I have had an offer of £4200 minus my excess of £300 (not £800 as I thought - don't know where I got that figure from.) I have found one on the net for £4999. OK so it's a dealer sale and lower mileage than mine (6200 as against 9300) but it is a 2016, mine being a 2017. I have replied to their offer with a link. worth a try.

Burgman1958 wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:30 am I have had an offer of £4200 minus my excess of £300 (not £800 as I thought - don't know where I got that figure from.) I have found one on the net for £4999. OK so it's a dealer sale and lower mileage than mine (6200 as against 9300) but it is a 2016, mine being a 2017. I have replied to their offer with a link. worth a try.

The first year is the big drop so I'd have expected them to lop a third off for it being a year old, so it's about right.

Always worth a try though.

If you are looking to replace it with a used one, aren't bothered about age, but want low mileage, there is one for less than £4k in Hinckley.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 1191446264

Good find capitano - that’s a lot of scooter for the price though he could consider the Kawasaki J300 being sold by a muppet on this very site

Symcity wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:21 am Good find capitano - that’s a lot of scooter for the price though he could consider the Kawasaki J300 being sold by a muppet on this very site

True ... and I may have mentioned that if I wasn't considering the same scooter myself ...

have you sat on a SH 300 Ged?? stepthrough and performance, handling, braking are suprisingly exellent.

horobags wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:05 pm have you sat on a SH 300 Ged?? stepthrough and performance, handling, braking are suprisingly exellent.

Not recently, no.

My ideal would be to have a scooter supported by a main dealer locally that I trust. That means 3 main dealers local to me.

One is solely Kawasaki.

One is Piaggio/Vespa.

One is Suzuki/Yamaha/Peugeot/Sinnis.

The nearest Honda main dealer is 25 miles away and I wouldn't pi$$ on them if they were on fire!

capitano wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:10 pm

My ideal would be to have a scooter supported by a main dealer locally that I trust. That means 3 main dealers local to me.

One is solely Kawasaki.

One is Piaggio/Vespa.

One is Suzuki/Yamaha/Peugeot/Sinnis.

The nearest Honda main dealer is 25 miles away and I wouldn't pi$$ on them if they were on fire!

You are lucky - there are two main dealers near me, one does Peugeot, the other does Honda/Kawa/Suzuki and have recently stopped doing Yamaha. I recently used the former Yamaha dealer for the Tmax 6 and they seem to made its issues worse, set the tyres to the wrong pressure, and failed to reset the oil trip meter. I tried to avoid them and now won't go there again! Snag is the nearest dealers for most things are now 40 miles away.

capitano wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:14 am

Burgman1958 wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:30 am I have had an offer of £4200 minus my excess of £300 (not £800 as I thought - don't know where I got that figure from.) I have found one on the net for £4999. OK so it's a dealer sale and lower mileage than mine (6200 as against 9300) but it is a 2016, mine being a 2017. I have replied to their offer with a link. worth a try.

The first year is the big drop so I'd have expected them to lop a third off for it being a year old, so it's about right.

Always worth a try though.

If you are looking to replace it with a used one, aren't bothered about age, but want low mileage, there is one for less than £4k in Hinckley.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 1191446264

Thanks for the info capitano, but I would rather have a new one. More like the one I have lost.

capitano wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:10 pm

horobags wrote: Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:05 pm have you sat on a SH 300 Ged?? stepthrough and performance, handling, braking are suprisingly exellent.

Not recently, no.

My ideal would be to have a scooter supported by a main dealer locally that I trust. That means 3 main dealers local to me.
A J 300 sounds the way to go in that case.
One is solely Kawasaki.

One is Piaggio/Vespa.

One is Suzuki/Yamaha/Peugeot/Sinnis.

The nearest Honda main dealer is 25 miles away and I wouldn't pi$$ on them if they were on fire!

A J 300 sounds the way to go then.

horobags wrote: Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:42 am A J 300 sounds the way to go then.

... or so I thought until I sat on one today.

Don't be surprised if I end up with an SH300 after all.