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[alistairolsen]

Hi, I'm Alistair.

I'm a 23 year old engineer from Glasgow and I'm seriously looking ta a 400 for a first bike. I've been reading about the ZXR on here and of the sports 400's its about the only one I like the looks of!

I've spent years modifying cars and doing trackdays and I'm currently building a caterham replica with ~400bhp but I've never worked on a bike. I'm torn between buying a cheap project and doing the work as a learning exercise hoping to ultimately end up with something really good, or buy a generic bike in the best condition I can afford and just using it.

It will mainly be used for driving on sunny roads during the summer and carefully stored during winter months.

Cheers!

[tommyboi]

if youve got the knowledge and enough money i would buy one that needs work and rebuild it, that way you can have it exactly how you want it, and you get more of a sense of pride and satisfaction, plus its more of a incentive to look after it better and appreciate it more

[alistairolsen]

I wouldn't have the first clue where to start right now, but Im sure with a manual and some time I could learn. I don't know if its possible to buy a cheap enough project to make it worthwhile. As I'm not comfortable enough with them yet it would need to be a complete bike as opposed to boxes of bits!

[tommyboi]

same here but it would be good experience i reckon!!

[SOILZX]

Welcome to the forum Alistair
If you do decide to buy a project and tackle it yourself, theres plenty of info and helpful peeps about on here.