Rossi wrote:Get a 2nd opinion and if needs be take one of our guys from here along with you as I'm afraid some places still look at the fairer sex as easy game
Very true Rossi and more so when they know some of us women have no idea in hell what they are talking bout.
kellz wrote:$1000 now and get 12 months out of it and have the money to upgrade to a nice ZX6r or ZZR750.
or new 250 and have to stay on it for 2-3 years cause you cant afford a bigger bike.
not quite. Either way, I wont be able to afford to upgrade. If i spend the grand on this bike fixing it, I wont see that grand again.
If I spend that grand (and more) on a newer bike, Ill get almost all of it back again... to me, that sounds a hellovalot better especially, considering all the cash Ive put into it so far.
and im definetly taking a male friend in with me to talk to them tomorrow or saturday
I'd just fix the bike. At least then you know what you are in for with your current bike. Jsut cause you buy something newer doesnt mean that its going to shit itself in a weeks time. Better the evil you know than the evil you dont. Spend the grand now and put the other 4k in a term deposit, in 2 years time you will have more money than you would if you bought another bike and sold it.
Yeah i agree,although its great to have a new or semi new bike its only (sorry!) a 250 we're talking about here and how soon are you gonna get sick of the lack of power/torque,plus how much better will it be than the one you have just fixed up.Save your money now then work out a way to get a good 600 when on open license
Never trade the thrills of living for the security of existance
tanyathecheeky wrote:Mate sounds like you're got your head screwed on right
and not being biased a near new gpx would be good, if you were off you're restrictions the list would be huge For that sort of money you're also looking a 2/3yr old ZZR250's, avoid you cbr250/fzr250/2strokers, they're either old or unreliable
You could always move to Qld and get your opens
(well if you've had a car licence for 3 years anyway )
THAT IS SUCH A LOAD OF SHIT (sorry to be so blunt) but it is.
I had my cbr250rr for 2 years almost and did around 30,000km's on it .. the bike was a grey import and had 83k on the clock when i sold it and was running flawlessly, never had a real drama with it and it will out run and out handle a POS ZZR or GPX .. they are the bike to avoid (the ZZRand GPX) what a sack.
a mate of mine has a cbr250 that has gone round the odo and hes had it since about 40,000 .. so hes done 60k km's on it himself, and god knows if the 40k already on it was genuine (a grey import) and it still runs flawlessly!!
i just hate people giving misleading information it really shits me, thats why i had to say this. As much as i dont like honda's i can tell u now the cbr250 is bullet proof .. i revved the guts out of mine for every km i owned the thing and it never gave up on me!
run and out handle a POS ZZR or GPX .. they are the bike to avoid (the ZZRand GPX) what a sack.
but the cbrs are so old, which is one of the options in tanyas comment (hence the or)...I wonder why you took the unreliable one for the cbr...I would have taken it for the 2 stroke, but each to their own. Also, why spend 5k on a potentially 20 year old bike when you could get a 3 year old gpx. The gpx is bullet proof and they are renound for that fact. They handle well (I would love to know where you got the gpx handling like shit fact from) and a most importantly, cheap to run and much cheaper to insure than a cbr.
Tanya, the reason i think the 4 pot 250's are less suitable for beginners is that they are so revvy to get the thing going anywhere, 8krpm to take off from the lights, increased clutch control required etc.. But that's just beginners, once someones mastered that, then take whatever number of cyl's you want, i don't care.
But back on track, regarding fixing or flicking off, i'd go the fix, as above "the better the devil you know". Frankly, when it comes down to it, the gpx has been the same bike since 1985 with VERY minor modifications to its design from that point on until today.
I have bought and sold a few bikes, and over time, on almost every bike i have done some mods, not just for the bling factor but to improve it handling and/or performance wise. From getting essential parts like new chain/sprocket, a top end rebuild (that one was my fault :$) through to optional performance /handling tweaks like rebuild of the front forks, replacing the rear shock(s) and putting on a sports exhaust & doing the jetting.
The verdict was for a bit of outlay i got a bike that behaved a HELL of a lot better, and had i gone and spent the same quantitiy of money on another bike, i honestly could have been buying someone elses problem that they were trying to palm off (and that may or may not need the same things done to it)
I'd only bother going and getting a new bike if i was going to go changing models for some reason.
So to me, unless you were totally concerned with resale value, then just fix the issues you had in your bike, and then take the bike and go from there. Your bike will be nearly as good as the "modern" equivalents, with the only major differentiator is simply the year stamped on the compliance plate.
I also say "fix". I personally would rather spend a grand on my beloved and much maligned ZZR250 ("POS" I think was the comment.. ) than buy another "newer" bike with no guarantees that the day after you buy it it won't also drop dead.
And I'm making that comment as an unrestricted rider who has no desire to upgrade to a bigger bike just because I can, or rather because other people think I should
You will get more for your bike if you sell it later as a reliable, maintained Learner Legal bike, than you will now as a piece of crap that died in the a**.
Correct Wazza, Cbr250's are old and 2 strokes unreliable, unknot those undies mitch.
And you pay more for a cbr250 that's at least ten years old, very likely to be a grey import with unknown genuine kms and unknown service history, when for less money you can buy a reasonably new bike with full service history.
Hey I agree Mike, I actually found the bigger bikes easier to ride than the 250's, but she's in vic so therefore limited to a 250 I think Vic needs Lams
But my original recommendation was to fix her current bike, which I still stand by
umm fix the current bike....BUT...see if you can source a 2nd hand motor, it would be piss easy to put one in ..it took me 12 hrs (well me & my mate) to put back a 929 blade from 365 pieces...
a motor swap if u can find one from the wreckers would b a piece of piss....
consider that 5min after u take ownership of a newer 250 it will drop in value by $1000 at least..and if u do drop or damage that bike learning, it will drop by more...also consider on a $5k bike u would want to insure it against loss ..on a $2k it would b cheaper to insure...if u even bother...
carby balance is abt $80....put a new donk in..then sell it for $2k in 12 months..if its not running, its worth NOTHING at all..maybe $300...
calm down mitch have u actually ridden a zzr250 or gpx250 for any decent length of time?
the problem with most of the cbrs is that they're old... its hard to justify buying something thats 15 years old with lots of kms over something thats a couple of years old with slightly less power but low km.
i reckon fix the bike and save money for upgrading.
) than buy another "newer" bike with no guarantees that the day after you buy it it won't also drop dead.
