Stupid Qusetions, But......

[Louise]

Im set to get a 100cc Peugeot soon once ive passed my CBT.
I would hazard a guess I could ride to Brighton to see other half (as trains bore the life outta me)
I know I cant ride on motorways but what about 'A' roads?

I would use A3, A27 & A23 is this allowed on a 100cc on a CBT or do I too need to pass my full licence?

[DaveS]

You can use A-Roads.. Just no motorways

..DaveS
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2002 Honda CBR600F-Sport

[veeeffarr]

A Road are fine.

But why a 100cc Scooter? Don't fancy a geared 125 or even a 125cc Scooter?

[Louise]

Try telling my partner that. I would love to get Aprilia 125, or any geared bike. But for now its scooter or nothing

I only asked the question because alot of cars do 60-70 on the A roads to Brighton, some are dual carriage ways. The thought of me doing 50 and someone flying past me is kinda worrying

[G]

You are allowed to A roads on a 50cc moped restricted to 30mph... I wouldn't want to and I wouldn't on a 100cc scooter either.

Why does your other half dictate what you ride? Especially why do they want you on a more dangerous vehicle .

Personally, I would look at a 2 stroke 125cc sports style bike for that.

[veeeffarr]

Is your partner your dad or something?!

I'd rather ride a bike with decent sized wheels to be honest with you, much safer, and less road users take the piss I'd imagine as well.

[Louise]

I hear what your saying and couldnt agree more. But because there paying I have to obide Fair play I guess.
Keep bike for a few months and move up a gear, They would be more happy with that I guess.

[MRX Steve]

a 125 scoot wouldn’t cost any more than a 100cc Peugeot
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Rieju MRX 50 Castrol Edition

[Louise]

Because they are not very happy with me getting a bike, they have limited me to around 500 mark. So its a case of looking for bargains.

[Dot_Comm]

The Speedfight will do 60mph indicated at full throttle (I've had 65 out of mine downhill!).

How far is it to Brighton? My bum would go numb on my scooter after about 45mins, which is where I had to take her for services. I wouldn't recommend it for longer journeys than that really, but round town it was great.
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My bike: Suzuki Bandit 600 (33bhp)
Previous bike: Peugeot Speedfight 2 100

[G]

First result for me in adtrader...

[Louise]

Well they think a sporty bike (NSR etc) is more dangerous.
I will point out tho that scooters arnt all that safe.

[Dusty]

[G]

It should also out-brake one .

Ask them to explain exactly why - or better still, get them to make a post on here explaining why they think what they do .

[ncrn]

compared to my nsr my scooter was a death trap, drives doing everything in their power to over take me (nearly hitting me many many many times), now im on an nsr i can get away from these drivers, i dont get as many problems as i used to, and i would never go back to a scooter (well maybe to mess about on one)

just cause you get a fast bike doesnt mean you have to go fast, as long as your keeping up with the traffic, and watching out for every threat, you'll live.

[code guru]

well iv been 2 brigton 2 times on my scooter from romford and its 90 miles away
1st time was on a 50cc and i woz doing 50 and ppl on the a23 were doing 60+ lol
2nd time was on the same ped a/c ice but with a 70kit and i woz doing like 65 and they were still over takeing me. lol oh yer plus i didnt like the a23 much on a ped i would much prefer my nsr as my nsr has a better grip 2 the road and u can do 60+ better on an nsr round corners and the a23 has some mad corners and when u got cars doing 70mph passed u u would be wtf and the side wind omg. never again on a ped
soz for bad spelling

[Louise]

[code guru]

i think u can control a bike like the nsr , dna ect better than like a sit down ped thing. my dna wasnt that bad round corner y not get a dna 125 then?

[keyser soze]

buy the bike you want, and with the money "they" were going to give you to buy one buy some safety stuff, helmet, gloves, jacket,

[coolfox1]

If you do your home work you can find some real nice roads, I travel from Manchester to daresbury (runcorn way) good 40 miles to work and found (after some experimenting) a fab route, have a full licence and a nice powerful bike that would be more than happy on the motorway but still prefer to use the back roads, far more fun, than sitting on a motorway and takes the same time.

Roads like the A50, A1, A34, A500 for the most part are just as good as motorways, wouldn't have thought you'd have to many problems at 50 mph only issue may be big hgv's as they seem to think they are supposed to be the slowest and given it takes them so long to get up to speed they don't like slowing down, but just hold your own, you have as much right as them to be there.

Ian

[TheShaggyDA]

[Louise]

Good point about the cars ect.
I cant afford to buy my own bike at the moment hence the cash loan from her.
Unless I get a small loan from this company which will only put me in more dogs doo doo with her.

In regards to a DNA yes we have both looked into one and they like them (Plus its not geared) but they can be pricey around the 900 mark.
Maybe I should just save for a while. BUt im dying to get a new job outside of my home town as there is nothing here.
So the sooner the better.

[Trickypl4]

Could you not just go along with them for now and ride the scooter for 6 months or so?

In this time you can show them how much of a sensible rider you are etc, then you can start to soften them up a bit, tell them how the scoot is great but you've outgrown it, you'd feel safer on something a little faster etc.

Just a thought.

[code guru]

dna aint a bad bike good side 2 a new bike is that t has no gears cheap on insurance , cheap on petrol as its a 4t and easy 2 self service. bad side its heavy and its a 4t its slower std it will do 70mph faster than the pug 100 anyway and more reliable than a 2t
oh yer and pugs got the worst engine going

[veeeffarr]