Man you're stable. I change by day of the week, sometimes twice in the same day.
Motorcycles are like Pokemon.
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Perfect bike:-Next best thing???
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Man you're stable. I change by day of the week, sometimes twice in the same day.
Motorcycles are like Pokemon.
I don't enjoy changing bikes too often but that maybe because I'm broke af lol.
I have always wanted a Daytona 675r for no reason at all. I watched a YT review way back when and I instantly fell in love with it. I still aspire to own one when time comes (I hope it comes). One thing I know is that I still love sport bikes, and I also have a new found appreciation for smaller displacement sport bikes (zx4r and the likes).
Not a huge fan of my current bike, but insurance is cheap so I'm gonna keep it for a season or two. Someone once said that the number of miles you do in a season is directly proportional to how much you like the bike. It's been true in my case. I barely did 4000-5000km the past couple of seasons.
I have always wanted a Daytona 675r for no reason at all. I watched a YT review way back when and I instantly fell in love with it. I still aspire to own one when time comes (I hope it comes). One thing I know is that I still love sport bikes, and I also have a new found appreciation for smaller displacement sport bikes (zx4r and the likes).
Not a huge fan of my current bike, but insurance is cheap so I'm gonna keep it for a season or two. Someone once said that the number of miles you do in a season is directly proportional to how much you like the bike. It's been true in my case. I barely did 4000-5000km the past couple of seasons.
Oh, are we doing the "What's my next bike?" thing in this thread?
I like filling in slots in the riding experience, and the garage is already full of dirt and dirt-ish bikes.
If I ever got back into track, I'd probably get a real sportbike. I like the last-gen Panigale V4S and current RSV4.
My buddy just got a new girlfriend and she rides a cruiser, so he turned into "one of those". If I want to hang out with them, then it'd have to be a VRSCR.
There's a "small" gap between my 500cc thumper and the mid-weight ADV which would be nicely filled-in with a 701 Enduro. Or if Ducati came out with a 698 Enduro. But that level of granularity is just excessive, and would require much deeper pockets and a larger garage.
Sumo: some nice Warp9 wheels for the thumper. Or if Ducati made a real Sumo out of the Desmo 450 MX.
Trials: ePure or something like @Wingboy's Dragonfly. Clutch is a necessity.
Snowbike: Dedicated 500 EXC/FE501 with a Timbersled kit.
Electric street: Energica's look interesting. Will Damon ever come out with a motorcycle? Freeride sumo street-legal conversion? Realistically, Zero FXE - I think hooligan urban bikes are well-suited for electrification.
*sigh* Big dreams. Small garage.
I like filling in slots in the riding experience, and the garage is already full of dirt and dirt-ish bikes.
If I ever got back into track, I'd probably get a real sportbike. I like the last-gen Panigale V4S and current RSV4.
My buddy just got a new girlfriend and she rides a cruiser, so he turned into "one of those". If I want to hang out with them, then it'd have to be a VRSCR.
There's a "small" gap between my 500cc thumper and the mid-weight ADV which would be nicely filled-in with a 701 Enduro. Or if Ducati came out with a 698 Enduro. But that level of granularity is just excessive, and would require much deeper pockets and a larger garage.
Sumo: some nice Warp9 wheels for the thumper. Or if Ducati made a real Sumo out of the Desmo 450 MX.
Trials: ePure or something like @Wingboy's Dragonfly. Clutch is a necessity.
Snowbike: Dedicated 500 EXC/FE501 with a Timbersled kit.
Electric street: Energica's look interesting. Will Damon ever come out with a motorcycle? Freeride sumo street-legal conversion? Realistically, Zero FXE - I think hooligan urban bikes are well-suited for electrification.
*sigh* Big dreams. Small garage.
A lot of people who love their bikes like their first born barely manage 1000km a season, so you’re doing perfectly fine.
matt365
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I always felt that if I didn't do 10,000km a season, that I didn't ride enough to justify the insurance.
Then the kids came.
Now I might get half that, spread between multiple bikes.
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Fuzzbuster
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The perfect bike is what you are riding that day! The next best thing is whatever you are riding on the next ride!
Dragonfly has the best and lightest clutch of any trialer. One finger.
Oh, we're doing sayings too?
"You're only as old as the bike you're feeling!"
"You have to let go of things you can't control. Let go of the handlebars! LET GO, Gene!!! Fork, he's down again!"
Which leads to my personal favorite maxim:
"Best way to get over an old bike is to get underneath a new one!"
And also this one:
"You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it"
Are we still talking about motorcycles here...?
Sometimes I think about getting a new bike. I wouldn't mind a bike with fuel injection, ABS and whatever else is now available. The biggest hurdle I face is finding motivation to get out and ride the same roads. A long distance road trip would be fun, but that's a once a season type thing, so the majority of roads a new bike would be on are the same roads as the old bike.
matt365
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True.
Change your type of riding.
Dual sport and dirtbiking has become my go-to.
I can get out in the gnarly stuff for a couple hours and not feel guilty.
Thursday Steeles and Financial Dr. For group rides.
Hopefully the Dragon again this summer.
Buddies are talking about a 9 hr drive to west Virginia. Cousin' country. Hatfield & McCoy's for offroading.
Spending my Sunday working on bikes (tires), working in the house, and dreaming of better weather...
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Nothing wrong with riding the same roads. ****, I've been doing that in same part of Toronto for almost 20 years now. Every day's a new adventure, and not just because of the idiots in cages.
Yesterday it was riding to test out the used battery that came with my Harley. Tomorrow it'll be riding to bring the missus' ring to a jeweler buddy to get some work done. At some point every week I end up riding to pick up take out. Sure a lot of the roads are the same, but so what? There's always a different motivation to get out on two. The roads aren't really what matters, I don't even give them much thought. It's getting where I want to go in a way that's fun and freeing that matters to me.
Yesterday it was riding to test out the used battery that came with my Harley. Tomorrow it'll be riding to bring the missus' ring to a jeweler buddy to get some work done. At some point every week I end up riding to pick up take out. Sure a lot of the roads are the same, but so what? There's always a different motivation to get out on two. The roads aren't really what matters, I don't even give them much thought. It's getting where I want to go in a way that's fun and freeing that matters to me.
matt365
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That's different.
That's like me saying "I don't mind commuting in my truck; its the same old roads, but I like my truck..."
Commuting isn't the same
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Sounds like an easy fix. You already know what the root of the problem is.
Now you just gotta get rid of the kids.
matt365
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Why didn't I think of that!
Bikes can make local commuting more fun, don't get me wrong.
But, in the summer, riding 3 hours north;
Bala, Southwood, Kinmount, 507, 503, Glamorgan Rd, 118, 648, back through Algonquin, and home... its a good ride, but its an all day affair for a few excellent corners, and lots of travel to get there.
Sometimes time doesn't cooperate.
Corners in Onterrible are far and few between.
Pennsylvania.
New Hampshire.
West Virginia.
Tennessee.
Much more time and planning involved with that, but much more worth it.
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You're riding it wrong.
For me at least, riding the same roads over and over and over and over again really starts to suck the fun out of things as a season wears on.
I sometimes struggle to get interested in a little ride anymore. At the beginning of the season, absolutely, I'll go out no matter how many hundreds of times I've ridden a road before, but come July, August....meh, I find myself sometimes questioning going for a ride "just because".
Now, a ride that goes somewhere new (which is getting harder and harder to find anywhere in Southern Ontario) or far away? Holy heck, I'm like toddler who got into the sugary candies at grandmas house - watch out, because I'll be packed a week early and sitting ready in the driveway before the sun comes ready to head out. I had the time and a friend said "Lets shoot out to Sturgis in early May and recreate this photo from many years ago but with your new bike", I'd be out in my garage packing in 5 minutes and trying to figure out how to leave in March instead lol.
He's not Reciprocity. Upside down and sideways.
Fuzzbuster
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Let the good times roll!
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