Motorcycle owners

Anyone out there ride? What do you ride? When? How often?

I used to! It was a little on/off road dirt bike. Sorry that's all I got.

My dream bike?

Very cool guys. I just got back into it after no riding for 20 years or so. It is great fun. I was just wondering if anyone else was riding.

Nope, not going back to it.....too damn dangerous these days, between piss poor roads and inattentive drivers. :headshake

xoxoxoBruce;326439 wrote:

inattentive drivers. :headshake

Ain't that the truth!

xoxoxoBruce;326439 wrote:

Nope, not going back to it.....too damn dangerous these days

I want a bike so bad - I rode in High School - but they are suicide. I hear so many stories. Just one thing I have to learn to do without.

After I finish my bike ride, buying and learning to ride a motorcycle is next on my agenda. I'm thinking something big and loud with an upright riding position would be appropriate.

I ride as well. I am between bikes at the moment but I plan on buying another bike, probably a Shadow or something like that. I'm a metric cruiser man, although I would not turn up my nose at a Harley if I were to win one in a contest. I cannot afford to buy one just yet.

Brian

grant;326473 wrote:

I'm thinking something big and loud with an upright riding position would be appropriate.

English, western, or side-saddle?

tw;326487 wrote:

English, western, or side-saddle?

bare-back :P

My dad rode in high school and college, then one day completely by coincidence he was on campus and witnessed an accident between a car and another motorcycle rider. He watched the guy's legs get cut off, right there in front of him. Sold his bike that day and hasn't ridden one since.

Of course it's possible this story was embellished to encourage his children never to ride a motorcycle.

BrianR;326475 wrote:

I ride as well. I am between bikes at the moment but I plan on buying another bike, probably a Shadow or something like that. I'm a metric cruiser man, although I would not turn up my nose at a Harley if I were to win one in a contest. I cannot afford to buy one just yet.

Brian

Mine: http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/Galleries_BikeTest.aspx?Gallery=630&Media=1

Very nice.

I'm toying with the idea of getting a bike this summer, suggestions for a solid learner that won't puss out on me?
I want something with steel, not those ugly street bikes that look like wasps from the front.

Bullitt;327155 wrote:

I'm toying with the idea of getting a bike this summer, suggestions for a solid learner that won't puss out on me?
I want something with steel, not those ugly street bikes that look like wasps from the front.

1. Take the Motorcycle Safety course given my your state DMV before you buy.

2. join this site to learn stuff, esp in the newbies section and saftey sections. motorcyle-usa.com

Thanks! :thumb:

Now here's a thread near an dear to me! My old man rides. A Kawasaki Concorse. Sport-tour. Does a 2 to 3 week trip every summer. Been trying to get a bike for years so i can ride wit him. Heh! Even took th riding coures 4 years ago! Well, finally got my baby last spring. A 2003 kawasaki zr7. yellow an black sport-standard. spent all last summer toolin round relearnin how to ride. I love it! It's like zen! Meditation! You spend so much attention making sure nobody kills you, you ave no space for life's bullshit! clearest my mind has been in years! Be out on two wheels nxt week weather permitting. Can't wait!

loTEK911;327304 wrote:

Now here's a thread near an dear to me! My old man rides. A Kawasaki Concorse. Sport-tour. Does a 2 to 3 week trip every summer. Been trying to get a bike for years so i can ride wit him. Heh! Even took th riding coures 4 years ago! Well, finally got my baby last spring. A 2003 kawasaki zr7. yellow an black sport-standard. spent all last summer toolin round relearnin how to ride. I love it! It's like zen! Meditation! You spend so much attention making sure nobody kills you, you ave no space for life's bullshit! clearest my mind has been in years! Be out on two wheels nxt week weather permitting. Can't wait!

hey come on over to motorcycle-usa.com, it is a great community and I have learned so much here. The mother site is really a bike test place. It is where I learned about mine before I bought it. There are some really experienced people here. At the the top of the threads, General, Newbies, Safety, and Daily Driver are some awsome links to info that every rider should read. Good luck, hope to see you there, ride safe.:blunt:

Address copied. I'll check it out. Ty! Love to ride. don't wanna die doin it! Too many pretty girls in this world I ain't met!:D All knowledge is good!

I ride a 05' Harley Fatboy. Nothing's better!

My dad used to ride, but stopped the day he was on his way home from the grocery store with a watermelon strapped to the back of his bike and got into an accident. As he was laying the bike down on the road, he turned in time to see the watermelon tumble off and explode under the tires of a passing semi. The bike was sold the next day.

It has been my dream to ride (touring bike -- drool), but dad always said that if I get a bike he'll kill me before it does. Seeing the drivers around here, I'd hold him to it -- there's no way it is sane to ride in town around here.

I am intimidated by motorcycles.

In fact, I am more intimidated by motorcycles than I am of heights and fire, but less intimidated than by Hillary Clinton being President.

brentrobe;329552 wrote:

I ride a 05' Harley Fatboy. Nothing's better!

Ah, Sheldon would like to have a word with you.

Just kidding, welcome to the Cellar, bentrobe. :D

A friend just picked up this Fatboy in Daytona, less than 10k miles, for I think he said $14k.
His wife, who had sold her white with pink flames 883, declared she wanted one too, but he told her Harley doesn't make Fatgirls.

Glad he really likes the bike..... he's gonna be sleeping with it for awhile.

Bruce, that is areally nice looking bike.

It was a step up. He'd been riding this one since he built it in 1973. Couple paint jobs (always flames) but no front brake till about 3 years ago.
We don't call him Kong for nothing.

Well, my baby's almost ready to ride! Had to replace the rear tire. Picked up a screw last fall. Just ave to remount the wheel, oil the drive chain, and give her a bath. Now it's gotta stop raining! Btw, thanks Merc, for the web site. Got some good advise for removing rust from the brake disks. Also got scolded for allowing the rust to happen, but there's a high horse asshat in every group. No worries!

I always said that i would get my bike licence as a treat for passing my car test. Have since decided that cars are not for me. So just waiting for my little girl to grow up a bit, say 2 or 3 years then I'm going for it. My dad is a biker, but poor sos had 4 girls, not a single lad to follow in his footsteps so he gotta make do with me. I'm soo excited just thinking about getting a bike, it's what i've wanted for years

loTEK911;333748 wrote:

Well, my baby's almost ready to ride! Had to replace the rear tire. Picked up a screw last fall. Just ave to remount the wheel, oil the drive chain, and give her a bath. Now it's gotta stop raining! Btw, thanks Merc, for the web site. Got some good advise for removing rust from the brake disks. Also got scolded for allowing the rust to happen, but there's a high horse asshat in every group. No worries!

If you spray the break disk with WD40 it won't rust, plus you'll have instant ABS.:greenface

Heh! wd40 on a break disk? yeah. like i said. there is an asshat in every group.

loTEK911;333917 wrote:

Heh! wd40 on a break disk? yeah. like i said. there is an asshat in every group.

loTEK911, either you have your smilies or your sense of humor disabled.

HungLikeJesus;333930 wrote:

loTEK911, either you have your smilies or your sense of humor disabled.

Not at all Sir! I was smiling when I typed that! Remember, you flipped first. It would be rude of me not to respond! And for the record, asshat is a term of endearment to me and mine. Thats what I call my roommate and best friend of 15 years. Particularly when he sez something kinda dumb. ;) Folk gotta realize not everybody is out em!

I have a 1989 Honda Transalp and a 1990 Honda Hawk GT, which both have chain drive. I was riding the Transalp from Michigan to Nevada with friends who were all on BMWs (shaft drive, of course). I should have checked the wind direction when I sprayed my chain with WD40, because the GS parked next to me had anti-lock breaks for the next few days.