Anybody with motorcycle experience?

2ndCareerRN · Jun 30, 2002

Where to start?

First bike was when I was 12, a yamaha 60, then a yamaha twin 100, then a yamaha trail 100, then a yamaha 250 street bike, then a honda 450..can you tell how long ago I started?

Then a kawasaki mach 3 500cc, then a british bike phase which

started with a BSA shooting star, which was followed with a Triumph trident and then a Norton Commando 850 (which I still have and am restoring).

After that I slowed way down on bike buying/trading. I got a new Suzuki 1150, which kept me very happy for quite a while. Then in 1988 I bought a new Honda Hurricane 1000, which is still going strong.

I am getting the new bike bug though, I have been looking very seriously at the BMW K1200 series of touring bikes....maybe by next spring I will have one, I can only hope. (and do some agency work!)

So it has now been over 35 years since I started riding, and hopefully I can get in another 30 or so. Where I grew up you could get a motorcycle license at 14, so I did, and have had one ever since.

bob

micro, RN · Jun 30, 2002

no, Cen........

micro is just not answerin' this because micro likes to see herself type.......

have not yet learned, but could if i chose......to drive a bike......

but like nothing better than to hop on the back with a driver that i respect......and just close my eyes and fly...............

is there anything wrong with my statement......here.......

bike riding is almost sacred, and almost more sacred for the passenger than the one in control...........

...............

such peace, but not much else between you and the roadway.....with or without a helmet...............

k'........my next day....off....the bike is getting dusted off...........

cool, Cen'

Sleepyeyes · Jun 30, 2002

Yepper...

Harley Liberty... very nice bike

PS Not mine

OBNURSEHEATHER · Jun 30, 2002

Dave's got a Harley that he promises he'll take me for a ride on someday...

Dave? Where are you?

Heather

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2002

Howdy yall

From deep in the heart of texas

I miss my old Harley Hog with the high rise handlebars, extended forks, and beautifull paint job from back in early 70 s, also had A 68 triumph 650 bonneville, and a 69 Triumph 750 trident. They were a lot of fun back then, I never did go into the asian bikes, were they around then. Even now if I were to consider a bike, not that my wife would let me, It would have to be a Harley

American all the way as far as bikes go now.

NurseDennie, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2002

Okay - I'm middle-aged. Obviously.

Those Honda Gold Wing touring bikes - YEAHhhh..

Also liked the little putt putt putt step-through motorbikes in Italy, can't remember what they're called.

Love

Dennie

teeituptom, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2002

Howdy yall

From deep in the heart fo Texas

Dennie those are called Vespas and a few other brands, Nice little scooters, That back when I was young you could buy for about 2 to 300 dollars. Now look at their prices, ridiculous

Sleepyeyes · Jun 30, 2002

Originally posted by teeituptom
Howdy yall
From deep in the heart of texas

I miss my old Harley Hog with the high rise handlebars, extended forks, and beautifull paint job from back in early 70 s, also had A 68 triumph 650 bonneville, and a 69 Triumph 750 trident. They were a lot of fun back then, I never did go into the asian bikes, were they around then. Even now if I were to consider a bike, not that my wife would let me, It would have to be a Harley

American all the way as far as bikes go now.

a new harley, or an old harley?

whaddya think of the "new sound"?

the new ones.... :imbar: IMHO

Furball · Jun 30, 2002

I picked Suzuki because that's the only bike I've ridden. My sis had one back in the 70's. There was a fire once at her dorm. While waiting outside she asked a firefighter if she could move her bike farther away from the building, he said "no way" About 5 minutes later a flaming couch came crashing out a window and on top of sister's pretty red bike and smashed the gas tank. Boy, was she ticked. NYS atty general forced the city of Plattsburgh to pay for repairs. Oh well......

We dumped it once in the middle of Saratoga Springs on a main thoroughfare. We were laughing our a--es off with people stopping and asking if we were ok... 2 twiggy blonds laughing hysterically struggling to pick up a HEAVY bike off the road....what memories!!!!

micro, RN · Jun 30, 2002

Originally posted by Furball
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We dumped it once in the middle of Saratoga Springs on a main thoroughfare. We were laughing our a--es off with people stopping and asking if we were ok... 2 twiggy blonds laughing hysterically struggling to pick up a HEAVY bike off the road....what memories!!!!

thx for the visual.....furball

memory on a bike.....

out for the afternoon, cruisin'.............didn't see the storm clouds moving in.....and moved in fast..........

no helmet, no coats,just tank and shorts.......and a torrential downfall that we even had to stop to wait it out.....because you couldn't see anything..... twenty miles+ away from nowhere........

new definition of drowned rats.............

kewlnurse · Jun 30, 2002

If i ever get around to selling my 67 olds I'll get a bike, either a Honda 919, Yamaha V max or that new Kawaskaki whose name I can't remember right now. Been saying I'm gonna do this for years. The one and only Harleys I would even remotly consider would be a V rod, but, at $23000 you can buy 3 jap bikes all of which will be faster and more reliable. I am a total speed freak, used to borrow my bro in laws 600 ninja that had some mods to it but 600 power bands are too narrow and the bikes are too small. Sonthing to be said about the abily to get 105 ponies out of 600 cc's though. Cruising at 100 mph on the t-way wasn't a problem, smooth as can be, no noise 'cept the wind, a little helmet buffeting, twist the wrist and your doing 125. Better than any drug.

Anybody with motorcycle experience?

Which brand and/or type of bike do you like best? (Pick two)