Who rides motorcycles?

[subhunter]

This is my favorite street bike. I really wish Honda imported them to the states.

 

[subhunter]

This is a very close second.

 

[subhunter]

Link to old motorcycle tests. WARNING you might spend hours there.

Dave's Tests and Articles

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davestestsandarticles.weebly.com

 

[subhunter]

Good place for Grom parts.

WR's : [JMCA Certified] Short Oval Full Exhaust [LA1180JM]

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japan.webike.net

 

[CalG]

This is my favorite street bike. I really wish Honda imported them to the states.

That would be a great companion to the VFR800fi.

 

[LouNY]

I do think that dirt riding makes a much better street rider though. It's much more technical and requires a lot more control. So much so that the technical aspects become very instinctive and natural, so you can focus on the trail or track ahead which is constantly changing.

Street riding is very sterile. Good surfaces, clean surfaces. Good traction. Really sterile. If you can be a good technical rider, and then go into an environment that is sterile like street riding, you are so far ahead.

Just like an automatic transmission in a car makes one a lazy driver... So too does street riding begin to dull ones skills at really HANDLING a motorcycle. I mean, making it obedient

I guess I rode my full dress bikes on too many secondary roads and even gravel roads. Can't count the number of times I'd go into a curve and find everything from sand/gravel to manure in the curve. Nothing like a Yamaha Venture or HD Ultra Classic breaking loose to wake you up a bit. All of a sudden the pegs are dragging and it looks like your dirt tracking the corner.

 

[3930dave]

I would love one of these 19,000 rpm 250cc 4 cylinder honda's.
I would do this at least once a week in front of the harley shop. LOL

Canada sometimes gets some small-displacement toys that the USA doesn't (dontcha know, ya need at least 1000cc to drive on an Interstate !), but ROW definitely gets some cool rides we never see, either side of the 49'th.... (Me like Honda , just letting Kaw represent below..... gearheads - put it on loop !)

Rgds, D.

 

[subhunter]

That ZRX 250 sounds great with that pipe.
This is guy rings his 250 out.

 

[scootr]

I got quoted $95 a yr for insuring the 250cc. I learned to ride on 250 dirt bikes. Amazing I survived. We all thought we were Evil Kenevil. Those days it was YZs and Rs. Later I rode Motto Guzzi and Harley. Now going back after 20 yrs away I'm looking to restart with the XT250. Should be fun...oh and if I had a little more confidence and $ I would look at getting a WR250R or CRF300L. Both great little dual sport bikes. Maybe later.
Have a fun and safe holiday

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I can feel alive in other ways without participating in a form of suicide.

Simple search proves your theory wrong.

Have fun and be careful on that ladder!

. I pay $120/yr on a 1125cc sport bike.

What company? Please do tell?
Paying about $375/year for FJR 1300 sport touring bike. Progressive IIRC.