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Hey all,
As i am 16, and soon will be leaving skool (ARGHH YESSS AT LASTT WAHOOOO!!!!) I am seriously thinking of getting a ped.
I love the look of these Derbi Senda SM's, and at £1800 new aint to bad!
Its to get to college on and just to go to a part time job, sooo what you all think?? get it or wait and get a 125 or a car??
http://www.feldballemc.dk/pics/scooters/derbi_sm.jpg
I want a ped also as all my buddys have em and i tagg along riding behind em on my bike ha ha!!
Over and out:)
Take it easy all
Butch
i would wait till you get a 125...
50's are too dangerous to be on the road really... to quick to get you into trouble, not enough power to get out of it.
and 1800 for a moped? firkin ell.... you can get a decent 600 bandit or thundercat for that...
wait till you are 17... the insurance should be less than 2 grand then....
Wait 12 months, then £800 will buy you a nice TZR, NSR 125 and leave you a grand to insure it etc. If you wanna 'ped at 16, spend £100/£200 or so on a step-thru, its what i did...
:D
can u tel me where u can get a derbi supermoto 4 £1800 please?
cheazypeaz
14-08-2004, 23:08
Hi i got the senda r model, im 16 and had no insurance and crashed it broken collar bone etc, written off bike and a 1000 euro fine!
Brilliant, cut my holiday short and ****ed my dad of really badly, not a great holiday, not a great experience.
I was gonna get a bike for college but i aint bothering now, too much money for a death ticket..
My two pence..
shifty.ricky
15-08-2004, 04:24
Fast cars + bikes and in-experianced drives = not a great combination.
Fast cars + bikes and in-experianced drives = not a great combination.
what you should have said, more tax payers money spent scraping people off the road. In the nicest possible way ;)
my next door neighbour got a dirt bike last year and took it out and it was stolen the same day lol.
cheazypeaz
15-08-2004, 12:09
I basicly wasnt to bad of a rider on the thing, but all it takes is for you to lose concentration for two seconds and i could of killed my self and the person on the back, luckily she had a lucky escape and i got away only with 1 broken bone!
.... had no insurance and crashed it broken collar bone etc, ..... too much money for a death ticket....
Eh?!!! :(
Carrying a pillion, crashing it, and with no insurance?
Motorcycles are not death tickets, the rider has a responsibility to themselves, and others.
No insurance? Sorry if I sound like an old fart (at 30!), but it's just not worth it!
I basicly wasnt to bad of a rider.... lose concentration for two seconds and i could of killed my self and the person on the back....
Exactly, I hate to hear of injuries, and it probably hurts like hell, but i imagine you would have felt a lot worse if the person on the back had been wiped out.
There isn't the option of losing concentration, not even riding yourself, in any spill you will come off second best, and it's going to hurt.
Look after yourself, you're the only one of you there is ;)
cheazypeaz
15-08-2004, 12:47
Mate i was on holiday, if i wanted to get insured for 4 weeks i was supposed to be there, Your looking at 2000 euros, you really think my dads going to pay that for me..
The pillion was a friend, she spoke spanish and wanted to come with me....
It was stupid mate dont have a go at me about it, its not as if i havent heard it 10000000 times
It was stupid mate dont have a go at me about it, its not as if i havent heard it 10000000 times
I don't know you to have a go, and please don't take it that way. I just wanted to see if, in hindsight, you knew you maybe shouldn't have taken the risk.
I am officially an old fart ;)
TheWezley
07-09-2004, 22:33
I am only 15 i am considering buying a derbi SM 50 i have ridden motor bikes before and i know how dangerous they can be ive had experience of them before and from riding as a pillion. Car drivers do not know you are there all the time it is not always the drivers fault though sum motorcyclists do drive recklessly for example the guy wiht no insurance being 16 and carrying a pillion. Driving with a pillion is not a particularily easy thing unless u are fully aware of the bikes capabilities to be perfectly honest if u wer on holiday for 4 weeks why bother with the motorbike. I hope u do look back on it as a lesson learnt cos that was god damn stupid u endangered ur life and the life of ur passenger. Stay legal people its the best way to do it life dont come cheap so be insured like i plan to be and be stupid later on in life wen u can say uve really lived.
Dude, im gettin meh 205 MI16 GTI now! lol off of peds now, well they are cheap and worth it, only on your birthday tho, dont get one after a few months, ull juss want ur car too much.
Fireblade
08-09-2004, 05:41
You're worse than my youngest son Butch! His very first car was a 1.4 Corsa... but he went and stuck a 2.0ltr Astra GTE engine in it :eek: Even on my insurance, he was paying an absolute fortune - even if it was monthly! He (nor I!) certainly couldn't have afforded the cash!
You're just 16, yet you're thinkin' o' gettin' a 205 MI16 GTI as your first car :eek: Have you asked around for an insurance quote on one o' those for a 17 year old driver yet? It might just out you off :p
And... talking fro experience... I hope yer old man doesn't offer t' help ye wi' the insurance on it! It might encourage ye t' change yer mind, and look at getting a more sensible first car, on which you can take out yer own insurance, and start building up yer no-claims bonus ;)
'Boy racer' type cars are steep enough t' insure as it is - even wi' a full no-claims bonus! And I know that from experience too! I'm currently flying around in a twin-turbo V6 Mitsubishi VR4 estate. Even wi' full no-claims... the cheapest insurance I could find on it (which happened t' be through the company I was previously insured with anyway) was £750!
That's a lot for an 'old boy' wi' full no claims t' be paying for insurance... but I'll wager it's not a patch on what I expect your quote t' be :eek: :p
Im 15, and looking at getting either the derbi or the new aprillia sx 50, i think as long as you have experience on bikes the riders will be fine, but as for these people that can barely ride bikes, pass there cbt on twist and go's and ride geared bikes.... its just a death wish really, ive rode motocross for 5 or more years and i think that the only unsafe part of riding a moped on the road, is that you are moving slower than other cars. As long as you are experienced enough to control the bike properly, and ride sensibly, (not like some idiots who end up trashing there bikes) you will be fine, most accidents are caused by lack of experience, careless riding, and not being aware of traffic, i am not one to talk about experience on the road but i can certainly control a 50. I think that the cbt's should be taken on either geaed or automatic bikes depending on what the rider is choosing to ride, or all should be done on geared bikes, like a car liscence, if you pass in a manual you can drive both but if on an automatic, only automatic, im fed up with people saying that these bikes are death traps, because any rider should know that a bike is the same as a weapon, you handle and control it, but if you want to hurt yourself, it is very easy.
Dude, im gettin meh 205 MI16 GTI now! lol off of peds now, well they are cheap and worth it, only on your birthday tho, dont get one after a few months, ull juss want ur car too much.
That'll cost you over 2 grand to insure, and that's if you can find anyone willing to take the risk. The only way to get a cheap first car overall is to have one with a small engine. You may be thinking it'll be cheap to insure because it's old, but believe me all that means is that it's a rustbucket and won't cope well with accidents (not that 205s did when new, either...) and probably won't have an alarm, or it'll be an old piece of crap. Both of which will make insurance even worse.
Adding me to the insurance policy of a 1993 Volvo 240SE (2L engine, 128bhp, no alarm, no mods) would have taken my mum's policy from £282 to £1800-and-something.
And a 205 GTi, let alone something special like an MI16, is well above the group 13 that out Volvo inhabits. Honestly man, if you want something like that buy a cheap, low grouped car like a Fiesta, Punto, (normal) 205, 206 and live with it for a couple of years until your premiums go down.
Then buy something like a 205 GTi, Escort Cosworth, Nissan Skyline or whatever your chavved-up peformance car of choice is.
You may be wondering what kind of loser I am, but I think if you need a big engine to have fun driving you're missing the point. At our age all an MI16 will get you is a big bill. And the "upside" is that you'll get respect from the local chavs. And that's not an upside, to be honest.
Cod Ball
29-06-2006, 00:22
euuuuuugh mopeds!
I go to a college which is full of *ahem* chavs......and virtually all of them have them, i mean anyone can have a ped because they're cheap and that's fine.
but what's terrible is the sound of groups of them leaving college for lunch it's like a thousand angry wasps, plus they can barley get up hills with them!
I suggest you get a car, mine only cost £1995 and if your looking of getting a £1800 bike i'd save up a little more and try get a car, much safer + betterrrrr.
(btw i havnt read that far into the thread, only the first post :o )
This thread is very old.. i was taking my car test over a year ago lol..
please close
I strongly suggest that if people think scooters are ****..then think again...
the possibilitys are endless.. Especially here in spain - Have you ever seen a scooter beat a ninja 600 at acceleration?
Cheers all
Peace
That'll cost you over 2 grand to insure, and that's if you can find anyone willing to take the risk. The only way to get a cheap first car overall is to have one with a small engine. You may be thinking it'll be cheap to insure because it's old, but believe me all that means is that it's a rustbucket and won't cope well with accidents (not that 205s did when new, either...) and probably won't have an alarm, or it'll be an old piece of crap. Both of which will make insurance even worse.
Adding me to the insurance policy of a 1993 Volvo 240SE (2L engine, 128bhp, no alarm, no mods) would have taken my mum's policy from £282 to £1800-and-something.
And a 205 GTi, let alone something special like an MI16, is well above the group 13 that out Volvo inhabits. Honestly man, if you want something like that buy a cheap, low grouped car like a Fiesta, Punto, (normal) 205, 206 and live with it for a couple of years until your premiums go down.
Then buy something like a 205 GTi, Escort Cosworth, Nissan Skyline or whatever your chavved-up peformance car of choice is.
You may be wondering what kind of loser I am, but I think if you need a big engine to have fun driving you're missing the point. At our age all an MI16 will get you is a big bill. And the "upside" is that you'll get respect from the local chavs. And that's not an upside, to be honest.
205 rustbuckets? I dont think so..
Chaved up cars? No thanks! ;)
enjoy
205s are rustbuckets. I don't mean that as an insult, because they're great looking and handling cars even today, I mean it literally.
205s are rustbuckets. I don't mean that as an insult, because they're great looking and handling cars even today, I mean it literally.
Any car can be a rustbucket after a few years mate, i know to some mint 205's and they are great handling, great fun little rollerskates...
:)
Getting a 205 MI16 is an utterly insane idea. Wasn't that the car that was part of the group B rally set that were banned for being too fast or something?
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