MSE Motorcyclists

de1amo

i ride a piece of chinese crap! a mondial rs150 sports but i live in turkey where the sunshines year round and i dont have to wear a helmet.-i am browsing to get a kawasaki VN800--anyone have any views on the finest vintage of the marque?
no clue on my MPG because its all in litres and lira!

auroan

Running a Yamaha FZ6 S2 Fazer at the mo. Ride in all weathers, as I commute to work on it.

Cash-Strapped.T32

All-year rounder here, my "season" finishes when I knock off work & starts again the next morning.. :mad:
Agreed on the genius of bar-muffs, doing 6am runs my hands were in screaming-agony for months in winter until I saw the light; Remember, it doesn't matter how stupid you look so long as when you give them the finger it doesn't snap off like a twiglet.. :eek:

Atm my bike(s) are..
08' Aprilia Mana 850;



An absolute dream bike for filtering down bumper-to-bumper motorway tailbacks, avg's 50/55 mpg on my mainly motorway commute, & when the winter turns bad I'll garage it & move onto...;


'97 Suzy Burgman 400;


(I think this is a slightly newer model but you get the idea)

A complete & utter boat but it's nippy as hell (it's easier to wheelspin the Burgman by accident than the big nasty bike above), can carry provisions for an army & is cheap to run - £16 tax, about £18 p/week petrol per week for 200, nearly 250 miles, can't go wrong.

I'll be relying on it in winter but tbh I don't look forward to hitting ice on such a long bike..



Prior to these I was on a Gilera DNA 125 for 2yrs;


(not me or my bike in photo)

My god, that thing used about £12 p/week for the same 200/250mi and the insurance company were almost paying me it was so cheap to insure..

All year round here too, proper MSE.
Even in the absolute worst of the snow these past 2yrs the 125 did me proud & I didn't miss a day's work - Often you'd have both feet down & be bouncing up & down on the seat, treating it like a snowmobile, not a bike; I was better off than the car drivers who were dropping off the roads like flies.


(yes, I rode to work in this for days)

Damn I'll miss that bike this year. Maybe I ought to fit it with knobblies & get it back on the road just for the harshest days.
Cheap enough to run that you could get away with that..


If they were cars I would think it utter decadence to keep 3 hanging around, but because the 2 scoots are so cheap to maintain & run it's almost daft *not* to keep them, because everyone's eventually gonna have a day (or a month!) where the car/main bike won't start, you can't afford to be late for work/court etc.. & having a second vehicle you can just jump on without missing a stride is a valuable thing to have for a few reasons imo..

de1amo

my mondial is 30quid a year to insure and tax--the government here run the insurance part of things--the tax is paid through petrol--i use 4 quid a week for my commute--i can never understand the uk having compulsory insurance yet the government offering no 'cover!

Rolandtheroadie

This was the busa. Didnt corner very well. T737 CLN, the engines probably in a kit car now.

Radsteral

sold my hornet 600 to build my extension;) this april.
snow or rain or whatever, we were together..well me honda and a pair of gerbing pair of gloves
will ''upgrate'' to another honda likely cbf , when my tenant has paid the 5th month of rent

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Ive got a 1961 Lambretta li150 which im currently restoring. just waiting for the covers to come back from the paint shop..

juno

I'm currently having lessons and hope to take my test soon

Lincoln_Imp

58 plate ZX6R
Would love the new ZX10 but i cannot justify the money as only ride in decent weather

fivetide

boyse7en wrote: »

Can recommend Avon Storm tyres, got 7,000 miles out of my last set, and they were far grippier than the only-good-for-3,000 mile Continental Road Attacks that they replaced.

For winter, a pair of "bar muffs" together with heated grips saw me riding in temperatures as low as -9 deg C last year.

Strangely I can't - well depends on the conditions. For me the Avon Storm are brilliant in the dry, amazing grip but at the cost of poor wet performance. The Michelin Pilots are a much better all round tyre (IMHO)

And check out the gloves. I had ice on my jacket last year but toasty fingers. (Advice for those who haven't bought an off-road style bike I guess).

5t.