Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

You know you want to!!
Also you London based? £700 is pretty steep. Fully comp?

@BrickMan

I used to run Pilot 4's on the old bike. Took a long time to warm up, so not keen on using them again. Also temperatures here even now hover around 13c at night with only a few days of rain a month, so looking for something a tad stickier.

Yes!!!
Yeah fully comp but South Coast - I suppose I'm comparing it to car insurance really. A guy at work said his is £92 for a 1000 fireblade and he's 23!

Fuk me.

I couldn't get 3rd party, fire and theft with my last provider as I'm based in Stockwell due to the theft part!

Yep love london

Dunlop are doing some good tyres but I do think tyres are a very personal choice.

I'm on the south coast too, my quotes were £200 upwards for fully comp on a battered 80's 600. Ended up going 3rd, F&T to save a few quid initially since I've got a few jobs to do on the bike.

Somewhere I can still have a coffee in the morning outside in a t-shirt without my nipples falling off and rolling under the fridge.
At the moment rolling on a friends gsxr till I get the bouncy bits on the SV sorted out. I'm really liking the look M7RR's. Seem to be geared towards the sticky without being too soft.

@Dramatic_Hammer Wut? How can he be riding unrestricted at 23? Also calling shite on the £92. Mates dad (50's) lives in the highlands and has a Ducati 1098 and it's still north of £200.

I'm on third party only simply because I've been bitten too many times by insurance. Then again, that's the London effect as Lynx mentioned.

'92 Blade is the original two wheeled porn star! Looks better in '93 colours though ...

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Had one for a bit, amazed how something that was originally a sports bike (widow maker?), makes a comfortable tourer.

Had a 929 that was a high miler 90,000 when I got it. Was fine as a bike.

I pay under £200 for an R80/7 in SW6. That's with a theft claim 4 years ago. It used to be around £120 Fully Comp before the theft of another bike. I'm old with lots of years without claiming though.

I think you get past the point where the bike matters, the damage you might do to a 3rd party doesn't vary much depending on vehicle so that's factored in. If you're commuting that would load the premiums a bit.

So seen the photos of the v4 ducati that went off roading?

Motorbikes in a DY postcode can be sub £100 and over 40. :(

929's seem to be amazing all rounders, but I've always dreamed of the 954. I think that might be my next bike.

Odd shaped pistons?

Yeah, mine is a fairly standard '92 model, and keeps up with much more modern sports bikes, but comfort-wise it's like an old pair of slippers. Great bike, and super reliable, especially when you consider that it's 26 years old now.

Got his license on the day the rules changed or something, loads of NCB and doesn’t commute on it so not loads of miles.
He also races on something but I’d have thought that’d make it worse.

I’ll check out 3rd party/f/t prices but I’m sort of assuming the lower the premium the safer the bike, which is a handy guide.

I'm imagining how much of a pain in the arse it was to make them seal properly. Everything about that bike screams vanity exotica. Like when camera makers do one off's that have functions on them wow'd at to this day.
The level of detail on that thing makes my eyeballs itch.

20,000 rpm and over 130bhp.

It did what it was supposed to do, win against the 2 stroke bikes. There is an NR engine cut open and it is an amazing technology wise. Vanity exotica....I say it is, but it did what it was designed to do.

Mega bikes the NR750s. The NR500 GP bikes they were sort of derived from never did win against the 2 strokes though - they got their arse handed to them by Yamaha. They gave up after a couple of seasons, then won almost first time out with Fast Freddie Spencer on the NS500.

Good work on the move! Have you said where yet?

All sticky rubber seems good these days - I've most recently run a mix of Pirelli Diablo Corsa (race) Fronts with Rosso Corsa (twin compound) rears and really like them. If you run soft rears on sports bikes and are even a bit heavy wristed, they wear out really quick. Especially on the shoulders.

If you're in London bike between 1980-2005 (I think) will be caught in the ULEZ.

Like bicycles old bikes will have worn parts, and a lot depends on how they have been looked after. A lot of stuff on a motorcycle is fairly simple and DIY, so you can fix things, but parts are much more expensive. For eg if you had to replace tyres and discs you could be looking at +£500 pretty quickly. Not to say there's anything wrong with with that, but a just budget for it.

Stick to the most common Jap bikes, so you have a wide range of new, 2nd hand, and clone parts. It's a pain having an uncommon bike where say the fork seals cost £100 a pop and their only available from a. Distributor
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Not in London so that’s ok. Fucked up that taxis are exempt and bikes aren’t though!
Makes sense about bits wearing, I’ve seen a lot of adverts talking about recently replaced cogs/tyres/pads. Mileage much, much lower than similar age cars though.

I whinged about bikes being caught in the ULEZ on TFL's consultation here ...

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/environment/air-quality-consultation-phase-3b/consultation/subpage.2017-11-29.7192468685/

My old Blade will definitely be caught in it, but they've got to read your plate to charge you!

That whole ULEZ thing boils my piss - it's just another regressive, poorly considered tax. If I still lived in Fitzrovia, I'd be paying over a hundred and fifty quid to make a few journeys a month on a low mileage, clean 2005 motorbike. Basically, if you're loaded you can sell and buy a new one. If not, you're fucked.

I was more hoping it might drop the price of K5 GSX-R1000 or an 04' ZX10R into almost affordable range...

8000 miles on the blackbird so first oil change. Took 30min and that includes cleaning the chain full and a check over.

What a reliable soild machine.

How have you done 8k miles already?