Think you may want to specify your usage pattern and budget.

Unless you're doing long commute with a lot of highway travel, you're going to find it worse to ride a big bike to work. Big bike is difficult to handle in a jam and maintenance cost (likely fuel consumption too) is much higher. If your workplace parking isn't good, then you'll also have to worry about bikes getting scratched/tipped over in the parking, not to mention storage issues, unless you can stand having a box on a sportbike. These are actual problems I'm facing btw, and I'm exactly the opposite of your situation now, thinking about getting a kapchai for work.

However, if you're solely riding it on weekends, get a used Ninja 650 that's 2017 onwards (after ER6F), which can be had for anywhere from 18 - 22k. I will also advise against getting any naked bikes for weekend rides, because you'll likely do tours on highways and naked bike lacks the wind protection of fairing bikes, which makes riding at high speed a huge pain.

Avoid the CFMOTO 250 platform, the engine is old, jerky piece of junk and they're releasing a two cylinders 250 soon.

This post has been edited by JustForFun: Jul 20 2024, 07:41 PM