125 insurance?

I paid less than £500 fully comp, at the age of 17, on a YZF R125...he's being shafted!

£300 fully comp - Honda cbr125

£550 fully comp - Suzuki sv650s year 1

£220 fully comp - Suzuki sv650s year 2

Who Are you with milkus? Age? Im paying £620 tpft!

Originally Posted by Webber

Who Are you with milkus? Age? Im paying £620 tpft!

The broker is H&R insurance, the insurer is chaucer and I'm 23 with 1 years no claims. Live in sy8 which is rural so maybe a bit cheaper than city. Although I was paying £550 when I lived in exeter. I used 'bikeinsurer' - google it, it's a comparison website but very good

If you was to join the yzf-r125 forum you might understand the mentality of the typical r125 owner and you would understand why they are so expensive to insure. 95% of the owners seem to buy the bike for 4k insure it fully comp and crash it within a month. They then pop a message up on their forum saying " Oh ****z i crashed my bike! I iz well happy i iz fully comp init!" Then next year they realize there insurance is now 5 grand and they give up biking.

This is a true story and happens weekly

Originally Posted by ian505050

If you was to join the yzf-r125 forum you might understand the mentality of the typical r125 owner and you would understand why they are so expensive to insure. 95% of the owners seem to buy the bike for 4k insure it fully comp and crash it within a month. They then pop a message up on their forum saying " Oh ****z i crashed my bike! I iz well happy i iz fully comp init!" Then next year they realize there insurance is now 5 grand and they give up biking.

This is a true story and happens weekly

Good grief, that's depressing. What is it with R125 owners then? The NSR125 forum is full of helpful people who love their bikes and are happy to hang around and help out newbies even after they've traded up to CBR600s and the like.

Honda people are nicer than Yamaha people: discuss?

SV people seem alright anyway!

Originally Posted by DJFridge

Good grief, that's depressing. What is it with R125 owners then? The NSR125 forum is full of helpful people who love their bikes and are happy to hang around and help out newbies even after they've traded up to CBR600s and the like.

Honda people are nicer than Yamaha people: discuss?

SV people seem alright anyway!

The R125 appeals to all the wannabe Rossi's, just like the RS125 does. The RS125 requires a lot of maintenance and that's why you find them cheap, because they're shagged but 'got sik power init!'...until the piston breaks from not having a rebuild every x thousand miles.

The R125 looks good, and looks like a bigger bike from far away. One horror I saw was some nobber with a exhaust system on it, and removed the 2 and 5 decals so it read 'R1'. Except to anyone worth their bike knowledge, the single front brake and many other things closer surprises nobody.

The thing with the NSR125 is that they're not as well known for having 'sik power' and are older styled. The chavs don't like the look of them luckily and don't touch them as they're not as well known. You tend to get people who have a genuine interest in bikes and have done their research buying the NSR, and people appreciate this and look after the bikes.

Haha can't believe you'd remove the '2' and '5' decal. Although ingenious

Originally Posted by Scythe92

The thing with the NSR125 is that they're not as well known for having 'sik power' and are older styled. The chavs don't like the look of them luckily and don't touch them as they're not as well known. You tend to get people who have a genuine interest in bikes and have done their research buying the NSR, and people appreciate this and look after the bikes.

That's cheered me up no end. I bought the NSR as my first bike because it looked easy enough to maintain, and there was something wrong with the look of it's replacement, the CBR125, at the time. I think it was the feeble looking rear wheel - it looks like a moped - whereas the NSR had proper grownup bike proportions.

Or maybe I already had a "genuine interest in bikes" without even realising. Excellent!