So winter is coming

**Voltaire** · 23rd March 2011, 06:29

Originally Posted by Animus

I think I will get the 600 and just take it easy for 3 months until I get my full. I just want to catch the end of summer! I should manage to keep it upright until I start pushing it. I have had three serious crashes on the road with one putting me in hospital so I'm aware of how unforgiving the road is but I am a much better rider than I was 5 years ago.

Go chat to your MP about riding a 600 on a learners.....I hear Nicks a reasonable bloke,

**SPP** · 23rd March 2011, 06:56

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

Sweet. My g/f has that exact bike, an 08 600RR, and it's a fantastic bike that is probably one of the more flexible sports 600's on market, and one of the lightest too! Without knowing your riding ability personally I'd hesitate to recommend anything for you, but assuming you know what you're doing on a bike my vote (depending on the maths) would be fix and sell the CBR250 and save your dollars up for the 600. Then you wouldn't need the RGV 'cos the 600 will weight fuck all more, have better suspension/brakes/ etc and about 50-60hp more.

what he said.

A 08 CBR will be expensive to stack. IMO fix 250, get licence, get 600, get insurance.

**Jantar** · 23rd March 2011, 09:11

Fix up your 250 and ride it untill you you get your full. Then decide what to upgrade to if an upgrade is needed.

What has winter got to do with it?

**Banditbandit** · 23rd March 2011, 14:31

Originally Posted by Animus

by new honda cbr600rr 2008 I mean a low ks one. there is one in chch and one up north.

Are you sure the one in Chch is still really there?

**ducatilover** · 23rd March 2011, 15:10

I'll give you a ZZR400 for the CBR and then make a big bang motor that can hit 19krpm and giggle at the flamboyant lack of torque

**Animus** · 23rd March 2011, 17:20

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Are you sure the one in Chch is still really there

It was when I called up a week or two ago, asked whether it had any dents after the earthquake and got a few laughs

Originally Posted by Jantar

What has winter got to do with it?

just my hook to get people to read and hopefully vote on the thread, going for the seasonal angle ya know. I think slippery roads and grit also factor into the amount of riding I will do.

**Animus** · 23rd March 2011, 17:29

chch one looks like it be gone, seem to be a few around though. Might be some used 2009 models if I wait around...

**ducatilover** · 23rd March 2011, 17:46

Why the '08 in particular? Because of the massive claimed loss in weight?

**p.dath** · 24th March 2011, 14:07

I'd probably get the CBR250RR fixed, if the cost was less than 1/3 of the value that I could sell the bike for.

**imdying** · 24th March 2011, 14:59

Strip the CBR and see what died.

If you want to learn to fix stuff, the CBR is better than the RGV... the RGV could be put together by anyone in a day, the CBR needs a lot more attention to rebuild.

/edit: Mind you, once you get your full, the RGV you will still enjoy riding, but the CBR250RR you'd be looking to flick off as fast as possible.

**Animus** · 24th March 2011, 20:52

the rs250 is beckoning. have wanted one for years. maybe the time has come I will try and tame one

**rachprice** · 24th March 2011, 20:57

2 stroke! 2 stroke!

**Smifffy** · 24th March 2011, 21:07

If you're worried about winter, get a car.

**Conquiztador** · 27th March 2011, 10:05

"So winter is coming"

Originally Posted by Jantar

What has winter got to do with it?

What the man said. You have not seen winter before you been riding in -20 degrees C with ice and snow on the roads. I remember when we used to put spikes in the tyres so we could ride... But I digress.

What you decide does not matter. THAT you make a decision is what matters. Once you made a decision you can move forwards. Might be the wrong one, but once you figure that out you make a new one and off ya go again. Loosers sit on their azz for years trying to figure out what is the right decision while winners make decisions and move forwards. The scare to make a "wrong decision" is overrated.

**KevinD** · 28th March 2011, 11:34

Originally Posted by FruitLooPs

1.5k for a new engine - but whats actually wrong with the current one thats causing no compression? few parts and some hours of your time could save you buying a whole unknown engine or worse an aged 2-stroke 250 thats just going to drain cash when it needs a rebuild or goes bang on you as much fun as they are.

either way fix up the 250, those CBR's attract stupid money second hand - at least they did last I checked anyhow.

How do you manage zero compression on two cylinders, rings cant wear out on only two cylinders like that surely - so that leaves the gear driven highly touted bullet proof among the 250's top end, valves eat something or?

Assuming the faulted cylinders are adjacent, a blown head gasket. If so this can often be a low cost fix.