bigpoppa
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I secretly day dream about getting old and riding goldwings and V stroms
Your 'wants' have nothing to do with their intended use, i.e. They are not for highway speeds or travel.Maybe your fairings have all been useless. I would not buy a motorcycle to ride on highways that does not have a fairing. Figured that out the day after I had my M license.
Cars and trucks ahead shower you with gravel, good thing you had the fairing.
Wind turbulence, tuck in behind the frame mounted fairing, let the bike fight the wind instead of your arms and torso.
Naked bike; get hit with the stones, blown off the bike and soaked to the arse in minutes.
did it, still here.try driving the 401 for an hour without your front windshield.
Hahahadid it, still here.
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ADV is a nice jack of all trades compromise, it does a bit of everything well.
Touche.Or not good enough at anything, depending upon your perspective ...
Be sure to buy an SOS device so we can send search and rescue if you don't make it back after an hr on the 401 without a windshield. ?Having recently bought a super naked, wanted to share my experience.
I was all set to buy a 600cc SS as my first bike in Canada. Having riden motorcycles for more than 15 years and coming off a KTM Duke it felt like the right time to move to a SS. All this was of course before I had called around insurance companies. Being a 'new rider' for them I am sure y'all know what insurance quotes I must've got.
That led me to look over to the naked bikes category, only condition was it has to be an in-line 4. Test rode Suzuki GSX-S 750, Street triple RS and the S1000R. Street triple kept coming up as a winner from MSRP to fun ratio of point of view. And then I called the insurance companies, was surprised to see the Striple was slightly more expensive than the S1000R and needless to say both were substantially cheaper than all SS quotes. Combine that with following your heart over mind sorta thing and there you go...I ended up with the Beemer.
I've never ridden on a track and in immediate sense don't really intend to, rather on top of my list is riding across all great roads in Ontario and north east US. Too soon to absolutely conclude, but something tells me I am going to be sticking to upright riding for a very very long time, if not rest of my riding life!
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In a convertible? wtf were you in a Willy's jeepdid it, still here.
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I don't travel behind vehicles if I can help it, I pass them. But I enjoyed your assumption.In a convertible? wtf were you in a Willy's jeep
You guys are such motorcycle virgins.
"If you`re getting hit by debris from cars in front," You never been hit by stones thrown up by oncoming traffic? You don't ride much.
Street triple kept coming up as a winner from MSRP to fun ratio of point of view.
Looks expensive...I agree
getting off the pavement doesn't have to mean aggressive riding
and with a 700 lb ADV/250 lb rider it can end badly
I'm living your dream.I secretly day dream about getting old and riding goldwings and V stroms
I used to think that too - middle of the road compromise. Till I got one.Or not good enough at anything, depending upon your perspective ...