First bike advice

Hey guys was wondering if anyone can shed some light on buying your first bike, or more specifically my daughter buying her first scooter, she,s 16 and has a job working in McDonalds until she starts college in sept, she,s making not bad for money for a 16 yrd old and wants her first set of wheels, I know she can have a scoot at 16 and that the max capacity is 50 cc but is there anything else she needs to know, have etc ?
Cheers
btw thinking of going halves on it with her so Ill be able to go on rideouts again, I mean I was always at the back anyway wasnt I ?

[yorkie_chris]

Consider waiting until she is 17 for 125.

Buy carefully, scooters get ragged by every ignorant feckless kn*b who owns one so there's a lot of lemons about.

Thats a thought Chris, she,ll be 17 in november, cheers mate

YZF-R 125

or

BWs 125

Cheap as chips finance.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by The Guru

YZF-R 125

or

BWs 125

Cheap as chips finance.

Idiocy.

[timwilky]

My advice is dont try to ride the thing, you will scare the poo out of yourself, awful brakes, awful handling and not enough power to get out of trouble.

That aside, Obviously she has to do a CBT, probably worthwhile arranging with riding school for her to do the CBT on her own bike/ped. Cheaper, starts on day one learning to ride what she will be riding so no having to learn different handling/control etc.

Im a bit rusty on the whole cbt thing, can she ride her ped before doing he cbt or does she need to do the cbt first ?

[yorkie_chris]

No you need CBT before you can ride on the road at all

Yeah thought so, saying that Id rather she got proper advice and training before going out on the road anyway

[yorkie_chris]

I'd definitely advise learning how to ride a bike first, like round car park.