If you'll take a gentle dismount from your high horse for a second, you'll realise that I'm not saying he WON'T drop it. I know there is a higher than normal chance with new riders. I'm saying its not a fact. The car analogy I used was to make the point that you don't have to go for the most embarassing thing possible just in case you drop it. There are lots of half-way houses. In the car situation you'd probably look at a £2k Focus/Fiesta/Mondeo rather than a £5k brand new KA. That was my point.
No that isnt the point you made, thats the piont I made.
when I listed the 6 other bikes in the first post that were NOT a CG as well, IE the- KLX, KLR, DTR, NSR, TZR, RG, which are all faster and cheaper, and can all be derestricted and are all cheaper to repair and insure.
You simply said why lumber yourself with a CG 125 because it isnt garenteed he would drop it.
See, the last time I looked into buying a new 125, was the last time I went to buy a bike to use to go to work on, before that, it was because my nephew wanted to start riding.
I decided agaisnt a 125 all toghether, let alone a new one, and I managed to find my nephew a very nice RS125 which was a 2004 bike, for less than a grand, and only 10k on it.