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11kw bike or 25kw?

  • 12-05-2009 10:52am
    #1
    darraghm92
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭


    I was thinking on getting a bike and i wasn't sure if i should wait until i was 18 to get a 25kw bike or to get one at 17, 11kw. Are there many 25kw sport bikes out there? Except the ninja 250.
    I'd be keeping the bike for 2 years. I was thinking of a cbr125r. Is it good for a 17 year old, 5'10, not growing. To a 19/20 year old by the time i get one.
    What would you recommened? A 11kw at 17 or a 25kw?
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  • #2
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,998 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Have you considered the price of insurance on a "sports bike" at your age. I would really go looking at quotes before you make the leap. Might be better to pick up some NCB for a year or two on a moped.


  • #3
    slapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭slapper


    i wouldnt go near the cbr's there 2 small get a varadero 125 that will do you a while start on a 125 then after a year or so go up to some thing bigger if you want but regardless do your test on a bike bigger than a 125 get a loan of a 250 or something
    the restriction is 2 year from when you get your FULL licence not from when you get A licence
    when you are 18 i would reckomend a bandit or gsxr 600 both factory restricted 03 onwards its the only restriction the insurance companies recognise
    any other restriction is a legal thing


  • #4
    darraghm92
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭darraghm92


    slapper wrote: »
    i wouldnt go near the cbr's there 2 small get a varadero 125 that will do you a while start on a 125 then after a year or so go up to some thing bigger if you want but regardless do your test on a bike bigger than a 125 get a loan of a 250 or something
    the restriction is 2 year from when you get your FULL licence not from when you get A licence
    when you are 18 i would reckomend a bandit or gsxr 600 both factory restricted 03 onwards its the only restriction the insurance companies recognise
    any other restriction is a legal thing


    So would you recommened me waiting till i am 18 and getting a bandit 600 restricted or starting on a 125? I have to think about the money too, i'm not getting too high paid at my job, so if i get a bike i have to keep it for a few years, so the size of the bike itself will be an issue.


  • #5
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    at 18 your insurance is gonna be crazy. Saying that i was talking to one of me mates yesterday and he got quoted just over 700 on a cbr250. He only 19. Which is fairly strange that he got such a cheap quote.


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