want to buy: not vw: motorbike/scooter for learner NSW

ColumBUS Hail To The Bus Driver!

3,601 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 10 Oct 2005, 7:16 pm

#416002

looking to spend around 2000. ive looked at the usual websites bikepoint bikesales tradingpost etc. so i figure i may as well check out the goods here.

anyone got anything going? would prefer 250cc or less.

[ Edited on 12-10-2005 by Kroozin_Kikko ]

greedy51 Wolfsburg Wizard

668 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 11 Oct 2005, 5:34 pm

#416389

go to blacksland road campbelltown and look in the bike shop here some nice buys

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Doug Casual Dubber

27 posts · joined Sep 2005 · 11 Oct 2005, 8:23 pm

#416464

Have a 1996 suzuki ER185 TS in VGC. Road and trail sprockets supplied, road chain and sprocket new. Bike bought new, one owner and hardly ever ridden. Complete with all lights and mirrors$1200.00 Brisbane

for photos email: dougspostbox@aol.com
ph. M 0412652500

ColumBUS Hail To The Bus Driver!

3,601 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 12 Oct 2005, 7:32 am

#416590

either scooter or bike

greedy thanks for the advice i'll check it today.

doug if you weren't 12 hours away i'd check it out

[ Edited on 11-10-2005 by Kroozin_Kikko ]

EgeWorks Wolfsburg Wizard

602 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 12 Oct 2005, 8:45 am

#416625

My advice. Don't get a scooter. They handle badly and are gutless. Postie bikes are are one step up, and you could get an immaculate one for 2k. A very good one for 1k and spend the rest on something else. Any 250cc 2-stroke roadbike will go pretty well, but one without a fairing will be cheaper to repair if you stack it. If you buy second hand make sure you know a lot about bikes or take someone who does (same as with everything else) else there is agood chance you will have to spend a bunch of money on it afterwards. Check the trading post, there are always a few good deals there.

All this is from experience. Have fun, bikes are the best.

fetid_swamp Seriously Crusin Dubber

174 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 12 Oct 2005, 9:53 am

#416652

Doug wrote:Have a 1996 suzuki ER185 TS in VGC. Road and trail sprockets supplied, road chain and sprocket new. Bike bought new, one owner and hardly ever ridden. Complete with all lights and mirrors$1200.00 Brisbane

for photos email: dougspostbox@aol.com
ph. M 0412652500

aaarh, the old er. unchanged since 1970 and all the better for it. you cant kill them with an axe. not pretty or fast or well suspended but will cheeply and reliably get you where you are going. there was a couple with a couple doing lazy laps of the globe on them.

ColumBUS Hail To The Bus Driver!

3,601 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 12 Oct 2005, 2:36 pm

#416717

edgeworks: thankyou a lot for the advice, i have been looking at postie bikes now. if i were to buy a scooter it would be a larger 250cc model, which are much harder to find (though i have found a beauty that comes with jacket and helmet).

i cannot ride a two stroke 250cc engine on a learner license, only 4 stroke 250, but i wouldnt want one anyway, like i said i want an incredibly weak bike, like scooter or postie.
looked at the trading post today, there's quite a few out there. cheers.

greedy51 Wolfsburg Wizard

668 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 12 Oct 2005, 3:21 pm

#416720

brisbane's not far for that money ride it back might as well get used to it

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ColumBUS Hail To The Bus Driver!

3,601 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 12 Oct 2005, 3:23 pm

#416722

its the getting up there thats the hard part.

anyone got a a box for me to sit in i can mail myself there.

EgeWorks Wolfsburg Wizard

602 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 12 Oct 2005, 8:12 pm

#416814

No worries mate. If you're going the postie bike look for CT 110. There are smaller and bigger versions but the 110 is the most common. I'd take one of them over a 250cc scooter any day.

twoguns simply aircooled

4,275 posts · joined Nov 2002 · 12 Oct 2005, 8:36 pm

#416825

kk youre a big lad. get yourself a yamaha xvs650. they are learner legal and a damn good ride. is a bit more than your budget, but you would be a lot happier and hell more safer.

i have a contact who owns a big bike shop, so i might be able to assist a little.

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