Honda VT Shadow 125 Review

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Honda VT Shadow 125
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Its Milligan's Review of Honda VT Shadow 125

11th Nov 2009

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    6 days
  • Reliability
    5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    2008
  • Build quality
    5 stars

Wanting to be back on two wheels after more years than I care to remember, in the days when you could ride around on a provisional license for ever, I gave some serious thought to the purchase of a 125 cruiser. After spending a good couple of months looking for one I had a wish list headed by the Honda with the Yamaha Dragstar a close(ish)second and the Suzuki Maraurder a distant third.
A couple of weeks ago I was all set to go across the Pennines to have a serious look at a Dragstar but then it got sold the day before, there were a good few Shadows about but their geographical location severley restricted making any sort of pitch.
Anyway, two weekends ago I spotted the dream machine at a dealers at Doncaster, half an hour away from where I live, went along, made an offer on the Monday and was the proud owner, or so I thought, of a nearly new, 500 mile, 2008 125 Honda Shadow on the Tuesday. A problem with the battery, a new one was fitted and needed charging, meant that the bike could not be delivered that day and work committments meant that I couldn't take delivery until the Friday afternoon of the same week. Excitement mounted, Friday arrived and I gave the dealer a ring to see if a helmet I had ordered had arrived only to be told that the business had gone into receivership that morning and that even though I had paid for the bike in full, had an invoice and receipt for it , legal ownership had not been transferred from the company, they say, and I could not have the bike! Gutted wasn't in it, I found out I could still purchase the bike and rather than look around for another I paid a second time, a few hundred quid less than the initial price but still!
It appears, after advice from CAB that I am stuck in a situation as an unsecured creditor which means I get very little at all of the initial purchase price back but am initiating enquiries via a soliciter to see if there is a legal route given that I paid in full, had an invoice and receipt and that the bike was only still on the premises when the receivers walked in because it was effectively there for repair, watch this space!
Any road! I got the bike home that day and spent a few hours on it over the weekend and came to work in Hull on it on Wednesday and all I can say is that is tremendous fun, almost as good as wotsit, certainly lasts longer! and really is the dogs proverbials of a bike for a 125, I really would reccommend it to anyone starting out on, or returning to, two wheels.

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