I'm so freaking excited! I just finished up talking with the salesman and finance lady at the yamaha dealer and am scheduled to go down with my bike first thing tomorrow morning to trade in on a brand new 2012 leftover FZ8 they have! I'm currently on my first bike which is a 2011 Honda CBR250R which was a great beginner bike but I'm ready for something larger and with more power. I put almost 10,000 miles on it the last two seasons and it's been great but the one huge downfall for me is it is seriously lacking safe passing power at anything over about 50-55 mph. The roads I take to work (I use the bike to commute a lot for gas savings over my 13mpg jeep) are 55mph backroads with a few sweeps here and there but mostly fairly straight so most people cruise along at 65-70mph on them. Well occasionally I get behind a granny out sight seeing the farmland going 45-50mph. Well with the 250 I have to kick it down to 4th and still have a pretty long passing area to get around safely (I'm not one for chancing it or cutting it close on a bike) because it just doesn't build speed very quickly in the 50+mph area.
Anyways I've been looking for awhile now and called about a few that were marked down pretty good but I've kept passing them up waiting for the right one. Well I found it! This one is a brand new (1 mile on the odo) 2012 leftover for $6,344!!! Over $2,300 off retail! They just want to get rid of it because they've had it for awhile and their FZ-09's are hitting the floor. They're giving me full kbb value on my bike too which is all I really asked for because they have such a great price on the FZ8. I am so excited because I've really liked the 8's since they came out but was just a little too much bike for me to want to start out on. The local yamaha dealer will only come down to $7,800 on their '12 FZ8 and won't take trades because they're a small dealer that only deal in new yamaha bikes (likely be out of business before too long too because they have horrible inventory all the time from being so small). I'm traveling well over an hour to go get her but man is it worth it. I'll hopefully have up some pictures tomorrow. First things I'm doing is Givi smoked screen, yamaha center stand and a dan moto carbon gp slip on.
Anyways I've been looking for awhile now and called about a few that were marked down pretty good but I've kept passing them up waiting for the right one. Well I found it! This one is a brand new (1 mile on the odo) 2012 leftover for $6,344!!! Over $2,300 off retail! They just want to get rid of it because they've had it for awhile and their FZ-09's are hitting the floor. They're giving me full kbb value on my bike too which is all I really asked for because they have such a great price on the FZ8. I am so excited because I've really liked the 8's since they came out but was just a little too much bike for me to want to start out on. The local yamaha dealer will only come down to $7,800 on their '12 FZ8 and won't take trades because they're a small dealer that only deal in new yamaha bikes (likely be out of business before too long too because they have horrible inventory all the time from being so small). I'm traveling well over an hour to go get her but man is it worth it. I'll hopefully have up some pictures tomorrow. First things I'm doing is Givi smoked screen, yamaha center stand and a dan moto carbon gp slip on.
I generally ride my bike to work until it's mid 40's at night anyway and I have some good heavy gloves, a liner for my jacket and a nice balclava for under the helmet to stay warm on my 35+ mile commutes home in the colder weather. I'll tell you though that balclava was by FAR the best money ever spent for keeping warm! It keeps my face/head so nice and warm now which keeps the rest of me much warmer. Before I would freeze because even with a fullface helmet I'd have the cold air blowing up into it making my face/head cold which was miserable.
