Motorcycle advice

Staggerwing · January 19, 2015, 06:22:14 PM

If you are going to lug around camping gear and other stuff do not get a small bike for the same reason you would not get a Smartcar and then put luggage on the roof. You need size and mass to keep you stable if you are all loaded up with gear. That mass and the extra low-end torque that the bigger engine gives you will be nice when you are going slow over twisty bumpy roads.

What is this adventure all about anyway? Are you going with friends on some kind of dude vaca?

Gusington · January 19, 2015, 08:43:18 PM

DEFINITELY pick up one of those Animal helmets, though.

GDS_Starfury · January 19, 2015, 09:34:31 PM

buy a car. O0

Staggerwing · January 19, 2015, 09:42:58 PM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 19, 2015, 09:34:31 PM
buy a car. O0

Motorbikes is a thing that if'n ye has to ask ye arn't ever going to know.

GDS_Starfury · January 19, 2015, 10:01:24 PM

I ain't asking. ;)

LongBlade · January 20, 2015, 12:26:11 AM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 19, 2015, 10:01:24 PM
I ain't asking. ;)

And I ain't preachin', though I have several cautionary tales.

GDS_Starfury · January 20, 2015, 12:45:57 AM

and Ive driven past several cautionary decapitations. :(

BanzaiCat · January 20, 2015, 09:04:03 AM

I've totally almost watched like all the episodes of Sons of Anarchy. I'm so ready for the biker life!

LongBlade · January 20, 2015, 09:48:16 AM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 20, 2015, 12:45:57 AM
and Ive driven past several cautionary decapitations. :(

Unfortunately there are a few of these in my family.

I've gotta say, there is a part of me which would love to have a bike. But I don't see it happening.

I will say that I try to look out of cycles as best I can.

republic · January 20, 2015, 02:16:41 PM

I'm planning to tour my state and neighboring states mainly. No interstate travel, just going from park to park or military battleground to military battleground taking the back roads and taking my time.

I might do an occasional dude vaca but mostly it'll just be me, my bike, a tent, and a road. A good portion of the roads will be dirt. I'm not into the 'biker life' more of an adventure. You might say....I'm on a quest

Staggerwing · January 20, 2015, 07:28:14 PM

Dirt roads? You may want to look into a Dual Purpose bike if they still make them. There was a great Kawasaki 650 back in the day that eventually ended up in military hands for overseas use.

republic · January 20, 2015, 10:10:50 PM

I think its the KLR 650, I've actually been looking at those.

Staggerwing · January 20, 2015, 10:13:51 PM

That's the one!