DRZ400SM Motard

**marty** · 11th April 2011, 14:17

In black (the best colour). Very straight and easy to ride. Nice loud pipe for safety

Always garaged, hardly ever ridden in the rain. Was an upgrade bike from a learner rider so never ridden hard.

It's in Nelson at the moment being stored until I can get down there to pick it up. I can do a deal on delivery to anywhere in NZ. $5k will see it delivered anywhere in NZ from Nelson...

It's listed under my mate's tardme account, but he's left it with me to sell as he is travelling overseas.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-366481087.htm

**Ricardo S** · 11th April 2011, 17:31

Hey Marty, is it in Hamilton now? mmm bloody tempting...

**Mystic13** · 11th April 2011, 17:42

If you check out the wanted to buy here wasn't a member looking for one of these. And 5K looks cheap.

**Ricardo S** · 12th April 2011, 00:39

its so painful to hold a learners license and have to spend the same amount of money or more in a 250cc

**marty** · 12th April 2011, 13:49

Nah it's in Nelson til I can go down there and get it. PM me if you want to discuss getting it up here.

And yeah I've PM'd that guy but he had already bought one

**Ricardo S** · 12th April 2011, 20:17

Originally Posted by marty

Nah it's in Nelson til I can go down there and get it. PM me if you want to discuss getting it up here.

And yeah I've PM'd that guy but he had already bought one

hey mate, don't worry about bringing it up, i'd do it

but i got to consider it more carefully...at the end of the day i might be up to

olice: a reasonably high fine

**Chris_chch** · 12th April 2011, 21:30

Originally Posted by Ricardo S

its so painful to hold a learners license and have to spend the same amount of money or more in a 250cc

You can apply for an exemption.... Just put forward a good case. A mate got an exemption because he was 'big boned' and 'tall', an argued most 250's where too small to be safe

Also helps if you can get an instructor to back up your abilities as a rider. Not much point jumping up if you're going to kill yourself etc

**rabidnz** · 13th April 2011, 07:15

Originally Posted by Ricardo S

its so painful to hold a learners license and have to spend the same amount of money or more in a 250cc

There are only 3 road legal production 250cc bikes worth over 4000, mc28, tzr sp, vj23sp. It really pains me how people pay 4-5000 for cbr250s and zxr250s with around 40k on the clocks and tidy but repainted single colour fairings. It pains me even more to see all the 250s which have been on trademe over a year, all around that price mark. Obviously easily fooled learners dont come around as often down here as in auckland!
Dont get me started on the fuckin numnuts who spend 8k on a ninja or hyosung plastic fantastic , unless you are intending to do an insurance scam on it :P

**Ricardo S** · 14th April 2011, 00:15

Originally Posted by Chris_chch

You can apply for an exemption.... Just put forward a good case. A mate got an exemption because he was 'big boned' and 'tall', an argued most 250's where too small to be safe

Also helps if you can get an instructor to back up your abilities as a rider. Not much point jumping up if you're going to kill yourself etc

i read through the license exemption experiences some of the KB's members have posted around and i got the feeling that it's not likely to be granted to someone with a learners license. in the other hand, looking at the official application form it seems like they would consider overseas experience...

yeah, you got me thinking harder about it...

**Ricardo S** · 14th April 2011, 00:36

Originally Posted by rabidnz

There are only 3 road legal production 250cc bikes worth over 4000, mc28, tzr sp, vj23sp. It really pains me how people pay 4-5000 for cbr250s and zxr250s with around 40k on the clocks and tidy but repainted single colour fairings. It pains me even more to see all the 250s which have been on trademe over a year, all around that price mark. Obviously easily fooled learners dont come around as often down here as in auckland!
Dont get me started on the fuckin numnuts who spend 8k on a ninja or hyosung plastic fantastic , unless you are intending to do an insurance scam on it :P

well, the thing is, as long as there's uninformed riders willing to pay the extremely high prices for the 250's we will find ppl asking $5k for 2003 klx 250 bikes

(recently listed on tm).

i hope that in the next month or 2 the prices drop a bit and by then i'll have some time to figure a good approach and apply for the exemption.

as for insurance bit... does ppl do that here in nz? (the bad part i mean)

cheers,
Ricardo

**racefactory** · 14th April 2011, 07:08

Originally Posted by Ricardo S

its so painful to hold a learners license and have to spend the same amount of money or more in a 250cc

Just buy it. This is an awesome machine!

You don't have to have a 250 if you don't want to, that's just what the system says. It's only $100 if you get caught so even if you get caught a few times you're still up in the pocket since you didn't bend over for overinflated 250 prices. I've been riding 750s 400s etc since learners, not because of the power and such but simply because I couldn't justify getting shafted with ludicrous price tags. Never been caught so it's paid off. Only just got my restricted the other day after so many years though

Marty what do the DRZ's do for L/100km on a cruise, would you know?

**Willdat?** · 14th April 2011, 12:14

Carver will tell you otherwise...

But I struggled to use more than 4L/100km for a completely stock example.

**marty** · 14th April 2011, 12:47

yeah bank on 5l/100km and you'd be sweet. Whakamaru to 5kms before Waiouru via western bypass on the main tank, switch to reserve, took 7l to fill it at Waiouru

**Ricardo S** · 14th April 2011, 13:19

Originally Posted by racefactory

Just buy it. This is an awesome machine!

You don't have to have a 250 if you don't want to, that's just what the system says. It's only $100 if you get caught so even if you get caught a few times you're still up in the pocket since you didn't bend over for overinflated 250 prices. I've been riding 750s 400s etc since learners, not because of the power or anything but simply because I couldn't justify getting shafted with ludicrous price tags. Never been caught so it's paid off. Only just got my restricted the other day after so many years though

Marty what do the DRZ's do for L/100km on a cruise, would you know?

from the nz transport agency website:

"Breaching the learner conditions of your driver licence (other than failing to display L plates) could result in you receiving 35 demerit points and a fine of $100. If you breach any other conditions of your driver licence you could receive 25 demerit points and be subject to a fine of $400."

translating: if you don't display the "L" plate you get a $100 fine, if you riding a 400cc bike you get a $400 fine? - yeah, i know, should have paid more attention on my English classes.

i'm building a case to apply for an exemption, definitely would need some help on writing it :P

**racefactory** · 14th April 2011, 13:46

Negative. Despite what it says, every breach of the license conditions incurs a hundy fine now. You can just put the L plate on anyway and save you the extra hundy if you get caught, until you get your restricted. I didn't bother though since donning an L plate can prove quite hazardous when other road raging cages are about.