Motorcycles

Does anyone know anything about them? I'd like to get into them, well, at least get one so I can ride it instead of my 180-dollar-per-month-for-gas car. That and I just think they're really cool. I'm not lookin for a hog, I like the street bike or "crotch rocket" style better, but I don't need anything really fancy, I'm just kinda looking for a good bike for a beginer.....Any help?

Edited by .Ryan - 03 April 2006 at 10:29pm

Im going to get a nice one in a couple years. Crotch rocket i think.

Go to one of those schools where you can ride a little one and they teach you the clutch and how to work it. They are manual for the most part so its good to have someone teach you.

Edited by DBibeau855 - 03 April 2006 at 10:36pm

What you pay in gas, you will make up in insurance.

50MPG FTW!

No then you would still need a liscence and all that. If you have to register it, get a liscence and pay insurance, do yourself a favor and get a bike with some guts.

I started riding early last summer and am haveing a BLAST.

I went with a smaller cruiser for both inshurance and comfort reasons.  My bikes fully paid off and costs me $700 a year or $50/month to inshure (less than my truck).  ITs a 2000 Yamaha Vstar Classic 650. 

I took a rider safty course as well and would STRONGLY sugggest it to ANYONE EVEN if you know other riders. BOTH my Mother, AND my older Brother ride and i still took the course and benifited as sutch.  Pluse the course was FUN.  Those little 125CC bikes were a blast to boot around with and learning on them gave me ALOT more confidence to ride my own. 

My bikes is a pretty deecent all round bike with PLENTY of get up and go and its comfy for long hauls looks great and is plain fun to ride.  So far i managed to pull of 65mpg.  Its a very stable bike and really helps build confidence.  By mid summer i was drggging th pegs throught the turns with the best of em.  It can pull along fine with even some of the 1200CC cruisers and even looks the part (NEVER GUESS ITS A 650CC).  Eventualy maaybe next season i plan to get the 1100 vershion of this bike as i simply LOVE this bike but am ready now for more juice.

IF you do end up getting a sprot bike id probly reccomend a very small CC bike to begine with.  Maybe something like a 500 KAWASAKI NINJA.  TONS of go and great in the turns but alot more forgiving than even the 600ccs of today. Pluse anything 600cc or more in a sport bike and inshurace is gona have you beding over and getting out the reamer.

What ever you decide stay smart keep the rubber side down and BECARFULL.  I have already seen one persone die riding dont want to read about any more.

P.S. heres a few pics of my bike
Parked for the night beside my mothers bike

close up of the shiny stuff (look like a 650 to you?)

My fat but bringing it in for the night (im 6" 280lbs)


Me with the babe on the back

(DONT worry i never even put it in gear.  Its not my kid either its my neice my bros kid and hes witin diving range).


Edited by BearClaw - 04 April 2006 at 12:12am

I know a lot about dirtbikes, but not too much about
streetbikes. I have a Pocket Rocket though. (No, not
the vibrator.) It's a little mini bike. It's so cool.

.Ryan wrote: Does anyone know anything about them? I'd like to get into them, well, at least get one so I can ride it instead of my 180-dollar-per-month-for-gas car. That and I just think they're really cool. I'm not lookin for a hog, I like the street bike or "crotch rocket" style better, but I don't need anything really fancy, I'm just kinda looking for a good bike for a beginer.....Any help?

I am looking for a bike for college, to save in gas and an easier way to park.

I am like you, I dont like big oversized hogs, but I also am alittle intimidated by super-engined crotch-rockets.

I found my solutions in Triumph.

I really love these bikes, I checked some out at a dealership awhile ago, they are sexy. Leaned foreward British motos.

http://www.triumph.co.uk/usa/

Here is the website.

Personally I am looking for a 1990 or up Bonneville.

 

Buy a good helmet and gear. HJC, Shoei, Arai

get a harley sportster they are awsome!