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| Start at a 600-750, you need to learn how to handle something more. |
   
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#1
06-25-2003, 01:32 AM
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Start at a 600? or Jump for a 1000
I was wondering what the opinion of you bike experts in here would be. I would like to get a bike, but have been told by some friends who own 600's that they wish they would have just gone for a bigger bike...Good idea? or bad? Is it something that absolutely cannot be handled by a novice? or something a rider could grow into?
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#2
06-25-2003, 02:24 AM
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Look through the other posts about what size bike to start on. 1000's you'll kill your self in the first week, if you last the first day. 750's same thing mabey you'll last 2 weeks. 600's if they are older their ok, but new, no way. On a new 600 you might not kill yourself if your lucky, but severe injury is more than likely. Look for and early 90's 600 I-4 or used 500, or a 650 V-twin. As far a saving money, I have two retorhical questions to ask. 1. When your dead does if matter if you saved money? 2. How much do you think it costs to be in intensive care?
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06-25-2003, 02:00 PM
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I pick answer C: start out on a bike that doesnt have a higher hp/weight ratio then a sportcar.
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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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06-25-2003, 04:01 PM
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^ I concur. Even though Kansas is as boring road-wise as a Science Lecture, you'll be dead in days on any of the bikes you're thinking of, so don't think.
 If your friends wish they'd started on 1000cc bikes, then they don't ride their 600s right. I know of people who ride liter bikes who STILL get on a 500 for the handling and performance. Yes, he's a guy, and yes, he has majorly outrun a HAYABUSA on the 500. START SMALL. End of story.
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06-25-2003, 04:12 PM
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 125cc is enough 
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06-25-2003, 04:29 PM
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This is what im looking at:
2002 F4i, has a nice yoshimura pipe on it (carbon fiber sleeve), I know the guy, low miles, and hes got some computer thing that you can do tuning with. Hes asking 6500.
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06-25-2003, 05:19 PM
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Well you could... But remeber you'll drop it. All it takes is stopping on one of those slanty curbs and your on the ground.
 An F4 is Ok but only if you've got the money to fix what gets messed up.
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My Stable: 2002 Yamaha YZF-R6 1988 Pontiac Fiero 1969 Pontiac Firebird I might get my '02 SS back....
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06-25-2003, 05:22 PM
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Are parts really expensive? I know fairings can be pretty high. I had a friend roll back on his bike with the lock in the wheel and it cracked it in a snap.
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06-25-2003, 05:28 PM
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When I dropped the R6 I replaced...
A mirror $80 Lower fairing mabey $200 Factory Bar end $25 My prices are apporximate but fairings, mirrors, and engine covers, not to mention pipes are expensive on their own. The aftermaket companys make fairings to but you have to get them painted so $$$.
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My Stable: 2002 Yamaha YZF-R6 1988 Pontiac Fiero 1969 Pontiac Firebird I might get my '02 SS back....
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06-25-2003, 09:28 PM
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my plastics are upwards of 450 per piece, upper, lower, fairing, rear
please go read some of the other posts on this forum about other people inquiring about thier first bikes.
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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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06-25-2003, 09:34 PM
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its very expensive to replace parts on your motorcycle, which is why insurance companies often decide to total the bike instead of rebuild it. Also why so many people buy their bikes back from insurance company as well to make track bikes, or stunt bikes.
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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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06-30-2003, 11:07 PM
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I agree that you should start with a small bike, I am not a real skilled rider but I have rode some and when I ride my buddies zx6r it is more than enough for me. The first bike I ever rode was a Katana 1100 and I almost wrecked it, I was working at a bike shop at the time and everybody encouraged it too much LOL. I am just thankful that nothing bad happened and you should just get the feel of bikes and learn how to ride before you start with 1000 cc bikes. My buddy with the zx6r rode another friends R1 and almost wrecked it, but if he was inexperienced he would have not been able to save it.
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07-07-2003, 08:58 AM
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Just remember one thing,you can't get on a 1000 and yank the throttle like you can on a 600.Any one who tries to drive a litre bike like a 600 is asking for trouble,i don't care how experienced you are.Just because a bike is capable of doing 180mph doesn't mean you have to.I'd say buy the bike you want,and take it easy.
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