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user removed · 11-20-2012, 10:50 AM

At $2700 a CBR250R would be a good choice, since it has already lost 1/3rd of its original price in depreciation. If you could find a fairly low mileage Rebel for half that then that would also be a good choice.

Either would give her a good chance to see if she really wants to ride a bike in traffic. Many people have an incident that scares them enough to quit riding, and if that happened then she could get out of the bike with very little loss of money.

If she keeps riding either bike would serve her well and long enough to move up later if she wanted to do that, and either would get great mileage.

regards
Mech

11-20-2012, 10:50 AM	#14 (permalink)
user removed Master EcoModder Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,927 Thanks: 877 Thanked 2,024 Times in 1,304 Posts	At $2700 a CBR250R would be a good choice, since it has already lost 1/3rd of its original price in depreciation. If you could find a fairly low mileage Rebel for half that then that would also be a good choice. Either would give her a good chance to see if she really wants to ride a bike in traffic. Many people have an incident that scares them enough to quit riding, and if that happened then she could get out of the bike with very little loss of money. If she keeps riding either bike would serve her well and long enough to move up later if she wanted to do that, and either would get great mileage. regards Mech Last edited by user removed; 11-20-2012 at 07:21 PM..