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Get the sen a moped :lol: i'm having loads of fun just fiddling with myself , will have even more when i get to ride her in just my underpants. :lol: :thumb:

 






 

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I would have preferred a 1000cc version but I haven't found one in my budget and all the gubbins I want like abs. I'm a bit worried about the difference in bhp as my hornet has 100bhp and v-strom has 68bhp

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Sadly it looked tidier in the pictures. It has clearly been used as an all weather commuter bike in a previous life and had corrosion on almost every bolt and looked like it had been dropped several times but mechanically sound just asking a bit more than I'd like to pay in it's current condition. Very nice guy with a genuine reason for selling it but even he admitted he didn't know much about bikes and had only had it a year after buying it from a dealer in Exeter. I'll have to see how the tiger goes tomorrow.

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Give it a miss I'd say. There's plenty about and you should be able to find something much tidier. How did it feel to sit on?

 

Good and not too top heavy.

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I would have preferred a 1000cc version but I haven't found one in my budget and all the gubbins I want like abs. I'm a bit worried about the difference in bhp as my hornet has 100bhp and v-strom has 68bhp

 

If you think a Hornet will leave a Strom on twisties, back roads, and real world usage......there's not a hope!


The only way you'll shake a Strom off is on long straight stretches where you can keep it in the sweet spot in the rev range all the time. And you're then into licence losing speeds!


I don't get anywhere any slower on the Strom than I did when I had my Fazer.

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Sadly it looked tidier in the pictures. It has clearly been used as an all weather commuter bike in a previous life and had corrosion on almost every bolt and looked like it had been dropped several times but mechanically sound just asking a bit more than I'd like to pay in it's current condition. Very nice guy with a genuine reason for selling it but even he admitted he didn't know much about bikes and had only had it a year after buying it from a dealer in Exeter. I'll have to see how the tiger goes tomorrow.

oh thats a bit of a disappointment :|
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I would have preferred a 1000cc version but I haven't found one in my budget and all the gubbins I want like abs. I'm a bit worried about the difference in bhp as my hornet has 100bhp and v-strom has 68bhp

 

If you think a Hornet will leave a Strom on twisties, back roads, and real world usage......there's not a hope!


The only way you'll shake a Strom off is on long straight stretches where you can keep it in the sweet spot in the rev range all the time. And you're then into licence losing speeds!


I don't get anywhere any slower on the Strom than I did when I had my Fazer.

 

I never said I thought the hornet would leave the strom and as I said in my original post the hornet was my first big bike so I have nothing to compare it to. I have only test ridden a tracer 700 and while it was a nice ride it missed the oomph my hornet has despite the higher cc engine.

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Triumph Tiger. Nice bike and being tall you won't have the feet down issues some of us short legged folks have. I found a Tiger too high for me and even my Mutley I can get both feet down but not flat footed.

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Nice bike but did the previous owner work for deliveroo with a topbox that large.

 

Ahahahaha no! But being a mum and that I often take a child with me the large top box was a selling point for me 😁

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