Although I have the money, I am not buying anything as there are some vicious people about in the Drivers Medical Group at the DVLA and I expect to be banned any minute. At the Doctor appointment, all seemed fine and that is what he told me that he would tell DVLA. Maybe, but I don't believe any medical professional after what I've been through. But anyway, I still look at the Riders website. Although I could afford it, I could never bring myself to spend over £20 grand on a bike. Am I in the minority here and just not up with the times? This is an ex-demo. And ex-demos, I am unsure about. It will of been looked after by professionals, but ridden (and abused) by anyone.
As I said earlier, I don't dare buy anything. When I got banned before, I put everything into getting my license back and spent a fortune. If it was to happen again, then I would just give it a "yeah, yeah, fuck it!" I fought the law once and won, but now I can't be bothered. It is not important enough to me to bother about. Anyway, if I was to get anything, it would be yet another Monster. I talked to Riders today and they said that the new Monster is £12,171 OTR and that is what I would get. But I am not! I'll go to Riders for a look some time, but I am not totally sold om it, looks-wise.
Stick another 10k on top and buy yourself a nice little narrow boat. much safer, more relaxing and doesn’t look like a diavel either. Free holidays too. (Good luck with the dvla)
For £20k I'm buying a R107 SL mercedes, no road tax or mot and it won't depreciate. Bikes are about £10k tops for me, even if I was minted really couldn't bring myself to do it. The radar cruise control, active/ lean angle suspension, anti-wheelie gizmos just don't add up too price tag for me. Good luck with DVLA nazis.
I am about the same as both of you. I don't want loads of shit to complicate my life. Just two wheels, an engine, a seat and suspension. That used to be enough. Now, when you go into a showroom, the discussion is about screen size and all the gizmos that are locked away from you unless you pay more. You don't talk about the bike, but what you can have only if you pay more. Nobody give a rat's arse about anything but the screen size, quality and what gadgets you can buy for it. And then the price just goes up and up. All this guff may rock someone's boat but not mine. And talking of boats, I do think about acquiring a narrow boat. Sharpness docks is not far and that gives me access to the Gloucester/Sharpness canal. I think past Gloucester, you do a bit on the Severn and then can urn off to get access to miles of canal, Or stay om the River Severn and I know hat you can get to Worcester, where I often go to a hotel on the banks of the River Severn. There is a big dock basin there with many canal boats.
How about a nice old royal Enfield you can bomb around the back roads on and it will eat up the bumps without scaring you?
If you're thinking of getting a boat I'd try before you buy. I thought I would love it but it turned out that I didn't. Also, unless you get a mooring (expensive and in short supply), you will need to move the boat a significant distance every 2 weeks, but you can't just keep shuttling between point A and point B as you are supposed to "continuously cruise", plus as nothing happens quickly on the water, even if you risk only shifting it once a fortnight, that's going to be a whole day out of your life spent fucking around every two weeks. Not to mention that having to move it every two weeks means you will need to get someone who knows how to safely master/helm/steer (or whatever the correct verb is) the vessel and operate locks etc to do it for you if you ever want to go on holiday. The CRT employ the waterborne equivalent of traffic wardens who monitor boats and enforce the CC rule in the event of non-compliance, up to and including cancelling your licence, obtaining an injunction to ban you from the canal and river network and removing your boat from the water, then charging you storage. Boats are also notorious for being money pits and the in joke is that "boat" is an acronym for "bring on another thousand". As the saying goes, "if it floats, flies or fucks, then rent it" Sorry to piss on your chips, but think very carefully. Other opinions are available. For example, @Zeus loves boats.
I think you are correct and this is why I've not done it. I forget these things that I know. And the Royal Enfield suggestion above is something that I am considering . I think that they might just break my 200kg limit by a little and then there's the Yamaha MT07 AMT that interest me. All miles cheaper than the Ducati Monster. But as I said, I won't be buying anything until I am confident that DVLA have lost interest in taking my licence sway.
No. The Royal Enfield Guerilla is less than 200 Kg and costs about five grand. That is about half the cost of a Monster. Now I am not disputing that the Monster is better but not about twice as good as the Royal Enfield. And as it looks as though I will have to fund this myself, as there is great keenest to ensure that my compensation money doesn't get to me. I am not cooperating meaning my money - over half a million - stays where it is, earning nothing. I've sent an email pointing out how wrong this is, but I think that I am done with it. I have made a deliberate, conscious decision to not mess up my life with garbage,so I won't cooperate meaning the money stays earning nothing and I won't see a dime, ever.
