If you start riding an appropriate bike today, and start putting a dollar a day into a jar, by the time you have enough money to buy one, you might just almost have the skills to handle it.
Why do you think you can handle a powerful motorcycle? Do you think you can go buy a top of the line guitar and not look like an idiot pretending to play it with zero experience? Only difference is a sport bike will kill you when you try to play and don't know the song.
Why would you want to...
No. But having opinions based on a surface observation is kind of ignorant. A 250 ninja kind of looks like a sport bike, and it corners nicely, but at 25HP it is a long way off from an entry level 100HP sport bike. Really it's a standard with some pretty plastic on it. A good bike for what...
A 250 ninja has no problem with a 150lb rider and 150lb passagner. This is a great beginner bike that even most motorcyclists don't know from a full on sport bike. Full on sport bikes require real skills. If you buy an expert electric guitar you don't die when step on stage and don't know the...
It is alot of bike for a total beginner, but not out of the question and has so many pluses that it's a serious consideration. Maybe a month or two on a 250 would be a good idea first.
It's the difference between 1925 and 2012. Riding a harley is like showing up at the ski hill with leather ski boots, wood skies and bear trap bindings. Plus you pay extra for the name.
The ninja is lighter, faster, corners much better, gets better gas mileage, half the price, doesn't...
Cruisers are for playing pretend biker, they are underpowered and can't corner. Sports bikes are street legal racing bikes, uncomfortable for long rides or passangers, dangerous for beginners. The best bikes are inbetween.
Tim...I like very old sport bikes with the bullet look, I hate the era...
The one that fits your skill level. A beginner on racing skies going down a black diamond run isn't going to learn much or have much fun, and he is probably going to get hurt. Same with motorcycles except pavement and oncoming traffic isn't as soft as snow.
Form follows function.
Everything on a sport bike is about function. A thing of beauty.
Cruisers are vulgar 900lb paperweights. No functionality, just an old water pump motor, a frame from 1930, and some chrome plated cake decorations. Still might be interesting if there were only a few...
New bikes are for rubes. Getting a killer deal on a used bike is half the fun.
You really have to go bike by bike with it comes to suitability for a beginner. The hornet is way too much bike for a beginner. Almost 100hp.
Check out bestbeginnermotorcycles.com
Depends on your definition of sports bike. If you have a spacific bike in mind you can check on aftermarket hardbags. Best if they are locking and easily removable.
There are factory hard bags available for my VFR, but it is more a sport touring bike to begin with.
A tank bag can hold...
Choppers can be mobile works of art. Totally unpractical, zero agility, rough riding, more about a look than a rideable bike. The ones with decent C&C powerplants will vibrate you and the bike itself to death. Built for looks and nothing else, which is ok if that is what you want but very...
Wow, alot of cool stuff going on, looks more practical than electric cars.
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You must have transportation. You already have a bike that can cheaply be made street legal. Ask your mom if she is going to allow you to ride your fuel efficient bike or if she is going to help you buy a car.
But you have to take this decision seriously too. Every day bikers who are totally...
Sorry just a short answer. A $4k 250 ninja is faster, and a much more agile bike than a $7K 883 Harley sportster. The Ninja is also a much better beginner bike since it is lighter.
Sport bikes and cruisers are two ends of the spectrum.
All cruisers are pretty lousy bikes as far as...
I've gotten stuck behind too many groups of harleys on curvy roads to be dumb enough to agree to putz around with them for a day. People who ride crusiers are the same kids who used to ride the short bus. They need to take it slow.
On the other hand I don't need to ride around with a bunch of...
Harleys are a status symbol and lifestyle statement and they are very expensive, very heavy and have low horsepower.
Sport bikes are about motorcycling as a sport.
Some older guys just stop wanting to push limits, they are content to go out to pasture. The rest of us are still riding sport...