New is a very odd concept. Ok, both my Malt 2 and Malt-R were new, but got justified because they were heavily reduced, I had the cash spare and was preparing to make my final capital purchases for a while (think of it as a yearly toy budget blow-out). It helped that my previous bike had been stolen and I needed another one.
I’ve just bought a full sus though and, after many. many hours of reviewing and soul searching, I just could not justify spending a shit-tonne of money on a brand spanker, despite loving the Bronson and secretly liking the Aeris. So, I ended up buying a second hand 2012 Stumpy from a man in Bracknell.
It cost about the same as my Malt 2 and I think I have had far less buyer’s remorse than I would have done if I had spanked 2.5k on an Aeris or 3.5 on a Bronson.
I paid for it with cash, because I had the spare cash saved up for it.