Will be moving to the suburbs soon, so we need some machines
Wife will still be commuting about 30 miles each way. Thinking a porsche cayman for her. I'll be within 5 miles. Want to learn to ride. Short distances, so something cheap and japanese? for me. Any suggestions on either? On the bike I could also go for something restored if there's a reasonably priced classic model that would be suitable.
04-06-04 Killdozer NEVER FORGET
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I've never owned a motorcycle but I imagine it would get old real fast. Buy a car to drive on your daily commute and if you still want a bike buy one as a weekend toy. This goes double if you want a classic European bike which will all have issues restored or not.
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Dude, my daily commute will be like 7 minutes. Motorcycles are cheap.
04-06-04 Killdozer NEVER FORGET
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As a point of reference, if I don't get a motorcycle for myself I will get a bicycle.
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get a BMW motorcycle. almost no maintenance. Honda´s are also maintenance-ok.
Alright then if you want to learn to ride you should get something like a 600cc Japanese bike so that you can learn without killing yourself on a high horse power beast of a bike. Learn on the smaller one, get a feel for how they handle, where the edge of the envelope is, and what sort of riding position you're looking for in a bike (upright, crouched over on a sport bike, or one of the combo type bikes). I hear Honda's CBR bikes are good all around while Kawis and Yamahas vie for the top performance spot. You're going to be tempted to buy more bike than you can handle without experience but then the odds are you'll just wheelie or spin out so I'd avoid that temptation and start modest to build up your experience.
Lastly, about 17 years ago I saw a guy killed on a bike because he took off right when the light turned green and some a-hole ran a red because he thought he could still make it. Just remember you can be the best rider in the world but if the other dumbshit does something stupid you're the one who dies because the car's mass is much more than yours. In a car it might just be a fender bender but on a bike you are the crumple zone.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
Interesting, never thought of bmw...
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~100 mpg. You're welcome.Originally Posted by KrazyHorse
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I actually joked about that today..
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man, what´s with this bikes-are-dangerous-fetish of yours. i have one of the most powerful bikes in existence (1.1L engine) and zero accidents in 10 years. it´s my fourth bike. 3 accidents in my car, however, last few years?
Bikes are dangerous. It's a question of calculated risk; how and where you ride. I carry 2MM of life insurance on myself, so I won't be stranding my family...
04-06-04 Killdozer NEVER FORGET
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Like I said, you can be a great rider but if the other guy is an idiot...
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
If it's a 7 min drive you might as well walk.
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We've got both kinds
Assuming your average urban rush hour speeds are the same as mine, which they might not be.
Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
We've got both kinds
they have like, at least six lanes in either direction, in them U S A. And that's just the trottoir.
If I was thinking of getting a Porsche for the wife, I'd certainly be thinking something just as nice for myself.
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He said "within 5 miles". That could easily be, what, an hour of walking?
I think he missed the part where I said it was suburban. 7 minutes at 40 mph is 5 miles or so.
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Motorcycles are seriously dangerous. If it were me, having generous life insurance doesn't really make up for the fact that I'd be dead.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Then you're clearly not properly evaluating your life's worth.
Suburban is as dangerous as it gets for motorcycles.
Think distracted soccer moms.
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I am insured for less than my life's value because one of the major losers from me dying (me) wouldn't be around if I died.
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The answer to that, of course, is cryonics.
Get something loud so the idiot drivers will have time to wonder what that noise is and look up from the cell phone in time to not squash you flat.
I've thought you were having a midlife crysis.
Seriously, get yourself a scooter, you'll look like a hip Italian. And I mean an Italian Italian, not an Italian-American.
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Among the poets we are ****.
Scooters are seriously stupid looking and are no safer than bikes.
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Suzuki Bandit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Bandit_series
Far more comfortable to ride than hardcore racer bikes. They're great all-rounders.
On the other hand, if you've got plenty of spare cash and want something really brutal, get a Yamaha V-Max.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_V-Max_and_VMAX
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if i had to buy a new one, i'd get a k1300.
Scooters are gay. This is a fact.
Also real men drive 4x4s.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Real men run down the middle of the road. Any road.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
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