25-01-2012, 01:40pm
Just out of left field, I have always been interested in something along the lines of a middle-weight, that I can just use for fanging around to the shops or on errands where parking is made easier and it's also cheap on fuel. Something slightly unusual that was well built. I like to do up a Honda Bros 400 or the 650 V twin, which from all accounts, would make an excellent "cafe-racer" type fun bike and being a twin, single sided swing-arm, great reliability + it's lighter and easier on the wallet, gas and rubber. Second alternative would be a Bonneville or a trident T160, but these are always going to be labour/maintentance intensive.