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Unless you get an unrestricted 2-stoke 125, it'll never test enough over 11kW to matter. And nobody will ever care enough to test it. Get a YZF, a 'Dearo, whatever you like. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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The difference between the 14.5 or 14.7 and the 15 'dead' quoted power of some 125's and licence regs is down to the conversion from Kw to BHP and how much 'rounding' the editor of whatever is being quoted decided to apply!
15bhp, at best might get you to a heady 70mph... which you might also get from something qith a mere 125 quoted bhp... a few tenths of a horse power is NOT going to make much odds to anything one way or another IF any-one even bothers to try measure it les start arguing over where and how they tried measuring it, and the experimental accuracy' of whatever they tried measure it with!
Just buy a 'standard' (or as close to standard as you can get!) road legal 125... and worry more about NOT CRASHING! That's the real issue on an L-Plate... or even a full licence TBH!!! ____________________ 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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Thx guys have enjoyed reading all your comments, and took not of any advice that was given. |
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The fact is all new 125's are horse$hit.
Every single one. No exceptions. They're almost identical, in every way.
You may as well buy an old reliable one, rather than $punk the money on a new plastic $hitty one.
People who buy those Yamaha 125's and stick ridiculously loud pipes on, in order to make it seem less like a 125, are only drawing attention to the fact that they're on a 125, in my book.
A Honda CG125, pound for pound, is probably the best 4 stroke 125 ever made. It has engine braking. Which is awesome. And is therefore more like a Ducati 916 than any other plastic pocket rocket wannabe you care to mention in this thread.
In other similarities to a Ducati 916, a CG is a "Design Classic" with a very "mechanical" feel to its riding experience. Its gearbox is a thing of engineering wonderment. Anyone who has down-changed on a CG and 916 will struggle to tell the difference.
It is, therefore, essentially a 916, without all the nonsense of having to change the belts every 2 years, or bore people to death in a car park about Fogerty's 1994 season. |
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I haven’t really decided I’m def not buying a yzf or mt 125 from showroom, I’ve been searching now online for a week and there’s not much really about at a decent price seems everybody overvalues there bikes, there’s dealers but that’s kind of jumping into the fire, maybe my expectations are unrealistic, I was expecting a decent bike for £400, cbr or CBF125 but most are £1200, and for them prices may aswell get a new Chinese bike with warranty, another thing I’m not sure if is if I go look at a bike and buy it what’s legally required of me to ride it home insurance of course, but tax before I even set off?, I wouldn’t mind a Varadero though but finding one under 2k in decent nick seems hard.so I’m undecided really where to go, I did look at the cg but not for me I don’t like thin anorexic tyres I want to know there’s a nice width of rubber on the road when it’s needed, so if any of you want to volunteer any info it would be greatly appreciated, take care. |
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No fucking chance, 125's carry a premium as they're all you can ride on a CBT. My neglected, now ratted, shitty little 125 commuter was £300. Zero chance it would have gone through another MOT as it was, every chance that it would get pulled on C&U offences if I had left it.
Expect to pay about grand for anything decent. Yamaha YBR is my suggestion, fairly bullet proof, loads about, spares plentiful. ____________________ '98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine) |
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Mephysto wrote: | I haven’t really decided I’m def not buying a yzf or mt 125 from showroom, I’ve been searching now online for a week and there’s not much really about at a decent price seems everybody overvalues there bikes, there’s dealers but that’s kind of jumping into the fire, maybe my expectations are unrealistic, I was expecting a decent bike for £400, cbr or CBF125 but most are £1200, and for them prices may aswell get a new Chinese bike with warranty, another thing I’m not sure if is if I go look at a bike and buy it what’s legally required of me to ride it home insurance of course, but tax before I even set off?, I wouldn’t mind a Varadero though but finding one under 2k in decent nick seems hard.so I’m undecided really where to go, I did look at the cg but not for me I don’t like thin anorexic tyres I want to know there’s a nice width of rubber on the road when it’s needed, so if any of you want to volunteer any info it would be greatly appreciated, take care. |
Mountain bike. You might get a completely shagged SR125 for that kind of money: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/yamaha-sr125-spares-or-repairs/253448582965?hash=item3b02b67735:g:L5AAAOSwtIxakVQQ BUT you'll be fixing it more than you'll be riding it. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 28 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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