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Unfortunately my legs are too short for a KTM, so I’ll take your word on it being fast. Their smaller offerings (the 390) I think come from their India factory and exhibit some poor welding and duff corrosion resistance. Hopefully their larger bikes are still built in the EU and have decent quality.
I know I mentioned not worrying about residuals in my previous post, but it would be the actual purchase price that would make me baulk at a 1290… £15,000 sure be a lot of dosh.
So maybe the 1090 is the sweet-spot for you. But do you actually need an ‘adventure style’ bike? Do you plan on a lot of off-road riding? How about two cheaper bikes each suited to their role – one for fast commuting and general riding pleasure, the other for fully kitted ‘adventure’ touring. You could let someone else have the initial depreciation, hence go for two secondhand 5k bikes, and hence save yourself 5k on the overall deal. So, how about a VFR800 (low mileage examples about £4500) plus a XL1000V Varadero (immaculate examples seen at £5500, possibly available for less).
Choices, choices…
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Stop being a dick and go and buy the S1000XR that you wanted in the first place. F_ck the residuals. When your time comes in a few dozen years and you are lying there on your death bed, the last thing that you are going to care about is how clever you were with resale values.
Plus the S1000XR will allow you to leave 10 mins late and get there 10 mins early, and enjoy every mile.
Finger out now. The shop is that way >>>
I can’t believe that when I last was at your place it was actually summer 2009. It was 7.5 years ago… FFS where does the time go?
I’ll pop over this summer…
Radar, the RF hasn’t seen light for too many years… I think it was 2009… I seem to have sleep-walked myself from motorcyclist to motorcycle owner, lol
Money is tight at the moment, but things will change one way or another later this year… I will either have some initial success in my new direction, or may sell the house, or might possibly end up doing 6 – 12 months of contracting to build reserves (in which case I would probably rent my house out, and rent a place wherever the work was). Either way, the direction is generally right, it’s just money thats the issue. No change there then.
Time will tell. I quite fancy replacing the RF with an early R1 (or another ‘blade), but with a flat-bar conversion. But it’s likely to be next year if I’m honest with myself.
Keep it up matey.
Gordy! Mt old mate how’s tricks??
Things are well, Gordy happy, but very much behind schedule… I decided to take a few months out to reassess life, and finally decided that I had made the right [career change, blah, blah] decisions and was on the right track, but it’s left me behind where I hoped to be in terms of progress… still, never mind, at least I have a direction… and a
on my face…So it’s now 2am and Gordy gotta go sleep….. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz…
Hope it all goes swimmingly well.
By the way, Zephyr racing is still very big in Japan (Google: DOBAR Tsukuba , then click Images…)
Yo R, hope all is well,
It’s not often that I swing by, but I have a spare few mins and can’t be bothered with the pub (obviously a sign of early-onset dementia, or something!).
So, nice to see you’ve been out and about with C. Little do each of you know that the other has a secret plan… your plan being to encourage C towards bigger and better MCs, whilst her plan (as she has secretly already convinced herself of the need for more) is to bore you with the ped’s pace to the point where you offer her the 550 just so you can burn the ped in a fit of justifiale spite.
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Once they are common they will require instrumentation to allow car-to-infrastructure communication. That is the thin end of the wedge. From that point the only way is down. It eventually will lead to every vehicle requiring location / communication electronics, including motorcycles. That means that your every journey will be officially recorded and logged, and that includes your speed. And everyone is sleep-walking into it.
This is not scare-mongering, it is the most likely scenario, yet the docile double-dumb British public just stare blankly and smile glibly like the brain-dead, rigid-thinking morons that they are.
We need smart drivers not smart cars.
Despite a valiant attempt, Radar’s best morning efforts fell short of a true Hamsteak replica…
(https://planetjapanblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/kawasaki-z1-r-hamsteak-1-by-yellow-corn.html)
on my face…