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11-26-2002, 01:08 PM
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Thanx!!
 Yeah. I thought about insurance alot, too. I also know to get proper gear. Well, thanx for the support guys. |
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02-12-2003, 04:51 PM
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Starting small is a good idea. I started out with a Hurricane and now wished I would have started smaller. I had some bad habits for a while.
As far as getting a bigger bike as you get older, I did but kinda wished I had a smaller one. Mine can really get up and go but doesn't handle like the smaller bikes. I do some drag racing where my bike is fine but have switched to my twistie riding and my ride is to much of a pig to do tight turns. Although its perfect on those 500-600 days where my R1 and Duc buddies are crying in pain. |
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05-31-2003, 09:16 PM
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sportbikes don't look too comfortable
I have to disagree with some of you folks here.I started out on a 600 Yamaha Radian,alot of people told me it was too much bike to learn on.Just remember that the throttle works in both directions.Take it easy,learn how the bike feels,take a year to get to know the bike.I think if you start off with a 500 ninja you'll be tired of it before a year is up.But hey,i'm not trying to convince you of anything,you are the only person that knows if you can handle a sport bike responsibly.Just remember that it's a good thing to be afraid of your first bike.Gives you respect for the machine and keeps you safe.
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06-01-2003, 04:48 PM
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Fearing your BIKE is bad. Fearing others and what others can do to you is good. You need to TRUST your bike so that you feel comfortable on it and feel secure in making any necessary decisions in an emergency. If you're scared shitless of your bike, you'll panic, and there goes your genes from the gene pool. Sure, some CAN start on a 600 successfully. MOST can't. There's a reason.
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06-01-2003, 06:57 PM
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sportbikes don't look too comfortable
I didn't mean scared as in nervous,i meant scared as in not wanting to end up on your head.I think it all comes down to common sense.Take it easy and you should be fine.
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06-04-2003, 08:19 AM
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Fearing your bike in anyway is bad, but just as bad is overconfidence. If you're thinking "I'm not sure I can make that corner" you'll probably wind up on the curb, and If you're thinking "I can take that exit ramp at 110" your probably gonna miss the curb, and wake up in hospital 2 months later. IF you have luck on your side. Anyway 250 and 500 Ninjas are very good bigginer bikes. (I'm getting my girl a 500R this summer.) RSX-If your planning on having the bike for a year or two I'd have to say try and get the 500R or an SV-650. Having your friends wait on you is OK for a couple months but you and them will probably get impaitent. Not the best thing when you're on a bike. Oh, and speaking from expirience, a six-four is too much to safely start on. I bought a new R-6 and almost looped the bike in the first week of riding. R-1 is right get all of the gear, and wear it. It maybe hot under your leathers but you'll wish you had been hot when the docs are scrubbing the dirt out of your road rash. Well thats my 2 cents anyway.
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06-04-2003, 03:26 PM
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buell blast = ok but not to fast $4,000 harely riders say there too small tho
Buells are in the harley dealer ships. the most expensive buell is only like 14grand all buells are good but the only problem is that there all torq kings and will do willes like notin so if you get one be safe /there more comfortable than others . the main thing to do I test ride. |
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06-07-2003, 06:01 AM
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I don't really know about Buell Blast, but I have seen Ninja 500's for 2.5-3k that were in decent shape. Some scratches from being dropped and such. Although, I didn't see them in person. Unfortunately high bike prices are a side effect of living in Colorado. The cheap ones are all on the east coast area, or that's the way it seems.
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God bless the East Coast.  I picked up a 1991 GS500 last summer for $1300 and less than 5k miles. They're around. Had a few scrapes, but hey... first bikes get dropped. Buying used is the best thing you could do until you're really really sure about what you're doing. Even then it's still almost not worth it.
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06-13-2003, 04:36 AM
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 I've been looking in state for a while now, and all that I can find are either new, or destroyed. The cheapest 500r I've seen in Colorado was $4000. That one was a new 2002, I think it is still for sale. |
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06-16-2003, 01:46 PM
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06-20-2003, 12:10 AM
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Yah, I know about where to look, but I thought shipping was more than that. Well, it was for more for a car anyway. I'm leary about buying a bike with *superfical* (or however that's spelled) damage, without seeing it, rideing it, ect. It's in my nature to be distrustful of those I don't know. Not to offend them, but it's really easy to get ripped off these days. Sometimes it seems like all the good people have been killed off by all the bad ones.
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06-20-2003, 02:07 AM
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PM me if you find any bikes in SWPA that you want more info on. I'd be glad to get it for you.
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06-20-2003, 12:08 PM
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Likewise i can check out any AZ bikes anybody is thinking of buying.
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained. |
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