after a break from biking for about 12 years my divorce came through & I had a small amount of cash that i decided to get back into biking with... bout £4k
I had started to commute from Portsmouth to Cornwall at weekends but as not riden for long time was looking at a Deauville!!
a friend of a friend's dad was selling his 2002 600. i was told it was a good clean bike and would suit me to a T for £1550, I offered £1400 he countered with £1500 plus MOT & new front tyre, SOLD, transferred money to his account then caught train up to Orpington and rode it back to Portsmouth!! remember I'd not seen the bike or even sat on 1 for 12 years!!
it is the perfect bike .. for me!
plus biking faternity at work when i mentioned deauville were very disparaging but couldn't agree what to recommend, when I turned up on Fazer all said Perfect I had one of those,, and all wanted to test ride it!!!