If you want a real ROCKET, buy something with a wicked suspension, offroad wheels and the sweetest acceleration I've ever experienced!

Not only is this fun as hell, but its got to be one of the best workouts you'll ever do and you won't realize it until your done that day! I can say that after owning this bike I would like to have a street bike too, but I out of the two of them, DIRT over pavement any day!

 

I have a "massaged" 1996 Ducati 944 SS SP. Sorry Harley guys but IMHO the Ducati has the sweetest sound. The bike is light and loves high (really fast) speed sport riding. The bike gets tons of looks even from other riders because you don't see them on every corner.

 

i just don't like those things, they are too dangerous. can't you just get yourself a nice used car? at least wear your helmet, and some nice heavy jeans! why do you have to keep "stepping on the gas pedal" like that? those things just make me nervous!

my moms take, on the Triumph Bonneville, i rode home on, circa 1970

 

I just got my motorcycle license back in Nov. I have added a 1998 Kawasaki Vulcan Classic 800, dk green/white. It kinda matches my '95 Vette, polo green and, of course, my 2000 L, BLACK!!!

 

Right now I have my bike from last year, a 2001 Honda CR250. Usually I buy a new bike at the start of each season, but I didn't this year because I'm hoping to move to San Diego at some point, and I don't want to take a $1000 hit twice in 6 months. This one's not too banged up though, so it should hold up fine for the time being.

I'm also looking heavily at the new 02 R1...not so much because I think I need more power than the R6 offers, but because I think the black wheels, frame, swingarm, and forks look TRICK with that Yamaha blue. I've been riding and racing (dirt)bikes for many years now (with somewhat successful results), so I think I should be alright...we'll see I guess.

Later...

GK

 

i heard today that the average life span of someone who has a street bike is 7 years. starting from the day they get it...


crazy

 

Common mis-conception. Not everybody that has a street "plastic crotch rocket" bike hauls *** down the highway on one wheel with no helmet. Maybe I'm the exception, but I bought my bike to pimp around town (with a helmet) and enjoy the ride. A crotch rocket is just as dangerous as your average Harley. It's all in the driver.

 

your average harley driver is nothing like your average sport bike rider... therefor you would see a different trend in lifespans between the two

and yes, there will always be exceptions

play with matches...

 

My trend in lifespan is to grow old. You can go fast and stay in one piece. I'm forty something and been riding for nearly years! I thank dad for getting me my mini-bike about forty years ago. I take my 'Busa out and wheelie every chance I get. Did 165 in Death Valley on my old GSXR 1100. Got most of my bikes new, kept 1/2 of them. Raced in the dirt for over a decade. Thats the experience I've needed to survive the street. Never been down, (sort of). All bikes have been modded for more power, (love those wheelies), usually bored, etc. Busa has lightweight SS exhaust and a recurved computer. Yes, the latest and greatest has 1.3 liters of twin cam, 4-valve, fuel injected 200 H.P., 200 mph! Save the poser B.S. about survivability for the low performance crowd. It's mostly experience, and skill, (and being blessed).

 

DOH! I guess I'm living on borrowed time! I bought my first bike in 1986 with the money I made washing dishes. Since then I've had 11 bikes, including everything from a Ducati M900 to a CBR1100XX. I've had a couple of serious get-offs, but nothing in the last 8 years, and never needed medical care for any of them. I always wear helmet, gloves, boots, leather jacket. My endurance record is 16,500 miles and 37 states in 42 days.

I think the "7 year" statistic is wrong. I do know that if you survive your first year of ownership your odds of continuing to do so go WAY up.

 

MRBBQMAN -

A friend of mine has a 70 or 71 Bonneville that has never been titled or ridden.

Needles to say it does very well at the bike shows when he enters it. Triumph paint is some of the best ever.

 

i loved that bike, but unfortuneately, a damn woody wagon, blew a stop sign and took away my bonny. but she did provide an excellent springboard action for yours truly, for which i'll always be grateful.

 

Here's pics of ours:
100% (assembled) in the USA

 

94 Suziki Katana 750. Stock. Purple wheels & decals.
Considering selling it - don't have time to ride.... anyone interested email me

ringlipps@fuse.net

 

I happen to have two Lightnings and one is no truck. I have owned numerous bikes including a honda 175, 305 Dream,Yamaha Enduro, One of the first 900 GPz Ninjas. I have found them all fun and rewarding. Each with attributes I throughly enjoyed. Always wanted an Ariel square four and one of those Munches.