Buying your first bike

[Punky]

...and some of us dont waste our own and other's time with unhelpful spam crap posts.
when i crashed mine, i was wearing leather gloves, helmet, jeans n a t-shirt, and somehow managed to walk away from a long slide at bout 40mph under the bike with only a bent rivet on my jeans and a numb arse. i was lucky. make sure you get decent safety gear. if i was you at 19, i'd wait till i was 21 IMHO, cos then you can get decent bikes instead of crappy underpowered things. peace.

[Skeps]

Hey Not your Punk, so how did u manage to crash then, you dont mention anyone else involved, must av been your retarded riding whilst stoned I guess.

[Russ]

skeps, can u edit that please,no need for that post mate.. punky is a sound chap.

[Tumble]

A "Decent" show-room that you'll want can cost from anywhere between ~£3K (brand new DT125 par example) to maybe ~£1k - you really won't get one that hasn't been ridden into the floor below that price. Mine cost me £1500, and was in fairly good nick - Kawasaki KMX125. The easiest bikes to learn on are the more off-road oriented machines, as they usually have a bit of suspension travel to absorb nasty potholes and things, and have relatively small turning circles. The only disadvantage is if you're a short-arse, you may have trouble paddling it about, but most of them have spaghetti sprung rear shocks, so they squat a bit. If you don't want to go that route, a Yamaha SR125, Honda CG125 Suzuki GN125 etc are good solid learner bikes that won't bite you too hard if you're inexperienced - things like Cagivas and Aprilias are best left well alone until you can ride - it's a lot harder than it seems. The best learner I've EVER ridden tho, without a doubt is the Yamaha RXS100. You'll be hard pushed to find a decent road-worthy running one of them these days, and a machine in good decent repair is even harder to find, but if you can find one - get it, brilliant fun, feels fast as owt but isn't, the insurance is silly cheap (compared to a 125 - can be as much as £400 difference - it was for me) and they're about the most simple things mechanically ever. Brilliant

[Lowe]

Originally posted by Skeps
Hey Not your Punk, so how did u manage to crash then, you dont mention anyone else involved, must av been your retarded riding whilst stoned I guess.

Skeps, a polite warning.. this is a friendly community and we'd like it to stay that way please. Take a moment to chill out and lose the sharp tongue please.

Thank you

[Skeps]

When im being accused of posting spam and crap what would u do in the same situation, sorry if ive upset anyone but i was only havin a laugh in the first place when Tig brought it to my attention.

[Moby-Dick]

If you were having a laugh you'd have used smilies ,thats what they are there for.

[Skeps]

As for a friendly community, it may be cos you all know each other and obviously stick up for each other, but it seems like u dont give us noobs a chance to get a foothold without puttin us down and , or sayin we are spammin the forum, Geez im not the uptight one ere, give a new bloke a chance please

[Agent]

Drop it mate. I just want to find about info on the best bikes that would suit me, not a flame war. Thanks

[Skeps]

Again Moby I'm new so given time I will learn what goes and what doesnt. Not here to cause trouble just to get involved, hopefully without p*ssin people off ( ther u go a nice happy chilled smilie ) not bein sarcastic by the way before u all flame me!!

[Agent]

ok, thanks

Now thats sorted, can we have a little clean up and get back OT ?

Cheers !

[Skeps]

Sorry Agent. Well it all depends on how much u have to spend. If I was to buy a bike for my first I would deffo start with a 125 and work my way up ( though through experience u will be workin up pretty quickly ) maybe an aprillia rs125 or a cagiva mito 125 ( ducatti lookalike ) both very quick for what they are. Get yourself maybe a baby blade or a zxr400 if you wanna go for the more powerful option ( again very quick and not bad pricewise now )

[Rave]

Originally posted by Tumble
The best learner I've EVER ridden tho, without a doubt is the Yamaha RXS100. You'll be hard pushed to find a decent road-worthy running one of them these days, and a machine in good decent repair is even harder to find, but if you can find one - get it, brilliant fun, feels fast as owt but isn't, the insurance is silly cheap (compared to a 125 - can be as much as £400 difference - it was for me) and they're about the most simple things mechanically ever. Brilliant

Hehe, I still keep an eye out for 'em secondhand, I'm sure I could magic up a few hundred quid if I saw one going. Saw a picture of one being thrapped by a pizza delivery rider in the back of a magazine once, and he had it at about a 60 degree angle of lean . I really really want a Honda CB100 though, I can just see myself ragging along with my knee down on one of those. I haven't seen one for sale in years . Bikes like that don't look cool Agent, but they're cheap to buy and run, easy to work on, less likely to get pinched, and most importantly good fun to ride.

Remember though, because the European Commission is populated by overpaid, retarded, ****witted, ridiculous ****holes, you can't qualify for a full licence if you take your test on a 100 (or at least you couldn't last time I checked). The bike has to be between 120 and 125cc. Still, if you just took off the badge and painted RXS125 on the side, I doubt the examiner would know the difference.

Rich :¬)

[Punky]

hmmm....stoned was i? and i'd like to see some proof of that - never heard of slander?. i was completely sober, riding home from work at 9pm. nice warm sunny night. it was an accident, i got my balance wrong and i fell. simple as that.
cheers for that Russ, made me night.
oh yeh, why u callin me Not Your Punk? my username was changed from that a couple months ago...hmmmm....

[Moby-Dick]

Punky , keep it on topic please or take it to PM

[Punky]

no worries mate, sorry bout that. just wanted to clear it up. back to topic now....