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57 minutes ago, rawlins87 said:

90% are imported from CA.  This was listed two ago.  So If you know what your looking for you can find it. Clearly you don't know. https://losangeles.craigslist.org/ant/mcy/6128654727.html

That looks great, what's tiers? Lol

1 hour ago, JackImpact said:

 

Looks like someone is going to have a good time.

18 minutes ago, Tonik said:

I thought you were a libertarian?

 

You don't have to agree with everyone else who wears that label on every single topic to be included as a member of that group.

In the immortal words of Chris Rock "I've got some shit I'm liberal about, I've got some shit I'm conservative about"

7 minutes ago, CrazySkullCrusher said:

Or get any katana 600. They're all over the place and are a reasonably sporty starter bike. Motors are basically bullet proof, parts are dirt cheap. 

If you do get a katana, do not take it to Coshocton... 

Cursed

1 hour ago, Casper said:

I always recommend getting something you don't mind crashing. Look for under 100HP, light, and cheap.

Great point, too.

Tried to convince my friend of this, and he insisted on something cherry with zero scratches... Wasn't a month later he high sided it in some weeds at a lower speed, scratched up the paint, broke the turn signal...

Could've saved a grand on a similar bike that was already scratched.

2 hours ago, bowdog said:

Hayabusa, just stretch out the swing arm and add a bunch of chrome! the chrome will weigh it down so you will good.

Hayabusa is too slow, it barely gets out of its own way with a big guy on it.

If he doesn't go for the MTT Y2K, at least get the Kawasaki H2R... You don't want guys on big powerful Harleys passing you....

Mtt turbine, perfect first bike. You're way too big for a little 1000 cc race bike...

Everyone here is wrong, clearly you know more than the combined experience of this entire thread cause you've taken the BRC twice.

(Honestly the person advising a bigger bike was probably advising a bigger "cruiser". You were riding a rebel, they thought you should be on a 883 Sportster, or a 700cc shadow rather than a 250cc cruiser)

Are you alive? Number Johnny five.

Welcome

15 hours ago, flashesbuck said:

I hear nothing but bad stuff about these bikes, but this looks like a new generation. Maybe they turned stuff around. Hyosung has tuff competition at this price. 

Right? What $8000 bike are we comparing this to?

Yo

28 minutes ago, Qman said:

Somehow thought the traditionally celebrated birthday of Jesus was in December...but im not very religious.

He's had one birthday, yes. But what about Second birthday?

9 hours ago, Fin said:

Yes, electricity has huge torque advantages over conventional engines and the batteries are getting much better.  
As for distances... you cannot beat gas, hands down, for now.  

Well sure, you got the better part of a century of infrastructure built for that fuel...

9 hours ago, Fin said:

Questions like that didn't stop Ford or Edison.  In fact Ford was all about selling parts because he knew that's where the money was... still applies today.  Parts and service... a fricken nightmare.

Edison had Tesla to rip off...lol

There are a few challenges with implementation of an engine like this... Rotating surfaces, dynamic seals, etc... And the performance difference doesn't amount to much...

With electricity making leaps and bounds, and forced induction getting better, there is little incentive to reinvent the piston pump...

11 hours ago, Qman said:

I loved my 2001 Blackbird, except for comfort and gas mileage.  Way too far of a stretch to the bars for me, and I dont think I ever got more than 25mpg!  But it was the smoothest engine I've ever had my legs around!

Mine gets 30ish mpg in the dry and 40 or 45 in the rain.

Corbin seat makes it comfy for long rides.

Input precision is the biggest reason smaller bikes are beginner friendly. Teaching a friend to ride this past summer, if he had a liter bike, he'd have launched it into his neighbor's ditch day 1.

1 hour ago, jschaf said:

How did it compare to your blackbird in the passing arena? With the power commander it had to be about equal, right?

Yeah, compared to one of the 10 fastest production bikes on the planet... It's not fast, but what is?

It's plenty fast enough to pass most idiots on the road.

4 minutes ago, jschaf said:

My main complaint was that if you got stuck behind a slow car in the double yellows you were pretty much stuck behind that slow car until it turned off or you turned off.

The only 250 I've ridden is a 2013 with a power commander, but at no time was it lacking the power to pass, even on a double yellow. Now if the "slow car" was doing 70... Then maybe?

Something extra fun about riding a slow bike fast.

I'm a fan of both... Nobody is eating anyone, they're called jokes and you can make them about your friends.

Awesome, thanks for the tips.

"Thank you! Really my requirements are dog friendly, yard, close to downtown as that is where Ill be working and just not hideous! I appreciate your help!!"

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I have a friend moving that direction, she's having a tough time finding a pet friendly apartment around Clintonville, Marion Village, Old Towne East, Old North... 

If anyone can help, please let me know so I can forward the info to her.

I named my wifi SSID "Antimatter_Electron" so anyone suitably nerdy can guess the password.

CSC pretty much said what I was going to say. MIG with argon/co2 is what I use, it's cheap, and can accommodate a pretty wide range of projects. If you've got some coin to throw down and plan to do a lot of sheet metal, TIG is the way to go.