tool I would consider a Maxi scooter, either the Burgman


or a silverwing

Very comfortable, good visibility, excellent weather protection, low body maintenance, good storage, decent residuals, brisk enough etc etc...

Who TF are you?!

Think your on the wrong forum mate...

[embee]

Originally Posted by Stig

Dullsville. Had one myself as a winter hack. It gets you to and from work, ................I've gone to distant meetings on it. Had my suit in the topbox and other bits and pieces in the panniers (shoes n'stuff).

Another satisfied Deau owner here. No ball of fire but a lot better than some journos would have you believe. Only one or 2 slight niggles to watch out for, but broadly speaking they're bomb-proof. A couple of couriers on the owners' forum have had 3 or more of them doing 150k hard use.

You can pick up very tidy 650 (carb) versions for a couple of k, 3k will get you a nice 700 (FI+ABS).