New to the boards here.
I've been doing some looking around into buying a bike. At first I had my mind set on a ZZR600 or F4i. After being pointed towards some helpful reading, and getting a solid concensus across the board, I decided to look smaller.
So I arrived at a 500R as a starter bike.
There's a guy on here who lives about 4 hours away from me w/ a 2004 500R for sale for 3600 :bs (which I'll get him to lower here real soon).
I contacted a lady at a local Kawasaki dealer looking into a new one, and she said they didn't have a 500R on the lot, but they had a 500EX. I couldn't find any direct info on kawasaki.com about the 500EX. Are they essentially the same bike? Or am I missing something here? Is the 500EX a "discontinued" model? Of course she tried to pitch me on their fixed 49.99/mo. & low APR, blah blah blah.
Can anyone give any help as to if they're similar enough not to worry about, any major differences, used (for a starter) vs new?
Thanks for any input.
I've been doing some looking around into buying a bike. At first I had my mind set on a ZZR600 or F4i. After being pointed towards some helpful reading, and getting a solid concensus across the board, I decided to look smaller.
So I arrived at a 500R as a starter bike.
There's a guy on here who lives about 4 hours away from me w/ a 2004 500R for sale for 3600 :bs (which I'll get him to lower here real soon).
I contacted a lady at a local Kawasaki dealer looking into a new one, and she said they didn't have a 500R on the lot, but they had a 500EX. I couldn't find any direct info on kawasaki.com about the 500EX. Are they essentially the same bike? Or am I missing something here? Is the 500EX a "discontinued" model? Of course she tried to pitch me on their fixed 49.99/mo. & low APR, blah blah blah.
Can anyone give any help as to if they're similar enough not to worry about, any major differences, used (for a starter) vs new?
Thanks for any input.