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Honda CB 500cc Sept '00 (X)
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Why oh why have Honda stopped making CB500s! In my opinion, this is the best all-round bike you can lay your hands on.

What do you want your bike to do? Commute? Perfect - narrow and light, nice flat bars allow easy maneouvring, outruns any car from the lights with ease, and still returns 50-60mpg. Trackdays? Oh yes - CB500s even have their own race series, Ron Haslam uses them at his race school at Donnington, and most riders will find their limits long before the bike's. Weekend blasts? You betcha. A good rider will keep up with many a supersports on the twisties on the CB500 - great fun for you, and a serious embarassment for them! :-) Touring? Crank up the preload, strap on a wingrack, and away you go, with a 200+ mile tank range and a relaxed riding position to help you eat up the miles. Pillion? Plenty of room, decent seat and sensible pillion pegs that don't put you in a knee-breaking crouch. A good grab-handle too.

The bike can be restricted for beginners, and is very forgiving if ridden quietly; but buzz an unrestricted machine into its 7-9k zone and it flies along, accelerating hard and reaching well over the ton in no time. Drop it and it's hardy - very little to break easily, and if it does, replacement parts are cheap. The engines are bulletproof and if properly maintained will easily run to 100k with little more likely to go wrong than the camchain tensioner giving out - a £40 replacement (why do you think there are so many despatch riders using them!). There's a big, active and helpful owners' club too, with massive communal expertise ann a really helpful outlook. Post a problem and several locals will be round to help you sort it out in no time. How many other bike groups are like that?

It's cheap to buy, dirt cheap to run, incredibly reliable, easy to work on, and really a no-brainer choice for an allrounder which can do the work but still be fun. Many people think of them as cheap winter hacks but they can do this and SO much more. And some of them even look really sexy - check out one of the black half-faired "S" models with gold wheels - yummy :-)

In summary it's a bike with enough power that you can really use it all in the real world, a chassis that's simple but effective, a budget bike in price but not in performance. Thre is no other bike which delivers half as much for so little money, not to mention in so many areas. .

Buy one - you won't regret it!
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Netballman in Northolt on 12/08/2008
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Honda CBR 600cc Apr '08 (08)
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My ratings of this superb bike says it all. She drives like a dream, responds to my every command, doesn't answer back,and doesn't cost a fortune to keep.
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Les in Chelmsford, Essex on 10/08/2008
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Honda CBR 600cc 89/90 (G)
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Bought in '95 for £2,000 with light crash damage and ran for 45,000 miles in 10 years with oil & filters and tyres, two valve clearence checks and a cam chain at 40,000 miles. Sold on for £600 owing me nothing.
Easy to home service.
K&N filter, Dyno-jet kit and Micron can (with standard header pipes) added 1,000 rpm to top end,(about 15 mph).
Pro-suspension constant rate springs in the forks and Hagon shock revived the handling at about 25,000 miles.
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TUFFERS in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire on 09/08/2008
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Honda XL Varadero 125cc Sept '03 (53)
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what a bike for a 125cc good on handling good on fuel and the size of the bike makes it easy for when you step up to the higher cc bikes,its a cracking bike,when i bought my bigger bike i was sorry to see it go,its got good speed for the cc and is very comfortable and reliability well its a honda say no more.
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Honda VTR 1000cc Sept '99 (V)
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i am on my forth Honda Sp1, and whilst being quite a sports bike with a difference from the run of the mill bikes, it does what its meant to do, it handles very well, goes like the clappers and really is a multi bike,
i love them, also an excellent track bike with pedigree.
a good choice for a V twin.
Regards Phillip Mace
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phillip on 08/08/2008
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Honda ST Pan European 1098cc 95/96 (N)
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Does everything - at a price.
weight is low down so it handles well - but there is a lot of weight - don't lay it down unless you have an olymic wejght lifting team handy to get it up again.
You cruise nicely at legal limits - then look at speedo and see what speed you are actually doing- the reading can be a trace faster than expected!!!
Only true sports bikes will leave the lights faster.
side boxes and top box will take a supermarket trolley of shopping.
With all this and the british weather, on a pan you stay dry without waterproofs as that massive fairing protects you. Does have a lot of length and side area so strong cross winds need treating with respect and the CBT style turn in the road with out putting your feet down can be considered a challenge!
Best bike I have ever riden
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angel in Luton, Bedfordshire on 08/08/2008
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Honda C90 90cc Apr '99 (T)
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economical, easy to handle and totally reliable.
small enough to fit anywhere around town, nippy enough to keep with the traffic.must remember to put a gallon of petrol in most months.
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Honda FMX 650cc Apr '08 (08)
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After an interesting test ride in London in the rush hour I scoured the Honda dealers and was offered one at a great price and I hav'nt stopped grinning since. The engine is one of the old bomb proof motors used in many an old Honda so it should last if cared for but keep the revs up to get the fun and the gearbox is smooth and clean The FMX is no BHP monster but it is one fun bike to ride, country roads,built up towns it is the prince,the only one downfall is, huge motorway miles get windy and uncomfortable, The FMX is a very tall bike so big riders, it's made for you. The BHP can be increased by race cans and rejetting the carb and a K&N airfilter, the brakes are fine as is the suspension and Honda's choice of tyres means you can realy take the bends. If you want a cheap fun bike get one quick as this is the last production year for the FMX but be warned! if you want to keep it, make sure you lock it, joyriders love em to show off their stunt skills to their mates. Just a personal thing, the white ones, I don't think look so good but the black or red ones look fantastic. Would I sell mine? Na!, three months on and we are still having a great time, Go on.. you know you want one!!. Rog.
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Honda Hornet 600cc Apr '08 (08)
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i bought my hornet 5 days ago now.
whilst riding a have a big cheshire cat grin on my face, this is an incredibele machine and honda deserve alot of credit for it.
strong torquey acceleration not yet felt full potential as im still running it in. handles like a dream and makes the rider feel very confident.
all in all this is a superior bike.
as well as an amazing bike the service i received form tippetts of tolworth was second to none and definetley better than other dealerships i had entered.
thank you honda and the tippetts team.
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thankyouhonda on 02/08/2008
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Honda VTR 1000cc 98 (S)
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Great linear power from the awesome engine.Starts first time and pulls well in all 6 gears.
A really easy to live with bike with easy home servicing as most of the engine is exposed.
Tyre life is good.Im running Pirelli diablo corsa and they are lasting well.They are a bit over the top for this bike tho and will run 208s next time.
Fitted micron oval cans and they havnt upset the jetting and sound great.
All in a great bike getting about 110 miles to a tank but can go to 90 with 30 mpg if going for it.
Best mods you can do are, fit Ohlins front springs and fit manual cam chain tensioners.The tensioner springs break and it WILL wreck your motor.Ebc HH pads and steel brake lines will transform your brakes.
Early models are the more powerfull.


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