You have £1,500 for a bike, what would you buy...

[Bubbs]

... where, and why?

Need some inspiration for my 2nd bike while on a budget.
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[moppy]

https://www.bikez.com/pictures/kawasaki/2005/21499_0_1_2_zrx%201200%20r_Image%20credits%20-%20Kawasaki.jpg

It is rather sexy...

[N cee thirty]

https://s2.visordown.com/uploads/images/large/14188.jpg

fancy one for the lolz
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[0l0dom0l0]

This probably:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-TRIUMPH-DAYTONA-955I-SILVER-motd-35-000-nice-bike-l-k-/110835071457?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item19ce48f9e1#ht_500wt_1202

or this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIUMPH-DAYTONA-T595-955cc-1997-STRONTIUM-YELLOW-/230755696923?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item35ba1c811b#ht_500wt_1202
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[lllN30lll]

GSXR 750 Srad with enough change left for a trackday.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-GSXR-750-SRAD-WHITE-BLUE-/110835241321?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item19ce4b9169

[P.addy]

Some ragged GSXR750/1k

[Bubbs]

Wow... just expecting some ideas on what to search but the bikes that have been linked are awesome. Thanks guys. The triumph bikes look lovely, didn't think i'd be able to afford a triumph but lovely looking bikes.

Just gave me an idea for a cool thread.
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[daemonoid]

I bought:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FDfK8JCy4wQ/T1K_6sqVVMI/AAAAAAAAAZM/iQXhtooATkg/s1600/655.PNG

For just a touch over that budget. £1500 is a decent budget that will get you almost any non-unicorns pre 2000.
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1997-HONDA-CBR900R-FIREBLADE-918CC-VERY-CLEAN-ORIGINAL-12M-MOT-FOXEYE-/180823729230?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2a19ef244e#ht_1404wt_1396
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[Im-a-Ridah]

I got my ZX6R for £1k, so I'd go with one ZX6R for £1k and one 500cc commuter for £500!

[pinkyfloyd]

I bought my VTR firestorm for under your budget. But if I was given the budget to buy a second bike it would probably be this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suzuki-GSXR-1100-m-Slingshot-1991-/140710098927?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item20c2f9b7ef#ht_500wt_1202

£150 over budget but I could stretch. I had the 91' 750 model and loved it.
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[Teflon-Mike]

I would, probably sink it into a 'Project'. That's roughly what my DT-MX is looking like it will have set me back OTR.

Same budget would let me do something 'interesting' with something dog-cheap, like my old CB750, or a Zerphyr.

Much as I might like a screaming stroker, and with that cash in hands I could be looking at either an RD350YPVS, or round lamp Mito, 'with potential'.. too much of a realist to really BELIEVE or kid myself I could get anything worth having or make one worth having at that though.... could get something far enough that it was beyond threshold of opt-out, though, demanding the money to see it through!

Ready To Ride?
For Summer 'touring': ZZR11, FJ12 or Divvy 9.
For Week-End kicks? Duke 'Monster'.
For every-day utility? Probably a nice tidy original CB'Seven-Fifty'. (like I already have, but in nicer nick!)
For a general purpose all-rounder? probably an SV650, or possibly a VFR750, maybe ZZR11 again, or the CB750 again.

For something to 'share' with Snowie; Moto-Guzzi V50
Or more likely a TY175 Trials bike. About half budget; but would use the rest to fettle it; sort a demountable lighting kit, and spare tank/seat so it could be switched between Green-Lane trim & Comp-Trials, so she could come out 'Laning with me on the DT, and could introduce her to comp-trials... so couple of hundred would have to go on a twin bike trailer, to get both bikes to events.

If I was 19 again; and had that cash 'spare' to get a 'toy' I think it would probably go into something the modern equivilent of an Bantam-Budget Racer. SV650 or CB500 tracker?

Though having done that; If I was 19 again, and know what I know now! And it was 1989.. it would have to be a CR500 and and a BUPA course of physiotherapy for after!

Guess a modern MX bike, with pottential to 'Motard' and or green-lane could be an interesting weekend play thing.

Ultimately, though, for where I am in life... time is as valuable as money. I can spent my dotage regretting the bikes I have never owned, or reminiscing about the bikes I did... but when I look back..

It's not the bikes, its riding the buggers! MILES, covering ground, seeing places.

If I didn't have the commitments to stop me; £1500 would get the old CB750 fettled up; and 'tidy'. Put a rack and maybe some luggage on it... GPS on the bars, and just RIDE the bugger... see where I end up.

Or plan some big-meets; TT, Assen, Bol. R&B, the Bash; see how many I could do for the money.

Hmm.... yup... that's a plan. Bugger the bike. Get a better camera; load of memory cards; and do some events, with what I got!
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[craigs23]

A good nick CB1 or Superfour for £750 and pocket the change.

[G]

Second bike?
Do you have a bike at the moment?

It depends my desire for the bike - easy getting from A to B - sports bike.
Versatile - 600cc+ trail bike for muddy fun.
Road fun with some distance - <80hp road bike.

[rac3r]

[WannaBeDude]

Gs adamence that a sportsbike is the commuter of choice makes me lol ..

Not that he's wrong persay, just still make me lol.
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[Alex_B]

Shop around, be VERY patient and if it was me, I would find a nice, late-ish example of a DRZ 400 SM.

I will find one at around that price, maybe (likely) have to pay a couple hundred more but it's the bike for me.

Can't wait until that day comes
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[GREENI3]

This.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-SV-650S-/270926000040?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item3f1472afa8#ht_500wt_1287

[nowhere.elysium]

This, spend a few quid on the missing side panel, new brake hoses/rebuild kit, and pocket the rest.
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