startup cost

What are you running the CG on, then? Avgas and fully synthetic Repsol?

I insured a CG a couple of years ago, at 28, not using my NCB, for under
£100 / year. Fuel consumption was in the region of 100mpg, at least.

I'll go with this. Exactly the reason why my VFR has only been out of
the garage once in the last 3 months.

 

Oh no, we _really_ hate them

BTW, you'll make more friends if you learn to snip the irrelevant bits of a
preceding post when you reply.

Yup. You'll need to apply to the DVLA for a provisional motorcycle category
on your licence, but then you can go for it. The CBT is pretty much a
doddle to do; a day of riding around cones in a car-park and then half an
hour on the road. As long as you're not a complete twat with no sense of
self-preservation and an inner ear problem you should be fine.

Once you've passed the CBT the clock starts ticking, you have two years to
take and pass a motorbike test (one of the three I mentioned) otherwise you
have to give up riding for a year and then re-take your CBT.

The point about the coat was that as long as you have something warm and
waterproof-ish then it'll do to get you started. I did my CBT wearing a
borrowed open-face lid, ski gloves, jeans and a pair of Dr Martins.

BTW, Scotland is bike heaven - miles of great roads with little traffic.
You have to go for it.


--
AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas)
Kawasaki ZX-6R J1
BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL)
BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR#
The speccy Geordie twat.

 

My projected budget for the year:

6000 miles at 23 miles to the litre - £200.
6 litres oil: £15
Insurance: £108.23
Road Tax: £15
Parts: £80

Total: £418.23

Excludes clothing, depreciation (v. low on a CG).

The Shite Old Cage I used to have cost around £800 per year to run.
(Admittedly doing about half the mileage, however.)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AndrewR

And where does it say in my contract that I have to sell the idea FFS?

If the **** wants to ride a bike cool. If a bunch of wankers he's never
met can put him off, ged help him on the first cold morning.

"Sell the idea" indeed.

Leave EDS now, while there's hope.

 

Heh, I did the whole shooting match last year; theory test, cbt, DAS and got
a full, unrestricted licence, aged 40 having never really ridden a bike
before. It was truly one of the most rewarding decisions I have ever taken,
I only wish I had done it when I was a bit younger. I really don't buy into
the whole born again / old newbie = certain death theory, provided a modicum
of common sense is applied (which is why there is a CB500 in my sig, rather
than a Fireblade / R1 (also, sprots bikes don't really hit the spot for me
either)).

When I was first considering getting the bike I can remember some newbie
type on here putting forward various alternatives to his existing bike (ISTR
it was a commuter type machine like mine). One of the more experienced
chaps advised that until the bloke could ride his existing bike "to it's
limit" he really shouldn't consider changing it for anything more powerful.
Funny how things stick in your mind, but those words always pop into my head
when I have thoughts about trading up from the CB, so I guess I'll be
keeping it for quite a while to come.

Go for it, but without the over exuberance of youth.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

You never said so when I was on that RS125.

 

No, that was when I went out for a ride with a wax jacket as
waterproofs. That did look silly.

I can't remember now. Probably not - ISTR meeting you for the first
time at your current gaff. The one northern thing I do remember being
on the RS was a 400mile around the dales trip, when halfway rpound the
dodgily cast powervalve gave up the ghost, effectively making it a
powerband-less RS125.

My clutch hand was numb when I got home. That was also the day I
learned clutchless upshifts.

 

Christofire wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^^

you had to *learn* this? Didn't you just do it as a matter of course?
Does anyone bother using the clutch to change up on a bike?

 

On that Bandit? Nope...

 

So do I, thobut when I was a young biker I had a quick bike and nearly
died enough to qualify. (Assuming three weeks in the bed next to the
exit qualifies...)

Yes. Even a quick bike with stale experience is fraught. 'Swhy I'm
bolting a chair on mine.

 

William Grainger wrote:

On any bike?

 

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I've got quite a fast walking stick you could put a reflective band round.....

 

Very rarely.

 

The message <c2851d$1qe86u$-berlin.de>

I've seen some tasty bits of iron with no reserve on E-Bay relatively
recently - sort of, er, Murray Mince?

Otherwise Drew, look in your local Freeads.

 

I do, especially in the lower gears.

 

I do on the turbo, but that's because I have an over-abundance of
mechanical sympathy for it...

 

Nah just keep going as fast you can till youhit a speed bump it will
eventually go up

cheers )

 

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Ah. You have to lurk here for a bit to get the measure of the
inhabitants innit.

Why? I mean, if I were to have gone to the hill in a Barbour (jacket) it
would have been much coveted by my neighbours. (Eilean Fraoch)

The overtrousers would have been considered a bit pansy.

 

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I don't know how things have changed since I took my test in <whispers>
1960 </whisper>, but the easiest way to fail then was to forget to
glance back enough.

I'd wager it isn't a lot different now in that respect.

/snip/

I can't remember what I did mine in, though I do remember I had a Corker
(Rexine- covered cork bone-dome with a peak), gauntlets and probably,
wellies, though I might have had my ex-WD DR boots by then.

Yes. It was probably even more so in my comparative youth, thumping
around on a 1942 Matchless G3.

I can reveal though, that heaven rusts a bit round the edges when the
filter on your petrol tap comes off about fifteen miles west of Tyndrum,
when there's half a gale blowing, funnelled along the road by ten-foot
piles of snow which have been scraped up and deposited there.

Ever tried cleaning the main jet on an old Amal (pre-Monobloc) carb in
sub zero temps and half a gale? I gave up trying to keep my gauntlets
on, and cleared it every mile or so to Fort William....

 

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