Honda-SOHC

I am a little concerned with the phrase "Having never ridden before,"

 that is why I advised going with standard,

I agree with Johnwebley on this one, as you havn't ridden before I would go with bog standard bars. Learn how to handle the bike properly first and then swap around if you still fancy it. Also, having not ridden a bike before, how will you know if its handling / steering right if you go away from the standard. I've tried all the different ones on different bikes over the past 35 years and even though comfort is important, it's what you feel through the bars that is more important to me.

Quote from: Nurse Julie on December 05, 2014, 10:52:16 AM

Wow, look at those fairings.............and the hairstyles and clothes. The Uni Students I teach sometimes still look similar today, except their trousers are a bit baggier !!!

What about the blokes?

Oh yes, the blokes look lovely too 

Somewhere I have a photo of me and some friends when we were Student Nurses in 1980 outside the Nurses Home at Pembury Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. There were 4 of us with Bikes, I think mine was the KZ 400 in the pic, and my friend had a 400 of some sort and we had the tank resprayed in pearlescent pink with a picture of the Pink Panther painted on it. Seemed a good idea at the time !!!

I always tell people to try the post office insurance but, always worth shopping around.
The best years ago was the rider policy that norwich union used to do.

The Norwich Union Rider policy was one of the best. I wonder if there is anything like that available these days ?. After the N.U. policy finished I used to ride all my bikes on a Motor Trade policy. Easy, as you could ride anything but 3rd party road risks only. That was ok for the old heaps of junk but I had a 3 month old CBR 600 written off in a flood about 1990, I mean totally wrecked, and the insurance company wouldn't pay out. These days you can actually have fully comp on bikes on Motor Trade Policies but even at my great age it's about £1400 per year 

Well, that was a bit of a bugger then Steve. Still can't really see why they scuppered it, surely Honda own the logo rights not Zazzle. You would have thought that if they can sell T shirts with Nurse's lounging suggestively on a bed with their arses and tits hanging out, they could sell anything 

I suppose what your saying Trig is that if I buy your lovely 500/4, it will be Tax exempt. Good idea but it may be cheaper for me to just give HM the 58 quid for my Honda RFL 

Hi All
I've just had RFL reminder through for my 400, its 58 squids, is that right?. It's more than I pay for the bloody bike insurance which is Fully Comp any bike any size. When does the classic excemption come in ?