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@Wingedangel
It is a baby kettle....the big one is the 75o, though this is a nice bike, really reliable, and dead old school, and will hold it's value, nice...
as Villian says, get some training ...and don't be tempted to go anywhere until you have been here there and everywhere on your cbt 125 for about a month...
withouy being all doom filled...one slip of the throttle will have you highsiding and fucking yourself up and the bike proper...it will take about 1.5 seconds and you won't know what the fuck happened...
I learned to ride a bike on my mates farm when I was a kid, they had horses and cows and pigs, and I nagged my dad to get me a bike to go round the fields on, I have to say they were the most enjoyable days of my life riding a bike, it was an honda xl125 that was stolen recovered and as with everything we ever got near as children my dad made me strip it down and rebuild it before I could have a go on it...it needed a new head as the cams used to wear terribly the points were attched directly to the end of the camshaft so if that went sloppy evrything stopped..
anyhow...whizzing round the field and the spinney without a helmet was the tits, and when It came to leave school and get a 50...fuck..it was horrible...
I never understood why the put learners on those fuckign horrible 50's that were available in the early nineties, they were fucking shocking...the easiest way to get killed...you had no power to get out of trouble if it came your way...and other road users got really pissed off with you holding the traffic up at 30mph...
the irony was a 15 years old fizzer could top out at 50...and go up hils with out needing a wind and a donkey to pull you...
though Dron... on a lighter note...thats a really nice set of wheels so well done, go safely, and enjoy riding it...get some training and experience though really really do...thats a lot of bike to make even a very small mistake on...