Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

I am not getting another bike.

I have ridden around 500 miles a year over the last past 10 years in London and never crossed the M25.

I get mad at the insurance renewable quote every year - prices go up & up while the cover goes down and down (went from fully comp to 3rd party only).

I'll be giving away the bike cover, Abus disc lock, battery charger, 2x helmets with the bike!

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Ah man that’s a shame...! There are some amazing roads just down the A23...

I was looking at these after I did my DAS last summer, a fella near me pulled up in a green one at my local Tesco garage and got off, he must have been 6ft 3 - the bike looked tiny!!

battery charger

Which one?

My optimate went missing when I put my bike in storage, so could be interested if you split.

Mad Max is on ITV.

Look at all those bubbles!!

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Optimate circa 2005 - definitely not worth posting as it was £35 back in the day!

Remember watching it as a kid and thinking the bikes were awesome. Still a savage good movie.

I would have contactless collected, but yeah if it's that old probably not worth it / easier to get an ebay one posted.

Touch wood, my Motobatt has held strong even though limited use after mini-H was born and now lockdown.

Picked this up last week - CBR650F - did 100 miles the first day, a lot more confidence inspiring than the Street Triple as a newbie rider.

I need to sell everything to fund it!

What don’t you like about the triple? I’m considering chopping my CBR600F in for something naked and lairy...

Atomic red triple for the cool factor ;)

Great chargers, if it is going begging ;) Can keep it till someone needs to borrow it. Forum charger.

Congrats and have fun.....

Please post a picture of the CBR600F!

I'm not sure, it just wasn't me and didn't feel it was confidence inspiring as a very new beginner 100+BHP is quite a lot, the delivery is much more choppy and the gearbox not as forgiving as than the inline 4 of a Honda (admittedly there's a huge reduction in bhp between the 2), found the suspension super soft (I'm 90kgs) so the handling wasn't as sharp as I thought it would be - admittedly it was a 2012 version with 49k on the clock. I found the seat height quite low (i'm 6ft 1) and being a naked its windy AF. The nail in the coffin was hot restarts, it just wouldn't start when above 4/5 bars hot. Made petrol stops a day out.

Funnily both my biker mates said get a CBR600F (one has a VFR800 the other a CBR600F)- something with fairings and narrow-ish for filtering, I didn't listen and wish I had...

That’s a great colourscheme. Reminds me of the old Erin Racing blades. Congrats!

Called Bikesure yesterday and got my insurance brokered for the DR350SE, and taxed it too. Aegis or whoever it is gives me 60 days to pass my full license, but most importantly it’s 90 days euro travel cover among other things. As far as the Mod2, the DVSA assures me it will happen by the 22nd July, though I don’t hold my breath.

Had a good chat with my instructor, and he’s waiting on his business insurance to get that all sorted so we can get back on the road.

Mechanics had a look over the bike today, apparently couldn’t find anything wrong with it. They had a quick test ride and said it was fine, and to put my mind at rest. Phew!!

To be honest I had a feeling it was okay. I’m not saying that I did but if I had taken it for a couple miles round the block this morning I may have noticed it was responsive, pulled like a train, and felt nimble and everything I hoped it would. But of course that’s only if I had taken it out, which I’m not saying I did.

good luck for the Mod2, its mad that you cant do it now, not like you are in a tin can with someone else, you are totally independent!
Not hard to wipe down the headset between tests either.

If you are confident on the 125, do regular lifesavers and turn your indicators off, you'll be fine on the big bike test.

Forgot what it is like to sell a motorbike - the low ball offers are rolling in on Gumtree!

Why do people do that? All prices are negotiable up to 15% ish - don't go lowballing at 50% off the asking price, giving me a list of issued I have provided in the description...

@Vince - you’d be better on MCN, Autotrader or eBay amazed anything actually sells on GT these days...

I'll wait until the next eBay wave of cheap listing fees and do that - thank you!

cheap listing fees

Usually excludes vehicles

Same people will low ball you.

Is there a owners club on facebook, or some yamaha owners?

Any Tiger 800 owners on here?

@Vince It's why I'm not even gonna bother selling mine. I tried a while back and I'd rather give the bloody thing for free to someone who deserves it. Wouldn't even call it low balling, it straight up murder.

Thing a friend bought one recently...shall ask so you can chat

Aye please. Bike prices are a bit nuts at the moment beyond the summer price hikes.
Multi 1100s are hens teeth.

Thanks! It must be a blanket thing across the whole DVSA, rather than a common sense thing why moto tests have been cancelled.

I’ll have refresher lesson(s) before the test to beat out the bad habits from months of riding 125 during lockdown.

Was quite glad for all the slippery green laning though; I was on the 125 in the rain earlier and tapped the rear brake on a bit of diesel I guess. Only about 35mph or so, but wet and potholed as hell bit of service road near the mechanics. Little bit too much brake pressure on the worst crack in the road. Bike absolutely crapped out underneath me as the back end fishtailed like crazy bouncing about. Sounded like the engine wanted to stall, but managed to keep it upright and get the revs back up as I smoothed everything out. Really felt like losing traction on glass, near identical feeling to the road tyres on wet trails.

Don’t fancy having that experience on the road ever again.