Falco v vfr800vtech v Fazer Thou Advice please

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hornetrider · #16 Post by **hornetrider** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:33 am

In terms of Falcos for sale currently I'd be looking at this one - got all the right mods

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2005-APRILIA-SL-1 ... 7C294%3A50

D-Rider · #17 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed May 20, 2009 10:53 am

hornetrider wrote:In terms of Falcos for sale currently I'd be looking at this one - got all the right mods

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2005-APRILIA-SL-1 ... 7C294%3A50

Yep that looks a good one .... still with room to haggle on the price I feel.

Tiny mileage!

TwinNut · #18 Post by **TwinNut** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:07 am

Aladinsaneuk · #19 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:15 am

tish simon, Brown is the new rust, you should know better....

..... and with "rust" that gorgeous I wish I had one

sfoley1 · #20 Post by **sfoley1** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:21 am

I've just called the ebay guy. It looks like someone has pipped me to it though. A guy has put on a deposit and is tavelling up from Frome to have a butchers. So I've told him if he doesn't get on with it or tries to haggle I'd be willing to pay his full asking price if it is as described. It certainly seems worth £3200.

I'm test riding another one on Ebay on Friday - this one

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aprilia-Falco-SL- ... 1|294%3A50

See how I get on with that and I may go for the one at Shorrocks with some serious haggling so I can add some of the bits you've all recommended.

Top work all, looking forward to being a proper member

D-Rider · #21 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:22 am

Aladinsaneuk wrote:tish simon, Brown is the new rust, you should know better....

..... and with "rust" that gorgeous I wish I had one

Bronze ....... you Donkeys

(I guess it's just jealousy)

sfoley1 · #22 Post by **sfoley1** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:24 am

oooh, forgot to tell you.

My new boss has offered me a free loan of his 1999 GXR600 until I sort myself out as long as I get it insured, which I can do TPFT for £250 (parked on an East London st.!).

What a very nice man....Who knows, I may end up buying that off him for £1500, only got 7500m on the clock. I doubt I will buy it though, I'm presuming it's going to be too revvy for me.

Aladinsaneuk · #23 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:38 am

that would be olympic bronze - as in used to being third?

(And ignore us two - i guess we are the waldorf and statlor of the falco forums....)

TwinNut · #24 Post by **TwinNut** » Wed May 20, 2009 11:44 am

back_marker · #25 Post by **back_marker** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:08 pm

You made it over from the dark side then.

As I said it's a bit of a waste of time asking this lot as you will only ever get one answer but to be honest as soon as you try one out I think you will be sold on it anyway. If nothing else just look at how much more bike you are getting for your money than the other bikes you are looking at.

D-Rider · #26 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:24 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:that would be olympic bronze - as in used to being third?

(And ignore us two - i guess we are the waldorf and statlor of the falco forums....)

As opposed to Crow Black .... as in fluttering and squaking around the stadium and getting easily frightened by pretend people stuffed with straw ....

sfoley1 · #27 Post by **sfoley1** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:27 pm

cheers backmarker. Well for sure I'm definitley not going to get a VFR.

As long as I'm comfortable on the Falco I test ride then it's a winner and I will be doing the shock mod, double bubble screen and clip on handlebars as soon as possible. I'm not fussed about having loud (er), racy cans. Then further down the line a luggage rack and luggage. Do Aprilia do hard luggage like Honda do?

I have just haggled a dealer down from 3795 to 3200 over the phone so if still available once I've got my loan sorted out then bloody get in!!!

hornetrider · #28 Post by **hornetrider** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:33 pm

TwinNut wrote:

What about this one....

Ohlins and Blue Flames with a reasonably low mileage and a pretty good colour, i.e it's not Brown......

We have a winner! Gorgeous cans + Ohlins.

D-Rider · #29 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:37 pm

TwinNut wrote:
What about this one....

Ohlins and Blue Flames with a reasonably low mileage and a pretty good colour, i.e it's not Grey......

Yeah - that one sounds good.

BTW here are pictures of the various colour schemes. The 2002 colours were US market - so hardly any of them here. The Oasis Green is Ultra Rare - so don't set your heart on one of them unless Hornetrider decides to sell his!
http://www.twowheelparts.nl/home/defaul ... 00&lang=nl

D-Rider · #30 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed May 20, 2009 12:44 pm

sfoley1 wrote:cheers backmarker. Well for sure I'm definitley not going to get a VFR.

As long as I'm comfortable on the Falco I test ride then it's a winner and I will be doing the shock mod, double bubble screen and clip on handlebars as soon as possible. I'm not fussed about having loud (er), racy cans. Then further down the line a luggage rack and luggage. Do Aprilia do hard luggage like Honda do?

I have just haggled a dealer down from 3795 to 3200 over the phone so if still available once I've got my loan sorted out then bloody get in!!!

Easiest sales job we've done ! .... really should have negotiated a commission deal with Aprilia (and, let's face it, they really had no idea how to sell the Falco)

As for luggage, Aprilia did an official soft luggage kit for the Falco - they come up for sale from time to time.
Some people have worked out how to adapt the pannier frames to take the Givi Monokey hard luggage (might have a go at that myself one day).
Info is either on this forum or the AF1 forum (maybe both)