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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!

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

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!

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

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.