Best Biking Deals of the Week – 28th March 2025
By Phil West
Freelance motorcycle journalist, former editor of Bike & What Bike?, ex-Road Test Editor MCN, author of six books and now in need of a holiday.
28.03.2025
The Magnificent 10 biking deals of the week
What are the best motorcycle and kit deals and discounts available right now?
Continuing our regular weekly guides to current biking offers and bargains, we’ve been scouring the marketplace – so you don’t have to! And, we’re adding USED bikes, too!
Save £4400 on a Harley-Davidson Nightster Special
Think ‘entry-level’ Harley-Davidsons are expensive? Think again. With reports of some struggles for HD dealers, now’s the time to find some big discounts – as is the case here. Leading dealer Sycamore is currently offering this example of the Nightster Special, which is the upspecced version of the entry-level 975cc Nightster with dual seat, headlamp cowling, improved clocks and more, with a full £4400 off – that takes its asking price down from the usual £15,395 to now just £10,995. See, told you Harleys weren’t always big money.
DEAL LINK: www.sycamoremotorcycles.co.uk
Save £2900 on this Ducati Diavel V4
If discounted Harley cruisers don’t appeal, how about the possibility of big savings on an Italian performance cruiser instead? Ducati’s latest Diavel V4 is a phenomenal accomplishment, not just as a technological and styling marvel, but as a performance machine, too. Trouble is, as it usually starts at the thick side of £23,000, it’s a pretty expensive one, too – except here. Ducati London is currently offering one, brand new, 0-mile, unregistered example in gleaming black with a full £2900 discount so taking it down from the usual price of £23,895 to now just £20,995.
DEAL LINK: ducatilondon.co.uk
Get £2416 off this Yamaha TMAX 560
You don’t get a much bigger two-wheeled contrast to an Italian power cruiser than a Japanese maxi-scooter but there are similarities here, too. Yamaha’s class-leading TMAX is being updated for 2025 meaning unsold 2024 examples, as is the case here, are sometimes being offered with sizeable dealer discounts, and again here we’re talking about a saving of over £2400.
Yamaha dealer Alford Bros is currently offering one brand new, 0-mile, unregistered example of the superb – but usually quite expensive – 560cc scooter with a full £2416 off taking its price down from the usual £14,011 to now just £11,595.
DEAL LINK: www.alfordbros.co.uk
Get £1504 off this Suzuki GSX-S1000
One of the highlight new bikes of 2025 has been Honda’s new cut-price super naked, the 150bhp CB1000 Hornet, which starts at £8995 riding to £9995 for the SP version but there are alternatives at similarly tempting prices thanks to big dealer discounts – if you know where to look. Suzuki’s GSX-S1000 is a similar 150bhp roadster with sweet handling and Brembo brakes and dealer Bike Treads is currently offering one with a full £1504 off, so taking it down from the usual £11,999 to a much more Hornet-competitive £10,495.
DEAL LINK: www.biketreads.co.uk
Get this Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 S with £837 off
How about this for a massive used bike bargain – a top spec, 150bhp adventure bike for under £8000 Harley-Davidson’s all-new Pan America adventure bike is many things, especially in top spec ‘S’ trim as is the case here. It’s got a great V-twin engine, plenty of electronics, an adjustable screen and is a good handler. But it’s also slightly odd-looking and hasn’t been a huge seller so there are plenty of discounted bargains to be had. Used bike specialist Superbike Factory is offering this 71-plate 8822-miler, for example, now with a further £837 off as part of its Price Match promotion so taking it down from £8786 to just £7949
DEAL LINK: https://superbikefactory.co.uk
Save £481 on this Triumph Tiger 1200
If a Harley adventure bike is a little too ‘left-field’ for you how about a great deal on a virtually as-new used Triumph one instead – as is the case here? Used bike specialists Superbike Factory is currently offering this absolutely immaculate (as you might expect as it has covered only 702 miles), 72-plate Triumph Tiger 1200 GT (the more road-orientated version of the British firm’s brilliant, 160bhp, shaft-drive triple) with a further discount of £481 as part of its Price Match promotion so taking it down from the previous £12,586 to now just £12,105 – that’s over £5000 cheaper than buying a new one.
DEAL LINK: https://superbikefactory.co.uk
Save £401 on this Triumph Thruxton 1200R
And if a discounted used Triumph adventure bike doesn’t appeal, how about a great deal on a barely used example of one of the best Triumph ‘modern classic’ café racers instead? Used bike specialists Superbike Factory is also currently offering this immaculate example of the now deleted Thruxton R (the one with the Öhlins suspension and more). It’s on a 21-plate has covered – get this – just 95 miles so hasn’t even used a full tank of fuel, its price has just been reduced as part of its Price Match promotion by a further £401 so taking it down from the previous £10,890 to now just £10,489, and it represents probably the best way of buying a ‘new’ Thruxton R you’ll find.
DEAL LINK: https://superbikefactory.co.uk
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We have teamed up with Phoenix Motorcycle Training to bring BikeSocial members an exclusive discount on the firm’s Machine Control Day course. So how does a £20 saving sound?
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A short classroom session based around Riding theory and best practices
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Exclusive £10 extra discount on a pair of Pharao GripNDry gloves at Sportsbikeshop for BikeSocial members.
We have teamed up with Sportsbikeshop to offer BikeSocial members some fantastic discounts through our BikeSocial Shop for 2025. And as these deals are exclusive to BikeSocial members, you won’t find them anywhere else So how does saving an extra £10 on a pair of Pharao GripNDry gloves sound?
Pharao GripNDry gloves are the perfect all-season glove and are constructed from a durable textile with a goat skin leather palm for grip. But that’s not the clever part, the impressive thing about them is the GripNDry dual chamber system, which delivers all weather comfort. A Clime-Max waterproof, windproof and breathable membrane keeps the elements out while a plastic hard knuckle shell and finger protection keep your hands safe. Add to this a visor wipe and touchscreen-compatible index fingertips and it all results in a top-spec glove with a bargain price tag.
Available in sizes M, L and XL, the Pharao GripNDry gloves in black usually cost £79.99 but Sportsbikeshop have cut this by over 25% to £59.99, a price BikeSocial members can save a further £10 on, reducing them to just £49.99.
Check out all the other deals on offer at Sportsbikeshop alongside this one in the rewards section of our website.
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Here are last week's deals, in case you missed them...
Save £6215 on a BMW M1000RR
BMW’s ‘M’, race homologation version of its S1000RR superbike is not only the reigning World Superbike champion, it’s probably the ultimate track-ready sports bike you can buy, especially in full ‘carbon’ trim complete with full ‘aero’, disc shrouds, bodywork and more, as is the case here – but this one’s also something of a bargain. Usually a whopping £36,195, this brand new, zero-mile, unregistered example is currently being offered by dealers Williams BMW, with a full £6215 off so taking its asking price down to a far more affordable £29,980
DEAL LINK: www.williamsgroup.co.uk
Save £3100 on this KTM 1290 Super Duke GT
The imminent arrival of a superseding new model often leads to unsold existing examples being sold off at a discount to make way and as a result there are sometimes some brilliant bargains to be had – as is the case here. KTM’s GT version of its 173bhp V-twin Super Duke remains one of the liveliest and most entertaining sports tourers you can buy but is about to be replaced by a new 1390 version. Which is why dealers Premier Bikes is currently offering this brand new, unsold, 0-mile example of the 1290 with a full £3100 off so taking its price down from the previous £18,999 to now just £15,899.
DEAL LINK: www.premierbikes.com
Get £3074 off this Kawasaki Versys 1000
Another example of an already brilliant and popular bike being updated leading to unsold old models being subject to sometimes sizeable dealer discounts – but this time from Kawasaki. The Japanese brand’s big, four-cylinder adventure tourer, the Versys 1000, has long been popular for its mix of performance, practicality and value but grows to an 1100 for 2025 which has prompted dealer Laguna to slash the price of this 0-mile, brand new, unsold 1000cc example by a full £3074 so taking it down from the previous £15,569 to now just £12,495.
DEAL LINK: www.laguna.co.uk
Get £2055 off an Aprilia RS660 Extrema
While finally for this week, proving that big dealer discounts don’t always apply only to 1000cc sports bike or sports tourers is this cut price mid-range sportster currently being offered by dealer Moto Techniks Motorcycle Centre. It’s the Extrema version of Italian brand Aprilia’s fabulous, twin cylinder middleweight sports bike, the RS660 (which has a little extra power and uprated cycle parts, is brand new, 0-mile and unregistered and has just been reduced by a significant £2055 so taking it now down to just £9995
DEAL LINK: www.mototechniks.com
Get this Ducati Multistrada 1260 S with £3941 off
Proof again that sometimes used bikes can sometimes be subject to big dealer discounts. This all-black example of Ducati’s brilliant V-twin Multistrada 1260 adventure sports, which is also in the top spec ‘S’ trim, is currently being offered by used bike specialists Superbike Factory. It’s on an 18-plate, has covered a very reasonable 16,555 miles, is in excellent condition, comes complete with colour-matched factory panniers and, best of all, has just been reduced by a whopping £3941 as part of its price match promotion so taking it down from the previous £11,991 to now just £8050
DEAL LINK: superbikefactory.co.uk
Save £500 on this Aprilia Tuono 1100 V4 RR
How about this for a great discount on one of the best supernakeds you can currently buy? It’s the top spec RR variant of Italian exotica experts Aprilia’s brilliant, V4-powered Tuono 1100 and this example has just benefitted from a £500 discount from used bike specialists Superbike Factory. It’s a 20-plate example, has covered just 5929 miles is in excellent standard condition and that discount, as part of Superbike Factory’s ‘Price Match’ promotion, sees its asking price drop from the previous £9990 to now just £9490
DEAL LINK: superbikefactory.co.uk
Save £330 on this Ducati Monster 1200 S
While our final dealer discounted used bike for this week is a great example of one of the best naked bikes of recent decades – Ducati’s iconic V-twin Monster.
This one is again being offered by used bike specialists Superbike Factory, the bike concerned is a 2014 example of the Italian legend’s iconic 1200 Monster in up-specced ‘S’ form, which has covered just 9084 miles, is in excellent condition and, as a result of the price cut which comes as part of Superbike Factory’s ‘Price Match’ promotion, it’s asking price is now down from the previous £6986 to now just £6656 – that’s a saving of £330
DEAL LINK: superbikefactory.co.uk
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