[Darren69]

2500 will buy you a dog/project bike or something that will need some work, 3500 will buy you something half decent. Either a nice early carby 900 or later 900/1000/s2r. The ie bikes are a far better bike imho, they run better and the electronics are fairly robust and aren't so complicated or expensive to maintain unless it has to be old school carbs which can be a pita and always a compromise.