2016 Herald 250 Classic 7000km (approx.)

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An air-cooled, carburettor-fed single cylinder delight, with all of 21bhp and very little to go wrong.

If your licence is feeling a little bruised from throttle indiscretions but you want something you can nip across town on without a second thought and still have fun, then read on….

In the time we’ve had the bike, it’s been invaluable – great for cutting across urban traffic at rush hour to run errands but also, crucially fun to ride. So much so I’d take it for ride outs with friends to the Dales – with a top speed of about 80mph, you’ll never keep up with a 1000cc Honda, but you’ll have tremendous fun trying – preserving every scrap of momentum you can in the corners!
The statement about riding a slow bike quickly being more fun than riding a quick bike slowly definitely applies here.

We bought it from a friend in February 2023. She bought it in November 2021 planning to have it as her first bike after passing her test, but didn’t get round to getting her licence. I worked with the person who sold it to her, and delivered it to York from Kettering for her.

That owner did a lot to it (there’s a folder full of the history of work he carried out), but that included regular servicing, replacement bearings, new grips, indicators, exhaust, headlight, clocks, replacing the knobbly tyres with more road friendly ones etc. He also obtained the history of the work done to it by the dealer (TTT Motorcycles in London).

Since we bought it in 2023 I’ve replaced the rear indicators with some spare (much larger) ones from a Suzuki SV1000 as I felt the bullet ones were practically invisible to drivers following me. I’ve also kept on top the servicing etc. (although it was off the road for about 8 months between November 2024 and September 2025) and the bike will come with a stash of spares (chain, front and rear sprocket and front disc and pads) which I bought for future maintenance

The clock change by a previous owner means that the current reading of 1970km needs adding to the previous reading which from the MOT history was 4766km. If I were being conservative, I’d round that up to 5000km, but that places the total at around 7000km in 10 years.

MOT until September 2026.
Service and MOT history + printout of the manual
1 key
5 previous owners (and we’ve known the last 2).
Oil and Filter Changed in September 2025 for 10w40 semi synthetic at 1676km (300km ago)
Air Filter Changed November 2024 at 1676km
New indicator Relay March 2026

£1500

[darkyoung1000]

Price reduced to £1300. We live in York (as re-reading the advert, that wasn't clear. Doh)!