 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
| Search | Car Forums | Gallery | Articles | Helper | AF 350Z | IgorSushko.com | Corporate |
 | | ||
| |
|
| Latest | 0 Rplys |
|
|||||||
 |
 Show Printable Version |  Email this Page | 
Subscribe to this Thread
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
02-05-2004, 03:39 PM
|
#1 | |
|
AF Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 6
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Am i too small to ride a bike?
Hey guys and girls,
this is my first post on this site and i have recently been interested in buying a bike. I'm not a midget, but by no means am i a giant. i'm 5'9 about 160lbs. would i be big enough to handle a 600rr f4i? What is the difference between the F4i and the 600rr? is it only cosmetic stuff or is there a power/handling difference? thanks a lot Dan |
|
|
|
02-05-2004, 06:12 PM
|
#2 | |
|
AF Enthusiast
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: scottsdale, Arizona
Posts: 742
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Well your first motorcycle should not be a sportbike, and you are a fine height for riding, you will find 600cc bikes will fit you perfectly, while larger ones will seem a little big.
__________________
......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. |
|
|
|
|
02-05-2004, 09:03 PM
|
#3 | ||
|
AF Fanatic
 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: La Vergne, Tennessee
Posts: 9,253
Thanks: 110
Thanked 46 Times in 43 Posts
|
Re: Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Quote:
__________________
Like a boy - but BETTER! 2005 Subaru Forester 2.5X 1997 Honda Civic EX Coupe Inform yourself: AF User Guidelines |
||
|
|
|
02-05-2004, 10:04 PM
|
#4 | |
|
AF Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles & Oregon
Posts: 313
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
This is something nobody ever agrees on but theres no reason why you cant handle it. 5'9 is pretty normal if you ask me.
You said you want a "600rr f4i".... thats 2 different bikes. 600rr and 600 F4i are different bikes. Quite similar but either one would be real nice. F4i wudda been my second choice but I got an R6 and am glad I did. Best choice I ever made as far as investing goes. You wont be sorry with either one but the F4i used will run a lot cheaper. Definately get a used bike though IMO for your first bike.
__________________
95 Civic Si 00 Yamaha R6 |
|
|
|
|
02-05-2004, 10:14 PM
|
#5 | |
|
AF Newbie
Thread starter
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 6
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
i understand that a bike and a sports car are very different, as 60 in a car will be nothing compared to 60 on a bike. if i know my limits and don't try to be a bad ass with it, take all the classes start off slow and know my limits why is the f4i a bad learning bike?
i'm not trying to be an a**hole but i'm just trying to understand why taking it slow on a 600cc bike is any different from going full tilt on a 250 and then going up. thanks for being patient with me Dan |
|
|
|
|
02-05-2004, 11:33 PM
|
#6 | |
|
AF Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: scottsdale, Arizona
Posts: 742
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Because it is hard to truly respect the power that modern sportbikes make until it bites you. Ofcourse it is possible to start out on a sportbike, keep a level head, and ride safely without killing yourself. However, the odds are high enough that I do not recommend it for anybody, it is not worth giving your life to save a couple hundred dollars instead of starting out on a lesser bike.
__________________
......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. |
|
|
|
|
02-06-2004, 10:15 AM
|
#7 | |
|
AF Regular
 Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: chicago, Illinois
Posts: 238
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
The power and technology in the new generations of sport bikes are suprsing even for us experienced riders, but to a new rider it is more than they can handel. Especially the fuel injected bikes (MAN are they NICE) A new rider could get a great deal on a used 96, 97 sport bike to use as a learner that will still provide years of great riding.
__________________
Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. Romans 12:19 "What if the truth is that there is no truth? The only thing i can prove is there is no proof" Reconsider Everything, 311 |
|
|
|
|
02-06-2004, 10:25 AM
|
#8 | |
|
AF Regular
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: chicago, Illinois
Posts: 238
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
The power and technology in the new generations of sport bikes are suprsing even for us experienced riders, but to a new rider it is more than they can handel. Especially the fuel injected bikes (MAN are they NICE) A new rider could get a great deal on a used 96, 97 sport bike to use as a learner that will still provide years of great riding.
But its not just the power the bike has, its learning how to mold your body and the machine into one. When driving a car you can pratically do anything while driving. But riding a bike takes all your attention and energy. Leaning into turns, shifting your weight, fatigue, ect are all conditions you have to get used to. 250cc or 600cc you have to get used to all these before you can even come close to the bikes full potential, much less the full potential of modern day sport bikes.
__________________
Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. Romans 12:19 "What if the truth is that there is no truth? The only thing i can prove is there is no proof" Reconsider Everything, 311 |
|
|
|
|
02-07-2004, 12:37 AM
|
#9 | |
|
AF Regular
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: ., Georgia
Posts: 224
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
hi there,
I think u will be alright, you will learn  about body weight and size.... I am 20 years old, only weight 128lb-ish and I am 5'8. And I ride SV1000s... and I am fine ride safe, have fun, and good luck on the up coming bike. Its gonna be sweet.
__________________
03 Suzuki Sv1000s Nissan Zenki S14 |
|
|
|
|
02-16-2004, 04:14 PM
|
#10 | |
|
AF Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: las vegas, Nevada
Posts: 36
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
hey, im kinda interested in getting a bike soon...
ive riden like dirt bikes n stuff for a while (but not really recently) so i pretty much kno 'how' to ride, but im still a lil nervous about starting on a bike i cant handle...would u recommend getting an older non-FI bike for a starter, ive been lookin at like the 600cc bikes |
|
|
|
|
02-16-2004, 08:44 PM
|
#11 | |
|
AF Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles & Oregon
Posts: 313
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Yeah, get a used bike for your first. For one the parts will be cheaper in case you do take a dive. Dont be nervous because if your nervous while your on it you may find yourself in a bad situation. Whether its FI or Carbed does not make that big of a deal. Older CBRs can be had for pretty cheap and they are nice bikes. Im not sure what your budget is but get whatever you can afford and whatever bike you like. If you like the new CBR RR, then get it. Just depends on the amount of dollar signs you got. With your MX experience im sure you have good throttle control and clutch control so youll be fine. Dont be scared of it though.
__________________
95 Civic Si 00 Yamaha R6 |
|
|
|
|
02-26-2004, 08:34 PM
|
#12 | |
|
AF Newbie
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Esko, Minnesota
Posts: 11
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Dan, I would definatly suggest getting an older 600 or less. Emphasis on older for a first bike, but new bikes are great too....if you have the money.
|
|
|
|
|
03-03-2004, 07:47 PM
|
#13 | |
|
AF Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Youngstown, Ohio
Posts: 134
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
There is a gril around here riding a mid-90's Suzuki GSXR 1100. The bike is laying down about 190 HP with a 4" entended swing arm. The bike is deinfately not for the faint of heart. To top it off she is just over 5 feet tall and I would guess under 120 lbs.
It all boils down to rider skill level. IMO new riders on the street should not start out on a sport bike. Start on a small cruiser and learn the street. After a year or so, upgrade to a sport bike. |
|
|
|
|
08-01-2008, 01:13 AM
|
#14 | |
|
AF Newbie
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: San Jose, California
Posts: 2
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Riders don't die because of the sizes of their own bikes, but the sizes of other vehicles and the impact of colision. 125cc, 250cc, and up to 998cc give riders the same danger if crashed. So, no matter what size of your bike's displacement, if you don't play it right and safe, then YOU DIE.
As rule of thumb, master the technique before using it on any highways Ride Safe, Live Longer ... to Enjoy Riding |
|
|
|
|
08-01-2008, 07:29 AM
|
#15 | ||
|
Lactose the Intolerant
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Nowhere, Missouri
Posts: 6,410
Thanks: 4
Thanked 52 Times in 51 Posts
|
Re: Am i too small to ride a bike?
Quote:
1. Welcome to the forum, we love to hear your input, 2. But not by responding to four and a half year old threads (check the date on it) It would be better to start a new thread on the subject if you wanted...no biggie. At least the first time. Next time we put Teflon grease on your bike's sidewalls. 
__________________
You made three mistakes. First, you took the job. Second, you came light. A four man crew for me? F**king insulting. But the worst mistake you made... ...empty gun rack. |
||
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
POST REPLY TO THIS THREAD |
 |
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
