Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

I’ve heard that Honda will provide a CoC free of charge for older bikes that exempts them. Triumph apparently do so too...

expands the search to include pre 2007 CBR and Daytona 650

I think you are correct. Thanks!

https://www.honda.co.uk/motorcycles/my-bike/certificate-conformity.html

Maybe I should just buy my Dad's hornet 900 afterall

This is incredible news. Though I may have to pay up for my ‘96 Triumph, apparently.

Yeah, I bloody well saw that. I don't want to talk about Daytonas anymore. I just can't handle looking at them without a deep romantic longing.

Also, for those wanting to contend the ULEZ. Check your V5 under Nox and check the number.

I did more reading about this and a Suzuki Certificate of Conformity is £95.

Link here for those interested:
https://bikes.suzuki.co.uk/media/11851/online-coc-application-ed-amended-12122018.pdf

I just can't handle looking at them without a deep romantic longing.

Enough to get the train to Anstruther and ride it back the 350 miles?

I'm getting frustrated with there being literally nothing that I would actually want to ride let alone own for sub £3k
Yesterday whilst waxing her legs*, my Mrs suggested that I should just up the budget to £3k+ and that I'm only young once so I should buy a red sports bike

*perhaps it was the pain talking

£3k+ sounds like £8k which would get you a used Panigale ....

DO IT.

Ducati 1098

my Mrs suggested that I should just up the budget to £3k+ and that I'm only young once so I should buy a red sports bike

Finally someone talking sense. Sounds like a keeper.

Ha guys. Whilst 8 grand is indeed £3k+, you're not wrong, I'd like to still spend as little as possible and that means 3k plus a couple hundred, not thousand :)

You're not doing this right...

Yeah but
£3.5k

Yeah but
£7,999

Apparently, if your V5 already has the output written on it, you don't need the certificate.

@PhilDAS Sub £3k I'll just stick with my SV. Personally, around £5k starts getting interesting for me.

Would like a go on a twin. Let’s see your SV again

My mate sold his 899 Panigale to buy an MT09 SP after 3 months

This £3k+ chat hurts my classic CBRs feelings. Mind you the warm weather seems to have pumped all prices up.

£3.5K goes a lot further in the winter. Maybe a little more required now but it was a sweet spot for value a few years ago. Bear in mind a small negotiation is not unheard of in motorbike sales :)

Any idea why?

I've had an MT09 (and have a Tracer 900 with the same engine now) and ridden an 899. The 899 is so much nicer to ride as a Sunday sports bike. Feels special.

Totally understand if they were after something for the commute...

Our group now only has one rider on a sports bike, we all ride MT10 / MT09 / Street Triple and he rode an MT09 SP and found it easier to ride fast than the 899 - he was continually being dropped before - bit embarrassing for him with 35bhp more on an Italian thoroughbred superbike.

Yes they do feel and sound very special but I think it was an itch he needed to scratch rather than something to live with long term. Ironically he's sold it a month before the group head over to mainland Europe on an 8 day / 2,000 mile trip incorporating Italy!

Most of our rides are 250-350 mile days - blasts of fast A and B roads and I think the idea of 8 days of them on the Panigale were enough for him to get rid

Having followed him since he got the MT09 SP he's definitely quicker and more confident

I also have an MT09 and they're a cracking all round bike once the suspension is binned and replaced, aren't many bikes that'll lose it in the real world

NOx=0.180

If the NOx levels are below the prescribed level of 0.15g/km, there’s no charge.

Well, that didn't work...

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Whatever that is my diesel van has better figures for all the emissions and it's only Euro5!