Is the aprilia rs125 hard to master the gears? Im 17?
Feb.08, 2012 in
Aprilia RS125
Question by : Is the aprilia rs125 hard to master the gears? Im 17?
Im 17 and done my cbt on an automatic when i was 16, theres an aprilia rs125 selling for £650 and i belirve this is a bargain but i dont know how to use the gears on the bike i am clueless, should i jus buy an automatic?
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Answer by Snow Monkey
Easy easy to lurn. You’ll be able to gear perfectly within the hour, unless you’re a very slow learner.
Start in neutral, clutch in, gear down to first, give some throttle and you’re off. Clutch in, gear up to second and so on.
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February 8th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Gears are very easy to master. An hour or so to learn em and around 200 miles or so and you’ll have them spot on.
Alls you’ve gotta remember is be smooth on the clutch and take your time learning them. Basically here’s a short of what to do;
1. Feel when you need to change gear
2. Roll off the throttle
3. Pull the clutch in
4. Select the next gear (would be a movement of the lever upwards to get it into the next gear up in the gearbox)
5. Release the clutch smoothly
6. Apply the throttle again and bang you’ve done a gear change.
Might be worth practising changing gears on an empty, quiet carpark til you get the basics of them
and as for your bike choice, if I were going to buy an RS125 (I wouldn’t buy one ever but hey) I’d spend at least £1000+. The so called ‘bargains’ you’ve seen will be de-restricted so illegal for you to ride and they’re probably either getting close to rebuild time or need on a.s.a.p. That’s the problem with older 2-strokes, reliability. They would have been, especially little ones, thrashed from the day they were new…add a learner rider to the equasion and you can see how they’d knacker VERY quickly. 2-strokes need to be thrashed to get power out of them but sadly that is their flaw – thrashing them kills them and usually quicker than it’s kill a 4-stroke.. It’d be worth taking a knowledgable friend with you when you look at ANY bike, but I’d advise sticking to 4-stroke 125s from big manufacturers like Honda, Yamaha etc… for the time being. Something like a CG125. Then you can do your test relatively quickly, it’ll never go wrong in the time you own it then you can get a big bike that’ll ultimately be faster and better looking than a little RS125!
It might also be worth looking at gettting some decent protective gear if you haven’t already. One day it will save your skin and it may just save your life too.
Good luck and ride safe
–Mikey B–
February 8th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Unless 17 is your IQ I think you should be able to work out the gear shifting, but even an automatic usually has a shifter but just no clutch, so it’s really the clutch you need to learn and I don’t have the exact number of people that have learned to drive with a clutch but I guess it’s more than 1 and less than 7 billion.
February 8th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
The ONLY difficult part is starting and stopping, a skill you can learn in an hour on an empty parking lot, have a standard bike friend ride it there for you and practice. There IS a little learning to shift between the gears another hour will learn that.
But ,last I read, L650 is a LOT for a used 125.