First bike advice

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by metalangel

Nobody is fooled by that 'R6' with L plates and a tire narrower than a shopping cart's.

Unless you sell insurance

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Unless you sell insurance

yup agreed

Going to take her out later and have a look at a couple, thinking of buying it myself and putting her on the insurance that way I can use it for work at night and she can use it for work during the day, think she wants a scoot to get used to the road on first then maybe move up to a bike later, she,s been on the back of my various bikes, thats when I had one so maybe looking at a new ORG member for the future

Well, took her to a few shops seling both scoots and bikes, she wants a bike, yay, just gotta work out something to suit

Originally Posted by stewie

Well, took her to a few shops seling both scoots and bikes, she wants a bike, yay, just gotta work out something to suit

Get her on a direct access (restricted) course and she can have a 33bhp SV!

Originally Posted by TazDaz

Get her on a direct access (restricted) course and she can have a 33bhp SV!

/Thread.

Originally Posted by stewie

Well, took her to a few shops seling both scoots and bikes, she wants a bike, yay, just gotta work out something to suit

If you want to get one dirt cheap, buy a complete ratter of a 125 and drop it at my house to sort out with a full going over for just the cost of parts + biscuits

[christopher]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Am I reading right on the net that the list for a YZF125 is FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS?
What sort of lunatic is paying that to own a bike for 6 months?

Me

Well not quite. I bought one at list price (£3000) as my first bike coming up to 2 years ago... sold it 8 months later for a couple of hundred quid less than I paid. The list price by then had increased to £3300 (an expected rise) so worked out well for me.

Saying that, I had 2 of them. The first one was written off within a month when a car pulled out on me (fully comprehensive insurance, had new bike within 2 weeks and a hire bike for the time in between, claim went through successfully with me at no fault).

Was pretty much only fairing damage, expensive bits of plastic they are. If are even slightly thinking about one then unless you don't mind losing £3000 I'd advise you to factor in fully comprehensive insurance.

Originally Posted by Neeja

If you want to get one dirt cheap, buy a complete ratter of a 125 and drop it at my house to sort out with a full going over for just the cost of parts + biscuits

Thanks for the offer Chris may take you up on it yet

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by christopher

... for a couple of hundred quid less than I paid.

So it cost you the full price of a 125 then?

See for sale section where jayneflakes was selling a CG for £300... rag the NUTS out of it for a year, flat out everywhere, fall off a bit... and it will still be worth £300 when you're done...