Anyone Buying New Bikes Now?

[KobayashiMaru86]

All seems a bit quiet. I'm looking at possibly September for a second bike as I want some time to test a few things but noticing I'm not seeing many new bikes about or much chat here about them. Is anyone buying new? If so, what? If only to give me ideas. Want to test some Hondas and maybe a Ducati next week. Tested some Triumphs Saturday and unsurprisingly, having owned one for 6yrs got on well with them. Bikes seem to be getting far more refined all the time.

[STe_rsv4]

Not at litre bike money I'm not.
My bike is a toy that spends 95% of its life sitting in a garage, there's no way I'm paying £23K for something that may cost £500 every time it makes an appearance

[Condi]

STe_rsv4 said:

Not at litre bike money I'm not.
My bike is a toy that spends 95% of its life sitting in a garage, there's no way I'm paying £23K for something that may cost £500 every time it makes an appearance

Fair point, but the new Honda Hornet is £9,099.

That's the equivalent to £6500 in 2015.

An absolute bargain really, I doubt you'd have found anything like that for £6500 10 years ago.

[Dark Side]

I've just pushed the button on a new XSR 900 GP. I got a great Px which prehaps reflects a slow market.

[Neal H]

Tiger Sport 800 delivered a couple of weeks ago. I'm doing my bit to help dealers stay in business

[KobayashiMaru86]

Neal H said:

Tiger Sport 800 delivered a couple of weeks ago. I'm doing my bit to help dealers stay in business

Nice. I rode one the weekend. Handles really sweetly, plenty of go and great at filtering. I'm debating one as a commuter and save the RS for fun. Or I go the other way and get something silly while I can.

[T6 vanman]

I filled an empty space in the garage with this

£500 per outing is probably about right

[STe_rsv4]

Condi said:

STe_rsv4 said:

Not at litre bike money I'm not.
My bike is a toy that spends 95% of its life sitting in a garage, there's no way I'm paying £23K for something that may cost £500 every time it makes an appearance

Fair point, but the new Honda Hornet is £9,099.

That's the equivalent to £6500 in 2015.

An absolute bargain really, I doubt you'd have found anything like that for £6500 10 years ago.

Yep, thats why I said litre bike money! When I sold my RSV4 I was going to buy a 2nd hand S1000rr or similar but was looking at around £15k for a 2 year old bike. I realised I could get the brand new RS660 with 2 years warranty for £10k so went down this route. Makes it a bit more pallatable knowing you are the first owner and the depreciation hit isn't as eye watering on a £10k bike after a few years compared to a £23K bike.

[Birky_41]

Prices they're at now has put me off a bit. I bought my 1000cc bike at end of agreement

I will get another as I ride a lot and put the miles on but I'll wait until an end of season big discount price

Absolutely no way I'm paying circa £20k once you include an exhaust etc

[FlopperV60]

M1000XR arrived at the dealers today should be collecting next week, I probably ride 5 or 6 times a year (2 of which will be roughly 1k mile trips) so it is difficult to justify but then again I tried living without one and that didn't work, I was so miserable.

[KobayashiMaru86]

Birky_41 said:

Prices they're at now has put me off a bit. I bought my 1000cc bike at end of agreement

I will get another as I ride a lot and put the miles on but I'll wait until an end of season big discount price

Absolutely no way I'm paying circa £20k once you include an exhaust etc

That's the Speed Triple's issue. Starts at about 17.5k, add exhaust, heated grips, tank pad and a few protection bits and it's over £20k. I do tend to buy to keep but that's still a lot to stomach for a toy. There's the RX version which includes the exhaust for a bit more but it's a racier seating position so could end up being more uncomfortable. Ex demos are around £15k.

[trickywoo]

KobayashiMaru86 said:

That's the Speed Triple's issue. Starts at about 17.5k

Don t forget the significant triumph servicing you ll be committed to for the warranty.

[Baldy881]

T6 vanman said:

I filled an empty space in the garage with this

£500 per outing is probably about right

So glad to see this. My missus doesn't get the random bits of old carpet on the garage floor but they do serve a purpose! Glad I'm not the only one

[Tango13]

Dark Side said:

I've just pushed the button on a new XSR 900 GP. I got a great Px which prehaps reflects a slow market.

Let us know how you get on with it, I quite like the look of these.

[TimmyWimmyWoo]

I bought a new Tenere 700 Rally in May. £11,400. In my view that's an 'affordable' bike these days but quite a 'specific' use-case bike.

[Pebbles167]

Depends on what you want the bike to do.

£5k will get you a brand new Royal Enfield Guerilla, which will be all the bike a lot of people want or need/which is why they sell so well.

North of £15k is getting pretty pricey for a luxury item, and especially since you can get a model that's a few years old and I'm great condition, but largely the same as a new one for about 60% of the cost.

[PorkInsider]

My new Streetfighter V2S arrived on Saturday.

[bgunn]

I bought a 1300GS at tail end of last year, previous owner had it six months and lost a few grand on it - his loss, my gain.

Still the thick end of the teens, but very happy. I sold up the rest of my fleet, too.

[MitsuJa]

Don't think I will ever buy a new bike again as there is simply no new bike I like enough to justify the money. That's not a dig at the prices, there is just nothing that floats my goat.

Generally speaking I don't like the looks, the huge exhausts and how complicated bikes are now.

It seems now any manufacturer would have you believe an adventure bike is the choice machine for a trip to Tesco, it will have 200bhp but then a load of electronics to make sure you can't deploy it all at the wrong time.

My father bought one of the very last VFR800's and it looks like there is not a natural replacement for it so he will just keep it going forever.

[MrGman]

TimmyWimmyWoo said:

I bought a new Tenere 700 Rally in May. £11,400. In my view that's an 'affordable' bike these days but quite a 'specific' use-case bike.

I bought a Tenere 700 new in 2021, for one reason an another i sold it shortly after, I’ve had a real itch for another recently, probably not helped by watching Itchy Boots UK videos, I was initially looking at early ones but the new Rally looks so good and for a new bike isn’t a huge amount more than you’d pay for a early one with say 5k miles on it. I think this is one of many bikes that really does represent good value for money.