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Cruiser bike for beginner
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Just buy what you want you get used to the weather, you'll still notice it but won't care or layer up.
I'm apparently stupid for learning on a sports bike and a 600cc one no less.
We all have opinions some on these types of threads, opinions of some are valid, some are eh.... misguided.
For the love of christ don't buy that monstrosity linked above.
You didn't learn on a sports bike though.... Unless your IBT instructor wanted his work cut out for him
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listermint wrote: »You didn't learn on a sports bike though.... Unless your IBT instructor wanted his work cut out for him
Haha the ibt gets ya going the hard learning is on your own time 0 -
the monstrosity was a joke tbf. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone seriously.
Big heavy bike like that won't be comfortable at all on the motorway!
maybe for the chipper run, but you'd be faster walking there and back.
what sports bike did you learn on?
I learnt on a SV650 which I'd consider a sporty bike, but I prefer the dual sport style bikes.
Hopefully this year I'll get out across europe on the damn thing
Ah yea I know it was a joke but we all know ow there's those that wouldn't cop that haha.
I've ridden a 125cc up a steep hill before holy christ 2nd gear screaming the poor thing, that was at 80odd kg. Thank god I was never restricted to one haha.
A wet windy m50 on that thing would scare me to death.
Cbr 600 f4, baring she gets wrote off I'll keep her for life something about that bike I can't bring myself to part with it, even though I hate carbs but hey haha.
Ah the dual sports are class don't think I'd personally own one but I get why they are loved.
If its not particular generation sports bikes, certain harleys, or specifically styled bobbers / bikes I can Bob I really haven't much interest in owning one.
Not a thing wrong with sv's except the bloody price of them now :O0 -
Ah yea I know it was a joke but we all know ow there's those that wouldn't cop that haha.
I've ridden a 125cc up a steep hill before holy christ 2nd gear screaming the poor thing, that was at 80odd kg. Thank god I was never restricted to one haha.
A wet windy m50 on that thing would scare me to death.
Cbr 600 f4, baring she gets wrote off I'll keep her for life something about that bike I can't bring myself to part with it, even though I hate carbs but hey haha.
Ah the dual sports are class don't think I'd personally own one but I get why they are loved.
If its not particular generation sports bikes, certain harleys, or specifically styled bobbers / bikes I can Bob I really haven't much interest in owning one.
Not a thing wrong with sv's except the bloody price of them now :O
I originally looked for a SV650 as my first bike, but 4 or 5k for one here and even in the UK, what a joke!
the BMW was much cheaper to get.
I'd definitely recommend trying a dual sport sometime, a thumper on the motorway sucks, but BMW F-twin series are amazing! I've done Dublin to Donegal in one trip easily without wind or a sore arse being an issue.
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NickNickleby wrote: »And there's your answer right there.
I'd love one, but being a sort of Mr Bean with a pot belly, I don't think I'd carry it off.
Even now, I dream of selling the Deauville and buying a second hand cheap cruiser.....
Then off out the back roads with me, eventually ending up in Man o' War. Pulling up outside the local, I'm immediately eyeballed by the real bikers who drag me off it and into the car park, where I'm beaten seven shades, my sleeveless denim jacket with my drawn on Hells Devils emblem is ripped from my scrawny body, with my dunnes t-shirt. Then using a power washer they strip all my henna fake tatt's off, then throw me on the back of a flat-bed and dump me out at the five roads, where some passing American tourists stop, awe stricken, and ask me to play duelling banjos.
Or I could just keep the Deau :pac::pac::pac:
Looking at the OPs budget of €1-2k the best choice would be the Deauville 650. It has enough poke for the task at hand and the weather protection is also great. If he likes the cruiser engine sound then he can just stick on an aftermarket exhaust 0 -
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MSVforever wrote: ».........f he likes the cruiser engine sound then he can just stick on an aftermarket exhaust
hehehe...apologies Zubair,
fitted a Black Widow Stainless system to mine. It was so loud (to my tender ears) that I removed and dismantled it, and sent photos to the supplier to see if the baffle was missing. Not knowing what I was talking about, I assumed a baffle was a screw-in piece in the muffler - which I couldn't see. Turns out it was fine and my ignorance was exposed. Edit : yes I found out what a baffle was and sure enough there was one there
When I drive down the road, heads turn and people look behind me for the cruiser. ok, I made that bit up.0 -
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What kind of dope puts "learner legal" on a bike ad in this day and age, anything is learner legal if you have the right class of learner permit.
Can't believe they're asking €1850 for that yoke, they should be embarrassed to ask €500 for it. But really it belongs in a skip.
Oh, and cruisers suck!
Scrap the cap!
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Hotblack Desiato wrote: »What kind of dope puts "learner legal" on a bike ad in this day and age, anything is learner legal if you have the right class of learner permit.
Can't believe they're asking €1850 for that yoke, they should be embarrassed to ask €500 for it. But really it belongs in a skip.
Oh, and cruisers suck!
Oh mate you mustn't spend half your day looking at bike ads 🀣🀣
Every other dope sticks it on, it honestly drives me insane .
Excuse you sir vrods, road kings, evos, magnas, I rest my case.
That does belong in a bin though.0
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