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Considering picking up a Honda Grom to troll to work with. The only issue is dealers won't let you test ride one..... I hate the fact of buying something before I ride it.

 

 

Any of you pedophiles have one, or any seat time with one?

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can you wait till July? Honda and kawasaki used to bring demo bikes to VMD at mid-ohio, I don't know if they still do it. I just looked at their factory demo days bikes and the grom isn't on the list so not sure if there is going to be a traveling Demo Day that would cover that in our area anytime soon.

 

Honda does have specific Demo Ride Dealers and the nearest one to us is:

 

Mid-Ohio Honda

494 Harcourt Rd

Mount Vernon, OH 43050-3918

(740)397-5272

 

Call them and see if they will give you a Grom demo ride.

 

I don't have any seat time but there is a guy who commutes to downtown on one. I see him all the time when I am dropping off my kid at daycare. He seems to like it a lot. Do you fit on it? I'm tall and I don't really like it but then again I don't like monkey bikes either. I am going to be the wet blanket and point out it is still a motorcycle and it still requires motorcycle insurance and a motorcycle license. For $800 more you can get a CB300F and that is a real motorcycle that you can take on the highway and will probably cost the same to insure.

 

I can tell you from my fascination with Grom racing that the stock bikes top out around 65-70 and the modded ones will pull 80mph. the Grom is supposed to get 81mpg but the 300F gets 71mpg. There are people hypermiling the Grom and getting 100mpg but that is not exactly riding one fast.

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can you wait till July? Honda and kawasaki used to bring demo bikes to VMD at mid-ohio, I don't know if they still do it. I just looked at their factory demo days bikes and the grom isn't on the list so not sure if there is going to be a traveling Demo Day that would cover that in our area anytime soon.

 

Honda does have specific Demo Ride Dealers and the nearest one to us is:

 

Mid-Ohio Honda

494 Harcourt Rd

Mount Vernon, OH 43050-3918

(740)397-5272

 

Call them and see if they will give you a Grom demo ride.

 

I don't have any seat time but there is a guy who commutes to downtown on one. I see him all the time when I am dropping off my kid at daycare. He seems to like it a lot. Do you fit on it? I'm tall and I don't really like it but then again I don't like monkey bikes either. I am going to be the wet blanket and point out it is still a motorcycle and it still requires motorcycle insurance and a motorcycle license. For $800 more you can get a CB300F and that is a real motorcycle that you can take on the highway and will probably cost the same to insure.

 

I can tell you from my fascination with Grom racing that the stock bikes top out around 65-70 and the modded ones will pull 80mph. the Grom is supposed to get 81mpg but the 300F gets 71mpg. There are people hypermiling the Grom and getting 100mpg but that is not exactly riding one fast.

 

I live In NC.

 

I can walk into my Triumph/Ducati dealer and ride anything I want, stinks all the Honda dealers won't let you.

 

I've owned a ton of bikes, a 300 does nothing for me but the little Grom looks like a blast. The 55-60ish MPH top speed is obviously limiting on what you can use it for...

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Where in NC? Honda has 7 Demo dealers in the state:

 

Cycle Center, Inc.

520 Cox Ave

Asheboro, NC 27205-7073

(336)629-2092

 

Team Charlotte Motorsports

3004 Freedom Dr

Charlotte, NC 28208-3860

(704)394-6666

 

Turner's Honda

1111 W Ehringhaus St

Elizabeth City, NC 27909-6910

(252)335-5489

 

Team Powersports

222 Hwy 70e, Bx 390

Garner, NC 27529

(919)772-7866

 

Ron Ayers Motorsports

1929 N Memorial Dr

Greenville, NC 27834-1134

(252)758-3084

 

Iron Horse Motorcycles

1600 W Roosevelt Blvd

Monroe, NC 28110-2753

(704)283-9467

 

Capital Honda Powersports

10920 Star Rd

Wake Forest, NC 27587-7772

(919)719-0700

 

From personal experience Ron Ayers supports a lot of guys in the vintage suzuki world with parts so they seem pretty helpful. Keep in mind this list is both dealers that are supposed to have demo bikes or are participants in honda's demo ride program. You may have to call more than one till you can find one that will let you ride one as a demo.

 

Why not join the Grom forum and ask on there if someone local to you will let you ride his grom?

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Where in NC? Honda has 7 Demo dealers in the state:

 

Cycle Center, Inc.

520 Cox Ave

Asheboro, NC 27205-7073

(336)629-2092

 

Team Charlotte Motorsports

3004 Freedom Dr

Charlotte, NC 28208-3860

(704)394-6666

 

Turner's Honda

1111 W Ehringhaus St

Elizabeth City, NC 27909-6910

(252)335-5489

 

Team Powersports

222 Hwy 70e, Bx 390

Garner, NC 27529

(919)772-7866

 

Ron Ayers Motorsports

1929 N Memorial Dr

Greenville, NC 27834-1134

(252)758-3084

 

Iron Horse Motorcycles

1600 W Roosevelt Blvd

Monroe, NC 28110-2753

(704)283-9467

 

Capital Honda Powersports

10920 Star Rd

Wake Forest, NC 27587-7772

(919)719-0700

 

From personal experience Ron Ayers supports a lot of guys in the vintage suzuki world with parts so they seem pretty helpful. Keep in mind this list is both dealers that are supposed to have demo bikes or are participants in honda's demo ride program. You may have to call more than one till you can find one that will let you ride one as a demo.

 

Why not join the Grom forum and ask on there if someone local to you will let you ride his grom?

 

 

 

I will try one of those, Thanks.

 

I figured someone here would have one.

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