Happy new year and Hi
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:11 pm
Happy new year!
I'm Gaz, I'm WAY the right side of 55 and I'm about to take possession of my new Suzuki Burgman 650 Executive tomorrow morning.
It's been a while since I had one...the last was a 250 which I had for about 6 months and then some thieving scrote nicked it from outside my brother's house one evening... Since then I've had a couple of Hondas, specifically a CB500 (got nicked) and a CB450 (still got, needs work, when I get some time spare...)
Long story short, for a laugh I put in a claim for PPI against Barclays Bank and Barclaycard, thinking a couple of hundred quid would be useful. Barclaycard got back to me beginning of December with a cheque- for twelve and a half grand. Then Barclays followed suit on Xmas day with a further two and a half grand. So I bought the Burgman.
I'm not saying I'm looking forward to getting it but I've already bought a new Caberg, Gloves, jacket, three hundred quids worth of chains, alarmed disc locks and such...and I don't even get it until tomorrow...it's a 12 plate Exec, 17,000 miles, and I fell in love with it pretty quickly...as long as it took for me to get back from a test ride on a TransAlp and needing help getting off it...getting old SUX!
So...what do I have to look forward to? And what do I need to watch out for? What security devices would you suggest? Tracker? Lasers? Landmines?
I'm planning on using it for work...I am a landscape contract manager for a housing authority, and I also plan to use it for days out... I would love to tour France and Spain on it, but I'm not sure I could get Seren a PUPPYDOG! (her spelling, not mine) to sit on the passenger seat for all that long...
So that's me. Hi.
I'm Gaz, I'm WAY the right side of 55 and I'm about to take possession of my new Suzuki Burgman 650 Executive tomorrow morning.
It's been a while since I had one...the last was a 250 which I had for about 6 months and then some thieving scrote nicked it from outside my brother's house one evening... Since then I've had a couple of Hondas, specifically a CB500 (got nicked) and a CB450 (still got, needs work, when I get some time spare...)
Long story short, for a laugh I put in a claim for PPI against Barclays Bank and Barclaycard, thinking a couple of hundred quid would be useful. Barclaycard got back to me beginning of December with a cheque- for twelve and a half grand. Then Barclays followed suit on Xmas day with a further two and a half grand. So I bought the Burgman.
I'm not saying I'm looking forward to getting it but I've already bought a new Caberg, Gloves, jacket, three hundred quids worth of chains, alarmed disc locks and such...and I don't even get it until tomorrow...it's a 12 plate Exec, 17,000 miles, and I fell in love with it pretty quickly...as long as it took for me to get back from a test ride on a TransAlp and needing help getting off it...getting old SUX!
So...what do I have to look forward to? And what do I need to watch out for? What security devices would you suggest? Tracker? Lasers? Landmines?
I'm planning on using it for work...I am a landscape contract manager for a housing authority, and I also plan to use it for days out... I would love to tour France and Spain on it, but I'm not sure I could get Seren a PUPPYDOG! (her spelling, not mine) to sit on the passenger seat for all that long...
So that's me. Hi.
Hello & Welcome