2001 hornet

[Nazzurro19]

So after weeks of wanted adds for a bandit/sv/fazer/fz6/z750/hornet on literally every website , facebook you name it i come across a guy selling a 2001 honda hornet with 9000 miles on it for......£1000 several hours after lots of conversing and sending pics/videos (the bike was over 100 miles away) i decided to take the 2hr trip to go view, after a veiwing and a test ride we exchanged the moneys and i was ready to bring the bike back home - now this was the most scariest and worst ride of my life, i had like 90mph cross winds, open fields and roads around 70 miles of the journey, it then started to rain and every truck that passed i almost got blown into the road or into the bush, i was holding on for life and as for corners i pottted around them at about 15 mph, so the journey home should have been a 1hr 50min ride but due to the weather and the fact anything over 45/50mph made the bike feel like it was going down i made it home in 5hrs and 12 mins! It was still worth it though i loved it even though i felt i was going to die at many times haha

Sorry the picture is shocking! Ill be cleaning and getting pics the weekend

 

[tuktuk]

Great bikes. Loved the one i learnt to ride on and looked at buying one after i passed.

[Hoggs]

glad you made it home safe! luckily I picked my bike up from 5 mins down the road

here's to good weather so you can enjoy it properly

[Guest]

I rode one in Nov 2004 at the MCN Butlins bash. An excellent handling bike with a very tractable motor.

You can use a higher gear than normal in corners and use the torque to pull it round with less risk of a skid.

A really good bike.

[Bob]

The Hornet's a great bike..enjoy..

[Liveware Problem]

Very nice! I just got a 2000 hornet a few weeks back, same colour too (the best colour) Enjoy

[NearOn]

Great bike! You can easily ride it for years without feeling need to move on unless you want something more suited to touring/longer rides, I've had two and both were superb.

I also paid 1k for the last one I had and had to ride it back from Doncaster to Norfolk on a freezing day in February. Not quite the winds you had though, enjoy!