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06-18-2003, 10:50 PM
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what could i get?
ok, I've thought about getting a bike. I haven't thought as seriously as most people do yet, just the thought has crossed my mind a couple times lately. I work two different jobs at the same office. I work as a clerk in the law firm, then i have to be a messenger for them to. I drive to downtown l.a. all the time and a bike would come in real handy. Reason 1. I can take the carpool lane. 2. Save on gas 3. Easier parking. 4. Easier for my messenger job. 5. Just something i want eventually and most important, 6. its cool. Well anyways, i wasn't looking for anything new, or expensive. I don't want one of those huge touring bikes. This lawyer at work has a BMW bike that's a few years old, and i know i couldn't afford something that nice, but i want something similar along the Honda lines. His isn't a touring bike really, and it ain't that sport either. I don't know what new Honda's go for, or even used ones, but in the 5-6k range, what could i afford?
Pics? No smart asses either.
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#2
06-18-2003, 11:46 PM
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Well, it's hard to say what that would get you in CA, but out my direction, you could get something pretty decent for that price. Even a new bike!!! Do you have any riding experience? That'll help with suggestions.
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#3
06-19-2003, 12:35 AM
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1989-1997 Honda Pacific Coast sounds to be the most ideal bike for what you are describing.
http://adcache.cycletrader.com/5/6/0/48904760.htm
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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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06-19-2003, 03:22 AM
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no riding experience.
I was looking at the honda motorcycles website and saw the base model of two different bikes at 8k and 9k i think. That's were i figured a bike a few years old would be a couple thousand less or something like that. I don't want anything to powerful cause i've heard horror stories. I like my civic cause its small and efficient and not powerful enough to do anything stupid. The civic has a reputation as a reliable and very basic car. Any honda bike have a reputation like that as a young college kids' beginning bike?
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#5
06-19-2003, 11:04 AM
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for the 6 thousand dollar range, i would get a Buell. They are sweet ass bikes. They have the true street racing style. Just my 2cents. If you are interested, send me a PM, i'll give you pictures and we can decide what is right for you. The main question is...What do you like? Or what would you like to own?
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06-19-2003, 11:16 AM
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 Honda CBR900RR, '96, 12000 miles, a little under 6K. If you want, check www.stubbscycles.com. They are in the Houston area, but you can use it to check prices on newer bikes, and these are about the highest in our area, so the prices shouldn't be any higher.
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#8
06-19-2003, 11:58 AM
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True, but you can find others like it for good prices.
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#9
06-19-2003, 12:00 PM
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Welcome back scott, gonna watch your mouth this time?
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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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06-19-2003, 12:03 PM
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12000 is alot of miles? this is not a harley or buell we are talking about, this is a Honda. My neighbor had over 250K miles on his goldwing and all he did was change timing belt and regular maintainence. My kawi has over 21000 and runs flawlessly.
A 900rr is going to be way to much power for him to start out on anyway, even though it gets reamed by modern day sportbikes, it still has alot alot of power. I still say the PC800 is probably one of the best bikes for his situation. Reliable, comfortable, decent amounts of power, and even has hardbags.
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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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06-19-2003, 12:10 PM
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I know it's too much power, it's just a pricing guide of what he can get. A Honda CBR600F4 would do pretty good, and they are very reliable bikes.
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#12
06-19-2003, 12:43 PM
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My vote goes to Honda, thanks. Buell is NOT reputable... except in recalls. We've already had this fight, and I'm not going back there, but I'm giving this guy the truth.
I'd take the MSF safety course first and foremost and find out for CERTAIN that you want to ride on a regular basis. Then pick up a smaller-sized bike for starters. 600ccs or LESS is my opinion, although others may disagree. The CBR600F4 is a fairly forgiving 600 even though it is fairly modern. There are also CBR600F2s and F3's that are 600ccs but even more forgiving. BUY USED. There are saddlebags and tank bags available for sportbikes, you just have to look around. Another option... only if you feel really comfortable with starting on and paying insurance on a bigger bike, is the Honda VFR750. It'll be well within your price range if you buy the older 750 model. It's called a sport tourer, and is thus a lil more supportive of longer rides.
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