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Owning a Sport Bike? Ideas? Joys?; ideas?
Topic Started: Jan 12 2016, 08:53 PM (1,152 Views)
2000Firefly1.3L
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Don't get discouraged about everyone telling you're going to die. Everyone dies. Make sure it's doing something you love, not grasping for air as your fight for your last breath from colon cancer. I crashed my bike this summer and I'm not discourage but will be taking more riding training.
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Ephemeral Glade
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Damn that was a good post! I enjoyed riding- and I loved accelerating!
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Old Man


I have owned and ridden motorcycles since 1949. Ignore the naysayers and enjoy yourself. Make safety your #1 item. Plan on having broken bones and road rash, they are the dues to be paid.

Look up your local A.B.A.T.E. motorcycle organization. They have a great safety school. Attend it. Important. Accidents are usually caused by not knowing what and when to do something. Worst accidents usually involve a person with inexperience and not enough knowledge.

Have Fun.........
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CAMI MAN
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Old Man
Jan 13 2016, 11:29 PM
I have owned and ridden motorcycles since 1949. Ignore the naysayers and enjoy yourself. Make safety your #1 item. Plan on having broken bones and road rash, they are the dues to be paid.

Look up your local A.B.A.T.E. motorcycle organization. They have a great safety school. Attend it. Important. Accidents are usually caused by not knowing what and when to do something. Worst accidents usually involve a person with inexperience and not enough knowledge.

Have Fun.........
Good Post , Fantastic !! :cheers :cheers
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DTM GTi
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Old Man
Jan 13 2016, 11:29 PM
Ignore the naysayers and enjoy yourself. Make safety your #1 item.

Have Fun.........
I've been riding since I was 14 and that was almost 40 years ago, I'm still around . According to naysayers I should be dead . Let me remind you , people die in cars every day (about 32.000 a year ) and naysayers still drive cars every day .
Keep in mind you have no idea how to ride and it takes time to develop skills and gain experience. Modern sport bikes can kill you in an instant if you are stupid. There is also nothing that can give you rush like a sport bike can , you just have to know right place and time for it .
Don't plan on using it to commute , its a suicide . Use it as a toy away from traffic and possibly out of the town with friends that know what they are doing. Take safety course , do track days , don't show off .

Have fun .............. :rocker
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Jan 14 2016, 02:40 AM
Old Man
Jan 13 2016, 11:29 PM
Ignore the naysayers and enjoy yourself. Make safety your #1 item.

Have Fun.........
I've been riding since I was 14 and that was almost 40 years ago, I'm still around . According to naysayers I should be dead . Let me remind you , people die in cars every day (about 32.000 a year ) and naysayers still drive cars every day .
Keep in mind you have no idea how to ride and it takes time to develop skills and gain experience. Modern sport bikes can kill you in an instant if you are stupid. There is also nothing that can give you rush like a sport bike can , you just have to know right place and time for it .
Don't plan on using it to commute , its a suicide . Use it as a toy away from traffic and possibly out of the town with friends that know what they are doing. Take safety course , do track days , don't show off .

Have fun .............. :rocker
:gp

This is what I was trying to say, but with experience behind it.
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MarkZ28


Sport bikes are much different than dirt bikes, lol. Lots more power at all speeds. You will wheelie fast if you drop the clutch too fast at too high rpm. Things are a blast. Have had an 07 R1, 09 R6, and an 09 Hayabusa, my favorite bike of all I've had. I got up to 80 mph in 1st gear on the R1 and didn't realize it, lol. Had 5 more years to go also. Bike speedos are about 5 to 10 mph on the fast side though. They handle great also. They hurt your butt after an hour or so riding, stop and walk around to get blood flow back to your legs and ass. Don't be a squid, wear a full face quality helmet, leather jacket with armor, pants with armor(or buy a complete suit), good armor gloves, and real riding boots. That will protect you in most non insane speed crashes. 150 mph and above it won't matter most likely, lol. Ride like everyone else is trying to kill you, even other bikers. Lots of idiots on bikes out there. Save the stunts for parking lots or dead end roads. You will be tempted to have fun and open it up, everyone does and has done it, it's fun but can get you in trouble fast. Go find some curvy roads and ride them slowly at first to get used to the handling, then try them a little faster, be careful of loose dirt, sand, or gravel. Watch out for deer.
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mt999999
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I hate to be a nay-sayer, I but won't even get on a motorcycle, nonetheless a sport bike. Not a chance in the world! My life is worth more to me than that. I won't go in anything less than a Metro... :lol Small Metros don't bother me, but anything without sides is way to open.
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2000Firefly1.3L
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watch this

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DTM GTi
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Yep , looks like bunch of retards. Stay away from those morons unless of course you want to be organ donor as they surely will be.
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Brandon8791
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yeh I'm not planning on popping wheelies or anything... might get on it a time or two if that but that's only when I get use to it
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TinkTank
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I have a 2009 Honda Repsol and it's a rocket. I also have an 81 Suzuki Gs550 and a 2005 Honda VTX 1300C (Cruiser) There are a million ways to die and plenty of them are on a bike but at the end of the day the guy riding is being dumb ass or the people in cages talking on the phone while doing their make-up and drinking their Starbucks are being dumb asses. If you ride a bike; congrats, you're now going to have to watch out for them too. Congrats on the find though. R6s are good bikes.
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