I still very much like the e bike, Wisper 905se, but.... I've just bought a motorbike.
A Kawasaki Ninja 250R, in the race colours of lime green. With fuel injection, and the latest engine design it goes, as you might expect like the proverbial rocket, though along the ground not above it, well, not normally.
I had threee bikes years ago, a Francis Barnett, can't remember the model, and two Hondas, a CB125 and a CB 200. I went miles on all, in one same day from Bournemouth up to the smoke of London and then to the peace and quiet of rural Devon, then back to Bournemouth. Not particularly a great distance but the contrast of the two places, Devon and the City of London in the same day was interesting.
I just recently, after about 20 years, fancied another bike, and Kawasaki seem to be one of the few manufacturers to make a 250, I didn't want or need a 600 or more, this is fast enough, 0 - 60 in about 6 seconds, for one who keeps almost religiously within the national speed limits, and it's economical, giving around 80 mpg so far.
I've been down to Exmouth in Devon, Lyme regis, West Bay near Dorchester, Southampton etc.
I can only describe the feeling of riding a bike as a ''buzz'', a raw feeling of travel. An idea was to ride up to places like the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Scotland etc, places where I've seldom been, but the reality now of all that riding seems a lot of work ansd exposure to weather in covering all those miles, what I might do is to transport the bike and then ride round when I get there.
It's a great bike and I'm enjoying it, and apart from a bit of a squeak which the dealer promises to sort out, I'm enjoying it.
Won't forget the e bike though, still using it for peace and quiet and good exercise, it's given me a good ''apprenticeship'' for the m/bike, ie a help in how to handle the exposure and vunlerabilty to traffic. It will be ridden around Llangorse near the Brecon Beacons in early September. No doubt there's others with Motorbikes on here.
A Kawasaki Ninja 250R, in the race colours of lime green. With fuel injection, and the latest engine design it goes, as you might expect like the proverbial rocket, though along the ground not above it, well, not normally.
I had threee bikes years ago, a Francis Barnett, can't remember the model, and two Hondas, a CB125 and a CB 200. I went miles on all, in one same day from Bournemouth up to the smoke of London and then to the peace and quiet of rural Devon, then back to Bournemouth. Not particularly a great distance but the contrast of the two places, Devon and the City of London in the same day was interesting.
I just recently, after about 20 years, fancied another bike, and Kawasaki seem to be one of the few manufacturers to make a 250, I didn't want or need a 600 or more, this is fast enough, 0 - 60 in about 6 seconds, for one who keeps almost religiously within the national speed limits, and it's economical, giving around 80 mpg so far.
I've been down to Exmouth in Devon, Lyme regis, West Bay near Dorchester, Southampton etc.
I can only describe the feeling of riding a bike as a ''buzz'', a raw feeling of travel. An idea was to ride up to places like the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Scotland etc, places where I've seldom been, but the reality now of all that riding seems a lot of work ansd exposure to weather in covering all those miles, what I might do is to transport the bike and then ride round when I get there.
It's a great bike and I'm enjoying it, and apart from a bit of a squeak which the dealer promises to sort out, I'm enjoying it.
Won't forget the e bike though, still using it for peace and quiet and good exercise, it's given me a good ''apprenticeship'' for the m/bike, ie a help in how to handle the exposure and vunlerabilty to traffic. It will be ridden around Llangorse near the Brecon Beacons in early September. No doubt there's others with Motorbikes on here.
