They killed the 'little cruisers'

[Baisemontchou]

OK some went a while ago, but none of these are listed by manufacturers in 125cc spec anymore:

Suzuki Marauder
Suzuki Intruder
Honda Shadow
Kawasaki Eliminator
Yamaha Dragstar
Yamaha Virago

What are those of us with tassle fetishes, larger than average backsides, bad backs or good taste going to do?

Buy Chinese appears to be the only option.
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Back on topic, they are around - I know a few people with 125 cruisers... there is a company called AJS (British, I believe) and they make a cruiser / lowrider. It looks pretty mean for a 125 actually.
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[Rogerborg]

Good luck finding anything new and Chinese branded even. Plenty of 125s, but in larger bikes you've really only got the Jinlun and Lifan/Skygo 250s and the Lifan 400.

As usual though, all the importers seem to have gone bust, except for (nobody laugh) Zing Bikes, who might sell you a "Zing Storm" aka the Lifan LF400, a Virago 400 (downsleeved 535) copybike, for £3899.

Cruisers just aren't popular, and the chaps who do ride them are old and have the money to spend on big, expensive bikes.
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[Rogerborg]

[mentalboy]

If people stopped buying Chinese then maybe the 'big four' would find a market for small cruisers and maybe even 250/400's
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[Rogerborg]

Eh? The Chinese branded 250s and 400 didn't appear until after the small capacity Jap cruisers had already been withdrawn.
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GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[mentalboy]

I don't dispute that fact but I would have thought that there was an, albeit small, market for all styles of machine under 600. They're great for the daily slog, cheap to run and insure - there are no sensible machines that fit the bill anymore - commuting on a Mexican built Honda CG125 is just not the same. 400's can also make for a lairy ride on British B roads (or Devon's A roads!).
As a GPZ 500 rider (Rogerborg) I don't have to tell you the bonuses of riding a machine that doesn't have 100+ horses drinking fuel like it's going out of fashion!
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[Sako]

they have decided to stop production of the small capacity 125cc cruiser style motorcycles for good reason, kids aged around 17 years old, who are likely to be buying 125's and stepping onto the biking ladder are quite impressionable - therefor allowing them access to a poofter-ped may indeed lead to terminal poofterism or 'the gay' to be politically correct.

[LockyUK]

cruisers are gay
chinese bikes are equally as homosexual

wow, never realised how insightful i was

[.Chris.]

https://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/bike/gz125k9/

Still seems to be listed on the Suzuki website.
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[Baisemontchou]

[Sako]

[.Chris.]

The 'k9' in the web address may give it away - implies (if I've got Suzuki's nomenclature correct) that it's a 2009 model. May be that they're no longer importing it, but there's some leftover stock in the system they want to get rid of.
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[Hokum]

Kymco Zing II?

https://www.kymco.co.uk/zing_125_motorbike

Looks pretty good for a 125 cruiser and its kymco, so a cut above the chinese rust buckets...
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[alexknight200...]

I like it.

I have a Suzuki GZ125, as I have just gone back to bikes.

I can't wait to pass my test and get a larger cruiser.

I get goose pimples just thinking of all the gay sex I can have and how I can ham it up knowing that I have just spent loads of dosh on something to satisfy my mid life crisis, on a bike that nobody likes.

Then again perhaps I am straight and just like the aesthetics and ride of a cruiser type bike.

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[Rogerborg]

[alexknight200...]

I feel a right arse now

[moppy]

Shame, I had the Intruder 125 for my first bike and absolutely loved it to bits. Couldn't do more than 50 up a hill mind, but I blame the 125 part and not the cruiser part.

Looked much bigger than a 125 and even attracted some positive attention...until I started the engine

[Sako]

[alexknight200...]

Very funny

Have added a few more corrections just for complete accuracy.