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Agreed with above, cheapest CG you can find, passed my full test with it. Then just sell it on after and get something bigger, save your money.
Its speedy enough to get your through the test, mine did and it was a 1977 one! 
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The RS is great, but you really need to work with the gears and run it on proper expensive oil.
The Hyosung is also nice... but its still a 125.
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I have a friend with a 80's CB125RS and that is nippy!  i was surprised, it will hit 70 at a push and has decent acceleration because its light 
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Get a CG I could swear somebody else said that, and as for speed? It can do 90 because the speedo told me so  (it really can't) |
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125 on CBT, you want something that makes getting your licence as easy as possible. That while you do that is as easy and cheap top live with as it can be. As hassle free, and reliable as possible. and when you are done with it, easy to flog on, and get as much of your money back as possible.
Forget looks, forget performance, forget finding a bargain.
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YBR125
Yes, CG's are good too, as are many other bikes of differing vintages, BUT: cut & pasted from very similar Q on Newbie board:
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One 'feature' to look for on a learner bike is the gear lever.....
The sporty 125's often have a gear lever that has a rod and linkage between it and the shaft on the engine that actually changes the gears, where the commuter bikes have a lever that bolts directly on to the shaft on the engine.
Having the gear lever on the shaft means that theres no 'play' in the linkage between where your foot moved the lever and the bits inside the engine paddling cogs about to swap gears.
Consequently when LEARNING gears, it gives much more 'feel' to help you know what your doing, making it easier.
Not all sporty bikes have linkages, but its one of those things that follows through, the simpler and less sophisticated the bike, the better chance you have that it will give you more feed back and make learning on it easier.
And the Commuter Learners like CG or YBR are excellent in this respect, which is why the Schools all use them. They are simple, easy to ride, easy to master, durable, robust, and easy to live with.
They aren't overly glamourouse, exiting or stylish, but who cares.... if they make it as easy for you to pass your test as possible, you can flog the thing on, and have any sort of more inspiring, more exiting, more stylish bike you like...... Learner bike! you JUST want something that will make it as EASY and un painful as possible to get to grips with riding, and see you through test.
My top choice of the moment, based on all round virtue is the YBR125. Its new enough you can find a good one, and not as over priced as CG's tend to be. They do the job admirably, for as little outlay as is needed, and can be sold on readily with little loss to fund a bigger bike.
CG's are pretty useful, but out of production some while now, the 'pool' of good bikes is shrinking, but prices are holding, while the average standard of what you get for your money dropping.
Chinese CG copies, can do the job, provided you know what your getting, but unfortunately, while cheap new, tend to lack a little lustre in use, and can give niggles like nuts and bolts coming undone, but for all teh saving on price, getting a brand new one for teh price of a second hand CG or YBR, after test, they dont sell easily and certainly not for sensible money, so can prove incredibly frustrating and expensive, comparititively.
Older cheaper bikes, are pot luck, value for money, reliability and performance wise. There are good bikes out there, but you have to be pretty clued up to find one, more clued up and exceptionally lucky to find a 'real' bargain.
Meanwhile, rough guide:
Anything with knobly tyres, is probably best avoided. On/Off road bikes are a compromised design from the start, and thats not what you want to make life easy for you to learn on and get through test. Tyres illustrate that well. Block treads are a compromise between tarmac grip and mud 'bite', you wont get both, and its on tarmac where you'll have to impress an examiner, and I personally wouldn't want the handical of having to do my E stop on block treads. If you like Dirt bikes, fine, get a commuter, pass test, go buy a DR350 or XR400 or something, that you don't have to weave through cones or do trick riding infront of an examiner on.
Anything with fairings, is best avoided. They're kiddie go kwikly machines. Only they aren't any kwiker than a commuter, most of teh time, if actually Learner Legal. Nice looks, but restricted steering, cramped racer crouch riding possition, again, all makes it harder work doing teh control stuff mastering gears and weaving through cones. If you want to go kwik, get a commuter, get licence, go get a propper kwik bike with more than 125cc top shove it along!
Anything with high handlebars, chrome or tassles... best avoided! Cruisers have long wheel bases low seats and lazy steering geometry. They really don't make control excersizes like the cones or anything easy on you. They take a LOT of unnecessary effort to make them do that kind of thing, and they just dont have the balence or poise to do it themselves. Again, if you like that style of bike, get a commuter, pass test, go buy a Virago or whatever.
Leaves commuters VERY MUCH the best bet, and the YBR probably at the top of the pile. If you can stretch to a newer bike, then the recent CG replacement, the CBF125 may be worth a look, but expensive. |
In essence, dont mugger about, over analysing it all, or trying to get clever, and doing it all right here right now. JUST get a YBR, get some training, get your tests done, then you can flog the YBR and the world is pretty much your oyster, and you can start looking at any of hundreds of bikes for what the YBR was worth, that DON'T have to be easy to ride, boring, sensible or cone freindly, and can be as quick or as slow or as stylish or as ugly, or as interesting or exiting as your wallet and sense of sensibility dictates, but devoid of licencing constraints.
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We all have our friends whom we always want to be around us because they can be fun and easy to get along with. We tend to do a lot of things together and just enjoy each other’s company, so to speak.
There is also stuff that we always carry with us because they can be inevitably important or we just want to around with it. This is especially true when the things we always have around gives us some kind of security and defines something about us. Most people do not forget their phones and laptops. Some would always have their game gadgets or some would never go without their precious car or bike or motorcycle.
Motorcycles have become a fad because of the different kind of experience that people get from it compared to car or any other closed vehicle. Motorcycles somehow give some kind of sense of freedom and strength. But then, in riding a motorcycle, you are bared to many different kinds of harms and injuries as motorcycles are wide open. For this, you would definitely need a set of motorcycle jackets to keep you safe from harm. This kind of apparel can easily be purchased, as there are a lot of retail outlets selling different brands of motorcycle gears. You can also purchase online by browsing from through your favorite search engine. There are many online sites to click to give you the apparel that would most suit your needs.
One of the important components of your apparel is your jacket. This jacket is your protection for your skin. We know for a fact that the skin is sensitive and needs to be protected as well. For jackets, leather jackets can be the one you need. Leather jackets are undoubtedly the most popular in the world market and can be purchase in about many branches all over the world.
As you would always want to be with your best buddy – your motorcycle and your leather goods – it is important to go with and around it as safe as you can be. |
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