[Closed] A 'what commuter motorbike' question

Bought for £900 quid with 30k on clock, 3 years later it has 50k on clock, used to commute on. Couldnt tell you what mpg is (what are these strange miles and gallons you speak of?) but it costs about £18 to fill up these days and that'll do around 165 miles, although it does have a smaller front sprocket on which doesnt help fuel consumption I wouldnt think.
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Stoner, I bet if you got a Transalp you would hardly ever use the scooter again!!! 8)

Its not as shiny now!!

Reclaim the roads. 😈
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There is a grey import XT223 available as well, never ridden one but Im sure someone on here has

They're definitely a 'small' bike. Good off road and for pottering about at up to 50mph but little better than a 125 on A roads and lost under anyone 6ft+.

I think the OP is getting too hung up on the smugness inducement of 70mpg or more. A good new or recent 125 will cost £2500 or thereabouts and will depreciate significantly as the miles clock up. Spend £1200 wisely on a bigger bike and in a year or two's time you'll still have a £1200 bike. That's got to be worth more than a few extra mpg. New bike sales are well down at the moment so good secondhand stock will hold it's value well. That the mainstream motorbike magazines are regularly singing the praises of bikes from the last 10-15 years only reinforces my above opinion.

Problem for the op is that it seems only really with modern bikes that fuel consumption has become important. He could get a new G650GS beemer which is essentially the same as my bike but with engine management and fuel injection, it'll do 65-70 mpg apparently and the new Honda NCX700 or whatever its called which is slightly better. Unless he wants to spend £6000 he isnt going to get one. Based on my figures above my bike does about 55-60 mpg which aint bad but not at scooter level.

I do that distance on a regular basis on my FZ6, a bit of extra power over a 125 is nice for overtaking on country roads. That said, it's not the ideal commuting machine - that'd probably be a 400cc scooter.

TBH, though, if you're not getting rid of the second car I'd just use that on bad weather days, and a (push)bike for the rest.

I'm not planning on buying anything new, I should have said 'newer 125' not new. I'm rocking a cg125 brj, so kick start and drum brakes.

I will look Ito the various suggestions made but I think a more modern (but not new) 125 scooter or motorbike is on the cards

Thanks
Matt

Scooters over rough roads will be horrible due to their small wheels.