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From the out side looking in, motorcycle journalism has often been portrayed as having a rockstar’slifestyle –fast bikes, fast women, fast cash and, er, a fast internet connection. But if that’s what’shappening out there, no-one’slet me on it as I’m someone who has bugger-all disposal income and a credit rating number resembling a learner bike displacement. £3,000 is still a huge amount of cash.
On the other hand, three grand seems a piffling amount when it comes to buying a legendary sportsbike. Surely you’dhave to pay way more to grab yourself a slice of Italian exotica, something that will bother the latest crop of litre-sized missiles or a bike that easily has 200mph within it? Apparently not, if the small ads are anything to go by...