Cost of restricting

A friend of mine wants to get an Intruder, Dragstar or Shadow after doing her CBT tomorrow. If she gets a 250cc or, god forbid, bigger does anyone have a rough estimate what the cost of getting one of these bikes restricted would be? Also anyone any experience/recommendation with these bikes

I'm sure someone else will be along to confirm this, or say I'm wrong.

I believe after a CBT you can only ride a 125cc no higher than 14bhp, on L plates.

So she can't get a 250 and restrict it.

Hmm looks like your right, oh well 125 cruiser it is

Originally Posted by ***Steve***

Hmm looks like your right, oh well 125 cruiser it is

My sister had a 125 Intruder. Looked lots better than the cheapo single cylinder Maurauder.

[northwind]

125 Virago was better than you'd think, too... Way better than the Dragstar- about 30 kilos lighter, more ground clearance, and it looks like a real bike, not a caricature of one. Still about as fast as climate change, but that's OK. I loved mine, even though it was permanently broken down. Only trouble is, the newest ones are about 4 years old now, and the build quality's not fantastic.

Absoultely not, under any circumstances, the Gilera Coguar. When Gilera got rid of the disasterous electrics and dodgy handling from the DNAs, they had all this bad biking karma floating about the factory causing trouble- so they designed the Coguar specifically to be the saggiest, most ill-designed, least reliable ****box they could, in order to act as a lightning rod.

Originally Posted by northwind

125 Virago was better than you'd think, too... Way better than the Dragstar- about 30 kilos lighter, more ground clearance, and it looks like a real bike, not a caricature of one. Still about as fast as climate change, but that's OK. I loved mine, even though it was permanently broken down. Only trouble is, the newest ones are about 4 years old now, and the build quality's not fantastic.

Yeah the Virago was nice but the main priority has to be reliability/build quality as it's going to be a winter commuter for her. It's about an 8 mile stop/start round trip to work so top speed isn't so important. Bearing that in mind I'm inclined to go for the Honda just because of their reputation for starting first time every time. If only you could restict on a CBT liscence then she could get a Honda Rune and I could have a go on it

[northwind]

Ah. Most of the cruisers aren't up to much for winter use, too much cheap chrome. The shadow 125 doesn't seem to be as well put together as you'd think, by the way- one fo the guys at my work has one, and it's a festering heap after 10,000 miles (and it's garaged).

yea, you cant have anything bigger than a 14hp 125cc bike on a cbt,
on restricted access license you can have any bike with a hp figure of 33hp, for 2 years
or you can take DAS after the age of 21

Originally Posted by ***Steve***

has to be reliability/build quality as it's going to be a winter commuter for her. It's about an 8 mile stop/start round trip to work so top speed isn't so important. Bearing that in mind I'm inclined to go for the Honda just because of their reputation for starting first time every time. If only you could restict on a CBT liscence then she could get a Honda Rune and I could have a go on it

125 Varadero. Cracking, looks like a big bike.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by northwind

Absoultely not, under any circumstances, the Gilera Coguar. When Gilera got rid of the disasterous electrics and dodgy handling from the DNAs, they had all this bad biking karma floating about the factory causing trouble- so they designed the Coguar specifically to be the saggiest, most ill-designed, least reliable ****box they could, in order to act as a lightning rod.

Where were you last year when that was my choice after a ped
No real problems though, except the exhaust studs broke, and I learned that if you doon't lube & adjust the chain it eventually spins round the sprockets
Oh and all the light bulbs stopped working one after the other

That looks fab Dr Rich How much? - and vTwin so good while being restricted?