Not a chance, Jimmy!

I like my MB diesels to be economical! 'Cause that's the way I roll!

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James Davis, Houston TX, has a website http://www.msgroup.org/default.aspx
crammed with all kinds of info on the physics of motocrycle riding. Anyone thinking of learning how to ride ought to spend hours reading the articles and tips on this site. It is an excellent place to learn what happens when you ride.

Then go take a safety course. I've taken the MSF ERC....three times. And still stuff happens...
Rock on.

Never, ever leave your house; it's much too scary to ever go outside.

Yup!

Training, training, and more training - just like any good aircraft pilot. Motorcycles are not even like driving an automobile or SUV. They are a different vehicle entirely, and defensive, smart ridership is a necessity to ride another day on the streets.

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I've been riding for going on 40 years now (street and dirt) and there is still nothing I enjoy more than rolling that Harley out of the garage and going for a ride. The wife won't let it go out the driveway without her on the back which is fine by me (it is true though about how women act around them). I live in a very rural area and I am always as concerned about deer as I am about other drivers. One of the key things while riding is to always look as far down the road as you can see. I have gotten to the point though where I won't ride at night. I like to see further down the road that than headlight will illuminate. I have attached a pic Sue took while riding down the road a couple years ago. We both love to ride.

In regards to starting out with small cc versus larger. Can you ride at all? I took my first m/c riding test (for drivers license when I was 16) on a friends, kick start 1972 1000 cc Sportster. If I had owned one of those "crotch rockets" back when I was 16 -18 years old I would be dead now. I enjoyed spirited driving back in the day. Now I just cruise along.

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Nice pic. You look like you were having some fun.

Supermoto...

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262,715 and counting

youre going to do what you want to do, young people are indestructable. but do not let yourself believe that you are in control of your fate on a bike. look at this post and tell me how training or reflexes would have saved this guy.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=2659359&postcount=1

if the lady had been going 10 mph faster the video would have been used at her manslaughter trial. If you do decide to ride, get a helmet and stay aware. assume everyone is going to pull out in front of you or change lanes into you, assume no one sees you. start small and learn, then if you like it buy a bigger bike. It makes no sense to try to learn on a big bike. 135hp on a 300lb bike is not the way to learn. you would never give a 16 year old a corvette, same thing. did I mention wear a helmet? Likely your state will force you to for the first year anyway. buy a good helmet and as much as you will hate to, if you drop it hard get it checked or buy a new one.

video link got cancelled, too bad it was pretty amazing

here it is reposted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7D0BTyJBeM

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1982 300CD Turbo (Otis, "ups & downs") parts for sale
2003 TJ with Hemi (to go anywhere, quickly) sold
2001 Excursion Powerstroke (to go dependably)
1970 Mustang 428SCJ (to go fast)
1962 Corvette LS1 (to go in style)
2001 Schwinn Grape Krate 10spd (if all else fails)

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1987 300D TurboW124.133 - 603.960, 722.317 - Smoke Silver Metallic / Medium Red (702/177), acquired 8/15/2009
262,715 and counting

I don't know if it is still true but my dad once told me that 90% of the motorcycle fatalities occur during the first WEEK of ownership.

Newbie just gets comfortable operating the bike without falling over and overdrives he skill.....crunch!

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Well, before, I was about 90% sure I wanted one... Now, its more like 50% after what all of you are saying!



I looked into motorcycle safety courses, and they offer them weekly at one of the local community colleges.



With that being said, a friend has an 2004 Honda CBR he is selling. It is listed for about $4k, but said he will give me friend pricing, half off. Not too bad of a deal.

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91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

I'll just ignore the content and jump straight to responding to the title.

You're fricken nuts.

Suicide machines.

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1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

I think that if you wait too long to get into something as hazardous as street and highway motorcycle riding, you are basically asking for it in terms of accident or injury. That, and your mind and body have not developed through your teens as an MC rider.

Many people that have logged tens of thousands of miles on them, are starkly aware of the dangers, and how to avoid them for the mostpart. Many new riders of advancing 'age' do not seem to be aware of the dangers and health risks to their bodies. The sense of being street-savvy to the danger from cars, trucks and their drivers, curbs, gravel, curves,deer, etc. may not be totally teachable.

I'm glad that I had my thrill rides above 100 mph on 'em by the time I was 21. I had the opportunity to ride the fastest production bikes that money could buy while I was employed at a Japanese MC shop during my college age years. Riding at or below posted speeds is dangerous enough without adding to it by breaking the law.

Today, I'm a vintage Japanese MC enthusiast/collector in the hunt for several bikes. None of them have the speed and quickness I got used to in my late teens, as the 1,200 4 cyl. superbikes have.

The Harley-Davidson dealers used to provide at a price, a Buell motorcycle for their new motorcycle rider instruction course in the recent past. Since they are not representing Buell - that opportunity is out the window now.

However, if you want to go for it - do it, is my best advice to anyone!

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Buell has been gone since '09.

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---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Harley-Davidson had no business repping Buell bikes in HD showrooms. But that wasn't discovered for years. It would have seemed to be a great combo - Harleys and Buells - but not so.

For years, many of us non-HD owner enthusiasts have craved something with speed, quickness and manueverability from HD. What that bike would be, no one I have talked to has a clue on what it would be or look like.

HD first brought out the V-Rod - an interesting, heavy, somewhat manueverable bike - with not enough speed and quickness. Certainly too heavy/unmanueverable, and not quick enough for me. Then they brought out a chopper-looking bike that doesn't cut it either.

Don't get me wrong HD has some nice bikes for a handful of specific uses - but they totally missed the youth that are superbike, adrenaline junkies.

A recent statistic I read was that the average Harley buyer was 53 yrs. old. The average owner was almost 60 yrs. old - 58 yrs. old I recall. That's certainly a market segment - but since the average age in America is somewhere under 37 yrs. old, it misses the boat completely at Harley-Davidson.

The mainstream of youth is on-board the superbike bandwagon - how could they not be?

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