How much will I pay in total roughly..

[RooRoo]

At the moment I'm on a 125, and I'm 18..I want to do my full test and get a good condition 400/600cc bike, what should i expect to pay in total for the test, insurance, bike etc..For the bike something sporty would be god, that wont cost me loads on insuring...thanks!

[m i k e]

Depends on what type3 of insurance you go for on the bike, exactly how much you pay for the bike, personally i'd set an estimate on how much i want to spend, so for what you want to do, i'd set an estimate of about £2,000 - £2,500 (including safety gear too). There's a lot of factors that you need to look into whilst buying a bigger bike.

Ring round your local training instructors to see how much it would cost for lessons and your practical; your theory's about £20

Say if you spend about £1,500 on the bike

£500 to £800 on the insurance, although it really depends on the type of insurance your going for. Best bet would be to get in touch with Danny on this one, like I will soon!

Then whatever safety gear you want/need

Hope this helps!

Mike
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[RooRoo]

Well I have the safety gear already with my 125, so what I'd need is the test i guess, whats a cheapish sporty 400/600 cc bike?

[Slavo]

Something sporty will cost you loads on insurance. You can't have both, but i'm sure you can find a happy medium.

For the test... It all depends how competent on a bike you are. There are loads of threads with people explaining what each of them have paid for their test. This varies from £50 just for the test as they were competent on a bike and felt they could pass 1st time without any more training following their cbt. Others take a few days training prior to the test, I'm paying £365 for 3 days training and the test for a rough idea (not the cheapest tho).

Insurance really does depend on your bike.

For general idea of prices of what to pay for your bike, I'd take a look on ebay (at items just finishing) and also in the MCN.

You must now also sit a theory test that includes hazard perception, this costs £20.50 and details can be found on www.das.gov.uk

Good luck on all of these and I hope you find the bike you want

[m i k e]

Well for the test, you've got lessons, theory and the practical, like I said the theory's about £20 and I think the practical is about £40 so depending on how much an instructor would charge you for lesson and how many you would need; say if you needed 2 1 hour lessons at £20 each; your looking at £100 to get your licence.

For cheap 400/600's that's kind of like asking how long a piece of string is there's loads of 400 and 600's about, how exactly do you mean cheap? cheap to buy? cheap to insure? or both?

Mike
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[MarJay]

SV650S is a reasonable sporty cheap to insure bike.

However I would get at least a years experience on a 125 before you go up to a bike like that.
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[Mattastic]

I'll be doing my test, hopefully, in August / September and will also be looking at a 600 Bandit, a 600 Hornet or an SV650. All can be had for £2000 - £3000 for one in decent nick. I'm 23 and expect to pay £400 - £800 in insurance and I'll be upgrading my textiles to leather.

But I reckon I'll keep the GS125 until this time next year so I can have a years NCB, fingers crossed, and I reckon if I survive a year on this beast I can handle anything!
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[Laura]

You cna pick up old cbr's like mine for 500 - £700.
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[conure]

laura what cbr do you have? whats the condition like etc?

thanks

[mchaggis]

I stumbled across a rather good website a few months ago:

https://www.begin-motorcycling.co.uk/costs.htm

[carvell]