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Posted: 21:09 - 08 Nov 2017 Post subject: What garage back up bike |
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Yes another one of those what bike threads however this one is with a twist. If you had to have a bike in the garage as a back up what would you have. Not to be uses for excessive motorway miles just locally commuting at max. This would be reliable enough to work when you needed it without hardly any fuss.
Been discussing this at work with a few friends. So far we have come up with an old CG125 and something like a C90 or an MZ250.
So what would you have ____________________ CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
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Posted: 21:57 - 08 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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CB250RS. After moving on to other bikes, it sat at the back of the garage for yonks, but didn't need much to coax back into life when I needed it. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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Posted: 22:49 - 08 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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It's not a back up bike, you can have as many bikes in your garage as you want and there's no need to justify them to anyone.
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Posted: 23:17 - 08 Nov 2017 Post subject: Re: What garage back up bike |
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TheSmiler wrote: | So what would you have |
I know what I'd have, and I got it. Ninja 250. Local commuting at max throttle. Made for about 200 years so it has no foibles, cheap to insure and tax, parts are plentiful, it's pretty much fuel and forget it. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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 |
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Howling Terror wrote: | ^^^No wind protection |
For local commuting only, I don't see that being a big problem. But if I were you, I'd probably have an MV F4.
As I'm not you however, I wouldn't have a back-up bike, cos my Fazer has never let me down, and nor have 4 previous ones ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 00:32 - 09 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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Well it does kinda depend on what your local/daily commute looks like and the distances and type of roads you travel on.
But say it's local town/city stuff, then I'm going to say a simple carb fed, air cooled bike, single or twin, probably naked and basic with non linkage rear suspension, easy to maintain and ideally something kick-start, so a flat battery won't ruin your day.
I can say for certain what you definitely don't want for a second back up bike though, and that's a tuned two stroke anything. |
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Posted: 08:45 - 09 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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I pay £100 a year old duffer insurance. It would cost me at least as much again to insure a second bike. plus the tax, plus the MOT.. that's around £250 a year straight off the top.
To have a 'back up' that, odds on, wont start when needed 'cos it ha a flat battery, or crapped up carb(s) or or or whatever else has seized, rusted, or rotted since last used.
Add the cash not spent on 'redundant' back-up, and stick it into good, useful upfront preventative maintenance so you shouldn't NEED a 'back up', far more likely it'll be there when you need it.
Or.... Honda...... Civic!
Boringly dependable and has a tow bar you can drag a dead super-dream on a trailer behind, or a boot you can go chuck a bluddi-guzzi battery in, or chuck a super-dream or three in bits into, to get powder-coated! Etc!
I am actually mildly missing the old chavic! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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Posted: 09:57 - 09 Nov 2017 Post subject: |
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jnw010 wrote: | Maybe a Ural... I have no actual idea what they are like. |
You know what Chinese copis of CG125's are like?
Same sort of deal, only its a goolag made copy of a pre WWII side-valve BMW/Zundapp... they decided to 'update'...
Curiousely 'fun' to ride, at least in solo form.... as long as you don't need to get anywhere... I would say in a hurry.... but no... just arriving on a Dniepnjier IS a feat..... the legend of my first encounter with one bleeding to death on the M6 on its maiden voyage NOT endearing me to them much....
I am 'reliably' informed... which you have to take with a pinch of Gulag salt, whe it comes to Urals,is that if you chuck enough genuine BMW bits into them... like pistons, valves, carbs, cranks, cylinder-heads, barels, ignitions, etc, and enjoy stripping lath gearboxes on a annual basis, they may.... be 'quite' daily usable...... (Though I have yet to find any-one to who it remains but a ambition they wsh to prove!!!!)
Unc suffered the one that did a titanic impression as a daily when at uni, before announcing that he was taking a six week tour of the Pyranese after he graduated..... he waved down the groans, and do they do international AA cover, by explaining that he had bought another, 'pristine' example... and was 'preparing' it for the trip.... and had 'only' spent a grand (in 2002 ish!) on BMW bits for it... 'so far'... after which I will say he DID manage around 8ooo miles on the dang thing, relatively incident free, other than running a SEAT off a mountain road with the 'wrong side' (for France/Span/Portugal!) Side car..... and riding the thing all the way back to his front door... this HAS to go down i the Anals of RHoS out-fits... NOT because he made it half way round Europe on it... BUT that it simply let his house and returned there... under its own power!
The side-cars.... take some getting used to.... they steer on the wheeja principle.... you don't do anything with the bars, you just put your hands on them, and beg the spirits take you n vaguely the right direction, and hope you don't get too see sick as it weaves from side to side.... apparently winding the friction steering damper all the way up can help that a bit.... but can have some dire consequences for SEATs on mountain roads ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 209 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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