Trading in a bike - to service or not to service....that is the question.

[unfazed]

I think for £2500 it is a good bike.......like i say based on what i paid it isnt quite worth doing all the work......ok so i can pick up a tank pretty cheap and the bellypan isnt essential......the starting glitch i can get sorted out.......but no i think it's true that ill bever quite be happy.

Admit it you either bought the wrong model 1000 or you secretly really miss the 600 

[noggythenog]

I think for £2500 it is a good bike.......like i say based on what i paid it isnt quite worth doing all the work......ok so i can pick up a tank pretty cheap and the bellypan isnt essential......the starting glitch i can get sorted out.......but no i think it's true that ill bever quite be happy.

Admit it you either bought the wrong model 1000 or you secretly really miss the 600 

Actually i really do miss my old boxeye......before i crashed it though......it was a nice bike but it would have been a shame not to have tried something else....just to see.


i know what i want now.


No frills


[size=78%]Small capacity[/size]


Something chuckable


Fuel injection

[ChristoT]

2008 CBR6? According to MCN readers, the best handling bike! Or sticking with Yams - R6?

[noggythenog]

2008 CBR6? According to MCN readers, the best handling bike! Or sticking with Yams - R6?

No mate


Sports bikes arent required down here.


Im after an MT07


At a push maybe even an MT03.......although i think the 03 might lack a little oomph since i usually cruise at 80 and it tops out at 100.......but i think it could stay at 80 all day long, even round the tightest corners as it supposedly handles like a dream.


But the 07 is the perfect sounding compromise for me......just need to keep scraping up the pennies.

[ChristoT]

Or will you never be happy? There was a rose-tinted glasses phase with your Thou, if you read back.

[Hedgetrimmer]

Or will you never be happy? There was a rose-tinted glasses phase with your Thou, if you read back.

Oi, if Noggy's got those, he stole em! He ain't old enough for NHS-issue rose-tinted specs yet 

[noggythenog]

I think it's easy to kid yourself sometimes and hey the thou is hardly a bad bike is it......im glad ive felt that rush of speed otherwise id always be curious about it.....but now ive felt it i reckon i can go smaller without compromising fun time.....& by going smaller i can get something that is easier to chuck around the welsh twisties.


We will see....too wet and windy to ride any bike at the moment for me so more time to mooch around and do some tyre kicking