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Hey guys need your help regarding my following query.
About me, I'm a 20 years old college goer. I've been lurking on this forum since it's early days to download bike wallpapers as a kid
. As far as riding experience goes i'm a noob, learnt to ride at the age of 16. Have ridden only about 5000km since getting my licence a shade over 2 years ago. So the new bike to be purchased will be used to learn the nuances of riding. I was supposed to buy a motorcycle a few months back but the plans got delayed. Now i'm looking to pick one within next 3 months.
Requirement:
40km daily commute with 80% of it being highway.
The bike should have a fun to ride quotient. It should be something that makes me want to ride at weekends.
Fuel efficiency of anything above 35kmpl is acceptable.
Height-172cm weight-66kg.
Now the problem comes when i consider the budget. I don't feel like asking for 1L+ from my dad. Also ~10k of this will go into riding gear and stuff. So that leaves me with about 80k to spend. That leaves out the ns, my first choice.
Options:
1.Pulsar 180- end of life cycle, not a good handler.
2.Various Hero 150s and honda trigger- bleh!
3.Yamaha fz- great bike, lots of friends have it so i'm used to it. That also makes it not exciting enough.
4.Gixxer 150- seems to be a good rival to the fz.
5.rtr 180- love it. The best bike according to my requirement. But the thing is, is it worth paying that kind of money for such an old bike?
The other option i have is to pick up a used bike. Say i keep aside 10k for possible repairs on a used bike this are the following pre worshiped options i have in goa for bikes having run under 30k km:
1.200 ns- around 70k
2.220- <60k
3.zma- around 50k. but spares i costly i guess.
4.r15- v1 for ~70k
5.rtr 180- 50k (as im posting this, this ad caught my eye TVS Apache 180 RTR Black - Madgaon - Motorcycles - Scooters).
6.duke 200- can i get one(greedy
)
Any other suggestions?
so questions to answer are:
1.Should i buy a new bike for around 80k now(a180/fz/gixxer) or is there a new bike waiting to be launched in my price bracket within the end of this year(150ns?etc)
2.Should i go for a thoroughly checked used bike as i don't mind buying one?(200ns/r15/a180/zma/220/duke
)
3.Is the ns significantly better for the extra 25k over my budget?
Thank you.
About me, I'm a 20 years old college goer. I've been lurking on this forum since it's early days to download bike wallpapers as a kid
. As far as riding experience goes i'm a noob, learnt to ride at the age of 16. Have ridden only about 5000km since getting my licence a shade over 2 years ago. So the new bike to be purchased will be used to learn the nuances of riding. I was supposed to buy a motorcycle a few months back but the plans got delayed. Now i'm looking to pick one within next 3 months.Requirement:
40km daily commute with 80% of it being highway.
The bike should have a fun to ride quotient. It should be something that makes me want to ride at weekends.
Fuel efficiency of anything above 35kmpl is acceptable.
Height-172cm weight-66kg.
Now the problem comes when i consider the budget. I don't feel like asking for 1L+ from my dad. Also ~10k of this will go into riding gear and stuff. So that leaves me with about 80k to spend. That leaves out the ns, my first choice.
Options:
1.Pulsar 180- end of life cycle, not a good handler.
2.Various Hero 150s and honda trigger- bleh!
3.Yamaha fz- great bike, lots of friends have it so i'm used to it. That also makes it not exciting enough.
4.Gixxer 150- seems to be a good rival to the fz.
5.rtr 180- love it. The best bike according to my requirement. But the thing is, is it worth paying that kind of money for such an old bike?
The other option i have is to pick up a used bike. Say i keep aside 10k for possible repairs on a used bike this are the following pre worshiped options i have in goa for bikes having run under 30k km:
1.200 ns- around 70k
2.220- <60k
3.zma- around 50k. but spares i costly i guess.
4.r15- v1 for ~70k
5.rtr 180- 50k (as im posting this, this ad caught my eye TVS Apache 180 RTR Black - Madgaon - Motorcycles - Scooters).
6.duke 200- can i get one(greedy
)Any other suggestions?
so questions to answer are:
1.Should i buy a new bike for around 80k now(a180/fz/gixxer) or is there a new bike waiting to be launched in my price bracket within the end of this year(150ns?etc)
2.Should i go for a thoroughly checked used bike as i don't mind buying one?(200ns/r15/a180/zma/220/duke
)3.Is the ns significantly better for the extra 25k over my budget?
Thank you.
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