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MacGyver · 10-10-2003, 10:28 PM

my friends and i all got started on old cruisers... got our motorcycle license and shortly after upgraded to better bikes. I don't think any of us spent more than $500 on our bikes. we had them for one summer... just long enough to get comfortable riding. then sold them. i took a motor cycle safety course too and that helped with my riding skills as well as lowering my insurance rates. in the end i still turned around and got another cruiser... a suzuki 800 intruder. i can see trying to start on this bike since it's small for it's engine displacement... but it's an expensive investment if you aren't 100% on being a motorcycle owner/rider. unless you are a speed junky i wouldn't go get a crotch rocket for your fist bike. the saying of crawl before you walk, walk before you run... that is a good reccomendation for bikes too. work your way up to it if you can contain yourself. if you have the itch for speed... at least start off with a small cc engine to limit your urges for a quick death. i had a shipmate in the navy who almost died because he started off with his first bike as an 1100cc crotch rocket. he almost died becasue 30 minutes after he got the bike he was doing 130+mph... tried to take a corner and couldn't... went into the ditch and wraped himself around a telephone pole. he was lucky... he lived with only spending 13 days in the hospital. as dumb as he was he was smart enough to have been wearing a helmet which was about the only reason he was alive. enough about that though... as for you... take it slow starting off... get something cheap to start the learning process... once you have the hang of it... upscale to something you like and sell the junker.

10-10-2003, 10:28 PM	#11 (permalink)
MacGyver Tilted Location: Wisconsin	my friends and i all got started on old cruisers... got our motorcycle license and shortly after upgraded to better bikes. I don't think any of us spent more than $500 on our bikes. we had them for one summer... just long enough to get comfortable riding. then sold them. i took a motor cycle safety course too and that helped with my riding skills as well as lowering my insurance rates. in the end i still turned around and got another cruiser... a suzuki 800 intruder. i can see trying to start on this bike since it's small for it's engine displacement... but it's an expensive investment if you aren't 100% on being a motorcycle owner/rider. unless you are a speed junky i wouldn't go get a crotch rocket for your fist bike. the saying of crawl before you walk, walk before you run... that is a good reccomendation for bikes too. work your way up to it if you can contain yourself. if you have the itch for speed... at least start off with a small cc engine to limit your urges for a quick death. i had a shipmate in the navy who almost died because he started off with his first bike as an 1100cc crotch rocket. he almost died becasue 30 minutes after he got the bike he was doing 130+mph... tried to take a corner and couldn't... went into the ditch and wraped himself around a telephone pole. he was lucky... he lived with only spending 13 days in the hospital. as dumb as he was he was smart enough to have been wearing a helmet which was about the only reason he was alive. enough about that though... as for you... take it slow starting off... get something cheap to start the learning process... once you have the hang of it... upscale to something you like and sell the junker. __________________ More is more and less is less, More is better and twice as much is good too. Not enough is bad, And too much is never enough unless it's just about right. Last edited by MacGyver; 10-10-2003 at 10:31 PM..