Constantly worrying about the maintainence of my NSR.

[tvr321]

I bought a two stroke and now I think I'm regretting it slightly. It's coming up for 10000 miles and I'm constantly thinking about what needs doing maintenance wise. I can do everything myself but it is still expensive to maintain. It gulps down fuel and two stroke oil (TTS is damn expensive!!). It just seems to cost a lot to run, I work at week ends but I do 100-150 miles a week and as I'm only 16, it's a lot out of my pocket.

Not to mention I'm constantly worrying about dropping it, which I think takes the fun out of riding it.


Sooo, I was thinking about getting a cheap 4 stroke. Something that has a lot better fuel economy, and costs very little to maintain. Something that I wouldn't be worried about dropping as it's very slippery over here in France in winter as temps are mostly below 0 in the mornings.

Would I miss the performance of my two stroke? I use mostly A roads with a lot of straights. Just how much slower are four stroke 125s vs 2 strokes? (My NSR is derestricted)

YES I'M TIGHT!

[chris-red]

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[Mystery]

yeah they cost alot to run mines is the same but i run mines on tesco finest 2 stroke only about 4 quid a bottle but they stopped stocking it and i use the 8 quid stuff now
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[Billing]

either you have a little typo there, or you're riding that NSR illegally lol what with you being 16 and all

2 strokes are noisy horrible smelly expensive things, but I'd say the price you pay is worth the smile it puts on your face

as for a cheap hack, something like a CG125 would be perfect, parts are readily available and cheap, and can achieve long over 100mpg plus with very little maintainance they last forever (my one's engine is long past 40k and is still going strong )
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[Damon]

[Pussy Magnet]

if it does need stuff , order it yourself then get them to fit much much cheaper and safer

[Acemastr]

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[tvr321]

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[wizzzard]

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[Mystery]

[Mystery]

[G]

My NSR never used that much two stroke, the RS250 was much worse. Maybe you should check the pump setting (or mine might have been lean)?

Fuel economy wasn't amazing, but isn't too bad for the performance. Could always try riding slower - which you'd forced to be with a bike with under half the power anyway.
At 125cc you're definitely going to be taking a serious hit in performance for better fuel economy from another bike.

Why not do the rings or whatever service needs doing? Shouldn't cost you too much and gives you another 10000 miles before you need to worry again .

Dropping a naked bike is still going to do a fair bit of damage, it's just you may be less worried by it.

I presume you haven't got too long until you can get a bigger bike (well, no longer than a year), on that I'd be tempted to keep it until you can ride a bigger bike, then go that way.

[Mystery]

well just now my nsr is putting out about 500miles to a full tank of 2 stroke, i am looking to get my test passed just before march/april as well which is soon
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[Blunet600]

The NSR will be fine. My sister bought my one off me, its done 11,000 miles and it is running fine. Although i never rode so many miles as you say you are doing on the NSR...
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[ncrn]

I used to be able to do 130 miles off of £8 of fuel when I had mine, but then thinking about it that was 3 years ago now. Long as you look after it and don't constantly ride on the red line it should last quite a while before you need any major servicing too it, or you can abuse it like I did and spend all your money on it.
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[Mystery]

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[Blau Zedong]

The H100 is a good bike but the engine design isn't as good as the RXS. It's not unheard of for the main bearing housings to become oval, needing either new cases or a big tube of glue to correct.

RD125LC's are getting rare and expensive, although in good nick they are about as reiliable as the RXS with a good chunk more grunt (especially the Mk1's).

To be honest the TZR / DTR lump is really good too.
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[27cows]

The DTR is a great fun bike. Not sure I'd want to use one for serious transport and I loved the one I had in the 90s. I don't remember managing to break anything, but then I didn't have it for that long

The advantages of the RD (more power, better brakes and electrics) are offset by the poor fuel economy and relative complexity compared to the RXS. Then again, the RD was (at the time) a sports bike, whereas the RXS was built to be dropped by learners and slogged to and from work by commuters

BTW, do you have a Blue X5? I had one once - one of my all time fave bikes

[Blau Zedong]