ital916
29th March 2008, 13:46
Hey all!
Well seeing as I am bikeless and am now in the process of looking for a new one I though it would be a great day to go test ride my first cruiser. So of I went to the motorcycle store *which I shall not name*, filled out the form to test ride a pretty beaten up old virago 250 lol, by beaten up, it look pretty tired and well like it had been dropped a bit. Anyway as I was only test riding to see how the bike went, I did not flinch. Keys in the bike and off I went, well once I had adjust the brake and clutch levers..shame, yes mini ape hangers are a thing to get used to.
So I took off and the first thing I noticed was the torque and how underwhelming it was *I will get to this later*, interesting so I gave ti a bit more stick and off she went. First impressions then. She was comfy, veeeeery comfy compared to my 2 smoker. Once I got used to feet forward and stopped flailing about every time I started looking for foot pegs I was sussed. Chill out and enjoy the ride was the name of the game and that I did. Soaked up the sun and cruised in third gear the whole time! Holy mackerel batman, you don't really need to change gear do ya. I was getting used to it but still surprised atthe lack of power the engine had whent he bike died. Gay, started her up got all of 100m and she died again and didn't start. So i pushed her a bit and got her bump started but alas 300m down the road, dead. Poos, so I parked her up and walked back to the store *five min away luckily*, they came and tried to no avail so chucked it on the back of the ute and drove back to the store. Turns out the fuel in the tank was stale, mixed with water and that it was scraping reserve. :mad:. After all that though, I won't let it deter me, I've felt enough to like what I rode *even though it was a bag of shit* to merit actually seriosuly looking at a cruiser.
So the bike search continues....budget will most likely be 3g. What can I get for that. I'm thinking a 94-98 250 virago with about 40thou on the clock. I definately wanna test ride another virago, just have to bloody find one thats not nutted. On a bright note, the torque that I did have was nice, and being able to pull away easily was a god send! Seeing as I ride at 100k average anyway I'm very interested to look at cruisers further.
Ride Safe dudes
Drider
Well seeing as I am bikeless and am now in the process of looking for a new one I though it would be a great day to go test ride my first cruiser. So of I went to the motorcycle store *which I shall not name*, filled out the form to test ride a pretty beaten up old virago 250 lol, by beaten up, it look pretty tired and well like it had been dropped a bit. Anyway as I was only test riding to see how the bike went, I did not flinch. Keys in the bike and off I went, well once I had adjust the brake and clutch levers..shame, yes mini ape hangers are a thing to get used to.
So I took off and the first thing I noticed was the torque and how underwhelming it was *I will get to this later*, interesting so I gave ti a bit more stick and off she went. First impressions then. She was comfy, veeeeery comfy compared to my 2 smoker. Once I got used to feet forward and stopped flailing about every time I started looking for foot pegs I was sussed. Chill out and enjoy the ride was the name of the game and that I did. Soaked up the sun and cruised in third gear the whole time! Holy mackerel batman, you don't really need to change gear do ya. I was getting used to it but still surprised atthe lack of power the engine had whent he bike died. Gay, started her up got all of 100m and she died again and didn't start. So i pushed her a bit and got her bump started but alas 300m down the road, dead. Poos, so I parked her up and walked back to the store *five min away luckily*, they came and tried to no avail so chucked it on the back of the ute and drove back to the store. Turns out the fuel in the tank was stale, mixed with water and that it was scraping reserve. :mad:. After all that though, I won't let it deter me, I've felt enough to like what I rode *even though it was a bag of shit* to merit actually seriosuly looking at a cruiser.
So the bike search continues....budget will most likely be 3g. What can I get for that. I'm thinking a 94-98 250 virago with about 40thou on the clock. I definately wanna test ride another virago, just have to bloody find one thats not nutted. On a bright note, the torque that I did have was nice, and being able to pull away easily was a god send! Seeing as I ride at 100k average anyway I'm very interested to look at cruisers further.
Ride Safe dudes
Drider