50cc Bike advice

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Hi all, I will shortly be 16. Where i would like to get a 50cc bike (not a moped) I would like this because it will be easy for me to get to collage and to friends houses etc. I am after advice on what bikes to look for, I will not be buying brand new as after i have got my years use from it i can sell it on and put money towards a 125cc and/or my car. I ride my Yamaha DT125R regularly (At a track) So i am quite confident on a bike. I will have around £800 to spend, But i have already got a decent helmet (road one) and gloves which my dad gave me. Some of that £800 will need to be used for the CTB i am not sure on how much this costs.

So basically i would like some advice on what bikes to look out for as i don't know many 50cc bikes. I would not be interested in a moped.

Thanks Phil
 
You sure you're going to collage? and not college?

Also you mention a helmet and not leathers, make sure you get some decent leathers, or you may as well just wave goodbye to all of the fleshy bits of your body if/when you crash.
 
Ben M said:
You sure you're going to collage? and not college?
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Insightful and cutting humour there from the people's favourite.

Ben M said:
Also you mention a helmet and not leathers, make sure you get some decent leathers, or you may as well just wave goodbye to all of the fleshy bits of your body if/when you crash.
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Don't be so ridiculous. You really don't need to wear leathers riding to college on a fifty.

A decent jacket and a set of draggin' jeans is a much better idea.
 
Thanks for the help, I have been looking about i have a better idea now. I am thinking about getting a GILERA DNA50 to use.

Thanks Phil
 
NO NO NO NO NO! Don't get a Gilera DNA, it's not a 50cc motorbike, it's a 50cc scooter with "motorbike" styling.

I can reccomend an RS50 based on having owned one for almost 18 months when I was 16. I loved it to bits and it never missed a beat. The only work I had to have done was new chain and sprockets and a new rear tyre.

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Mine was a T-reg and you could pick one up now for about £800.

Keep it topped up with GOOD 2-stroke oil, warm it up before you ride it hard, take it easy in the wet and wash it regularly and you'll have a solid little bike.

This is an exceptional little bike: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aprilia-rs50-...oryZ9913QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
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Wow, They do look nice, I think it would be worth waiting and saving a bit more to get a bike like that! That ebay one looks really nice.

thanks phil
 
They're fantastic because no matter what the 50cc haters say, they are actually a motorbike and not a scooter. They have 5 gears, a clutch and are in every way the same as a bigger bike. Proof of this is when I hopped straight off my RS50 and on to my CBR400RR with no problems at all.
 
Yeah, It should be good, I am going to save for one of those. Will be a good get around for a year. It's a shame you can't ride 125cc on the road at 16 because i could use my Yamaha DT125R then. Anyway thanks for your help!
 
I repeat Mrsix's sentiments....DO NOT get a Gilera dna. They are turd. My mate had one and turning feels like crap. I can't remember how many times he came off of it so maybe that has something to do with it hehe.

Anyway, a derby/cagiva or an aprillia would be good enough.
 
Whatever you get, make sure you derestrict it and do everything you can to make it as fast as possible.
50cc bikes are so slow and dangerous there should be a law against them. Sadly there is a law for them.
 
Ben M said:
Also you mention a helmet and not leathers, make sure you get some decent leathers, or you may as well just wave goodbye to all of the fleshy bits of your body if/when you crash.
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Leathers? I ride a ZX6 on occasion, I wear a long leather jacket, gloves and a helmet.
Sod wearing leathers, they look uncool and are seriously uncomfortable to walk around in i find.
 
I ride a Ducati 750SS and just wear a leather jacket, gloves and helmet with jeans and a pair of sturdy hiking sytle boots. I've come off into a car, at low speed and also at 60ish mph, all of them I walked away from with nothing more than a scratch and scraze. Jeans are quite abrasion resistent, they last a good few yards down the road before wearing through.

In fact each time its been the bruising from the impact that has hurt worst.
 
I like the DNA... True that it's not a motorbike, but maybe that's why I like it- the RS50 just feels like a ridiculously small, feeble bike to me, the DNA does its own thing and does it fairly well. I suppose that's my own bias, I never rode the 50 til I'd ridden a bigger bike.

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Jeans are quite abrasion resistent, they last a good few yards down the road before wearing through.
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Well, yes they do. But I slid something like 50 yards after my big crash... Also, jeans tend not to abrade so much as burst and tear. That said, 50ccs can't go fast enough to make that happen, but they do go fast enough that armour in the knees, hips and elbows is a very good idea, take it from me, broken hips are no fun and they're very exposed in a crash- you can't go that fast on a 50 but the thing that hits you might.
 
Draggin' jeans are an awesome compromise between jeans and 'proper' riding trousers. They're thick denim, with kevlar material on the arse, hips and knees. There's no impact armour (although you can buy it and stick it in), but the kevlar is strong enough that the owner of draggin' jeans had himself dragged down the drag strip by a bike on his arse and came out with not a scratch. The denim on the jeans was completely gone but the kevlar held - and that was after a quarter of a mile.

They're comfy (slightly hot to wear, but nothing unbearable) and look good - like normal jeans. Nice ones, even!
 
Yep, Draggin are good. Teknics do a pair too with similiar kevlar construction (they also do combats which I think are just heavy denim). Combine them with some good thin armour like T-Pro Forcefield or Hein Gericke stuff and you have a nice bit of kit, I reckon they protect better than some leathers.
 
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