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Simple
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PostPosted: 19:06 - 19 Apr 2006    Post subject: [WANTED] dirtbike Reply with quote

Doesnt have to be road legal

tight budget,
in coventry could collect.

PM me what you've got
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PostPosted: 01:31 - 22 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is a tight budget?

Usually scramblers hold their value pretty well depending on what it is. My 96 yz sold on ebay for over a grand, you can buy 01/02 for about 1500 and i have even seen some as old as 89/90 go for about £7-800
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PostPosted: 03:17 - 22 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Theres been a few dT's on buy it now on ebay for about £500 - £700 Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:15 - 22 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

markcatate wrote:
What is a tight budget?

Usually scramblers hold their value pretty well depending on what it is. My 96 yz sold on ebay for over a grand, you can buy 01/02 for about 1500 and i have even seen some as old as 89/90 go for about £7-800



my budget is tighter, £600 max,

Don't think it's worth it now, only wanted one to play with on the farm until I go to uni, but thats in september so I wudnt really get my monies worth Crying or Very sad

will never have the chance to have 350 achres all to myself and a dirt bike ever again.

unless something suitable comes up cheap I'm not going to bother anymore
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PostPosted: 01:41 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

get something like a pit bike.
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PostPosted: 01:42 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can get brand new semi-decnet pit bikes for less than £400
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PostPosted: 01:46 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

but would I be able to sell it?

I wanted a road legal dirt bike so I could shift it easily before going to uni.

Then I thought O well maybe just a cheap dirt bike, always a market for them..

a pit bike crossed my mind, something like a 110cc hymoto,

I can get trade accounts with most companies (already have one with Hymoto) but dunno, just thought I'd end up stuck with a minimoto and a pit bike.

unless any of you lot have one that I could buy?
what's the best make? Thumpstar or other?
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PostPosted: 01:48 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

youd easily sell a pit bike if it still works etc etc cos theyre cheap fun.. i wouldnt mind one myself sometime this year.. cheap fun basically... go for it..

you wont get fuck all for £600 other than a pit bike or an old knackered up dirt bike.. you're far more likely to sell the pit bike and theyre great fun too...
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PostPosted: 10:13 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sparks! wrote:
youd easily sell a pit bike if it still works etc etc cos theyre cheap fun.. i wouldnt mind one myself sometime this year.. cheap fun basically... go for it..

you wont get fuck all for £600 other than a pit bike or an old knackered up dirt bike.. you're far more likely to sell the pit bike and theyre great fun too...

Personally, I'm not a fan of pit bikes over full size bikes. Might not be such an issue for Sarah, but get onto anything too bumpy and I found the suspension just didn't have the travel and the whole package didn't quite seem to 'work' for me.

£600 should get you a decent enough bike.
I got my KTM for £450, used it through out the winter and sold it for £435 (and I kept some of the spares it came with). It had a few issues along the way (like the rear brake stopping working), but I had a load of fun on it and while it occasionaly had starting problems, I always got it restarted eventually and carried on (and I sorted out the starting probs just before I sold it Rolling Eyes - should have put the effort in before).
Doesn't really matter if a dirt bike is a bit 'knackered up' - as that's how it should end up if you're riding it properly anyway Smile.

From what I've seen, it seems a load easier to sell a second hand dirtbike and lose that much that sell a pitbike you got new and lose that much.
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PostPosted: 11:25 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

the PM offers are good people, keep them coming

I'm not going to get a pit bike I've decided, My offroad Allegro is more agile and robust than a pit bike,

plus our cattle chase motorcycles at full pelt (over 20mph) a pit bike wont cut it, I'd have to pick it up and run away lol.

Thinking of selling the GPZ and getting something a bit more upmarket for offroading like a DR400 and use it on the road, but again motorway miles would suck more than a cheap american porn star.

keep the advice comint too peeps
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PostPosted: 21:30 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 21:46 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

HA thanks phantomket but I'm never dealing with that... loverly individual.
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple wrote:
HA thanks phantomket but I'm never dealing with that... loverly individual.


Smile Worth a try.

What if I buy it, then sell it to you for triple the price, you know, as a favour Wink

Good luck. Thumbs Up Smile
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PostPosted: 21:48 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go for it, I mean the buying it and selling it on, I however want nothing to do with mr tattoo
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple wrote:
Go for it, I mean the buying it and selling it on, I however want nothing to do with mr tattoo


I don't have £200 Sad

But I do have a DRZ Wink
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PostPosted: 22:03 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ill have your DRZ for £600.

you know, cos I'm a mate like,

then you can get a job over summer, work your ass off, and buy it back off me for £600 in september Razz
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 23 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple wrote:
Ill have your DRZ for £600.

you know, cos I'm a mate like,

then you can get a job over summer, work your ass off, and buy it back off me for £600 in september Razz


Damn good plan! Wink

I left it in my car.........

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PostPosted: 02:34 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

phantomtek wrote:
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fuckin hell for £200 that may be a bargain but i guess best bought buy someone who can change a barrel and piston themselves as getting it done at a garage wd bring the total cost up to a typical price for a working one
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PostPosted: 02:57 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you wanted something that could replace your gpz for motorway use and go on the field you could get a dominator which is a street orientated big trail bike

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/honda-dominator-1990-not-xl-xt-dr-transalp-africatwin_W0QQitemZ4632340847QQcategoryZ9806QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

or a yamaha tt600 which is a dirt orientated big trail bike

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YAMAHA-TT600_W0QQitemZ4631928361QQcategoryZ9809QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i dont think the dominator would be too tall for you when you are sitting on it but the tt600 might be a bit of a stretch

big things like that wd be a bit awkward for tricky trails, but they would be fine for charging around fields at speed
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PostPosted: 13:42 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

keeping the GPZ for the road until restriction is up (10months to go)

don't want a 600cc 'dirt' bike I have one, its too heavy and ni on impossible to kick over, its also buried under a load of crap in the garage and has been for a few years now.

Insurance is too high on dirt bikes as they get stolen alot around here ( I've had two stolen)

£200 fora bike that needs a new engine or a rebuild is possibly cheap, however it's been raced in it's life so could hide a multitude of things about to go wrong, it's also for sale by mr tattoo who seems to wheel and deal alot of bikes which is slightly suspiscious in my eyes, especially when he gets arsy over someone who has a genuine intrest asking questions.
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple wrote:

don't want a 600cc 'dirt' bike I have one, its too heavy and ni on impossible to kick over, its also buried under a load of crap in the garage and has been for a few years now.


if you or pheonix got that running and thru an mot, i might buy it, or if not me someone else would and its more money towards what you want to get

you could put it on ebay for spares and someone would pay something for it
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple wrote:
don't want a 600cc 'dirt' bike I have one, its too heavy and ni on impossible to kick over, its also buried under a load of crap in the garage and has been for a few years now.


I'm going to have to disagree with you there I'm afraid. I went out on my KLR600 today and it started first kick and it was very easy to kick over even though it has been standing for the best part of 3 weeks with no cover. After riding my XJ600 around for the past 3 weeks the KLR felt like a mountain bike and it was very easy to maneuver and thrash around. I took it through a little rooty trail through some woods near here aswell and it was absolutely fine and didn't feel heavy or slow in any way at all, if anything the low down torque of the 600cc motor was bloody useful on the slower stuff and being a bigger capacity bike it has as much top end speed as you're ever going to need off road. It also coped fine with some jumps (I'm not talking motocross style jumps here, although perhaps 2ish feet of air) and it didn't feel like a handful at any point.

Naturally your actual weight and size is going to play a big factor here but I really think it'd be worth digging out the old thumper in your garage. I was surprised how light my KLR felt after riding my road bike and maybe you will be too especially as you say it hasn't been out of the garage for a few years and you've probably grown a bit since then and you have a lot more experience with bikes now. Big thumpers can be made to start easily (or so I've found in my experience) and I think it'd be fine unless you were planning on entering some motocross races over the summer or something and I don't think you'd get much for £200 anyway.

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PostPosted: 19:39 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

KLR600 wrote:

Naturally your actual weight and size is going to play a big factor here


If you'd met her, you'd realise it probably is a rather large factor Smile.

Some 600s are fine for enduro/green lane use (klr600,dr600 etc) as they aren't really too heavy. While stuff like the KLR650 is a load lardier and not so much use for anything over a green lane in standard trim - well a lot more work if you want it to do something proper!
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PostPosted: 19:51 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

COLINWALL wrote:
Simple wrote:

don't want a 600cc 'dirt' bike I have one, its too heavy and ni on impossible to kick over, its also buried under a load of crap in the garage and has been for a few years now.


if you or pheonix got that running and thru an mot, i might buy it, or if not me someone else would and its more money towards what you want to get

you could put it on ebay for spares and someone would pay something for it


It's not mine, its 30 years old, it never been road legal and is far from it now.
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 24 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

G wrote:
KLR600 wrote:

Naturally your actual weight and size is going to play a big factor here


If you'd met her, you'd realise it probably is a rather large factor Smile.




Indeed I'm 5ft 4" and weigh a pebble over 7stone,

The ccm is way too big for me I have to have some one act as a docking station and I need a mounting block type afair to get on it.
It's full offroad trim and is old and heavy.

I dont want more than a 400 offroad, It's not needed and dad will kill me as he deosnt want the ground ripping up too much.

I may have found the bike I'm looking for, I'm just waiting for some pictures.

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