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Haha. Loooooooong old answers over there.
In fairness Dammit, motorbikes are so cheap you should buy a 916 (because you want one, you're sensible enough to take it easy and you'll look after it properly) AND a 250 enduro bike like a KX250X (or 125 two stroke if you're feeling brave.) That way you can shove it in the Vito and take it to the MX track or off road area and have a proper bike when you get there. Sorted.
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A lot of truth in this. Two or three bikes are what you want. Different bikes for different purposes. But if you get the aged 916 for Ā£6k, which seems to be the lowest price these days, budget Ā£4k for servicing and spares in yr 1. So the same money as a new Aprilia 660 https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/aprilia/rs660/2020/ which you would probably be faster and safer on, with infinitely less aggro.
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Really???? I ālearnedā on an RGV and bought a GSXR when I had a full licence. Thatās a while ago. Things have changed - I understand that car drivers still try to kill you but nowadays there are more killers behind the wheel.
I say that knowing, but not accepting, Iām an old C! (Rhymes with runtšš)
Biking is the only way to travel - it really is, excepting the death sentence.
Total honestly now - I have the funds to buy another bike (within reason), my wife does not object to a purchase at all. Nothing - no objection at all. She has no idea about riding - she was good friends with a local road racer who was killed in a race but she doesnāt equate this with road riding. I look at gumtree and dream. We have a daughter, she is 15, I work mad hours not by choice, normal week is 60 hours at the mo, that can rise to 84 very quickly. So I donāt see much of my wife or family at the best of times. Iām still a fucking mad teenager at heart BUT I do understand that I have responsibilities - my family. Me dead isnāt a great option, me in a wheelchair is actually worse so I dream. I still dream , but the balance of family and my own dreams is swayed by the death aspect.
Itās shit, I get that but itās not growing up - itās my responsibility to look after my wife and daughter so two wheels isnāt a safe idea. I canāt imagine me in a wheelchair because of some notion that I need to be back on two wheels.Long post, I know, but I know and I was at an accident where a rider ended up in a wheelchair with damage to his brain. His Blade had moss on it when recovered, I donāt really know what his family thought about the day or the accident but it had to have been horrific for them and they had the aftermath to suffer.
It isnāt a safe mode of transport - but itās the best by a very long way.In closing, I still smoke - no doubt someone will say that Iām on a road to disaster with a cancerous family history but itās a slow death - thatās my only way to balance two wheels with life. If a doc told me I had a month to live, Iād be at the bike shop rather quickly. That may sound very harsh but thatās how dangerous biking is.
To all who read all of this, please stay safe and be careful!!! Bikers know that being careful means not going out š
RIP Joey Dunlop - King of the Road
nick_h.
TGR
Re. The previous posts
See the bloody car thread for some answersšššš