jporter12

Wow man, this is all hitting too close to home. My thoughts and prayers go out to those friends and family left without him.

NOw THAT is some deep thinking right there!

You're smarter than I thought!

It doesn't sound like she wants to learn all that badly yet. My wife would not give up. She was determined, and that helped... Now the goal is to get her out on the road some more, but that's going to be next year, since it's gotten colder....

It would happen quicker than you think. In my situation, financing is not even an option, for 2 reasons. One, my credit sux balls, second, since I've gotten into too big of a mess too many times, I've decided that credit is not a good thing for me to be using. Besides, I can have money in the bank MAKING money, instead of paying someone interest. If I had a NEED for a vehicle, I might think a bit differently, but I don't need a bigger, better, or more expensive vehicle to live my life! My car is worth maybe $1500, but it's paid for, still runs great, and looks decent. It also helps that when anything breaks on it, I have the resources to fix it! New cars = loss all around, just something I'm not in a position to take on.

Hey, at lest the too fiddy is a kawi!

Are you looking at private sellers, too? Once you know what you want, keep an eye out, and I bet you can get as good, if not better deal than you'd get from a (new or used) dealer. It may take a little longer to find what you want for the price you want, but MOST private sellers I've dealt with seem MUCH more honest than any dealer.

Myself, I'm gonna slum it in my current rides until I save enough money to pay cash for something better. I don't NEED anything better than what I have, not badly enough to go into debt over it.

Then SHE can get made fun of for her bike sounding like the fan on your Z! I have fun on the lil neenjer! I even had the front wheel of the ground, shifting from first to second the last time I rode it (probably only about an inch, but I was impressed!) It's not so bad, until I get back on the veefer, and realize how slow it really is!

IP has it pretty correct (amazingly ) It IS a good idea to have someone else teach her. You'll be too quick to get frustrated, and so will she. The dirtbike in a field is never a bad idea for starters, and you will be PISSED WHEN (not if) she drops your bike. If you're a very patient person, and are ok with your bike going down, go for it! I've heard people tell of taking off signals, and stuff to keep from breaking them while teaching someone. The bikes used for the BRC have very few signals left on them. Even fewer had all the signals still in place!

There are a few I'd own, but I don't think any of them are gixxers! I like the SV's, or maybe a strom.... Don't see it happening any time soon though, other priorities in life.

Oh yeah, she only dropped the Ninja once, and it did NO damage. Does she know how to drive a car with a manual transmission? My wife doesn't, and even still got going on the bike!

I was surprised at how well it went with my wife and learning to ride. The BRC was better for her, more structured, but I think if i had been through the BRC myself, I would've had her riding better, faster. I think there are a few threads about this if you do a search.

Nice one!

Just messin with ya, as I would hope you already knew that!

I've spent very little time with my Camaro since I got the first bike... Poor thing is being neglected! I'm talking no more then 3 or 4 hours of working on and dirving. Maybe 50 miles this summer! Damn bikes......

An elitist piece of poo! Ok, I'd ride an ape. I just can't afford anything other than cheap, older bikes! I don't know how many times I've thought about using your sig on you... "shut up stoopid" (now, I HAVE to make sure my next bike is NOT a zook......)

at the tags! Yes, thanks to Ben for the awesome forum, and the tolerance of sarcasm, and A thought on sellout sites, one that I frequented several years ago, and still hit up from time to time seems to still be just OK, but WAY slow. www.thirdgen.org is the site, it's for third generation F-bodies. There are 2 other bike forums that I hit up, one is ninja250riders, which i don't see very often, and the other is www.vfrworld.com because they have a wealth of older VF and VFR knowledge, and discussion. I have learned quite a bit from there!

I was riding home from either New Albany, or Westerville one evening this summer, and I saw a guy riding something old, possibly similar to what's been posted here, with a sidecar. I lick myself in the ass for not turning where he did and checking it out. I'm willing to bet he would've loved to show it, as it looked like a restored bike.

I still haven't made it to one of these, Meat meets at Moose's Koc(k), but the reviews I've seen have been great!

Read the f'in title, moron! Monthly. When I was considering going to one of the last 2 that he's had, he said it's a family oriented event. He said that he could even break out the Gamecube, IIRC!

Poorly tuned enclosure, and too lazy to build another. Live and learn, I suppose. After everything got ripped off out of the Camaro, I lost the ambition to build another system for a car that rarely gets driven. I have a decent, simple, and not so expensive system in my daily driver, alarm protected, and I MAY consider a better sub for that, since the pair of C12a's just don't sound all that great at higher volumes. How much are the W7's going for these days anyway?

Yeah, the rat-bastards didn't even look at my thread! I think I just posted at the wrong time, as I posted this when the Fort Hood thread was new, and a few other more serious threads. I need to find me some Viper emblems to put on my Intrepid, Daffy style, of course....