Past recollections.

[gavroche]

I used to have a 2007 Suzuki Burgman 400 maxi-scooter until someone wrote it off by running into the back of me. I gave up riding after that as my wife was against it and I has also lost my confidence. This is what prompted me to take up cycling instead in 2010. The dangers are still the same really but at a lesser speed. ( I rode my maxi at 95mph once but realised that was too fast really).
Sometimes, I feel the urge to get another Burgman ( I loved that maxi-scooter) but finances and the thought of buying all the equipment again, insurance, MOTs and running costs puts me off.
I love my cycling too but would also like to have a maxi-scooter again as another option for greater distances.
I used to ride it to a local school where I was doing supply teaching and a pupil from there is now learning to drive with me. He told me once that he always watched me come into school on it as he liked the look of it.
My dream was to ride it to the South of France and back. It is very unlikely to happen now.
Anybody here who also run a motorbike / maxi-scooter as well as cycling?

 

[vernon]

I have a 1995 CB500 that spends most of its time sitting in my garage looking enviously at two bicycles which each have annual mileages greater than its eight hundred miles accrued since 2007 - I have recently looked up its MOT history on the DVLA web site.

It's a great ride when I can be bothered to get suited and booted and remove and replace two cars in the drive to get it out onto the street. I have designs on riding it to the Le Mans 24hr race but I'm in no hurry to realise that ambition.

Insurance for me comes in at £80 fully comp, tax is £57 per year and the MOT test is around £30 - about a £1 per mile.

Retaining it blocks my ambition to own a Moto Guzzi V50 and/or Moto Morini 350 but I know in the Moto Guzzi's case that it would never match the reliability of the Honda. The ride of the V50 is sublime though and as I type this I know that my next action at the keyboard is to go window shopping for one......

 

[avalon]

There are quite a few of us here that also ride motorbikes.

 

[swee'pea99]

I used to love riding, and when I got a windfall a few years back, I treated myself to the bike I gave up when I had the kids - an old BMW Boxer. It's a wonderful machine, but, like Vern's, it has just sat there reproaching me ever since. I probably only go for three or four rides a year, the cost per mile is just silly, and my wife keeps asking me when I'm going to get shot of it. And I think, with regret, I am. It just doesn't even begin to make sense to have it sitting out there mouldering gradually into the ground (I don't have a garage, tho' it is under a waterproof cover). *sigh*. Time to give it its freedom.

 

[ASC1951]

Get one Vern.. You've worked hard all your life...you deserve a new motorbike

I'm happy to take full responsibility. Just blame me.

After you with Vern's CB500!