Is daylight MOT real or not?

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[stevo as b4]

I don't want to encourage Tef, show my love for a 2wheel car, or have a Fit of Autism, but as much as I like old two strokes, like fuck would I buy a £500 one and want to use it daily.

Especially something faired/hard to work on, and with plenty of electrics (powervalve) and the complexity of water cooling. Two strokes are for fun and projects, not a serious 2019 daily transport solution.

The ER5 might be comparatively dull, but it's not that slow. (I need the BCF authority spelt out to me why In-line twins are all so shit as I don't get it?) the ER5 is after all a sawed in half GPZ1000RX engine with a bit of de-tuned. Nobody says GPZ1000 engines are a load of shit though?

I get that an ER5 looks dull, and has crap budget suspension and brakes, and has had 10bhp lopped off the top end of the donor engine. But I see a basis for a project and a moderate amount of fun with cheap mods and aesthetic improvements.
Wide MX bars, a 4pot front caliper, decent tyres and shocks, and a fork re-work and maybe a brace would be good changes. As would a gas flowed GPZ head and cams, some second hand flat slides and a loud 2-1 race pipe.

Maybe some Lawson paintwork and a better seat would be good too. I'd ride the bike I describe above as my daily commuter and I reckon I'd have enough fun on it to make it worthwhile.

Sure a good/re-built NSR for a weekend twatting about small bike would be more of a laugh, but then a competition derived supermoto bike would be even more fun in the same situation.

OP needs to fucking wake up and pass some tests and learn how to ride confidently and they she can buy as many fun bikes or dull commuters as she wants.

[P.]

Stevo, have you ridden an ER5? I found mine utterly dull, unhelpfully heavy and man does it sound like aids.

People like them, fair to them, but I'd rather have a 125 than an ER5, a GS500, ha, might as well kill me now as I'll never consider riding another one, I'd probably report ads on eBay selling them as listed in the wrong section, but there is no scrap section on eBay.

In all, they are pony. They serve a purpose (I don't know what) but I'd never want another parallel twin 500cc in size. Never.

[stevo as b4]

Hi Paddy.

Yeah I passed my test 21-22years ago on one, so not the best basis for an opinion fair enough.

But I've done 2000miles or more on a CB500 and liked it, and I've ridden a GPZ500 (not quite as good as std for me, and a bit cramped and low on ground clearance). I've also ridden an SV650 very briefly and ridden an ER6 twice.

People still say ER6's, and TDM's, etc are totally horse wank and I don't get why they are worse than a single cylinder bike or 10x more crap than an IL4?

Just a quick question, would you rather ride a dull IL4 like an XJ600 Divvy, or a single like an SRX600 instead of a 500 twin?

As a daily rider/commuter I'd prefer a CB500 to either of the above, but do get why others might say otherwise. I just think you can as easily have a good or bad in-line twin as your can a four cylinder bike.

[P.]

I'd rather ride an SV650/SRX/Big single than a 500 twin.

[Bhud]

The thing is, an ER5 is basically the same concept as an original 60s Triumph Bonneville, except with 80s knowhow and water cooling, and Japanese reliability.

That said, I wouldn't want one. Although I'd take a GS500 to chop about and modify (heavily) any day of the week.

[Ste]

Modify with copious amounts of fire?

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[P.]

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The blandest car is still more fun than an ER5 or GS500 (or an SV650) and Anyone who disagrees is wrong.
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Sorry to derail and go back to the op original question, and it's pretty much been answered enough times, but figured my 2 cents might be worth 0.7 cents to the original question.

I made a new headlight for my DRZ (E model), which I have no idea if it would pass the MOT. I also made a brake light for safety only activated by the front lever. Being the E model, it doesn't have anything else on it. When the MOT comes round I just take everything off, including switches, so it's just a bunch of wire hanging out, then get it MOTed. What I get is a "not for use during nighttime or times of reduced visibility" advisory, and that's it. I then stick all the lights back on and go back to green laning.

It hardly sees any road use anyway, and no nighttime use, but the brake light is for my safety when I brake and disappear into some side lane no road user knew was there, and the headlight is because the standard one is basically an asphyxiated candle. I don't know if the cops would be upset with me if they were to pull me over and find out my bike, MOTed as not suitable for nighttime use, now has a headlight brighter than Hiroshima in 1945 (considerately dipped), but I suspect they wouldn't be too bothered.

Basically daytime MOT is a thing.
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I guess it’s semantics. I’m one of those people that interpret the phrase “daytime MOT” to mean MOT specifying only for daytime use. Other people don’t like to make that interpretation of the phrase. That’s fine with me too.
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