STUBBS
undead
find a job nearer to home or move home nearer to work
Bigtwin
Guest
Second the 1000 Pan. If it's not too much Mway - VFR800Fi (the pre-VTEC one) with a scottoiler.
Use the GS.. In around 5 yrs it'll be well and truly run in 
Backmarker
Registered user
24k is bordering on despatch territory. So, get an East European to taxi you around on the back of his 125 scooter/CG125/KTM950 (with czech plates with too many numbers and not enough letters .
But before the 1990 redundancy torrent killed the industry (man in factory buys GIXER on HP over 5 years, gets made redundant, becomes despatch rider, oversupply of riders, riders who are not budgeting for tyres and chains let alone depreciation. One year later, faced with a wrecked bike, and no money in the bank for a new one, chucked it in a hedge and claimed it had been stolen. Insurance went through the roof, and business, pissed off with an unprofessional industry found new ways to make email/the net etc work for them.)...er, where was I ?
Yeah, before the industry died...CB500, Deauville (or NTV as it was in those days - Revere anyone? as in Paul Revere http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/
the most famous despatch rider of all time, only Honda failed to realise that an American National Hero could be unheard of in England), R850R (last bike I saw offered as a company bike), or the K 75/100/1100.
Personally, I would go for the CB500 'cause I have never had one (and 'cause I have a scottoiler in the garage I bought for my Yam DT125 but never fitted 'cause you have to drill a hole in the carb), or a K1100RS. Or a K75RT. Or an R850R. But not a K1200S. The wrong thing altogether IMHO (too sporty, too heavy, too expensive to run etc etc)
Alternatively cast yourself back
. But before the 1990 redundancy torrent killed the industry (man in factory buys GIXER on HP over 5 years, gets made redundant, becomes despatch rider, oversupply of riders, riders who are not budgeting for tyres and chains let alone depreciation. One year later, faced with a wrecked bike, and no money in the bank for a new one, chucked it in a hedge and claimed it had been stolen. Insurance went through the roof, and business, pissed off with an unprofessional industry found new ways to make email/the net etc work for them.)...er, where was I ?
Yeah, before the industry died...CB500, Deauville (or NTV as it was in those days - Revere anyone? as in Paul Revere http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/
the most famous despatch rider of all time, only Honda failed to realise that an American National Hero could be unheard of in England), R850R (last bike I saw offered as a company bike), or the K 75/100/1100.
Personally, I would go for the CB500 'cause I have never had one (and 'cause I have a scottoiler in the garage I bought for my Yam DT125 but never fitted 'cause you have to drill a hole in the carb), or a K1100RS. Or a K75RT. Or an R850R. But not a K1200S. The wrong thing altogether IMHO (too sporty, too heavy, too expensive to run etc etc)
Alternatively cast yourself back
B Murr
Registered user
I used Kawasaki GT 550 for years with no complaints despite being left outdoors and trashed regularly. Full fairing needed though. Simple servicing but you have to take the cams off for valve clearances, still that is relatively simple. I could park it anywhere without worry of theft as they aint exactly a bike to lust over. I'd suggest whatever you go for that it be faired, shaft driven and proven by despatchers( just look around -what are they using?).
Backmarker
Registered user
I suggest you dont. I work on the fourth floor, the three floors below are rented by Barclays and Nat West. Steady stream of couriers, always 3 parked up waiting outside the front gates. Today they were on a CG125, a Varadero 125, and a scooter of some sort. All had 'L' plates.
