First bike help
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Further info?
Price range?
Type of riding? commuting, fun, main transport etc
Where is it staying? Garage/Street
Where are you riding? Town/City/Rural
Self maintenance or dealer?
You seem to be drawn to 125cc sports bike styling; any particular reason?
The more info you can give, the better.
Price range?
Type of riding? commuting, fun, main transport etc
Where is it staying? Garage/Street
Where are you riding? Town/City/Rural
Self maintenance or dealer?
You seem to be drawn to 125cc sports bike styling; any particular reason?
The more info you can give, the better.
The Beaver King said:
Further info?
Price range?
Type of riding? commuting, fun, main transport etc
Where is it staying? Garage/Street
Where are you riding? Town/City/Rural
Self maintenance or dealer?
You seem to be drawn to 125cc sports bike styling; any particular reason?
The more info you can give, the better.
Hi thanks for the reply, price range is 1000 will just be for a local run about but mainly for work and back will be kept in my garage self maintenance and I just really like the sports look to them mate Price range?
Type of riding? commuting, fun, main transport etc
Where is it staying? Garage/Street
Where are you riding? Town/City/Rural
Self maintenance or dealer?
You seem to be drawn to 125cc sports bike styling; any particular reason?
The more info you can give, the better.
Like Fleegle said; that will have a reserve of around £2k. Even if he does accept lower, someone will snap his hand off before it hits your £1k budget.
I've never owned an Aprilia 125, so can't comment on that bike specifically. What I will say is that at around the £1k, you probably won't get a tidy 125. You'll either get a couple of year old Chinese bike that needs tidying up or a tired Japanese/Premium Marque that needs some work doing to it.
Unfortunately the market for 125cc bikes is strong and prices stay quite high for Honda/Yamaha/Aprilia/Suzuki 125 bikes; especially anything that has 'street cred'.
Your options are; increase your budget to circa £1,500 - £2,000 or buy a tired one and spend a bit of money doing it up. You'll learn about the bike and might even eventually sell it for the same price or minimal loss.
There is a third option though; quite a few dealers do 0% finance on 125 bikes. I know that Sutton Motorcycles (Honda) are doing it at the moment.
Hope that helps.
I've never owned an Aprilia 125, so can't comment on that bike specifically. What I will say is that at around the £1k, you probably won't get a tidy 125. You'll either get a couple of year old Chinese bike that needs tidying up or a tired Japanese/Premium Marque that needs some work doing to it.
Unfortunately the market for 125cc bikes is strong and prices stay quite high for Honda/Yamaha/Aprilia/Suzuki 125 bikes; especially anything that has 'street cred'.
Your options are; increase your budget to circa £1,500 - £2,000 or buy a tired one and spend a bit of money doing it up. You'll learn about the bike and might even eventually sell it for the same price or minimal loss.
There is a third option though; quite a few dealers do 0% finance on 125 bikes. I know that Sutton Motorcycles (Honda) are doing it at the moment.
Hope that helps.
Robsuarezwatson said:
Thanks for the advice think I might go for the aprilia just need a little more advice on that as I can't really stretch over the 1000 mark
Have you any experience of working on 2 strokes? These are temperamental little fookers and will frustrate you if you are unable to keep on top of the maintenance. They are quick for a 125 and great fun, but you will need deep pockets and a friendly mechanic if you are no good with spannersFleegle said:
Have you any experience of working on 2 strokes? These are temperamental little fookers and will frustrate you if you are unable to keep on top of the maintenance. They are quick for a 125 and great fun, but you will need deep pockets and a friendly mechanic if you are no good with spanners
Zero experience first bike but I no people who no there way around bikes but rather not have all these problems God I don't no what to go with...Robsuarezwatson said:
Zero experience first bike but I no people who no there way around bikes but rather not have all these problems God I don't no what to go with...
Don't get a 2 stroke then.. My opinion would be to get a Sinnis Apache/Pulse Adrenaline, easy to ride, maintain and I had loads of fun on mine.
Robsuarezwatson said:
I will check them out and see if there's any on ebay
You should be able to get a relatively new one in your budget, in my opinion (Have to say that on here..) they are a perfect first bike as they are cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and they can withstand they abuse it will be given! Here was mine, I actually really miss it
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