What feature do you rate most in choosing a motorbike?

[Swoop]

Looks, performance, sound and comfort.

[Drew]

Looks, performance, sound and comfort.

You'd be after a K1/2 gixxer then mister.

[10bikekid]

It's not the bike that fails to take corners. Nor is it down to suitability. It's the numpty on the throttle.

Yep, Ride a Harley like an Aprilia and you wont need to worry about the price of regos for long, Ride an Aprilia like a Harley and you may have found the secret to eternal life (if you don't die of boredom first)

My answer to Ops question would be does it do it for you, Big Dual Sport at high speed on a Gravel road is pretty close for me.

[Swoop]

You'd be after a K1/2 gixxer then mister.

[Tarded]

I rode a 675 Daytona - I thought it handled like a turd on a rollerskate because I'd just hopped of a Buell std bike and I thought that was dangerously unstable because I'd just hopped off my 1970 Triumph twin...

Each of those bikes are in fact great handling bikes but each one requires a different approach and riding style to get the best out of it.

Fact is - the 675 terrified me and it wasn't until I got my leathers on and started committing to it and weight shifting that it all clicked - the Buell is a torque monster of a bucking bronco of a bike that is just begging to be backed in and having the trigger pulled while the old 650 is perfectly balanced light handling old beast that picks a 'classic' line and swoops through with delicate inputs. All of them hugely capable but needing a different input. All this on exactly the same road...

One mans bad handling is often that mans inability to adapt to the vehicle and read it needs.

I agree. I have seen some full dressers ridden much quicker than their bulk would suggest was possible. Just an experienced rider who has adapted to his behemoth.
Shops sell every accessory but skill...........

If a bike doesnt turn you on there is no point for me, just take the car. It has a coffee holder.

[Tarded]

I licked them clean before they sat on them

That's when you got your new model year, in September. Brand-new, she was. She had the smell of a brand-new car. That's just about the finest smell in the world, 'cept maybe for pussy

Ill be a train spotter and say the Fury never came out in that 'color' that year, only available in buckskin beige. Wait for the car talk abuse.

[AD345]

Well, I have to consider my obligations to the wider public.

So, it is only fair that any bike I buy is able to convey the message to the world at large that I am, of course, seriously cool and a bad ass muthafucker



and that I have an extremely large penis.

After that it is pretty much just colour

[sketch]

colour


has to be black

[Mrs Shrek]

Being able to touch the ground when I sit on it

+ 1 Me too

[BMWST?]

+ 1 Me too

i am the opposite,must be able to accomodate a 190cm frame

[Drew]

seriously cool and a bad ass muthafucker

If you aint this guy, you aint there yet!

[Berries]

So, it is only fair that any bike I buy is able to convey the message to the world at large that I am, of course, seriously cool and a bad ass muthafucker

And yet you got a bike named after a girlie cocktail?

[carbonhed]

And yet you got a bike named after a girlie cocktail?

Thought it was the location of his testicle.

[Mushu]

To the OP: a bike that handles means nothing, a big part of riding is knowing your machine and what it can do and knowing what you yourself are capable of, if you can't work that out you're likely to come off anything you ride.

The feature I rate highest is what will inspire me to want to ride. I have to enjoy being on it, beyond that not much else matters. The R6 looks sexy, goes fast and puts a smile on my face every time I throw it into a corner and the DR just inspires stupidity, not as fun on the road but sliding through corners on a trail while dodging trees keeps me entertained for hours.

In short I look for different things on different bikes.

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[Berries]

Thought it was the location of his testicle.

Hamilton?




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