Cheap cars but why not bikes?

[Barry Cade]

Horses for courses though surely . A pegaso was never designed to that sort of continuous speed .

 

"My gsxr1000 makes my wrists hurt at less than 30mph "

 

"My Tdm850 is too tall for me "

 

"My Rd500 costs too much to run "

Etc etc

Loved the bike though- bought a BMW when I came home and sold the Peg, but miss it still. One bike cannot be everything to all men. I disliked the VFR I had which is supposed to be the closest...

[twosmoke300]

Agree with the vfr. Dull dull dull . What Honda do best .

[Jerzy Woking]

I had a number of MZ Skorpians which were used for my 120 mile daily commute (mostly motorway and dual carriageway). The 5 valve Yamaha engine was easily tuned, the chassis was brilliant (very very similar to the TIG craft race frame) and they were cheap back then.

 

Also had the Baghira - great bike. Mine did 13,000 in six months commuting through a winter on salt laden roads and it survived without any corrosion. Yamaha 660cc engine, KTM radiators and front light, Acerbis plastics, BMW switchgear, and many other parts sourced from other manafacturers. Great for hooning around on too - not a "proper" supermoto of course (way too heavy), but then servicing was at 6,000 miles, not 500 miles as my XR650R needed.

 

Won't have another big single though - much prefer my vee twins now.

[twosmoke300]

Boring fact time . A large part of ktm's income comes from radiator manufacture . My wives pegaso had a Ktm rad .

[purplebargeken]

My new in the day M reg MuZ 301 was the most fuckingly twatish unreliable bike in the entire universe. I still hate it.

[Eddie Honda]

Wasn't that the dodgy Kanuni Turkish effort Ken? Serves you right if it was!

[strangeangel]

Want to sell it?

 

 

Not just at the moment, I'm planning to hang onto it for next year's tour (wherever that may end up being). I fancy trying a conventional bike at some point, though, so if I can turn up a reasonably priced Deauville or similar you never know!

[PiperCub]

Dullvilles do turn up reasonably frequently but beware ex-despatch hacks tarted up with better bodywork and clocked back esp. if you are near a major city.

[John F]

There's a 1970 MZ ES250/2 Trophy up for graps on eBay for £400 with just over 1 day to run:

 

 

The bike appears to be an import as it comes with NOVA certification.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MZ-ES250-2-Trophy-1970-for-restoration-/291646117911?hash=item43e7769817:g:yLwAAOSwNyFWfEJU

[Tamworthbay]

Agree with the vfr. Dull dull dull . What Honda do best .

I loved mine, it was the first model and the best in my opinion. At the time I was doing about 25000 miles a year with a club and was away at least every other weekend. My gsxr1100 was more fun but only for a while, with the vfr I could ride from the Midlands to the Spanish border and still enjoy the twisties at the end, only Mad Marvin on his FJ1200 was the same. All the guys on gixxers, cbrs and fartbloods just wanted to sit in a dark place for a while. METZELER comp Ks were the key as they transformed the roadholding. The rear only lasted about 3-4000 miles though so cost me a fortune.

[Monkeh]

As for Cheap Chinese shit? They aren't that bad, or good. My 06 F'kinroad 125cc fell apart last year. Bought as a non runner with siezed valves, hooked car battery up and liberal hammer action with start ya bastard applied, got it running for a year. Sold for spares to some mug in Tewkesbury who vowed to get it running... (vehiclecheck shows its still of the road 18 months after sale)

My pulse lightspeed aka blue turd was bought for £950 brand spankers on the road registered! And the quality was better, the plastics had gone from takeaway container to Mr choo's special waste paper bin plastic. I put nearly 5000kms on it, nothing broke majorly, except perishing rubbers. But me being me was on top of it before things ever got terminal. It was difficult to sell it, scumtree and ebay time-wasting fuckfaces, it's a gift scammers, it took 2 months to shift it.

[Jazoli]

Anyone selling some bikeshite oop north? any capacity above 125cc will do, the floods have closed every bridge near me but one, my usual 20 minute commute is now taking me 90 minutes, with the last 2 miles taking over an hour, its going to be months before the situation improves so I need 2 wheeled transport, I knew I shouldn't have got rid of all my bikes last year

[hairnet]

buy my bimmer - make me offer

 

ignore price quoted

[UltraWomble]

I ended up picking this up  - the SYM Dismally 50....

 

Not really what I wanted, but was cheap enough. Its slow, and has a tendency to flood when cold, so starting it is a bit of an imprecise science at the moment. I may luz it into the local dealers for a service but really if I can live with it till September I have a cunning plan - take it for its MOT and then report back to the trouble and strife that it has failed miserably and that I have been given a GR9 P/X deal on a maxi-scoot....

[wuvvum]

I had one of those Syms a couple of years ago - they really are gutless.  Mine was pretty reliable though to be fair, and much better built than any of the Chinese crap I've owned.

[Jazoli]

buy my bimmer - make me offer

 

ignore price quoted

 

My budget is a third of your asking price so I won't insult you

[fordperv]

My RF600 was a cheap bike, mrs fp bought it for me as a project so it would kick start me to get back on a bike as I used to love 125's, I don't currently have a big boy licence because of laziness so she is lay in wait under a cover, but I've told myself when the weather pics up a little I've got to get it done, the thing that surprised me is the insurance, for just passed a gsxr600 would have been £500, the rf £230

 

This is what I did to it

 

 

With everything I've done to it and the cost of the bike it owes under £600 there's still little bits to do like replace the chain and fork seals as a precaution, but they can wait until I've got a licence