Sold the motorbike and started cycling to save money.

[paul04]

Hello

 

[Saluki]

Welcome to CC.

A 4k saving would buy you a good motorbike and a good bike too. My last motor bike (GPz 900R) was only 2500! Mind you, that was a bit back

 

[hedder2212]

i started off on a 50cc Honda vision of 1992 vintage sold that the day I turned 17 and got my £300 Chinese 125 geared bike, ragged that everywhere, took it off roading a few times (it was a cruiser thing) did a few camping trips on it, rode it to Scotland and back twice, passed my test just under 6 months ago and it took me and a pillion quite a few times.. went with the if in doubt go flat out thing everywhere it did well. sold it for what I bought it for so not moaning much. it served me well.

im now thinking maybe I should get a bigger bike next year for the longer journeys I will want to do
if I can manage to save £4k by new year I think I will be getting a bigger bike, a new commuter bicycle and maybe (if theres anything left over) go on holiday.
we shall see.

 

[LimeBurn]

Jeez!! What sort of fuel economy did your motorbike get. When I turned 17 (admittedly more than a few years ago) I bought a Kawasaki AR125 which used to cost about 6 or 7 quid to fill it up - it used to last me all week and I used to ride it everywhere. Anyway welcome!!

 

[hedder2212]

i was doing 60-70 miles each day and as I said was always going flat out on the red line absolutely everywhere so fuel economy wasn't... the best.. still better than the moped which would do 10 miles to £4 of petrol and £1 of 2 stroke
plus it was Chinese and a cruiser

 

[Hyslop]

Hello there and .

 

[young Ed]

well done and welcome, not many people that would drop the power of an engine for the power of their legs!
one day i will have the 3: truck (farmer), motorbike (for longer journeys and touring and visiting mates far away etc as it's more economical then a truck) and finally a couple of push bikes for the fun of it and exercise
wouldn't surprise me if the push bikes see the most miles still!
Cheers Ed

 

[Mrs M]

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Hi and Hedder.

I had to look up the Challenge Emulator. A basic rigid frame MTB style bike - I think you could do worse. A change to some quality tyres would make it faster and nicer to ride. Be prepared for lots of maintenance if you are going to rack up the miles on it.

 

[hedder2212]

im not touching it apart from riding it, im going to ride it until it dies a very horrible death... im guessing that, that will happen sometime next week and by then I should have something a tad better ive had worse bikes though, still miss my claud butler which got nicked last year, loved that bike.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

im not touching it apart from riding it, im going to ride it until it dies a very horrible death... im guessing that, that will happen sometime next week and by then I should have something a tad better ive had worse bikes though, still miss my claud butler which got nicked last year, loved that bike.

If it's on the original components you may not be far off.

Shame about the Claud Butler. I hope the next bike fares better.

 

[Col5632]

 

[Elybazza61]

Got back into cycling after writing off my R1 and think I've spent what I got for it on bikes and kit(plus some camera gear) so if the bug gets you like it did me don't expect to save too much.

 

[Bryony]

 

[i hate hills]

Good choice . Welcome to CC