Which motorcycle for first time rider?

[curling]

I'm 24


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What is your personality like and how do you drive? Inotherwords are you conservative or pretty risk taking type person? I understand what you are saying about wanting a sport bike over a cruiser. You are either a cruise type or crotch rocket type. I am both which is rare.

I think it is very smart of you to take a riding class So why not take the class first and see how confortable you feel on a bike. Try to find a class that will let you at least ride on a buell so you can sortof get the feel of a sport bike. Then after seeing how you feel on one then choose to buy the 600 or the 750. I don't know why hs lifter is so against a 750(i never suggested the 1000) The 750 weight about the same as the 600 but it has got more juice. I rode a 600 one time for about 3 weeks and I got kindof bored with it. They only go about 138 at best. And they just don't scream through the gears like the 750 does. The reason I asked about your age is because I have heard somewhere that the life expectancy on a new rider on a 1000cc sport bike under 21 is 3 weeks. And I guess that has to do with maturity and risk taking compared to ability.

 

[Gambino]

I'm thinking of getting one too, but have never ridden a bike in my life. Theres a guy that works in my night job that has a bike (crotch rocket), he suggested that buy an early to mid 90's bike for a grand or so to learn to ride ,then make the investment in something good.

I love choppers/cruisers but IMO if you dont have the full biker/tough guy look, you look like a deuche bag on those. Like you cant ride one wearing sneakers or slacks. So I am looking into a crotch rocket.

LOL I hear you...I'd feel like a tool walking into a custom dealer shop as a rook. I doubt they would even sell me a bike lol

 

[curling]

LOL I hear you...I'd feel like a tool walking into a custom dealer shop as a rook. I doubt they would even sell me a bike lol

If your money is green and has dead presidents on it they will sell you a bike.

 

[DrunkenKnight]

Start on a Harley and stay on one. Are there any other motorcycles made?

 

[Gambino]

If your money is green and has dead presidents on it they will sell you a bike.

True, some would. Any custom maker in his right mind, though, wouldn't sell a rookie rider a $20,000 chopper. . I don't reckon that would be a good bike to learn on, correct? I have ridden dirt bikes in my youth, but have no road experience what so ever...eventually I want to make the road transition to a nice chopper but I'm gonna work my way there.

 

[curling]

Start on a Harley and stay on one. Are there any other motorcycles made?

Uhhh yes. Listen, I love harley always will. But harleys only go 110mph at best. The buell made by them is a joke compared to the japaneese and italian made bikes. For cruisers harley is what I would get if I didn't have the funds for a custom chopper. Nothing beats cruising on a chopper. TOTAL expression of freedom. But if I want to ride a bike made to haul ass I would get jap sport bike. They are the best bang for the buck. Where the ducati and aprillas are nice but are too pricey for me when the jap bike will keep up with them. I mean you gotta give the japaneese their due they know how to build a bad ass sport bike that can handle all kind of abuse.

 

[Delinquent]

I was talking to my friend and I told him that there is no way I'm gonna get on a highway until I am comfortable and confident enough. He said he said that also when he first started riding but the experience of riding just makes you wanna go faster.

I am an aggressive driver but not foolish. If a way isn't there, I'm not gonna force it. This is one of the many reasons I'm gonna take the rider safety course.

 

[curling]

I was talking to my friend and I told him that there is no way I'm gonna get on a highway until I am comfortable and confident enough. He said he said that also when he first started riding but the experience of riding just makes you wanna go faster.

I am an aggressive driver but not foolish. If a way isn't there, I'm not gonna force it. This is one of the many reasons I'm gonna take the rider safety course.

Actually, I think freeway driving is safer than town driving. Sure you are going faster but you don't have people running stops, pulling out of intersection 10ft in front of ya. Or just plain ass trying to run you off the road. Like I said even with as many years of riding experience I have I am still freaked out when I am around heavy traffic with lots of entrance/exit driveways from shopping centers. I mean all I am doing is scanning back and forth with one hand ready to crak the throttle and the other on the horn trying to anticipate what cage is going to dart out to try to kill me first.

 

[HS Lifter]

He's a little young bitch who thinks he knows alot about bikes but don't know shit.

Yet another stab at my age, you motherfuckers need some new material. I dont know much about hardleys, but I do know a lot about sportbikes, so if you think I "dont know shit" challenge my points, if not, shut the fuck up.

 

[curling]

Yet another stab at my age, you motherfuckers need some new material. I dont know much about hardleys, but I do know a lot about sportbikes, so if you think I "dont know shit" challenge my points, if not, shut the fuck up.

You still haven't told me why you call me a poser or even what a poser is?