Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Dude - get something like a cosmetically challenged (but mechanically sorted) old 929 Blade or 04+ GSXR750. Reliable. Fast as you'll ever need, way more chilled for a long distance blat to the south of France than a 600 and still the nuts in the twisties. If it looks tatty and is 10+ yrs old, chances of it getting lifted are way lower.

K3 GSXR Thous are also awesome and go for peanuts these days. Genuine do everything bikes.

Gixxres bring all the boys/gals to the yard. Moths to a flame here now and it doesn't matter how old. They attract a certain type of scum rimmed shit sacks so might not be a wise move till I move out of town.
Thousands are out as well. I know they'll have the legs to lope around country, but I quite like not spending ten minutes at a forecourt wondering if there an actual leak in the tank.
750 would be perfect, but pushes the £ a bit.

The 600rr is £2k and the striple I want to test ride is £2.5. FZ6 is around £1.7k. Most 750's hang around the £3k+
If I can get a garage sorted, budget will go up, but it stays low for the time being.

What about a fazer or a hornet @Chak ? Hornet is a de-tuned cbr600 engine right? And either will be less desirable to thiefs than a sports bike especially if you get a cosmetically tired one.

Failed MOT yesterday. One of the rear indicators had blown - managed to get a replacement bulb but then they all stopped working. I'm not good at motorbike maintenance or electrics so no idea where to start and not sure I want to. Booked in for it to get sorted and re-tested next weekend, rear tyre needs doing anyway so getting that replaced as well. Shame as riding over to the garage was an absolute hoot and I was excited to be back of the road after not riding since last summer.

Sad TM

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Yes fam! Two wheels good man. Electricals are a bitch, but might just be a shorted fuse or relay. Get it sorted and get on that damned thing again.
This guy is YT famous, but he sure as shit can shred
his CB. Love the way you can go all out throttle without having to worry about losing it.

All in all, tempted by a 04+ FZ6. They're basically detuned R6 engines and can hold their own pretty well.

Yeah seen that guy before, they are fun bikes to ride because you can rag them without it getting too out of hand (which I think is perfect for the UK roads and police/speed trap presence)

The mechanic I use, used to race them, and tried to buy it off me yesterday. Can't say I wasn't tempted as fancy a fazer or cb600 myself but have sunk a bit of money into the CB and wouldn't re-coup, also aforementioned reasons and I enjoy the bike - even like it's look.

Are you in London? I've always fancied a CB500 so do shout if you ever decide to part with it.

Ha - love that. My mate raced one for a minute back when the CB500 cup was running in the late Paleolithic era. Race compound Bt90s, Micron zorst and rearsets. Very handy on a twisty B road. I could just about get away from him on my 350ypvs but it was very close. (And a lot of fun!)

I am in Yorkshire, and judging by the seeming scarceness of these that aren't knackered and the amount I've sunk into it I'll either just keep it or keep it until it's worth as much as another bike I want.

Bang on. That's pretty much what I want, as sorta do it all bike I can get off at the end of the day and still be smiling as opposed to being in arse agony. It's why this has me hooked. That noise though, and that's minus the induction roar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76kS-Jr2R_I

@TM don't even bother selling, even the knackered kickers are creeping up above 1.5k.

I'd totally have a street or speed triple. They were kind of the inspiration to throw half my current bike away. Bit of a shed but it's still the proverbial blunt instrument. (And not been nicked yet)

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Ain't that the same bike you had to service the suspension on a weekly basis because you kept launching off kerbs with?

Had a go on a hornet today, it was really good.

Neighbour just knocked on my door in a flap; she'd just chased off five kids trying to steal my Vespa. They've ripped off the horncover to get at the wiring loom and start it. Apparently her husband grabbed one as they ran and he mockingly said "I'm 13, you can't touch me."

Sick of it. Just want to sell it now, but it's in no state to sell now.

Err it was a particular crest Got in the habit of jumping on the way back from work. Going a different route now to avoid the temptation! :)

In other news, I've done another bike buying quintessential no and bought a non-running, ex Baja 1000 race bike. To make matters worse, it came untied and fell off my van on the way back. Fortunately at very low speed. Doh.

Going to try and get it running today.

Little cunts. I forget how lucky I am to have a garage and live on a quiet cul de sac.

We've got a "secure" car park. They can get wherever they want to, though - they're like rats.

National Motorcycle Museum in Brum this morning - wall to wall Brough Superiors, Black Shadows, square fours etc. Highly recommended. New trumpets a bit of a scallywag, 90 to 110 in about .0001 of a second, do hope I don't get any troublesome letters through the post.
Still prefer carbs to injection though.

That's grim, are you able to lock it to something solid with a serious chain? Almax/Pragmasis can be petrol grindered but battery grinders will struggle and bolt cutters won't work. They may not deter a serious effort but I'd hope they'd keep kids off it. The issue then is they may be tempted to wreck the bike to spite you.

It's locked to a ground anchor with a not-fancy chain.

So they came in again. Neighbour chased them again. I called police, they found two of them. I just walked down to the park with my neighbour who confirmed they were involved. Police say they can't do much as it won't stick.

Kill them

(With words)

(Words on a bat)

My Polish neighbour was furious. Same kids have smashed his car window four times. His wife said she buys side windows as spares now, and doesn't even call police anymore.