ONE-TON NEW-BIKE FUN
Pick up a superb new middleweight do-it-all for around £99 per month...
£9699
● 755cc liquid-cooled parallel twin DOHC 8v
● 83.1bhp @ 8500rpm
● 223kg kerb weight
● £96.64 a month on PCP
£7299
● 755cc liquid-cooled parallel twin SOHC 8v
● 90.5bhp @ 9500rpm
● 190kg kerb weight
● £98.40 a month on PCP
£8945
● 660cc liquid-cooled triple DOHC 12v
● 80bhp @ 10,250rpm
● 206kg kerb weight
● £98.82 a month on PCP
I magine having a pot by your desk and every day you try to drop in three quid. Yep, just three. Wouldn’t be that hard, would it? On the way into work you could skip that posh coffee and instead get an instant when you arrive. Topping up with petrol?
Don’t buy a (secret from the wife...) snack as well, instead stick that cash in the pot. Come the weekend, not having a beer or two or a takeaway will rapidly increase the size of your stash. If after this fairly minimal cash-saving exercise you can hit £99 by the end of the month, then you could have one of these three new bikes in your garage as a reward. That’s much more exciting than a flat white or a hastily-consumed doughnut.
More and more riders are making their bike buying decision based on monthly PCP finance payments. It’s easy to budget for a set monthly amount (and justify the outlay) and less of a financial risk than going all-in and buying a bike outright.
Obviously, there are pitfalls that you need to be very clear on before you sign up and PCP certainly won’t be for everyone – but for many it has opened the door to owning a brand new machine when before it wasn’t financially viable… bikes such as the three we are about to go out and enjoy some time on today.
Hornet’s ready to sting
Costing £7299, Honda’s new CB750 Hornet is already remarkable value and getting it for £98.40 a month requires a deposit of just £1350, which is certainly within the realms of affordability. Stepping up the financial outlay is the £8945 Triumph Tiger Sport 660, which will set you back £98.82 a month after a £2150 deposit, so you need to stump up a bit more upfront. And finally we have the most expensive bike on test, the £9699 Suzuki V-Strom 800 RE, which requires a £2650 outlay to lower its monthly payments to £96.64. When you crunch the numbers like this, even the Suzuki’s deposit feels achievable, especially if you have a machine to trade-in. But which option should you go for?
Covering a pleasingly wide spectrum of uses, we have picked the Hornet, V-Strom RE and
