magley64

There are a few fun roads up this way..

I live around the corner, don't spend much time there though..

Still nipping at my heels...

I picked up my bike from new jersey in a Enterprise cargo van, just bought a 2x10 at the local lowe's for a one use ramp, glad you got her home though... looks like fun

I'll never understand the "club" mentality... Why introduce some pseudo-class structure hierarchy into riding motorcycles with friends?

I own a cat!

Wear whatever gear you like, it's your ass, Cochise. My point was that power ranger suits actually serve a functional purpose... as opposed to pirate suits. Those are crash deaths, not crashes... So Sport bikes are more likely to cause death in a crash per capita than cruisers, no surprise... I bet corvettes cause death during a crash way more often than minivans do as well... people make mistakes, mistakes get multiplied when high speeds are involved.

All I see on the road around here when temps drop below 60 is a blackbird and a KLR... My bike, and my buddy Wayde...

I want the monkey bike....

The difference of course is that the "power rangers" suit is a functional piece of safety equipment... please tell me how the leather vest and tassels have function...

don't singular a plural

resale value is a negative in my book, I've never bought a new bike (or a new car), so the quicker it depreciates, the quicker it's cheap, and then I get a newer bike, letting other people eat the depreciation...

pump? break barrel ftw

I live in a rare area that this would actually be pretty fun, (lots of relatively flat terrain peppered with rivers and lakes) but for 40K... nah...

The earth is flat, 911 was an inside job, and jesus loves me.... jus sayin...

my snowthrower is pretty efficient for moving gravel...

I countersteered my Eldorado once... heavier vehicles are so much easier to countersteer. Anyone here ever try countersteering a y2k? I imagine the jet wash would make counters quite hot...

Never took her out to Thompson, considered it a few times, but didn't know what i needed to pass tech.

My motorcycle does all the countersteering for me, all i gotta do is ask nicely...

i won't turn down a joyride on any bike, look forward to meeting you...

"My friend and I are trying to find people to ride with today. Anyone trying to go out and take two chicks on a ride??" http://ohioriders.net/index.php?/topic/26860-today/ ahh what fun

I agree, it doesn't seem particularly helpful. lipstick and tits not withstanding, A more fitting analogy might be a bicycle with Z rated tires, you're never going to pedal fast enough to need the tires to handle 100+ mph, and youre not likely to flog a harley hard enough to notice the suspension upgrade.

FIFY... lol

I enjoy cruising back roads with the wind in my face, jamming to music, but that's only a small part of the riding I do... I can do that on my bike, it's quite capable and quite comfortable for that purpose. Now when I want to get up and go somewhere in a hurry, I can flip my face shield down, snap the shifter a few times crack the throttle and snap up through the gears... I can enter a corner carrying a fair amount of speed and not have to worry about dragging hard parts at apex. I can take it to a track day and spend a couple hours railing it through corners as fast as I dare, or even hop on it and travel across the country on a whim. I've taken it out on adventure rides where most of the roads were unpaved, and crossed a huge mud puddle to reach the northeast corner of the state. It does all those things, and anything I've ever needed it to do. That's the reason harleys never really appealed to me, they are limited to a small minority of the actual riding I enjoy. I don't find them particularly comfortable, particularly nimble, or particularly powerful. They make noise that some people like, but so does the stereo on my bike.They are fine if all the riding you want to do is limited to cruising relatively slow down roads that are generally paved and dry, but there are so many other bikes that can do that and much more. If "look at me" is your thing and you want lots of people to see you sitting on a lot of chrome and nostalgia, then harleys are great. If you're actually looking for the best ride for the money, then harleys probably aren't it.

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