What are you riding?

ChrisA · April 12, 2018, 9:47pm

Ah, typo - meant to say first BMW, not bike (riding 20+ years!)

ChrisA · April 12, 2018, 9:48pm

Ah, typo - meant to say first BMW, not bike (riding 20+ years!). My bad.

Adubs · April 12, 2018, 9:49pm

Gotcha, I thought maybe I needed to give you the suicide prevention hotline for a minute.

ChrisA · April 12, 2018, 9:52pm

It would be certifiable to have it as a first bike. Saying that, when I worked at a bike training centre, someone delivered a brand new GS to a trainee. Hmm.

thro · April 13, 2018, 2:26am

My stable:
1993 Suzuki RGV250 (2 stroke baby!)
1996 Honda CBR250RR (4 cylinder screamer - 18,000 rpm+)
2007 Honda CBR600RR (first big bore, now mostly a track hack)
2009 Honda CBR1000RR Repsol Fireblade (daily road bike)

I commute most days on the blade. Sometimes mix it up with the 600.

the RGV has been seized for a bit, the CBR250RR is currently in pieces being freshened up

Its a nice selection if varying power outputs and sports bike riding styles

jerm1027 · April 21, 2019, 4:39pm

2015 Yamaha SR400 This bike has so much character - fuel injected, but kick-start only. It’s a surprisingly peppy around town bike with lots of mid-range torque and lightweight. Good boy.

2016 Harley-Davidson Dyna Fatbob Endless money pit, spits/leaks oil any chance it gets, chews through batteries like they’re tic-tacs. But still a good boy.

ChrisA · April 22, 2019, 7:37pm

I’m still riding my K1300S Beemer, it’s good but really a bike a chose with the head and not the heart. I still miss my Honda Blackbird, it really was a ‘do anything’ bike, good for the fast bits as well as every day use.

Bought it with 6k miles on and sold with around 80k miles around 5 years later. First bike after a very large and unpleasant incident.

Jpbuell · December 14, 2019, 7:25pm

This is my 1998 Buell S1 lightning. I bought it new in 98 someone knocked it over at my work and damaged the mirror brake lever header and cracked the rear carbon fiber fender. So I disassembled it completely modified the rear frame to install a seat off a1990 Buell cyclone because it’s wider and more comfortable to ride. Polished the triple tree engine mount bottom of the forks and brake mounts. Painted the frame candy blue with large metal flake and painted the tank black with red metal flake then painted the Buell on the tank with blue pearl. Ride to work in the summer and when I have time go for short rides for fun. Rode it to Texas from Michigan when it was new not a good bike for that kind of trip but I love riding it. I was actually looking to buy a fat boy but wasn’t willing to wait two years to get it. Back then you had to wait or pay a heavy mark up to get one.