Nice wee ride to cut your teeth on. Always liked the Hornet, they appear to have a fiercely loyal ownership base. Like the VTR Firestorm, the tank range is woeful especially if you give it big licks. Not sure if that has been sorted out with later models though?.
Comes with a bit of a hooligans reputation as well, but then that isn't a bad thing.
I think Bakes got the new one, which is exactly he same as the one I had.
It's an awesome little bike, great one to learn on, very forgiving and very capable.
The new ones have detuned CBR 600RR Engines in them which are stonkers. I pulls smoothly all the way from idle to redline (13.5k RPM, I know the clocks read up to 15, but it bounces back to 13.5 if you go over as I did.....quite often which is one reason I upgraded). It really starts to come alive at 8K+.
(Which you can't really use whilst running it in
) it'll still do around 75-80 in top gear at 7k which is what the reccomended max RPM for running in.
Fuel consumption wise it really depends how hard you ride it, commuting I usually got a week from a tank which is about 140 miles (14 miles each way).
However on a weekend blast down the coast with the lads would see me filling up as often as the guys on bigger bikes (about 100 miles iirc)
From when the reserve light pops on (as long as you take it easy) you should get at least 20 miles (I did, it was pretty empty by then though).
Either way go out and have fun
Oh and if you can, get some advanced training in, IAM, RoSPA etc. Track days are also great fun in a safer environment than the road.
If you can afford it the CSS is great as are most of the other schools
