Simon Davey

Learned my first lesson coming back to motorcycling. Don't bother ordering boots, jackets, gloves, helmets or trousers online, the designers all seem to share the same tiny little tape measures.. I've gone from size 11 boots to size 13, medium helmet to XXL, and basically up two sizes in everything else. Thankfully Sportsbikeshop were good with refunds. Maybe I need to eat less pies

Plans are a few days away in the UK now and again (for now anyhoo). But I'm already daydreaming about touring the south of France and Italy.

Cheers

Love that. Awesome!!

Cheers Rob, much appreciated

I understand exactly where you're coming from. Thing is, the above 1200 has 17k on the clock, the most favourable reviews, apart from heavy road rash down the left side of the fairing it's looks to be in otherwise perfect condition, and it only cost me £1500. It was an impulse buy, but I had been looking (drooling) at BMW GS, and other big tourers, I just like big and heavy, forget the speed, the 1200 having so much power is just incidental, it's everything else about the bike I want.

Why would you get picked on? You raise a valid point. Do I need a 1200? Nope, but then I don't actually need a bike, well, mentally I do As for what's right, yes, I think a heavy, old and out of date sports tourer is right for me, I'll never have the money to buy anything more "up to date". Do I need an up to date and modern machine, no, I just want something that's comfy all day and that will cruise up to and around Scotland without have to change gear a trillion times (it has a very wide power band). Thanks for your time @RideWithStyles

By the way, my missus hates the idea, she hasn't seen it, it will be locked out of sight, and as far as she's concerned, it a Honda Cub 90

Thanks! Yes just cosmetic, they run it now and then, and he started her up whilst I was there, it sounded so sweet, still nice and tight.

Cheers @bonio & @JRH It's only got 17k on the clock, previous owner was about to sell it, so he asked said dealer to service it and MOT it, then got knocked off a few days later. Scrapes on the fairing, broken indicator and gear lever. It was written off by the insurance as being 2005 it was only worth a few grand anyway, I got it darned cheap.

Hello good people, I've come back to riding after a mini-cab took my ZX6R from under me, more than 20 years ago. I'm in my late 50's and have been getting "the urge" to ride again for quite some time. So, I thought I'd buy something sensible, especially as it's been so long, nothing really fast and racy like the ZX, in my time I've had classics like Z1300 and a CB1000. We have a farm, and I took our failing old quad bike in to the local workshop, who happens to also sell Lexmoto, they only seemed to have 125's and I asked if he had anything bigger, just this old ZZR1200 he said, we've had it for over a year and it needs a little cosmetic attention. Well, I couldn't believe he forced me to buy it, I hope to collect it this coming week, so much for something sensible, I'm considering taking extra underwear just in case