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scotty g - 22/6/08 at 07:56 AM

Hi all,
my daily comute has now dropped from a 45 mile round trip to about a 3 mile round trip, i have just sold my tin top as it was on its last legs anyway.
i am thinking that it might be easier and a hell of lot cheaper to get a little 125cc bike instead of replacing the car but I've been watching beay and they don't seem to be cropping up as much as I would have liked and the auto trader is really poor, can anyone else think of a good place to look for them.
cheers.

graememk - 22/6/08 at 07:58 AM

get a walk through scooter...

big_wasa - 22/6/08 at 08:00 AM

Small bike really hold there money.

fazerruss - 22/6/08 at 08:03 AM

try your local ad trader paper or better still go to adtrader.co.uk its nation wide and you can get some good bargains

scotty g - 22/6/08 at 08:05 AM

quote:

Small bike really hold there money.


Tell my about it, the only ones that really de-value are the chinese ones which are mostly crap.
Can't bring myself to get any sort of step through as i'm not a teenager.

will121 - 22/6/08 at 08:38 AM

local free ads good place to start or try

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/bikesforsale/searchresults/?N=191

COREdevelopments - 22/6/08 at 09:08 AM

cagiva mito? 125 looks like a ducatti! nice

rob

scotty g - 22/6/08 at 09:12 AM

There are some lovely looking 125's about these days, amazingly even the MZ's don't look bad and from what i have been reading they are reliable and quick too.
First Skoda and now MZ, what is there left to take the micky out of? For the sake of our humour, somebody please, bring gack lada!

[Edited on 22/6/08 by scotty g]

02GF74 - 22/6/08 at 09:13 AM

quote:
Originally posted by scotty g
Hi all,
my daily comute has now dropped from a 45 mile round trip to about a 3 mile round trip, i have just sold my tin top as it was on its last legs anyway.
i am thinking that it might be easier and a hell of lot cheaper to get a little 125cc bike instead of replacing the car but I've been watching beay and they don't seem to be cropping up as much as I would have liked and the auto trader is really poor, can anyone else think of a good place to look for them.
cheers.


Pardon me for asking but what is wrong with you poeple.

3 MILE ROUND TRIIP~!?!?!!?

unless you are disabled, what is wrong with walking? Take you all of 8 minutes max.

I just don't get it - someone was asking about buying a car for wife who does similar distance to work......

Millions of years of eolution gave us legs so why not use them?


ok, rant over....

scotty g - 22/6/08 at 09:18 AM

don't get me wrong, i'm quite happy to walk and do so at the moment but there will be occasions when i might need or want to travel a further and on these occasions i will need transport and it seems daft paying out to have a car sat around when i may only need it from time to time.

Bigheppy - 22/6/08 at 09:22 AM

Bike Tradder

gingerprince - 22/6/08 at 10:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
3 MILE ROUND TRIIP~!?!?!!?

unless you are disabled, what is wrong with walking? Take you all of 8 minutes max.


Bit of an exageration. 3 mile round trip = 1.5 miles each way. 1.5 miles in 8 minutes is 11.25mph. That's some damn long legs! Probably more like 30 minutes each way at a steady walking pace (3mph).

Still probably quicker than the traffic tho

tegwin - 22/6/08 at 11:29 AM

I would give anything to be able to walk to work.....but 25 miles each way is a bit excessive I think!

jambojeef - 22/6/08 at 11:47 AM

You'll be needing a madass!!

http://londonbikers.com/news/3663/madass-gets-more-bad-ass-for-2008

Currently trying to get my better half to ditch the car in favour of one of these - £1500 on the road brand spanky new?

Gotta be worth a second look....