Textbook wannabie

[sil3nt]

Thanks. I'm going to buy locally, definitely, so that I have a chance to test it out first, so that should kill $200 for shipping. But yeah the rest looks pretty good. Rego + insurance is expensive!!! Grr

heres another bike I've been looking at everyone, have heard quite good things about the CBR250RR

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=327803327

That yellow GPX 250 (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=339964712) has a new warrant and a rego. Gonna go take a look next week I hope, woohoo!

The GPX will just keep going and going. There is a reason they made them for 20 years practically unchanged! The new ninjas might look better but they are no faster.

[mikemike104]

I have a 1989 GPX that as of next week will owe me bout 6k, paid $2800 for it, have spent the rest on mechanical work... and last weekend blew the head gasket.

Still, my woes aside I think its a great first bike, very forgiving, light, nimble, excellent on the commute to work, slim build so easy to split when or if needed. They also have a 18l tank so I get about 330kms per tank full, and atm that's about $32 to fill.

If I were you I think I would find it very hard to not naturally prefer to pick a faster bike like the CBR250RR you mention above, on the other hand the yellow GPX is a 2001 so heaps newer than the Honda..

Good luck with it all.

[mikemike104]

The GPX will just keep going and going. There is a reason they made them for 20 years practically unchanged! The new ninjas might look better but they are no faster.

Also I agree with this. Honda Hamilton who have my bike now think it has done far more work than what my speedo has counted... so therein may lie my problem.