Nottm_S2

so long as you're moving

the cold doesnt really bother me as i dont do long distances. that is far from pleasant in the uk on a naked bike .. too much twaffic. I used to ride to Northants to work, 75 miles each way, on a cbr600rr and it was superb on a nice day. Never did it below 10C though as no heated grips. but you dont wanna get stuck in traffic on a bike like that.. breaks your arms

jml

Some English guys i met


here

unclefester

600 odd quid later ... 2 new discs, new pads, new front tyre and a nice ride to and from the workshop. Be back out on it as soon as the last of the winter grease has washed off the road.

Nottm_S2

bloody hell, that's a bill!

both mine are now unemployed as i'm working from home for a bit.. not sure what to do really, these things need to run. the XS i have used once in 3 weeks, the CRF has run to warm up and move fuel through the carbs

Nottm_S2

looks cool.. would like to do somert like that one day

unclefester

Discs are 150 something a piece, pads are 50 odd. Tyre is 100 odd .. plus labour plus VAT Soon mounts up.

I would just keep doing the above, keeping them ticking over costs you nothing really

Nottm_S2

Pricey bits!

yeah, will take the dirt bike into city this week for a blat

Welshman

BMW K1

BMW K1

BMW K1

BMW K1

Fancied one of these for quite a while but it wasn't till I started looking seriously that I found BMW produced a K1 without the garish graphics some of you may remember on the Red, Blue and Yellow bikes. This is in so called Classic Black. It's a 1992 bike with 47,000 km on the clock so just under 30,000 miles. 3 owners, and the seller has owned it for the last 20 years. I bought it in Germany via mobile.de. It's still there owing to travel restrictions but between myself and the seller we have worked out exactly what needs to be done to export it from Germany in a form that I can import it into Andorra. I suspect it'll be 3 or 4 weeks yet before I can fly/train it over to where he lives to collect it but I then have the prospect of a nice c.1.600 km ride home.

unclefester

That's very smart and i should think fairly rare now, especially in that condition.

Welshman

There are a couple up on mobile.de with around 10,000 km for Euro 12k to 13k. This one will have cost me a bit over Euro 7,250 by the time I've got it back here and paid the import duty. I think if the bike is as good as it looks then it should be a good deal. I'm aiming to ride it rather than have it sit in the garage so I expect some but not much depreciation providedI keep it in the same condition.

There seem to be enough about but as you would expect with a c.30 year old bike not many good ones.